|From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
|X-Accept-Language: en-us
|Sender: wikien-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org
|Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
|Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:12:51 -0800
|
|Daniel Mayer wrote:
|
|>BTW our current primary naming convention is to use what most English speakers
|>would know and recognize as article titles with a reasonable minimum of
|>ambiguity and do any usage explanation in the article itself.
|>
|Emperor "Franz Josef" of Austria: 203,000 Google hits; "Francis
Joseph":
|24,500 Google hits yet we persist in using Francis Joseph pretending
|that it is most recognizable by English speakers
|
|Eclecticology
I think that is confusing "most recognizable by English speakers" with
"English instead of something else". Franz Josef is much more
recognizable than Francis Joseph in this case. Charlemagne is much
more recognizable than Karl der Gross or Charles the Great.
I have been pretty pro-English in all this, but Francis Joseph is
silly.
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88