[WikiEN-l] English names

Thu Jan 22 21:32:36 UTC 2004

>* '''Gdańsk''' (formerly '''Danzig''') is a city on the southern coast
of ...

I was just about to say "eh... Poland doesn't have a southern coast (and
neither does Germany)"... But then realized that seas have coasts too
:-)

The people who've figured out the naming conventions for Gdansk (and
other places that have changed names of the years) might like to add
them to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)]] - at the moment that
page is basically devoted to the much-discussed policy on English
counties.. But a more general policy statement, as much as it is
possible, would be useful for the future.

Pete/Pcb21