Certainly we don't need something like the five names in one sentence we currently have for Copernicus: "*Nicolaus Copernicus* (Polish: *Miko?aj Kopernik*; German: *Nikolaus Kopernikus*; in his youth, *Niclas Koppernigk*;[1] Italian: *Nicol? Copernico*; 19 February 1473 ? 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer ...". There's a note on his name in the article itself, which lists a further nine variants. In reality, of course, all these are just variants on one name, rather than "alternative names" in the strict sense of people who've changed their name or published under pseudonyms. redirects (ones not noted in the article text), but some (especially latinised names) are essential to have clearly available to the reader. Maybe an infobox section would be appropriate here? -- - Andrew Gray ? andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:56:54 +0100 From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Aliases and the MoS? To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Message-ID:        <AANLkTimQ_onEn_CyRQ5LsuPuqAf1-9iiVKbgNvdd=Am6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote: Oh, please no. You need to explain the name variants and languages, otherwise you get nationalists edit-warring incessantly over it. The Copernicus one is a good example. I wouldn't be surprised if there was disagreement over whether the German name or Polish name comes first in the list. One thing I do find helpful is having the Latin versions of names, especially if you happen to be looking at the title pages of books published in Latin (way back when). Trying to work out the names of publishers and authors can be difficult at times. Carcharoth