Ray Saintonge wrote:
The issue of using diacritical marks is not about Lir.
To some extent, though, it is. Lir is very alone in suggesting that Germany should be called Deutschland in an English text. There are other foreign places where the English use is unstable, e.g. both the English spelling Gothenburg and the Swedish spelling Göteborg are used for the same city in English texts. I think the NPOV policy is sufficient to address this. For most smaller cities there never was an English name, and the use of diacritics might be justified. But the name Germany never was in any of these categories.
My remarks about Lir was about the "Deutschland" cases. It was my interpretation that this was the result of independent thinking (which I admire) in combination with lack of interest in the opinion of others (which might come with more experience - it did for me).