When to avoid transliteration

There are many situations where transliteration is generally avoided. Everything with a name could hypothetically be transliterated into language (city names, roads, cafes), but it's not necessarily desirable for every possible transliteration to be mapped. See also Good practice#Map what's on the ground.

Situations where transliterations should be avoided include:

    Bulk import of transliterated names from sources such as Wikipedia.
    "Manufactured" transliterated names which are not in regular use (e.g, adding an Inuktitut transliteration of a small village in Indonesia)
    Names in fictional languages such as Klingon, Tengwar, or Na'vi.
    Brand and shop names which do not have a commonly used transliteration.

Many editors rely on automated tools to translate and transliterate names For example:

    Sven Geggus has demonstrated the principle of rendering with auto-generated transliterations.
    The German OpenStreetMap (Mapnik style) transliterates many scripts to Latin using OSM map l10n functions.