[Data-modeling] Distilled & blended spirits

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Christopher R. Maden
<crism at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried adding a few more "exotic"
>> types to see where things would break.  Poitín fit in without any
>> problem, but I got a little stuck with Calvados.
>
> They both look fine to me.  Thanks for contributing them.

Actually, I realized after reading up a little bit on Freebase i18n
(there isn't any) that "poitín" is probably wrong since it's likely
been automatically tagged as an English word, which it's not.  It also
offered me an automatic "aka" of "poitin" which I unthinkingly
accepted.  It's fine to keep this as an alternate search target, but
it shouldn't be displayed under "also known as" because it's not a
real word (in any language).

So what's the current best practice?  Delete "poitín" and promote
"poteen" to the primary name?  I'm concerned that if I leave it as is,
it'll be hard to find later (ie there's no query "show me all entries
tagged as English which contain non-English words").

On a related note, are entries supposed to be in American English,
some flavor of "international" English or author's choice?   (Question
triggered by the use of a naked "Scotch" which I think is an
Americanism for "Scotch whisky").

Tom