> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> Here is another prime example of how the user is misled when using the >>> english wikipedia. >>> lets say you are looking for Maja Pançiq, you wont find the article, >>> because someone commented out the name in the article >>> Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak. Just because albanian is not an official >>> language in central serbia, they say. First of all, there are many >>> albanians living in that area, and second of all, the point is listed >>> as a border point between Kosovo and Serbia in the GNS database. We >>> cannot have a dysfunctional wikipedia, we need to contain both names >>> and make it possible to navigate. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak >>> thanks, >>> mike >>> >> >> You are, of course, correct, assuming the mountain has a commonly used >> name in the Albanian language, whether it is on the border or not. > > The name is common, it is listed even in the albanian wikipedia, > http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja_Pan%C3%A7iq > It is on wikimapia > http://wikimapia.org/7522941/sq/Maja-Pan%C3%A7iq > listed in wikibooks http://sq.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tokajon/Fjalorthi > > It has 32 results on google, and at least it should be mentioned. > The point is that we are forced to monitor all changes all the time > because some editors have a bad habit of POV deleting data, it is > reoccurring and very annoying. > > thanks, > mike >
I think we'll have to have two lists for a while, as, according to one strongly held point of view, Kosovo remains part of Serbia. Our selection and naming of articles should not attempt to resolve an international political issue. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
