Talk:Meißendorf

Non-English letter

Why don't we rename the title to Meisendorf  or Meissendorf  because the ß  is a non-English letter and I don't think it would be easily understood by most readers. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 23:58, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Because the Wiki convention is to keep the ß unless there is a common English version of the name e.g. Meissen. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

It's common knowledge that whenever it's not possible to write ß in German, ss can substitute it. The Swiss people never use ß anyway. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 15:26, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

This has all been thrashed out before. I questioned it years ago, even Jimbo questioned it, but the convention is "ß" except where there is widespread use in English sources of "ss" e.g. Giessen. You can raise the debate at WikiProject Germany again if you feel strongly about it. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:26, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

No Wikipedia rule prevents us from adding another spelling at the beginning of the articles, to make it clearer how to pronounce the word. This is done in all articles, for examples, those which have Arabic or Hebrew names, the names are provided in their native texts, with IPA notation and sometimes with additional standardized transliterations. Such debates never mandated that we are prevented from adding another spelling at the beginning of the article and it's not clear to me at all that there was any consensus on leaving the sharp-esses without adding another alternative spelling. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 21:31, 30 March 2013 (UTC)