[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Delirium]

Geoffrey Burling wrote:
> I agree with you, I honestly do, but consider the challenge I face in 
> my little corner of Wikipedia: it is the exception, not the rule, that 
> a given placename has several spellings & at least one alternative 
> name. Having only one name spelled one way per town, mountain, river -- 
> & even person -- would make my research much easier, let alone naming 
> articles.
> [...]
> If you can come up with a better way to provide this information than 
> using those ugly parantheses, I'm all ears. But until then, I'll stick 
> with them. At least it's consistent, so if someone does come up with 
> a better way, it'll be much simpler to fix.
>   

One method I like is to move it to its own section once it gets past 
some subjective "too unwieldy" limit. For example, look at how [[Muammar 
al-Gaddafi]] handles the zillions of transliteration variations: In a 
separate "name" section (section 9 currently), not in the intro or 
anywhere near it.

-Mark