More ANC RETARDED name changes

cr@zydude said:
My problem is that wiki doesn't require it's content to be correct, only verifiable. You can simply link to a source which backs the way in which you chose to write an article. Thus some articles are instates of conflict. Not every uncited fact has a tag. Plus, as Fudzy pointed out, even basic typos make it into this encyclopedia, because anyone can edit it. Wiki is a nice project, but not a good source of information.

Anyway, name changes happen, they might not be what's best, but they happen all over the place. As I pointed out with New York. St Petersburg in Russia has been through many name changes, India is still going through this process.
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no not really, you are aware the wikipedia do have admins that verify the sources and articles? Every idiot just cannot do it. Regardless provide me with a viable source that proves that Chief Tswhane existed when even Ndebele kings said that they have never heard of him....
 
zulgin said:
no not really, you are aware the wikipedia do have admins that verify the sources and articles? Every idiot just cannot do it. Regardless provide me with a viable source that proves that Chief Tswhane existed when even Ndebele kings said that they have never heard of him....
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There may not be one. I'm not going to go through every single name change to 'prove' whether they shoudl have happend or not. My original post was a reply to the way in which the post portrayed a supposed system to decide whether or not a name is appropriate, and that stands.
 
cr@zydude said:
Firstly, wiki is nowhere near a reliable source. Secondly, your post was about the fact that YOU didn't know who these people were. I pointed out that someone can be importent without you knowing. In the same vein I pointed out how other languages do in fact use punctuation differently to English.
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And some of them use punctuation correctly.
 
Bejasus what country am i living in. Totally confused. Am i still in Africa, Russia, North Korea, Zimbabwe. Me wanders off dazed, worried and lost. Welcome to the Hotel California. Falls down never to stand up again.
 
CrzWaco said:
In the local newspaper there was an article stating they wanted to correct the spelling of the name to Emanzimtoti.
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heard they want tochange several town names to the correct Zulu spelling such has Umlazi becomes Mlazi Umhlanga becomes Mhlanga
 
mmmig said:
heard they want tochange several town names to the correct Zulu spelling such has Umlazi becomes Mlazi Umhlanga becomes Mhlanga
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Which makes sense considering the Zulu's invented the alphabet.
 
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