Delirium wrote:
I think that the major dispute isn't over the
German and Polish
Wikipedias, but over place names in the English Wikipedia: when and how
prominently to use the historic German names versus the modern Polish
names (for example, Danzig vs. Gdansk).
Oh, I thought the original post was about something going on at
de.wikipedia, my mistake.
Perhaps we can form a general policy of how to do it, something made
in the abstract that covers all the general cases, without reference
to German or Polish, and then go from there...
For example, when referring to a place at a time in the past, prefer
the name of that time while parenthetically pointing out the current
name if the clarification will be helpful to the reader. When
referring to a place at a time in the present, prefer the present name
while parenthetically pointing out the past name, blah blah blah.
I can't help but suppose that there's a tedious wikipedia policy wiki
page on this somewhere. :-)
--Jimbo