Naming Convention [30 November 2013]
I was wondering: does Werelate have a policy on which language to use for the primary (non-alt) name when a person's English name is different from their name in other reasonable languages, such as the language of where they lived, or which they spoke, or its modern derivative?--Werebear 00:58, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know if it's been formally articulated or voted on - but I think your probable insight on the matter is correct and generally agreed upon. That is - the modern derivative of the person's common language is the form most preferred. I think we have even gone further - and said that alternatives need not be retained unless there is contemporary evidence for their use.
- As a practical matter though - the heavy lifting of saving this data set was done with liberal use of English Wikipedia, thepeerage, and Cawley - by someone who only claims American English language skill! This creates a heavy bias toward English - at least as an intermediate state of the data - but that isn't a policy preference. I think it is also agreed - or at least has never been disputed - that any language is acceptable as a starting point. --jrm03063 03:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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