User talk:Sauls~enwiki

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Place names in East Prussia
Dear Sauls, You added several Lithuanian names to List of cities and towns in East Prussia as an IP did today to several articles of towns in Kaliningrad Oblast and Warmian-Masurian Voivodship. Place names are sometimes controversial and in general WP follows the Gdansk vote as summarized here:

Even though place names in East Prussia might have their lithuanian exonyms, there's no reason to add all of them to cities and towns in East Prussia. Lithuanian names are also not identical with the Old Prussian place names and as most towns were not founded by the Old Prussians, there's no evidence, these names existed. If you have a reliable source for old Prussian (not Lithuanian) place names in East Prussia, please share it with us. HerkusMonte (talk) 16:02, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Lithuanian was widely spoken in East Prussia in the XVII - XX centuries. In fact, first Lithuanian book was published in Konigsberg. Lithuanian language has virtually ceased to exist in East Prussia after people were expelled from that region after WWII. Names of most places are certainly of the Baltic origin and Lithuanian names were used after the die of Old Prussian in XVIII century. And, I think you didn't get my point at all: I'm not saying that either Lithuanian or Old Prussian names should be used as main names everywhere in Wikipedia, it's just for the reference so anyone who does a search on the Baltic name gets this page in the search engine and so on. Otherwise why is this article needed at all?

Looking at your user name I'm assuming that you know Old Prussian and should be denying the fact that most names are not of Slavic or German origin. Knowing Lithuanian (which is very close to Old Prussian, as much as High German to Low German) I can attest that. There is a lot of information about this on the internet I'm sure. The full list of Lithuanian names (most of them match Old Prussian) with the Polish names of the places is available at: http://www.vlkk.lt/i/u/file/Nutarimai/atvirkstinis_lenkijos.pdf. If you are denying the fact that most of these names are Old Prussian/Lithuanian origin, the I'm sure that you have biased view of the history and want to pollute the whole idea of Wikipedia. In fact you shouldn't be taking Old Prussian name if you think that way, as you probably don't even know the meaning of it. Sauls

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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