Template talk:Infobox Romania Communes

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[edit] Hungarian, German and Latin names

Hi. I fail to see what the relevance of the small italic Hungarian, German and Latin names is in the infobox. If a minority makes up more than 20% of the population, the name in that language will be already written under the Romanian name in the infobox title, as per Oradea or Miercurea-Ciuc. The other names, which are mainly historical in nature, are already listed in the lead section in italics, so they are virtually duplicated in the infobox. I think that they should be removed because it makes the infobox too cluttered. In the case of bilingual Romanian-Hungarian localities, it also means that the Hungarian name is being duplicated twice in the infobox, and sometimes four times in the article, as at Izvoru Crişului. Ronline ✉ 07:09, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I know, but the population, mayor, area, villages and other info are also many times specified in infoboxes, not only in this one and in the articles too. The infoboxes just offer a quick review of the essential info about the locality, it summarize them. For the localities where there are 2 official names it is normal not to specify the language name in infobox too. This infobox is really not too big so I don't see how this info could hinder. And for places like Izvoru Crişului we could use the example of Mühlbach, Italy. I think this would be fair. --Roamataa 08:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Or we can insert bellow the Romanian name a section called other names where to specify other names and which are official of them.--Roamataa 09:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Note that while minority language may have some official recognition at local level, this is not the case for the names, which are explicitely considered "informative" by the Romanian law, their official use being punished by the same law.Anonimu

Don't understand. You mean that the only official name are in Romanian? This is because there were a lot of discussions in last days and there are persons who say that where more than 20% of the population have a certain ethnicity the official name of that place exist both in Romanian and other language and must be used both of them. Is this true? --Roamataa 17:10, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

See H.G. 1206/2001, art. 10 and art. 18 h). I'd say it's pretty explicite, but some users refuse to understand. Anonimu 18:07, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

It is very clear now thanks. So the only official existing names for Romanian localities are the names in Romanian. Thanks again. --Roamataa 19:39, 20 May 2007 (UTC)