User talk:Saragüells

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Hello, Saragüells, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Studerby (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Elche
Unfortunately, this is the English-language Wikipedia, and English speakers do not always use the same names for places (or sometimes even people) that the people who live there (or who knew the people) use. For example, English speakers call Den Haag The Hague, München is called Munich, and Wien is called Vienna. We even do the same with whole countries - Sverige is Sweden, Deutschland is Germany, and España is Spain.

So to for Elche, Wikipedia is going to prefer using the name that all the other English-language references (such as Google maps) use for the place, without regard for what people who live there actually call it. If you want to make a case for Wikipedia to prefer the Valencian spelling, you'll need to demonstrate that current English-language usage has changed to that, as documented in appropriate reliable sources. Sometimes such changes do happen in the language, we used to call the city of Mumbai by the name Bombay until 15 years ago, and the country now called Thailand used to be commonly called Siam. Studerby (talk) 03:27, 9 May 2012 (UTC)