Geoff Burling wrote:
In other words, we should expect a number of edit wars
between
German chauvinists & Polish chauvinists to occur over territories that
were formerly part of Germany for the foreseeable future?
No. The articles about Gdansk/Danzig and Szczecin/Stettin are findable under their
Polish names (Gdansk, Szczecin), and that's fine, because these are now Polish cities.
As
for Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa, these are common German-Polish rivers, so I don't see,
why the name "Oder" should be forgotten in the future, as Space Cadet
predicted.
What do you think about that solution: call it "Oder" in articles relating to
German regions
(Lower Oder Valley National Park), call it "Odra" in articles relating to Polish
regions
(Szczecin). The article about the river itself is titled with one of these names, and the
other
name is stated in the first sentence of that article. The same should be done for
Neisse/Nysa. And everyone can be happy again ;-)
So, my vote is to leave the main article where it is now: "Odra", since there
are greater
portions of the river in Poland. If you agree, I change the name for the German regions
back to "Oder" and link it to "Odra". The same may be done for
Neisse/Nysa.
If you agree, I will place this (or another) compromise on the Odra talk page, in order to
refer everyone begining the dispute anew to that page.
Mirko.
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Mirko Thiessen
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