Talk:List of Polish exonyms for places in the Czech part of Cieszyn Silesia

Not exonyms
These aren't really exonyms. 66.97.235.184 16:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ??? Would you care to elaborate ?? Travelbird 16:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * That IP probably meant the issue, that the local people inhabiting these municipalities often call them with the "unofficial" form of name, not the Czech one. - Darwinek 16:53, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I think, that it is used Prostřední Suchá instead of Střední Suchá, isn't it? --Qasinka (talk) 14:31, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

why?
Why do such articles exist? Who needs it? Who would ever think to look for it? Wouldn't the purpose be served by a List of places in Cieszyn Silesia showing both three names? —Tamfang (talk) 22:11, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Concise lists like that are useful and well-arranged. Throwing everything to one huge list would be counterproductive. - Darwinek (talk) 00:02, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Useful how, to whom? I ask again, who needs such a list?  If I needed it, would I think to look here for it?  Why shouldn't we also have a list of Polish names for spices or car-parts? —Tamfang (talk) 05:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not an answer. If you don't understand the complexity of this historical region and its shared Czech-German-Polish history, it's not my problem. - Darwinek (talk) 16:41, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not offering an answer, I'm asking a question. Does the complexity of this historical region and its shared Czech-German-Polish history override WP:DICT?  Will my understanding of the c. of this h. r. and its s. C.-G.-P. h. be enhanced by careful study of the list of names?  —Tamfang (talk) 02:17, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure, it can help you, more importantly it can help others as well. Lists of exonyms are common on WP. - Darwinek (talk) 10:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Saying "it is useful" is no answer when I ask how it is useful (as I have done on several exonym lists' talk pages, with the same unsatisfying result). What can I learn from a list of names that I would not learn from the main article Cieszyn Silesia?
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not an answer. (An attempt to delete all the exonym lists, mainly for WP:DICT, resulted in 'no consensus', not 'keep'.)
 * That each language has its own names for places, adapted to its own phonology, is trivial. —Tamfang (talk) 07:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)