You really don't read what I write or is it me who speaks so badly I can't
make myself understood ? I'm beginning to wonder ... :)

2015-05-01 19:47 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>:

> Hoi,
> You rest your case Fine. You do not address the point that an official
> name is exactly that. It is the name as used by authorities. Typically it
> is what is used in registers, in passports. You do not have those for your
> convenience in any language. It does not matter what you can read or not.
> What matters is that you can accept is that it is not about you and your
> understanding. For this it is not relevant.
>
> When you want to make a trip to another country you look for the label for
> your item.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On 1 May 2015 at 19:19, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douill...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I can't add more than I already did, I think, so I'll rest my case. A
>> part of the work in Wikidata is building the database and guessing what
>> could be unidentified items there only is informations in a language we
>> don't understand or an alphabet we can't read. And there is no label in our
>> language, and we want to put some. In that case, any information is useful.
>> Or we plan a trip in the country in question and we want to have an idea of
>> how to say the name in the language, or ...
>>
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