[OHM] Should we map former endonyms?

[Andy Mabbett]

On 19 March 2014 20:59, Laurence Penney <lorp at lorp.org> wrote:

> Taking politics out of it, perhaps one could use the date to indicate when
> the name was in use, thus a key of "name:de(1939-1945)".

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Wikidata will soon be recording such name changes, with dates. Perhaps
the answer is to map using the current name(s) and link to Wikidata
from which the rest can be fetched by those wanting them?

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Andy Mabbett
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