2015-04-13 14:54 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com>om>:
With this premise, I think that Romaine's proposal
for a game is
absolutely doable and a good idea.
I want to clarify, I mean that I agree with Gerard that the best
indication for "country" for "Battle of Stalingrad" is URSS, I simply
say that a game should keep it simple (so in this case, either the
system is able to infer URSS as a possibility to present to the user
or otherwise the user should (be instructed to) say "not sure").
I am much less convinced about the "citizenship" violations. Even if I
believe that citizenship is a concept introduced with the modern
nation-state, for a variety of reasons this is anyway applied to
people that have lived before that state(at least in is modern form)
was established.
For example, Galileo Galilei is reported as an error but all the
biggest Wikipedias (and some others that I am able to read) state that
Galileo Galilei was Italian (catalan Wikipedia says that he was Tuscan
in the artcle, but caegorizes him in the category "Físics italians"
(Italian pysicists) and "Astrònoms italians" (Italian astronomers). On
the other hand, the use of the name "Italia" to indicate at least a
portion of present-day Italy goes back in history and there are
mentions in documents from at least 42 b.C. (and possibly this will be
the same for most Europe).
C