Talk:Languages of Finland

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[edit] Minority langauge names

No point adding possible secondary names to every place name in Wikipedia in the main text. Secondary names can be found in the lead chapter of the place in question, not messing up every other article with brackets and irrelevant names. --Pudeo⺮ 22:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

As usual, Pudeo misses the whole point. Yes, we should normally use the main names of the cities and there's normally no need to add the names of cities in any other language. But in a paragraph explicitly dealing with the Swedish minority, where the communities are given explicitly in the context of being the communities in which most Swedish speakers live, well, I guess everyone who isn't blinded by silly nationalism can see the rationale for adding the Swedish names in brackets. JdeJ (talk) 02:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Stop with the false accusations and personal attacks: Wikipedia:Assume good faith. I fail to see what it gives to a English-speaking reader to know that "Espoo (SWEDISH: ESBO)" is correct? The reader can just click the article to see the secondary name. Same with Finnish names. Some users have messed up articles with that in the past [1] but the clear consencus is that they should not be added (guideline approved by Wikiproject Finland) --Pudeo⺮ 14:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Very bad comparison. Adding the names to articles or paragraphs where they lack relevance, such as in the example you gave, is quite different from mentioning them in a relevant context such as Jao did. JdeJ (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)