[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

[Fred Bauder]

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>>> Here is another prime example of how the user is misled when using the
>>> english wikipedia.
>>> lets say you are looking for Maja Pançiq, you wont find the article,
>>> because someone commented out the name in the article
>>> Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak. Just because albanian is not an official
>>> language in central serbia, they say. First of all, there are many
>>> albanians living in that area, and second of all, the point is listed
>>> as a border point between Kosovo and Serbia in the GNS database. We
>>> cannot have a dysfunctional wikipedia, we need to contain both names
>>> and make it possible to navigate.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak
>>> thanks,
>>> mike
>>>
>>
>> You are, of course, correct, assuming the mountain has a commonly used
>> name in the Albanian language, whether it is on the border or not.
>
> The name is common, it is listed even in the albanian wikipedia,
> http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Pan%C3%A7iq
> It is on wikimapia
> http://wikimapia.org/7522941/sq/Maja-Pan%C3%A7iq
> listed in wikibooks http://sq.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tokajon/Fjalorthi
>
> It has 32 results on google, and at least it should be mentioned.
> The point is that we are forced to monitor all changes all the time
> because some editors have a bad habit of POV deleting data, it is
> reoccurring and very annoying.
>
> thanks,
> mike
>

I think we'll have to have two lists for a while, as, according to one
strongly held point of view, Kosovo remains part of Serbia. Our selection
and naming of articles should not attempt to resolve an international
political issue.

Fred Bauder