Soued031
Joined 15 November 2010
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Computer Fizz in topic Capellen
Capellen
change- Hi there. About your edit to Capellen -- basically what is happening here is that there is an "other spelling" or a misspelling of Capellen as Kapellen, like saying ("Capellen, also known as Kapellen"). But when you changed Kapellen to Capellen, it removed the information of the other spelling, which is like saying ("Capellen, also known as Capellen"). I'm aware that Capellen is much more widely used and is generally considered the "correct spelling", but it doesn't make it the only spelling. Does this make sense? Computer Fizz (talk) 18:58, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- Hi. I usually give up when I do these edits and someone reverts it. I'll give you a try. The places in Luxembourg never had a really "official writing" in Luxembourgish and German. So the only "official writing" was the French one. I know we are strange we have 3 languages used by our country :-P. We (Wikimedia Lëtzebuerg) and also others "pushed" the Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch and the Conseil permanent de la langue luxembourgeoise to do their job correctly: talk to all actors and also take our list we had in our Wikipedia and look at it. The official result can be found here. As you can see the list is very recent: 2019.04.05. Just to make you understand why I'm fed up: I have to change the writing in all the Wikipedias (Luxembourgish and the others), Commons, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, add the audio file if missing and also changes the GPS coordinates if they are wrong. The official writing of the places is usually identical to the Wikipedia but for the rare cases that come up there is a lot to change. Kapellen "was" the official writing for Luxembourgish and German and Capellen the "true official" one. We at the luxembourgish Wikipedia had to take a choice and "Kapellen" was the right choice at the time when the Wikipedia started. But "Kapellen" was not really accepted by the people living there. Maybe do to the fact that Germany invaded Luxembourg at one time and one of the things that Germany did was to make the name of places more German. (And also not using Luxembourgish as a language and other far more cruel things.) One easy way to make words more German is replacing a "C" by a "K" as it keeps the same sound. It's the first time I'm writing in simple English I hope I did well :-). --Soued031 (talk) 20:12, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- Like I said, even though Capellen may be more widely used, Kapellen is still a secondary spelling that it is still used in some places, and I don't see the benefit to just removing it. Computer Fizz (talk) 21:21, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
- Hi. I usually give up when I do these edits and someone reverts it. I'll give you a try. The places in Luxembourg never had a really "official writing" in Luxembourgish and German. So the only "official writing" was the French one. I know we are strange we have 3 languages used by our country :-P. We (Wikimedia Lëtzebuerg) and also others "pushed" the Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch and the Conseil permanent de la langue luxembourgeoise to do their job correctly: talk to all actors and also take our list we had in our Wikipedia and look at it. The official result can be found here. As you can see the list is very recent: 2019.04.05. Just to make you understand why I'm fed up: I have to change the writing in all the Wikipedias (Luxembourgish and the others), Commons, Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, add the audio file if missing and also changes the GPS coordinates if they are wrong. The official writing of the places is usually identical to the Wikipedia but for the rare cases that come up there is a lot to change. Kapellen "was" the official writing for Luxembourgish and German and Capellen the "true official" one. We at the luxembourgish Wikipedia had to take a choice and "Kapellen" was the right choice at the time when the Wikipedia started. But "Kapellen" was not really accepted by the people living there. Maybe do to the fact that Germany invaded Luxembourg at one time and one of the things that Germany did was to make the name of places more German. (And also not using Luxembourgish as a language and other far more cruel things.) One easy way to make words more German is replacing a "C" by a "K" as it keeps the same sound. It's the first time I'm writing in simple English I hope I did well :-). --Soued031 (talk) 20:12, 25 February 2020 (UTC)