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= Introduction =
= Introduction =


Current naming practices for Germany yield long, cumbersome page titles and complicate searches.
Current naming practices for Germany yield long, cumbersome page titles and complicate searches.  Simplified and standardized German place names will result in a better search experience and work better with the clickable maps that will soon be added to the country, state, and regional pages.


A study of the German and English Wikipedia and the German GenWiki  showed that each handles German locality names differently.  
This project will be defined shortly. Please [[FamilySearch Wiki: WikiProject German Renaming/Proposal|click here ]]for details.
 
A proposal for renaming the German locality pages will be presented here shortly.
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