Forum:Names of countries

I think we need to set a firm policy in place with regards to countries that have gone through one or more name changes in their history. Right now, its pretty hap hazard. We have an article under "British Guiana" (now "Guyana", but usually still under its former name in HT works), but we also have Suriname (previously called "Dutch Guiana" in OTL, and still called that in one HT work). We have Thailand, not Siam, but we also have Ceylon, not Sri Lanka. And then we have an article for both Indonesia and Dutch East Indies, respectively, although they are indentical for our purposes.

So I think we need to set something in stone. My preference is to go by their present OTL names, with notes in the introduction stating that "In most HT works, 'X' goes by its former name, 'Y'." TR 15:10, October 14, 2010 (UTC)