Talk:Warschau

Warschau -> Warsaw. This is the English Wikipedia, we don't need a redirect to every place in the world from evey language's version of the name. Besides, Warschau is being used in some weird German nationalist campaign to get the Warsaw article renamed to Warschau on the specious grounds that it's a German city. RickK 01:08, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep - it doesn't hurt and IMHO the more redirs we have the better. Halibutt 07:19, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  - Halibutt is the User who created the redirect. So, then, are you going to create redirects for the spelling of Warsaw in every other language in the world, or are you limiting your redirect creation to the German nationlist version? And have you created a redirect to "Warsaw" and "Warszawa" in the German language Wikipedia? Rick K 19:42, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Basically harmless and potentionally useful for German speakers. As for POV campaign, it is easy to make sure this stays as a redirect, instead of being expanded. I wouldn't mind seeing more redirects derived from List of European cities with alternative names. jni 05:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- We do have some redirects from city names in foreign languages (e.g. Beyrouth -> Beirut), but in general we don't do them unless they are forms that have had (at some point, at least) some amount of use in English-language writing. I don't think Warschau passes this test - I've never seen it referred to as anything except "Warsaw" in English. Noel (talk) 01:18, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  - According to the discussion referenced at /Precedents#Should redirects from city names in other languages be kept?, redirects from the name in the native language(s) of the city are also OK. Noel (talk) 01:33, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Keep.If you look up warschau on google there are 74,000 English pages. Can't see a good reason not to keep it. It's only a redirect.--Chammy Koala 16:06, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, POV-pushing. A redirect from Warszawa is proper, since the native language of the city is Polish. —Korath (Talk) 17:04, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. Absolutely no reason to delete this potentially useful redirect. It is no more POV-pushing than Warszawa. — Helpful Dave 18:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. I'm not a German nationalist and I found this vote by trying to reach Warsaw from Warschau, having just seen The Pianist. Call me stupid for not remembering the "proper" English name if you must. JRM 19:08, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)

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