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Simple Easy Naming Convention
Why cannot wikipedia have a simple easy naming convention? For example: We use the name NOW used by the residents of the place (city in this case of Hannover) in an official capacity. And then put redirects for all other variants. In the article we can explain the historical name uses. SO Tallinn, Danzig, Tannenberg and Sankt-Peterburg can all be rendered into wikipedia for those wanting to find them without too much trouble. I could then find Napoli, Gdansk and Azincourt, if I want to search for them. Or any of the Greenlandic places, that recently changed their official names from Danish to Inuit names, with either of the names used historically, or in future literature like newspapers.
Where places have official names in ENGLISH (as designated by the place; so Tampere Region - ENGLISH DESIGNATED NAME, AND Pirkanmaa -FINNISH DESIGNATED NAME) we use the English name. Even though, as in the Pirkanmaa / Tampere Region case, no-one I know actually uses the "English" name, it is still the official one re English thus we use it here in wikipedia.
As we have an English name or official name its easy, and we can use it in the English wikipedia. Where they don't we can use the majority language AND minority languages with redirects. SO in Tampere and Helsinki we use the finnish, but if we want to search for the Swedish names of Tammerfors and Helsingfors it gets redirected. Where there truly is more than one official language, we can use the name that appears first on any official page: precedence being given to local council, then national decisions so Nantes rather than Naoned. EVEN IF I BELIEVE IN Breton rights, the official, national and local council is french controlled and they use the french name in precedence so we follow that. 84.231.182.113 (talk) 04:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)MARKUS84.231.182.113 (talk) 04:46, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
- A possible reason why your suggestion is not followed is that in English many of the typographical characters, accents, etc., used in German, French, etc, such as umlauts, etc., are not available in the standard English typographical set. Thus there is no way of spelling the words correctly if using an English keyboard.
- The reason in many cases why the spelling in English is different from the native language is because the two languages have different pronunciation rules, and so if spelt the same the English pronunciation would be even less like the correct native one, e.g., Cologne vs 'Köln' - there is no way of working out the correct pronunciation of the latter using English rules of pronunciation. As for languages like Polish and Russian then things get even more difficult.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.220.15 (talk) 15:14, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages does have a "simple, easy naming convention". It is "use the version of the name of the subject which is most common in the English language, as you would find it in reliable sources". Try to get your mind around that! METRANGOLO1 (talk) 18:02, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, Misplaced Pages has a "simple, easy naming convention". It is "use the version of the name of the subject which the fat, racist buffoon BoJo is able to pronounce". Therefore, all places in Europe have now been renamed into Bulla, Wulla, Hulla and Hoop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E2:370E:6F88:C5BC:57E0:F1E7:3DDB (talk) 20:01, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Use of blog as source
Seeking to verify that the Old Town Flea Market (Altstadt Flohmarkt am hohen Ufer) is really the oldest in Germany, I picked two citations. The second is a blog (here), but as it is supplemental, and the blogger credibly professes to be familiar with the city since childhood, I kept it. The primary cite is a news photo of what purports to be the market's 50th anniversary. (We're not dealing with ancient history here.) A more substantial source would be welcome. -- ℜob C. alias ALAROB 20:55, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Hanover universities
Among the universities listed, I would like to draw attention to the oldest German veterinary university. Founded in the 18th century, it is today the most important in germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/University_of_Veterinary_Medicine_Hannover ~ genom-x 2001:9E8:6D7D:7300:F87C:12A6:61CF:B825 (talk) 00:05, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
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