User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160620203004

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160620203004 The problem is as follows: English painters and German painters are linked (via redirects) to England and Germany. However, when one wants to apply the same method to Dutch painters (and other Dutch things), it is not clear which of the designations is to be used. There was a discussion on a talk page whether Holland and the Netherlands is the same thing. And they're not. I don't even know the exact difference between the Low Countries and the Netherlands in the real universe. I'm absolutely sure that the information in DWU is, in most cases, insufficient to distinguish the three. Rembrandt van Rijn is a Dutch painter. Who knows whether one should link to Holland or to the Netherlands. Probably, to Low Countries? The stories are likely to be inconclusive.

Currently, Dutch is misappropriated by some robot. I propose, after the robot is renamed, to make an exception from the English to England and German to Germany redirects and make a new page Dutch that would collect all three national descriptions and outline what little is known in DWU about their distinctions. Many editors already used linkage Dutch in describing Dutch things and persons. So it is clearly a natural thing.