[WikiEN-l] On two-names edit warring

[Andrew Gray]

(A moment of light relief)

One of the continual plagues of anything where somewhere has two names
is people continually switching from one to the other.

Usually, this is a zero-sum game; it's moot which one you use. In a
specific historical context, you can get away with one then the other
in brackets (so people don't start wondering why the Danzig shipyards
were important in the 1980s); here, people just tend to change the
primary to the secondary and vice versa. Net result: no-one who didn't
already care deeply about it tends to notice.

Sometimes, they change them all, such is their desire to expunge the
"wrong" form...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Kolkata&oldid=228200961

"Calcutta, formerly named Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state
of West Bengal..."

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk