--- Mirko Thiessen mt@mirko-thiessen.de wrote:
Hello,
I just came back from a month of absence from Wikipedia and realised, that lots of article titles about German cities, regions etc. have been changed from titles WITHOUT umlauts to titles WITH umlauts (e.g. Moelln is M�lln now). I searched in the naming conventions, but I didn't find any conventions about this topic. Up to now, I created every article without umlauts (that means, with ae instead of �). How should we handle this in the future? Is there a convention, which I was just too stupid to find?
And what about the sharp s (�)? Should it be used in article titles as well, or should it (as I did so far) be replaced with "ss"?
Mirko (Cordyph)
I thought we were supposed to render umlauts as an 'e' after the modified letter in the article titles. In any case, there should be all possible redirects for these different renderings. Sometimes there will need to be disambiguation pages if the umlaut is omitted. I know that in atleast one case (schöaut;n (beautiful/very) vs. schon (already), but that's not a place name) the umlaut matters, so there could be more. --LittleDan
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