Talk:List of German supercentenarians/@comment-27628170-20160205225321/@comment-258494-20160208181725

We can put the German spelling in parentheses on the biographical articles, but no need for the world-scale "list" articles.

Please note that our focus here at the Gerontology Wiki is, firstly, science: the goal here is to show how long humans live based on verified data, whether humans are living longer today than in the past, etc. The goal is world-scale focus, not individual-nation focus.

Our second objective is history: since tracking supercentenarians involves their placement in history, it is important, as well, for us to focus on the historical perspective.

Regarding language, fonts, etc: our goal is to have standardized fonts and punctuation. People that read English don't read German diacritical marks. Also, please consider: "Nabi Tajima" is the English transliteration of her name in Japanese characters. We don't write Nabi Tajima in Japanese. The similarity between English and German, Danish, Polish, etc. is not enough to justify giving Europeans special treatment. English should be written in English. If we write a German wiki, it woul be written in German. Of course, in Germany it's not called "Germany", either: it's Allemagne?Ryoung122 (talk) 18:17, February 8, 2016 (UTC)