[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Conrad Dunkerson]

* Mark Gallagher wrote:

> Just ask yourself: if Georgia (US state) was not, in fact, a US state, 
> but an Australian state, or a British county, or ... whatever ... would 
> we have had all those arguments?  I suspect it would indeed have been 
> "obvious beyond words" if the grand ol' US of A wasn't involved.

Depends. In the hypothetical are we assuming that 'Georgia Australia' 
would still have twice as many wiki-links to it as the country does? 
Double the population?

If so then yes... I'd think we'd still be having this debate. It seems 
obvious to me that people who type 'Georgia' into the search box are going 
to be looking for the state a good deal of the time... possibly even a 
majority of the time (regardless of a long outdated claim to the contrary 
on that talk page).

THAT should be the determinant. What is most helpful to our users. Not 
which set of xenophobic ideals we determine to be 'superior'. If people 
typing 'Georgia' are going to want the country alot of the time and the 
state alot of the time then they should GET the disambig page so they can 
choose. ONLY if they were overwhelmingly more likely to be looking for the 
country would it make sense to go there automatically... and that just 
isn't the case.