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:::::::''They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time'' Oh, come now. So if I were writing about Sri Lanka/Ceylon in the sixteenth century I should be referring to it as ''Serendip'' or whatever? And who now refers at all to Formosa? [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 08:41, 25 September 2008 (EDT)
:::::::''They should be using the historical terms in common English usage at the historical time'' Oh, come now. So if I were writing about Sri Lanka/Ceylon in the sixteenth century I should be referring to it as ''Serendip'' or whatever? And who now refers at all to Formosa? [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 08:41, 25 September 2008 (EDT)
::::::::Yes indeed, or they will have trouble. Please let's stick to China and to words in common use in English. (Think of Burma, Ceylon, Persia, and the USSR -- kids need to know these historical names.) History is real. :) [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 09:03, 25 September 2008 (EDT)
::::::::Yes indeed, or they will have trouble. Please let's stick to China and to words in common use in English. (Think of Burma, Ceylon, Persia, and the USSR -- kids need to know these historical names.) History is real. :) [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 09:03, 25 September 2008 (EDT)
I don't know what point you are trying to make. Of course students of history need to know historical names, but here '[[Ceylon]]' quite properly redirects to [[Sri Lanka]]. (Persia unfortunately redirects to [[Persian Empire]] rather than [[Iran]], but that's for another time to fix). Thus Peking should redirect to Beijing. [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 10:14, 25 September 2008 (EDT)