On 7/28/06, John Lyden rasputinaxp@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still roughly confused as to why some people are pilloried for applying [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)]] to hockey players.
Because that guideline doesn't have 100% consensus, especially for peoples' names, and secondarily for placenames. You might not like that fact, but we wouldn't have constant arguments about the topic were the consensus solid.
This is made more complex by the fact that 'use English' is in itself a complex issue. Some - many - English-language publications use diacritics. It's also somewhat debatable whether 'use English' means 'always transliterate into diacriticless spellings'.
-Matt