Can we take a step back and view this in the context of other discussions about the viability of a map directly on http://openstreetmap.org/? As a community we've become more sensitive to the fact that visitors coming to openstreetmap will see the map and think that the project is meant to create a replacement for maps.google.com (the search product) when in fact we are here to create map *data* for the world. The slippy map sitting at openstreetmap.org is a tool to achieve that goal, not the end goal itself.
Any discussion over any particular piece of the default Mapnik rendering should be tempered with that in mind. The data can be (and has been) changed to reflect the dispute over the "official" or "default" name for the node. The fact that the map on osm.org happens to render that node in a particular way does not mean we need to change anything. If a community doesn't like the way osm.org displays the data, they are free to set up their own rendering that displays the data in a manner of their pleasing (including showing a particular language's name tag before defaulting to the generic name tag).
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