On 10/03/06, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From what I have heard (and I may be wrong), there are
proposals to use the
Celtic names in the English Wikipedia as the article title. I personally
think the English names should stay, but that the Celtic names should be
used in other languages. When you said that the Celtic names are mostly
"official" over the English versions, do you mean that the Irish version is
now used in English as well? I know that there is a movement towards this in
Scotland, where the Outer Hebrides are now known officially in English as
"Na h-Eileanan Siar".
Na h-Eileanan Siar (or, as 99% of people south of there call it, the
Outer Hebrides) is a special case - it's the only area of Scotland
with a Gaelic-speaking majority. In general terms, for Scotland, going
with the conventional English name is a good bet, with the "Celtic"
name as an alternative in special cases like the above. I can't speak
for Ireland or Wales, though.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk