[WikiEN-l] Umlauts in article titles

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

--- Mirko Thiessen <mt at mirko-thiessen.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I just came back from a month of absence from
> Wikipedia and realised,
> that lots of article titles about German cities,
> regions etc. have
> been changed from titles WITHOUT umlauts to titles
> WITH umlauts (e.g.
> Moelln is Mölln now). I searched in the naming
> conventions, but I
> didn't find any conventions about this topic. Up to
> now, I created every
> article without umlauts (that means, with ae instead
> of ä). How should
> we handle this in the future? Is there a convention,
> which I was just
> too stupid to find?
> 
> And what about the sharp s (ß)? Should it be used in
> article titles as
> well, or should it (as I did so far) be replaced
> with "ss"?
> 
> 
> Mirko (Cordyph)

I thought we were supposed to render umlauts as an 'e'
after the modified letter in the article titles. In
any case, there should be all possible redirects for
these different renderings. Sometimes there will need
to be disambiguation pages if the umlaut is omitted. I
know that in atleast one case (sch&oumlaut;n
(beautiful/very) vs. schon (already), but that's not a
place name) the umlaut matters, so there could be
more.
--LittleDan

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