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18:39 Mar 20 

In answer to your discussion point on 15 March, (left after the moderator stepped in) I'm most certainly not saying that. What I'm saying is that "Reunion Island" has over 15 million Google hits (I'm not going to list the most prestigious websites) so how can you write it off as a wrong answer ?!?!?!
Arguments for excluding it based on Island being "superfluous" or you can see it's an island on a map make no sense bearing in mind we also say Virgin Islands or Christmas Islands?
Your later arguments based on "usage" make little sense either when you have 15 million hits for a place name. Based on usage alone, all three suggestions look acceptable, so I don't think it's helpful for people with their own suggestions up to hand out disagrees to other reasonable suggestions based on such arguments.

It's simply not like this in the other Proz group I use (Swedish to English) where the members work as a team but it's always been like this in this group for some reason that eludes me.

16:26 Mar 15 

are you saying that Britannica, the BBC, Oxford Reference, Lonely Planet books, gov.uk travel advice and the Agence francaise de développement - all of which call this place "Réunion" - are off their heads?

06:39 Mar 15 

Concerning the use of an accent on Reunion: (1) accents let native speaker of a language know how to pronounce that word; English speakers will pronounce it the same with or without the accent! (2) it's also a question of foreignisation of the target text - it depends how a readership feel about source language diacritics in a target language text. Laziness/not being bothered doesn't come into it ;-)
P.S. I think another reason I personally tend to drop the accent is that, as explained elsewhere, I generally talk about "Reunion Island" as opposed to "La Réunion". To my mind an accent on the "Reunion" in "Reunion Island" would look weird, so even if further on in the text I only say "Reunion" I don't use the accent because I haven't used it in "Reunion Island"

23:57 Mar 11 

I tried again but the name is getting truncated by Proz

Even with the truncated name, you can get to the site, and then type "official name" in the search box and hey presto, you are there.

12:39 Mar 10 

Hello Johannes

I'll admit that it's the sort of mistake people occasionally make when writing but not when reading and especially not when preceded by "Reunion" as no one would read "Reunion Iceland"

You might as well say that standing alone, Réunion could be confused with "Meeting", so it's better to add "Island" to avoid this.

12:17 Mar 10 

"Island" could be confused with Iceland in spite of the different spelling.

22:13 Mar 8 

Look for the most official sources you can find, such as:
https://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-5000500.htm
Short name in English: Réunion
Long name in English: Réunion
For style reasons, you may of course introduce some "Réunion Islands" if there are dozens of Réunions to translate.

12:30 Mar 8 

is just France in English. Just one example of many...

11:39 Mar 8 

Another ref: The Guardian (UK newspaper) uses "Réunion" without the article: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-r

11:34 Mar 8 

Réunion
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Réunion
Réunion, officially Department of Réunion, is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France.

11:30 Mar 8 

The island? We usually call it Réunion in English, I think. I'd go with that.

11:28 Mar 8 

I mean, it could be, but given that it does have a commonly accepted English name, why would you do that? If you think you have reason, then yes!