[Foundation-l] naming of things in kosovo

[Mike Dupont]

I have done a write up of the current issues with the naming and
invite you to please read and comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Naming_and_status_of_Kosovo_pages

I suggest some things and would like to find agreement, we need to
figure out the right way forward on this issue so we can improve the
quality of the articles.

Even if we don't change the names of the articles, we have to make
sure that the articles are usable for people if they only know the
albanian or serbian name. We need to also clean up the entire Parallel
article structure for the Districts of Kosovo, Districts of Kosovo
(serbia) and Municipalities of Kosovo.  The district scheme is totally
outdated and confusing. It reduces the quality of the Wikipedia to
have POV Forks.
thanks
mike

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:08 AM, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, sure, but a lot of smaller villages and towns in many countries
> do not have well-established English names. Besides, what constitutes
> the "English name" is a matter of debate - according to law, the
> official name of Kolkata in English is "Kolkata"... but then, couldn't
> Germany pass a law saying that their name in English was
> "Bundesrepublik Deustchland", and would we have to consider that just
> as English as "Kolkata" or "Thiruvananthapuram" (formerly Calcutta and
> Trivandrum)?
>
> Anyhow, referring to things by their conventional English name is the
> reason we call it Kosovo and not Kosovë or Kosova, the Albanian names;
> however in cases such as village and town names, names of mountains
> and bridges, etc. which may have been referred to both ways in English
> literature or barely mentioned or not mentioned at all in English
> sources, it's less clear-cut.
>
>
>
> 2010/11/11 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>> On 11 November 2010 14:26, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>  Ideally we would use the albanian
>>> names and encourage the locals to edit.
>>
>> No ideally we would use the English names. As we have established with
>> say "Germany" and "Norway" what the locals happen to call something is
>> of secondary significance.
>>
>>
>>
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>> geni
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