[WikiEN-l] Georgia/Victoria

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Apr 17 22:40:56 UTC 2006


Justin Cormack wrote:

>On 16 Apr 2006, at 18:11, Steve Bennett wrote:
>  
>
>>On 16/04/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>On 4/16/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>So I'm not convinced that the rule "pragmatic disambiguation over
>>>>presumed importance" is applied all that consistency.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Sounds like some head-beating is necessary, but I already have way  
>>>too
>>>much of this to do.
>>>      
>>>
>>You're not talking about mine, are you? :) I'm happy to beat people
>>with a fixed rule, but I'd like more confirmation that this rule
>>actually exists and is accepted by the community. There is the
>>guideline on disambig pages, but it's fairly vague. A hard-line "a
>>city does *not* get priority over a cheese if most people would expect
>>the cheese" would be helpful.
>>    
>>
>I would find it very odd that something named after something else
>should ever get priority.
>
>However obscure the original is, like Camembert, or Jethro Tull, I
>think it should be at the article place. 
>
I agree.  Head-beating on this subject is too likely to result in 
headcheese.  See http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,headcheese,FF.html

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