User talk:82.79.158.166
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I'll be answering your question right away. --Mihai -talk 16:38, 11 January
[edit] Revert oradea
Why did you revert my Oradea contributions? It wasn not really fair. I only added in the Hungarian name for the place given that in Oradea Hungarian is a legal language and in the English version of wikipedia one can point to the existing names (legal, in use - what do you want more?) because the English language does not have an English name for the town. This is common practice in the case of other multilingual spaces as Belgium etc. I really hope that you did not do this just out of nationlist impulse. I am an Englishman spending some time in Oradea/Nagyvarad and I appreciate the way people here do not behave as some do in other places around on the nationality question. I also corrected some of the English errors - again I do not see why you reverted those. Please answer to me on your talk page since I do not know how things go around here and I do not even know whether I have one. Hope you enjoy Brittany. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.79.158.166 (talk • contribs).
- I wasn't at all nationalistic, in fact, my conviction is that on wikipedia we should point out the alternate names for different cities, especialy in Transylvania. But, these alterante names are not to be used every time a mention is made about that place. In the case of Oradea, you can see that at the beginning there are the romanian, the hungarian and the german names, but the article name is the official name of the city, and only one name should be used when reffering to the city, not a list of all the names. So it's either Oradea, either Nagyvarad. The same thing is about the rivers, which also have a number of names which are listed at the corresponding articles, but due to the fac that there is a city in Romania the romanian names should be used. So the reason why I reverted your contributions was the overuse of multiple names you have added. About the english errors, I am sorry, I'll se that they are recorected, the way you did. Hope to have been clear enough, if not, I'll be happy to answer any of your eventual questions. --Mihai -talk 16:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
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