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I propose the following changes at a minimum (compared to version 49):

BeforeAfter 
official_name=Mount McKinley
old_name=Mount McKinley
old_name:-1917=Denali
old_name:1917-2015=Mount McKinley
old_name:2015-2025=Denali
old_name:en=Mount McKinley

alt_name=whatever isn’t in name
nat_name=Mount McKinley
reg_name=Denali
loc_name=Denali

I think the national/regional/local tags are slightly more suitable than the distinction between old and official names. Any official_name=* tag is a gross oversimplification, because Alaska’s state government has been even more adamant than the federal government about the mountain’s official English name. Moreover, Alaska has a couple dozen official languages while the United States has zero. This is not to say that usage of Denali is confined to the state; I’d expect it to appear in either name=* or alt_name=* to cover colloquial usage elsewhere.

The datespec tags are unnecessary detail for OSM. OpenHistoricalMap and Wikidata are already tracking the mountain’s name history adequately.

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