[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[Andrew Guertin]

On 05/29/2015 08:18 AM, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 13:14 +0200, moltonel 3x Combo wrote:
>> And as it
>> happens, Абергавенни comes from Abergavenny rather than Y Fenni,
>> showing that some discernment was applied.
>>
> Not sure I understand that statement, transliterating Y Fenni is equally
> valid in my view.

Russian speakers have been calling that city Абергавенни for over 150 
years. If someone transliterated Y Fenni and said that was the Russian 
name for the city, they would be wrong.

--Andrew