Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
we should refer to spacecraft from the USSR according to their Russian name-not according to the English name.
But the English wikipedia has agreed on using English names. For the title of the article, that is. The "native" name can be prominently mentioned in the opening paragraph.
I agree that it sometimes feels funny when I follow a link to some place I never heard of before, and it turns out to be a major city or region here in Germany ;-) but it seems to be the best solution. And, we can always redirect the native name to the English one.
Magnus