On 4/11/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
We make the primary name a disambiguation page if one use of a name does not completely overwhelm the other uses of the name. In the case of Georgia, neither does - plenty of people will say 'Georgia' and mean the nation, and plenty more will say 'Georgia' and mean the state.
Hmm, depends which people, doesn't it.
I do note with interest from the naming conventions guideline "Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists."
So I'm glad that what I was saying about readers wasn't totally off the mark.
Also, the established principle is apparently: "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."
(which doesn't really add much to this debate, other than to show how incredibly useful that [[template:policy in a nutshell]] is)
Steve