(A moment of light relief)
One of the continual plagues of anything where somewhere has two names is people continually switching from one to the other.
Usually, this is a zero-sum game; it's moot which one you use. In a specific historical context, you can get away with one then the other in brackets (so people don't start wondering why the Danzig shipyards were important in the 1980s); here, people just tend to change the primary to the secondary and vice versa. Net result: no-one who didn't already care deeply about it tends to notice.
Sometimes, they change them all, such is their desire to expunge the "wrong" form...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Kolkata&oldid=22820...
"Calcutta, formerly named Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal..."
On 10/20/08, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Sometimes, they change them all, such is their desire to expunge the "wrong" form...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Kolkata&oldid=22820...
"Calcutta, formerly named Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal..."
Context is everything. Incorrect references to the "University of Kolkata" are understandable but writing "Black Hole of Kolkata" loses any reader's confidence.
—C.W.