'-' might be used in the name itself, ' - ' never will be. I think
readability is better with ' - ' than with ' / ', but I guess it's a matter
of taste.

Jo

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 1:46 PM Yves <yve...@mailbox.org> wrote:

> The wiki description is clear enough:
> name: in general, the most prominent signposted name or the most common
> name in the local language(s)
>
> No plural is used, and for a point in the middle of the sea, one may have
> a hard time to find locals.
> I'd say that puri-lingual name(s) with a separator makes sense, but in
> another tag. That way, people using the data hoping that the name tag
> follows the definition won't be misleaded.
> In the absence of the tag name, they can use whatever fallback they choose
> to. Be it name:xx or this new tag for several bordering languages.
> And yes, the complete absence of the name tag does not bother me at all.
> Yves
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