--- Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
Hello,
I hope I'm posting this on the right list, don't know where else to turn. We have a minor dispute on the Romanian Wikipedia and I'd like to ask for your advice. The dispute refers to the naming of an article (would prefer not to specify which article, but it's a sensitive topic with people). Now, there are two spellings proposed for the article name: the one widely accepted in Romania and another one which is preferred by a Romanian minority.
On the English Wikipedia we go with what most people who speak English (our readers) would expect to find (with caveats for ambiguity and offensiveness). So placing the article you talk about where most Romanian speakers would expect to find it in the Romanian Wikipedia makes a great deal of sense to me. But caveats for ambiguity and offensiveness may apply.
An example from the English Wikipedia were common usage is overruled by offensiveness: 'Eskimo' is a very common name for a people who live in the North American Arctic. In fact it is probably the most common name for them (at least in the U.S.). But they consider it to be highly offensive. Therefore our article about them is at [[Inuit]] (a widely used alternate name - esp in Canada).
-- mav
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