Timeline for When documenting location, should current or historical place names be used?
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| Jan 13, 2019 at 20:20 | comment | added | Andrew Truckle | But when you use the location from old times then things like maps don’t work. Ideally online maps should reflect the time period. 😀 | |
| Oct 24, 2012 at 5:37 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | @GeneGolovchinsky: Good question. Pose it. :) | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 21:47 | comment | added | Gene Golovchinsky | Intereting point, @LennartRegebro! I wonder if there are edge cases that should be discussed. How would you apply these rules to romanized Chinese names (as rendered in English)? Is it appropriate to use Pinyin, introduced in 1956, for names associated with events that occurred prior to 1956, when the Wade-Giles romanization was the dominant standard? | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 20:36 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | I would note though that common practice, at least in Sweden, is to use modern spelling, as the same name can be spelled in many various ways. But using todays standard spelling makes things easier when searching, etc. | |
| Oct 13, 2012 at 3:45 | comment | added | Gene Golovchinsky | That was @Andrew's point below as well. He made it much more elegantly than I did | |
| Oct 13, 2012 at 3:29 | comment | added | Drew | +1 to Gene, chronologically accurate names carry special meaning of their own... compare "Uncle Joe from Leningrad" vs. "Uncle Joe from St. Petersburg", "Aunt Mei from Formosa" vs. "Aunt Mei from Taiwan", etc. | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 20:14 | comment | added | Gene Golovchinsky | But names may change depending on the political locality, particularly if different languages are involved. And since the same place-name may appear in different nearby countries, it's quite important to note the name and the date that name was used. | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 7:54 | comment | added | I'm with Monica | As I understand it, the op does not ask about the political status of a given locality but its name. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 23:47 | history | answered | Gene Golovchinsky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |