On 7/13/06, stevertigo <vertigosteve(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Thats all nice and good, but what does
"western-English-culture-centric"
nomenclature have to do with NPOV?
It doesn't. My point is that you're trying to stretch NPOV to the
exclusion of other policy.
[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]]
Excerpt:
"Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority
of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable
minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those
articles easy and second nature.
Another way to summarize the overall principle of Wikipedia's naming
conventions:
Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over
editors; and for a general audience over specialists. "
That policy is not NPOV. It's
western-english-popular-culture-centric. It's the ruling policy here
(it's specific on this topic, neutral POV is a general principle).
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com