On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Helga Hansen <mail(a)helgahansen.de> wrote:
Since when is Wikipedia about beliefs?
The question of what policy to follow regarding article names, in general, has no
externally valid single right answer. "Cat"? "Felis Silvestrus
Catus"? "Kitties!"? "Neko"?
The default standard is the most widely used common (not jargon) name for the thing. The
logic is, that's the most likely search start, particularly for non experts.
That is intentionally biased; towards a perceived norm, rather than an academic or
technically more correct answer, towards internet search results as a proxy for
popularity, towards the US as the most likely source of a first consensus on common name,
etc.
Which of these biases to adopt as default was a value or belief system judgement. We know
that, intellectually. But there was no other framework in which to decide.
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