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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:43:13 -0800 From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 4, Issue 49
John Merrall wrote:
??? This seems like a problem of transliteration.
Not really. That would be the case if we were talking about Russian or Greek. The last time I looked German and English used the same alphabet.
Well, except for ü and ö and suchlike, in which case we anglos write ue and oe. But if the Germans spell it Adolf, why not make that the main entry and link over from "Adolph"?
I mean, what's the argument here? Do they want two identical entries, or is someone really suggesting Wikipedia should put the main entry under "Adolph"? I can't see the argument.
I could see an argument over an entry for Leo Tolstoy, if someone wanted to put him under "Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy", which I'd suggest would be more proper except I don't want to start a war....