[Wikipedia-l] About language names

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,

When we indicate languages in interwiki links, we write the names of 
those languages as it is written in that language. So we get English, 
Nederlands, Deutsch, 日本語 etc. I think it is a nice feature.

Some languages however are not written as they are written in that 
language, think italiano, français or sicilianu. Basically, this is 
wrong. The only reason I can think of why you want this, is for 
"esthetic" reasons. These however take not into account the 
sensibilities that are often associated with language names.

Thanks,
GerardM