On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 22:11, John Knouse wrote:
Whoa, here's a radical solution: use the form "Jackass (movie/film)". There. Doesn't that cover it?
<detector style="sarcasm" active="no"> Not in the least. The reason "(movie)" was used was that most of the existing entries were already "(movie)" and it required the least amount of renaming labor to standardize on it.
If one _were_ to define a new standard and go to the trouble of renaming every single article about a motion picture to use it, it would make much more sense to simply use "(film)", as most people working on the film articles who have expressed a preference seem to prefer it. </detector>
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)