[Talk-GB] The Welsh for "Brighton"

[Andrew Black]

On 12/06/2021 11:34, Andy Townsend wrote:I'm just curious what people 
think about this!
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> For background, there's a bit of "when a name might be valid" 
> information in 
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf 
> (although there isn't really a "dispute" here).  Generally speaking if 
> a name is used "on the ground" it's OK to include it, but it's not OK 
> to just add "translations" into each of Ethnologue's 7000+ languages 
> for everything with a name in OSM just because you can.

I feel this is the case about a lot of translations and 
transliterations.  Without writing an essay, there needs to be some 
reason. Maybe a significant community that use the name.

Why does Crystal Palace have a "Gare de Crystal Palace". City of London 
has 11 names (sensible) but Westminster doesnt seem to deserve any.

The house of commons has a name:fr="Chambre des Communes"  (is that 
really  its name?).

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