There is a "official name" property for this purpose in Wikidata. Date qualifiers gives the information on when the name was the official one.

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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-03-06 17:12 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] rank related changes
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

Hoi,

So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use appropriate labels at will.

Labels are not simple.

Thanks,

Gerard

On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:

> Hoi,
> I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and dependent on a
> date they or it are called differently.

If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a subject of
discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The point of
having labels is precisely that they are simple.

-- daniel

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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
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