I didnt mention Geonames in the proposal you know My argument is that Jinmen and Kinmen are about equally common on Gbooks and that our guideline recommends defaulting to pinyin Geonames gets its data from BGN which is a civilian US agency BGN standardizes geographic naming across the US government not just for the military It is the main supplier of data to the makers of atlases gazetteers and other geographic references See  here I uploaded a scan from Columbia Gazeteer  This is a standard three volume reference the book you would consult if you took a trip to the reference section of a major library and did this the oldfashioned way