placenames in kosovo please before making or discussing changes to the names used in all kosovo related topics review carefully our general naming conventions and the specific ones on geographic names using english settlements in short they ask us to reflect common english usage which will often will be a local name or one of them but not always because those are the forms our intended readership of english speakers would most easily recognize for a number of historical reasons the english language has adopted the serbian forms we merely restrict ourselves to reflect this usage wikipedia is not a venue to advocate the adoption of the albanian names by the english language the names will be modified only if the english usage itself changes to something else or if our current naming conventions themselves are amended to reflect local usage instead of english one best regards