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een pak van mijn hart ;)

Ach je mag ook altijd mijn naam toevoegen

Ilja (Russische voornaam)
Vandekerkhove (Vlaamse naam)

Polspoel als achternaam mag ook altijd :)
(dan weten jullie ineens vanwaar de nick 'Polle' vandaan komt ;) )

in orde zowel voor Iljake en Polle!

I think everyone should go and read the first posts in this thread again, as I have the impressiona lot of people haven' done that.

it has the list with all active names right now over a number of posts on pages 1 and 2 of this thread.

the purpose is to look first in the list, and only IF your name is not foreign, AND it is not in the list, you should request to add it.

GM or LA who add a name should also edit the posts with the lists, so it stays up to date.

There is also a French translation by ebobo for the people who speak French, so this alreay is a multilangual thread.

Thank you all for your help.

Last edited by Lord of Doom at 9/14/2012 4:04:51 AM

I thought the criteria was nationality of the person, not origins of his name.

There is also a French translation by ebobo for the people who speak French, so this alreay is a multilangual thread.

Yeah. A little bit like reading all the subtitles at the end of the movie.

well, no the name should be typical Belgian. anyone can come and live in Belgium, but it doesn't mean his name is Belgian.

the names database is programmed to have a mix of names from diffrent databases, and the developpers have taken info from the internet with the populations of the countries to know how much% of each database they should use for each country. So if we put non-Belgian names in the Belgian database, the mix would not be right anymore, there would be too many foreign names, because they would have x% foreign names from theother databases, and then have an other y% of foreign names from our own databank.
Also other countries might get names that never occur there.

example (which is not what it is in reality, but just to explain):
in blegium we have 80% belgian names and 20% German names.
in Spain there is 5% belgians, but no Germans.

if we would add 20% german names in our databank becasue we have 20% germans in our country, we would end up with:
about 70% belgian and 30% german names, which does not represent what the BBs had in mind.
in Spain German names would apear, while BB never programmed them to be there.

Hope you understand why the Belgian database can ONLY have Belgian names.

In the end, there will be enough foreign names amongst our youth players, and I believe you might already have noticed that.

I'm not realy sure, but I think for Belgium, the amount of names used for youthplayers is about 55% from the Belgian database, so that leaves room for 45% of all others...


Yeah, the translation is somehow lost in the posts, but hat also is because fellow players couldn't resist the urge to spam this thread before it was decently started....
I will add a sentence in the first post, and also add some to the title. The French part might not be good, but there IS a reason I asked someone else to translate it, and that is also why there was no French in my initial post as well. :p
In my early days I didn't think about adding English either, since it was not a Belgian official language...

Last edited by Lord of Doom at 9/18/2012 8:01:20 AM

the developpers took the info from the net to make the mix, so don't worry, the maroccan names will be in the mix as well.

there is indeed no 'fixed' rule to determine what a name origins from, and in some cases it is hard to find out.

we all know for example that 'börg" is not typically Belgian
while 'Jannsens' is.

same for Ilja and Bart...

so in case it is clear the name is from foreign origin, we should NOT add it to the Belgian database to not mess up what the developpers intended to do.

in case of doubt, it's up to the one who is requested to add the name, to decide it is Belgian enough , or it is rather foreign...