Talk:List of names of European cities in different languages

What about this version?

This is what many of you have been talking about. Comments? --Ivan Volodin 21:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

That's certainly an original idea and I liked the matrix-like character. I think that could be the way to go with. But I think you should not create test articles in the main namespace. You could do that as a test page under your username in the user namespace. Please see Wikipedia:Namespace and Wikipedia:User page. And the way you sorted languages just seems arbitrary to me. Regards, Atilim Gunes Baydin 21:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Someone has already moved it there! --Ivan Volodin 21:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that languages could be sorted in another order. My criterion was the total number of Wikipedia articles. Could also be alphabethic or by country populations. --Ivan Volodin 21:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

• I like the matrix for verifiability and cross reference purposes, the languages should probably be sorted alphabetically by WP code perhaps, but the article itself should have the names or did I miss something? Carlossuarez46 16:34, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I just wanted comments before starting to rewrite the whole list. --Ivan Volodin 21:38, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Deleted New Orleans

It is not an European city. The deleted line is saved here:

| New Orleans | La Nouvelle-Orléans (French), 新奧爾良、纽奥良 (Chinese), Yeni Orlean (Azeri), Nueva Orleans (Spanish), Ngọc Lân (Vietnamese)

pabouk 20:04, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Gothenburg in French? or, How not to establish the foreign-language names of cities

At the risk of starting an argument, I'm not at all sure that using the titles of the interwiki articles is the best way to ascertain the names of cities in non-English languages. The French Wikipedia article entitled Göteborg begins with the words "en français Gothembourg." Which I think tells the real story. --Tkynerd 16:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Mentioned

This list (and similar) are related to the scope of proposed Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Strong objection to first column being "English name"

Why is this identified as "English name", especially in cases where there are a number of English names that have been or could be used at the names of the articles, and especially when that name uses a redirect to pipe to a spelling different from the one at which the current article resides. Note in particular that Wikipedia:Naming conventions provides:

• In particular, the current title of a page does not imply either a preference for that title name, nor that any alternative name is discouraged in the text of articles.

Furthermore, in many cases, the article title is not the most common English name. Gene Nygaard 05:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh well, it's just because this is the English-language Wikipedia, i.e. an English-language encyclopedia! The alternative would be to display the local name in the first column, but how many English-speakers know that the local names, say, for Bucharest, Lisbon, and Warsaw are, respectively Bucureşti, Lisboa, and Warszawa? And what about languages that do not use the Latin script? Is the first column going to show Москва for Moscow and Αθήνα for Athens? And maybe 東京 for Tokyo and 上海 for Shanghai? And how would you then alphabetize these entries? I am sorry, but if your strong objection were to be taken seriously, it would be a recipe for disaster. Pasquale 15:34, 22 October 2007 (UTC)