` :::*I didn't 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 U.S. agency. BGN standardizes geographic naming across the U.S. 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 old-fashioned way.   `