It's OK if we have a way to represent the information in another way. Reasonator plays kind of fine with this, it's enough to make him aware of the "official name" to treat it differently. The name to display is a contextful information, and anyway it needs special ways to treat the information and select the context and the data to display, so it''s not really a problem.

2014-03-06 17:21 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:

Hoi,
When data is to be shown in the context of history, the appropriate label is to be shown, is to be found. It is as complex as what we do with statements.

The point is very much that when you state that when labels are not intended to convey "complex" information, the intention is debatable. It is arguably wrong.

Thanks,
GerardM

On 6 March 2014 17:15, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 06.03.2014 17:12, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:

> 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.

Create a property for "official name" and make staements. Labels are there for
display and search. They are not intended to convey complex information.

-- daniel

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