This is what I have to deal with : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pan%C4%8Di%C4%87%27s_Peak&curid=16209969&diff=397646009&oldid=397630575 any suggestions? mike
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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. > > OK, well then it is a tolerated POV Fork. a exception to the rule. I > have no problem with that, > so what do you think about making the Albanian names of Serbian (and > Kosovo) towns list, that should be also tolerated according to the > existing pages. I would be happy with that, at least it would give our > Kosovo team something that they would be happy to do, > can I get some support for this idea? > thanks, > mike > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
