[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 31

[David Gerard]

On 06/08/04 23:18, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:

> For $deity's sake, the major dispute seems to be over what period the city, for
> the purposes of the article, should be called Gdansk, and when it should
> be called Danzig.  There appear to be a couple of sensible compromises
> that User:Halibutt has proposed.  Why can't people choose one of those, 
> note in the article that naming is an emotional issue, for the purposes
> purposes of writing the article a particular convention has been
> adopted, and this convention is purely a notational convenience and should
> not be taken for anything else?


At present we have a Polish partisan who considers "formerly Danzig" in
the intro to be DEEPLY OFFENSIVE because it was officially called Gdansk
at some time even further before that. Read the talk, he's serious.


- d.