I've raised this issue on the [[In the News]] page,
but got little response.
Rather than unilaterally propose a change on the page,
I decided to bring in here first to see can we get a
consensus here initially.
A lot of users refer to the above page as ''ITN''.
That is deeply unwise. The page uses the acronyms that
media uses - BBC, RTÉ, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. ''ITN'' is
also an acronym used by a news agency, Independent
Television News, which supplies news coverage for ITV
News and Channel 4 News in the UK and wire services
for any international organisations.
A google search linking to our In the News page will
show up references to ITN and think that the ITN being
mentioned is the news agency, not an insider acronym
for our page.
I know someone in ITN who has had negative feedback
because of an error we carried. The person who spotted
him and mentioned the error to him saw ITN on the talk
page and thought that the error was the result of
mistake by Independent Television News. So far some
people in the real ITN are peeved. If we are not
careful and make some clanger (and as many of those
contributing to the page aren't journalists they are
often clumsy in their use of language in a news report
and get things wrong) the real ITN might go from
peeved to seriously pissed off.
ITN is their registered name, not ours. For our own
sake we should stop people using ITN when they mean
our page. If necessary a new name is needed for the
page to avoid a serious problem happening and
seriously pissing off the real ITN.
Thom
jtdirl
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