I say go with the most common name. The point is that people should
find the articles, not that they are placed under the most "official"
name. In that case, for example, articles about countries should be
placed under their official names. To my knowledge, they never are.
/Andreas
On 3/10/06, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm
impressed you know so much about Irish placenames - I don't think
that many people even in Ireland would know where "An Uaimh" is.
Thanks :) I have a personal interest in "Celtic Europe" and the ongoing
revival of Celtic languages in these areas.
On the Romanian
Wikipedia in general, do you use local names of
all places? What about
placenames of a country that has more than one local, or even official
language?
When there is a Romanian name, we would use the Romanian name - for example,
"London" is called "Londra" in Romanian, so we use that name. Same
for
"Moscova", "Varsovia", etc. But, on the whole, the Romanian language
tends
to not "naturalise" foreign names. My dilemma is that cities like
Cardiff/Caerdydd, Cork/Corcaigh, and even smaller ones, have no Romanian
equivalent. Therefore, we would use, as any Wikipedia would use, the local
variant. When there are two official variants, we would use the most
suitable one. For Basque placenames, for example, we would use the Basque
variant (though in recent times, the Basque government has legislated that
cities be named in the form SpanishName-BasqueName, so we get names like
SanSebastian-Donostia, and Vitoria-Gasteiz).
The difference with Ireland is the Irish is the first official and national
language. To me at least, using English seems a bit inappropriate, even
though I do realise that English is (unfortunately) the "main" language of
Ireland. In areas like Wales, I would also be tempted to use the native name
(i.e. Comitatul Ddinbych instead of Denbighshire, Comitatul = shire in
Romanian), since Welsh is increasingly seen as the "national language" and
is quite widely used, particularly in the north.
The Polish Wikipedia places the article on Cork at Corcaigh:
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcaigh
No other Wikipedia does, they all use English names.
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