[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

[Mike Dupont]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> 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.

OK, well then it is a tolerated POV Fork. a exception to the rule. I
have no problem with that,
so what do you think about making the Albanian names of Serbian (and
Kosovo) towns list, that should be also tolerated according to the
existing pages. I would be happy with that, at least it would give our
Kosovo team something that they would be happy to do,
can I get some support for this idea?
thanks,
mike