Peter Gervai grin@tolna.net writes:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:50:45AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Well, that's very strange to me. It's not really my place, exactly, to comment much on what the wiki-consensus should be in German language, but if I was German, I'd probably want to work on fixing that. But perhaps there are subtleties that I don't understand, so I'll just refrain from comment.
I guess the reason why is pretty simple. In the past, in the times of the German Democratic Republic all the antifascists used the "foreign" names to show how PC they are (me included). Some of the prolong this way of life in our current times. And then there are some German writers who are quite advanced in Middle and Eastern European languages: using foreign spellings they can show how clever they are ;-)
Should be intlwiki-l but anyway;
No, I'm not going to subscribe to jet another list ;)
for me it was natural to form the policy on Hungarian as "we should use names which Hungarian people would naturally use, and which is the most used, and make others redirect to them".
Sure, that's the natural way to solve this "problem" -- maybe I'll start another try to get things right. Unfortunately, often there is more important work to do.