On 20 March 2014 17:43, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I think the problem is that we sometimes need to reflect more than just the single official name - at the moment we include multilingual names, which is great, and it's a bit of a backwards step to lose that ability for the past.
Why would we loose that ability?
However, as you can see at the moment, the "other names" are simple strings with no dates or modifiers, so we can't convey this information.
In Wikidata? The language modifier, at least, can be used in Wikidata today.