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Should multiple countries be allowed for a vernacular name? #410

Open mdoering opened 5 years ago

mdoering commented 5 years ago

Some vernacular names are repeated several times for the same language. It seems because there are multiple countries assigned to it:

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Should this not be better handled in a single record with a list of countries?

mdoering commented 5 years ago

@gdower @yroskov @thomasstjerne any strong opinion?

gdower commented 5 years ago

Yuri and I think it's an improvement parsing locality into country, although at some point in the future it might be worthwhile adding a locality field that contains finer detail geographical resolution.

yroskov commented 5 years ago

And also: single Common Name should allow multiple langages and countries:

mdoering commented 5 years ago

we have both for common names, ISO country and free text "area". My proposal is to have common name, language & area plus a list of countries. If the same name is used in different languages I would think this warrants a new record.