User talk:Laforgue

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[edit] Naming conventions, Danzig, Königsberg, Braunsberg etc.

Welcome to WIKIpedia! It's good to have you!
I'm writing this because I want to clue you in on some stuff.
Gdańsk/Danzig vote DOES NOT rule that German names will be used primarily for XVI and XVII century. Exception is only made for Gdańsk and Królewiec exclusively, because they were major, very important cities known in the world under their German names. It's not true however for Warmia, Braniewo, Frombork etc. When an article talks about those lands under Polish rule, these places get ONE German name in brackets and then the Polish name throughout the period in question. It also works the other way around: when talking about Poznań under Prussian or German rule, you write "Posen (Poznań)" once and then "Posen" throughout. If you have any questions, doubts, unclarities please write me and I hope together we can work something out.
To na razie tyle. Narka, i witam jeszcze raz.
Kosmonauta Pieszy (talk) 18:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
PS. Fajna ksywka.

It's an unwritten policy observed (more or less consistently) by both sides. Space Cadet (talk) 19:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)