I agree that word for word translations are not appropriate for English.
If there are languages which traditionally do use word for word then that might be appropriate for those languages
Am 12.03.2015 um 10:03 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> Hoi,
> What would you do with the many, many Chinese place names in Wikidata where we
> have nothing but Chinese ? It is completely useless to me in this way. A good
> transliterations works for me. Like most people beyond that I do not care much
> about it being "official" or sourced.
Decent automatic translitteration is fine I think. Automatic word-for-word
*translation* however seems rather problematic.
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