[WikiEN-l] River names Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa

[Fred Bauder]

Remembering that we have no opinion ourselves and that the object is to
transmit information to our users who may use either name, we should use
both.

Fred

> From: Mirko Thiessen <mt at mirko-thiessen.de>
> Reply-To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:15:34 +0100
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] River names Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> there is a dispute in several articles, whether the Oder/Odra river should be
> called by its 
> German or its Polish name. The same for the Neisse/Nysa river and the
> Oder-Neisse 
> line/Odra-Nysa line. I'd like to ask the community, which name is used more
> often by 
> native English speakers. There are some annoying accusations in this dispute
> (see 
> [[User talk:Taw|Taw's talk page]] for more details), so I would like to let
> the majority 
> decide and end the seesaw changes on the relating pages.
> 
> 
> Mirko.
> 
> -- 
> Mirko Thiessen
> http://www.mirko-thiessen.de
> 
> 
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