[Wikipedia-l] Pronunciation guides (Was Re: Oliver is Lir II [...])

[Lars Aronsson]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> The issue of using diacritical marks is not about Lir.

To some extent, though, it is.  Lir is very alone in suggesting that
Germany should be called Deutschland in an English text.  There are
other foreign places where the English use is unstable, e.g. both the
English spelling Gothenburg and the Swedish spelling Göteborg are used
for the same city in English texts.  I think the NPOV policy is
sufficient to address this.  For most smaller cities there never was
an English name, and the use of diacritics might be justified.  But
the name Germany never was in any of these categories.

My remarks about Lir was about the "Deutschland" cases.  It was my
interpretation that this was the result of independent thinking (which
I admire) in combination with lack of interest in the opinion of
others (which might come with more experience - it did for me).


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