[WikiEN-l] Re: River names Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa

Wed Feb 19 12:07:34 UTC 2003

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>
>This is not directed specifically at you Mirko, but;
>The idea that there is "one true name" of /anything/ is a total fallacy. Names 
>are not intrinsically linked to subjects - all they are, are abstractions 
>that the human mind uses in order to index and store data connected to the 
>subject. 
>

That is what I said. I just replied to this true-name-argument, which was stated on the 
relating talk pages.

>
>This is already covered by:
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English) and
>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(common_names)
>

Yes, but I thought, that there was a dispute on what is the common name in this case.

Mirko.

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