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This a weird one, considering WP:COMMONAME and WP:USEENGLISH. He is a Polish composer, with his birth and presumably legal name Mikołaj Stroiński. There is no information in the article that he has dual citizenship and another legal name. However, since 2000s he also seems to spend some of his life in US (there is not much information how much, outside that he has a company there); but he still seems to be involved in many Polish projects. He also seems to have developed a weirdly anglicized version of his name, Mikolai Stroinski, that is often used by English sources, while the Polish sources still refer to him using his Polish name. Which name to use here? Per policies cited above, I guess his English pseudonym, widely used in English, is the better one to use here (while Polish wiki will stick to his Polish name)...? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here04:48, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I absolutely agree that the English form "Mikolai Stroinski" should be used as primary in the English Wikipedia. According to WP:COMMONAME: "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's official name as an article title; it generally prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in a significant majority of independent, reliable, English-language sources)". This seems to be the case here: all the English-language sources quoted in the article use the anglicized form "Mikolai Stroinski"; it is used on SoundCloud, at IMDb and in the English version of the official website of the composer. Laked98 (talk) 12:26, 12 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
