[WikiEN-l] POV nomenclature

mboverload mboverload at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 06:02:38 UTC 2006


They gave it a name.  Lets not reinvent the wheel here.

On 7/13/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Fastfission wrote:
> > This has come up a few times. Here was what I thought the most
> > reasonable solution was: if the operation name is obviously meant to
> > influence your opinion about the validity/success of the operation
> > itself, it should not be used as the article title, and instead
> > something more neutral and descriptive should be used.
> >
> > So "Operation Barbarossa" -- no problem. "Operation Crossroads" -- no
> > problem. "Operation Just Cause" -- should be "United States invasion
> > of Panama" (which it is). "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- should be
> > something more neutral (it is currently "Iraq War", which I find a
> > little too ambiguous, personally, since there have been many Iraq
> > Wars, but anyway, anything is better than the operation name).
> >
> <snip>
>
> Personally I like "Gulf War II".
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