autophile wrote:As for the names... I'm the idiot who is attempting to write the Vicipaedia entry on Maryland, so Sinus Chesapicus is completely unsourced. After being kicked in the a**, hard, several times with the "Noli fingere" rule, I changed the name to the last known attested Latin usage, Sinus de Chessopeake. I also changed many of the names back to their English forms if I found no Latin usage, or to the last known Latin usage if I could find one (as in Flumen de Pattowomack for Potomac River).
Outside the authoritarian regime of Vicipaeida, I wouldn't worry about the "unsourced" nature of your names. It's ridiculous that we're forced to mine for previous, "official" uses of Latin names as opposed to inventing them ourselves. This practice runs completely contrary to Vicipaedia's dedication to Latin as a living language. If Latin is a language, then its users create its usage. If we are going to hang on the every Latin word of some nobody explorer or Jesuit from the 18th century, we might as well admit that the language is completely stagnant and give up the whole Vicipaedia project.Extra regnum tyranicum Vicipaediae ipsae, noli sollicitari nominibus "sine fontibus" utens. Ridiculum! nos hodie viventes et Latine scribentes alicubi fodiamus oportet ut nomina "officialia" locorum inveniamur, non ipsi ea fabricantes. Hic mos valde finibus Vicipaediae obfendit quae Latinam esse linguam vivam statuit. Si reapse Latina lingua est, illi ea utentes nomina fingunt. Si semper hic et illic grassamur, omne e verbo Latino in aliquoque libro nesciocuius exploratoris vel Jesuitae reperto pendentes, necesse est nos profiteamur hanc linguam adusque inertem esse atque relinquamus hoc ipsum Vicipaediae molimentum.