I wonder, is there a policy on using of the places (specifically, cities) names, which have been (often) changed, historically? Does one have to use only the "actual" name? Or should it depend on context, possibly?
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On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:59 AM, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
I wonder, is there a policy on using of the places (specifically, cities) names, which have been (often) changed, historically? Does one have to use only the "actual" name? Or should it depend on context, possibly?
In an article regarding the Soviet Union one would usually use Leningrad.
Fred
Make redirects. Bèrto
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I wonder, is there a policy on using of the places (specifically, cities) names, which have been (often) changed, historically? Does one have to use only the "actual" name? Or should it depend on context, possibly?
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Well, I'd use the names that people are more likely to know in real life. Sometimes that's simpky impossible, for example, in plants classification. But as long as towns are concerned basically you would use the most recent version, unless it was only published on maps and people used the historical version anyway.
Bèrto
----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Yury Tarasievich" yury.tarasievich@gmail.com Кому: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Отправлено: 20 июля 2006 г. 23:04 Тема: Re: [Wikipedia-l] places names -- historical
On 20/07/06, Berto albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Make redirects.
...and use historicals?
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