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here is a very big issue with the Romani name. The name discriminates the people from Romania.

There are 28 millions of Romanians who call themselves Romani for Centuries. In Romanian
language, the Romanians call themselves Romni, which is nowadays mostly written in mass-media
and on Internet without the diacritic, as Romani.
Why is wikipedia not using the name Romani to name Romanians? There 28 million Romanians in
the world - compare that with 2 million or maximum 12 million of Gypsies. Why are Gypsies allowed
to take over the name of other nations?
This name of Romani was not used as replacement for Gypsies before 1990, or it was barely used.
Check Merriam-Webster Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romani - they
redirect to Romany and point to Rom.
Check Oxford Dictionary http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/Romany?
q=romani, it redirects to Romany and point to Rom.
Why is wikipedia misleading the whole world - and by doing this is discriminating Romanians?
Because of this new name given to the Gypsies, Romanians are now considered by a majority of
population in UK and France as being Gypsies. This has to stop.
The Romani people page needs to point first to a disambiguation page, what is now at the
page Romani section --Nationalities-

The Latin term for the ancient Romans, see Roman citizenship

The Italian term for inhabitants of Rome

The Romanian term for Romanians (citizens of Romania), officially written with diacritic (an
upper arrow on top of a) as Romni, but many times written just as Romani, without diacritics.
Because of these name similarities, many Romanians are discriminated in Western Europe,
mistakenly being considered part of the Roma People.

The Romani name needs to be used only for the nationalities above, as it was used for Centuries,
and not for renaming Gypsy people. Gypsy people can be renamed to any other name (like Rrom),
but not the names that are already taken.

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