[WikiEN-l] Names of places in unrecognized countries

[Stephen Streater]

On 17 Sep 2006, at 14:55, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

> Bogdan Giusca wrote
>
>> Which spelling should be used for its article name? The Romanian/ 
>> Moldovan spelling
>> (Malaiesti) or the Russian speling (Malayeshty)?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayeshty
>
> Google has many more hits for Malaiesti. This is not always a good  
> criterion, but here it might be.

I'd use the spelling the people living there use.