Moldovan law works the same on Russian names as on Polish names. It doesn't. Nice sockpuppet btw

"dzielnica muzyczna" jest poprawną nazwą, wiolinów jest wątpliwy

Please stop your translations or I will report you

Streetcomplete nie działał

@bartgron po to były te notatki

tak

reverted in changeset/185845478

Hello, you have left incorrect translations of the city, including name:pl, which is standardised by the KSNG. Double-check your translations next time.

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Wilna https://www.lernhelfer.de/schuelerlexikon/geografie/artikel/wilna-vilnius-hauptstadt-litauens https://ome-lexikon.uni-oldenburg.de/orte/wilna-vilnius Here are some examples. Duden lists both Wilna and Vilnius.

So, if an exonym is truly less used than an endonym, then all not standardized names in Polish in the Baltic states, in Ukraine, etc, should go to old_name:pl, yet you didn't touch this key.

"It just tosses around a couple of cherry-picked sources, of which at least one is for historical context."
Well, those are not historical context. I checked the sites. It is known on those sites as "Wilna (Vilnius)".

Again, this is used mostly in geopolitical context (like Kyjiw, Lwiw). When Germans actually want to see the city, they use Wilna instead of Vilnius. You have to see where actual colloquial usage of the cities applies.

Same for cities in Ukraine, where this was already debated, see changeset/172150201 and https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/name-de-kyjiw-oder-wie/109713

By the way, I searched for the name using a prompt (Duck.ai GPT5.4 to be exact), citing 3 sites mentioning the name "Wilna" in the foreground (nostly tour sites) and 1 site mentioning "Vilnius" (mostly related to geopolitics/foreign relations).
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Hier sind ein paar deutsche Seiten, die die Schreibweise „Vilnius“ und/oder „Wilna“ verwenden, und ein kurzer Vergleich, worin sich die Verwendung unterscheidet:

Lernhelfer.de (Schülerlexikon): „Wilna (Vilnius) – Hauptstadt Litauens“
Nutzt „Wilna“ als deutschen Städtenamen, klärt aber direkt die Verbindung zu „Vilnius“.
lernhelfer.de
OME-lexikon (Uni Oldenburg): „Wilna/Vilnius“
Führt beide Varianten als gleichwertige Benennungen in einem Lexikonartikel („Deutsche Bezeichnung: Wilna“, „lit. Vilnius“) und ordnet sie typologisch ein.
uni-oldenburg.de
GetYourGuide (Reiseunterkunft/Guides): „Wilna“ als Tour-/Zielbezeichnung
Verwendet „Wilna“/„Vilnius“ eher als Reisebegriff in Angeboten (Marketing-/Reiseziel-Kontext), ohne sprachhistorische Einordnung.
getyourguide.de
Herder-Institut (Marburg): „… in Vilnius …“
Nutzt überwiegend „Vilnius“ (vor allem im wissenschaftlich/englischsprachig-kontextualisierten Material), und „Wilna“ tritt hier nicht als Haupttitelvariante in den sichtbaren Auszügen hervor.
herder-institut.de
Vergleich (kurz):

„Wilna“ dominiert eher in deutschsprachigen Darstellungen/Einführungen (Lexikon/Schulkontext) als deutscher Name.
„Vilnius“ dominiert eher in international/neutrale(n) oder wissenschaftlichen Schreibweisen bzw. wenn der litauische Name im Vordergrund steht.
In Reiseseiten werden beide Varianten oft gemischt oder synonym genutzt, primär zur Auffindbarkeit.
Wenn du willst, suche ich dir noch gezielter (z.B. nur .de-Universitäten/Archive, nur Zeitungen, oder nur Seiten, die beide Begriffe im Fließtext verwenden).
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Conclusion: name:de=Wilna, official_name:de=Vilnius

Wort: vilnius
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Wort: riga
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Wort: ventspils
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Wort: tallinn
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I searched on the website (https://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/)

Also, for Windau/Ventspils, the former is listed as the German name.

The page in question doesn't show anything when it comes to "Vilnius", "Wilna", etc when searched

Exonyms for larger cities such as Narva, Talinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaliningrad etc are actually more common than endonyms. Most sources report Vilnius as Wilna, Riga as Riga, Kaliningrad as Konigsberg, etc. For villages/small towns I agree that those names are no longer in use, but for cities they are.
"Narwa" fully qualifies here. It's only one letter that fixes phonetics in German + this is a valid transliteration of the Russian name, and, according to Wikipedia, 87% of the city's inhabitants are Russian.
If "name:de" concerns you so much, then why not tag it under alt_name:de as in Klaipeda/Memel?

"Wikipedia was also discussed already multiple times. It just records some old exonyms but at the same prefers endonyms for places in question."
As for that, the german wikipedia has stated that the title always has to be the endonym and the actual german exonym to be highlighted, for example: Vilnius, deutsch Wilna. From what I can see here, "Wilna" seems to be the exonym.
"Sure, we already know you live everywhere where you need to claim to have local knowledge (Otzi also claimed to live in Poland, and in Klaipeda area, and in Kaliningrad as Иван2026 etc.)."
I don't actually have local knowledge of the area. I just check sources such as Wikipedia, Duden, etc. If you see my edits then they are mostly fixing stuff around my hometown of Bydgoszcz, because that's where I live. I also have GPS traces and StreetComplete editions as proof, see my alt account: @olas%20%E2%88%92%20alt%20konto%20do%20uwag

Firstly, I live in Poland, Otzi lives somewhere around Frankfurt.
Also Wikipedia, the most popular encyclopedia, has german names separated and in bold, so I wouldn't consider those names "random".