User talk:Szopen/NamingWar

A very good idea - both as a naming wars container and as a good separate article in its own rights. I definetly support the idea and if you need any help let me know - although my knowledge of that subject is pretty limitted. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 09:44, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I agree, though is still does not solve the problem how the cities are to be named in the header. Przepla 10:01, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm afraid that I must be clueless, because I don't see how this establishes what to name things. RickK 19:12, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)

It looks like this could become a good article when filled out, and it would be useful if other related articles were consistent with it. But sadly, I too don't see how if will stop debate about naming places. I recently came across Braunschweig (city) which I am convinced should be Brunswick in English; I will leave it as it is because (a) I missed the time when it was agreed, (b) the first line says the name I think should be used, (c) the name I prefer redirects there now I have changed it. I was involved in the compromise for Derry and County Londonderry so I can live with that too. It looks as if each place needs its own debate, and some (notably Gdanskig) may never settle down. --Henrygb 21:25, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * In the end majority of the users don't really care what name is the most historically correct, they will use the one relevant to their language anyway (and bear in mind that this is likely to be English anyway). So it is vital we have redirects in place, but it is not that important if the main article will be under English, German, Polish or whatever name. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:09, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A good idea, I hope it will be succesfull.

However, having some experience with Russian History Harmonization wikiproject, I'd like to advise you not to put any visible notices on the page. Considering, that it is information for editors, it should be thoroughly described in a place like Talk:Article/naming, and the article body itself should contain references like.

Good luck! Dr Bug (Volodymyr V. Medeiko) 14:35, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're very brave. I favour using the present name throughout an article including historical names in the intro.Rsloch (talk) 14:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)