[Wikipedia-l] What variant to use for Irish, Scottish and Welsh localities?

Fri Mar 10 10:21:56 UTC 2006

"Wikipedia Romania (Ronline)" 
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> I'm planning to work on a number of articles related to Irish, Scottish 
> and
> Welsh localities on the Romanian Wikipedia. I am currently in a dilemma as
> to what name to use - the Celtic variant or the English variant. I have
> realised that most non-English Wikipedias use the English variant - so 
> that
> place names such as "Cork", "Dublin", "Edinburg" and "Cardiff" are used. 
> For
> the exception of Dublin, perhaps, many of these place names, particularly
> smaller towns, do not have native variants in languages such as Romanian,
> German, French, etc.
[snip]

Your best bet in the first instance is to start your articles using the 
English name. If there is a good article in :en: then link to that.

Also link as appropriate to corresponding articles on :ga: 
(http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/  Gaeilge/Irish) :gd: 
(http://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Gàidhlig/Scots Gaelic) and :cy: 
(http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Cymraeg/Welsh). You would hopefully find 
these links in the English article.

It might be helpful if you create REDIRECTs for the "Celtic variant" to the 
English version; if you discover that you want to use the Celtic variant 
later, you can move the article on top of the REDIRECT.

The priority is to get the information into an article somehow: the name can 
be changed later if necessary.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 