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.

Thanks.

GerardM

On 12 March 2015 at 09:37, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mechanically generated names by transliteration bots
> or by direct word for word translation (depending on the custom generally
> used in the target language) may well be appropriate in many cases

Remember that I'm talking about place names, rather than other types
of names. Within that scope, I don't understand how a made up name can
be appropriate, moreover I don't understand how a made up name can be
given equal footing as the correct name.

Imagine a situation where someone transliterates a name in, say
French, but the French name for the place is different. How are we to
distinguish between the two?

- Serge

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