On 11/15/05, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Perhaps I am missing something, but wouldn't organizing articles in this fashion simply push the argument back upon every article that links to the one with the contentious name?
Right now we have a situation in which these debates can be more-or-less solved by knowing what the subject's "Wikipedia article name" is, and informing people to not link through a redirect. If Ivory Coast/Cote d'Ivoire become equivalent at the backend level, won't the same argument then erupt in the "List of African countries" article, the "List of UN members" article, and the "List of places with Ivory in their name" article?
Purely theoretically (I don't think such a situation will arise), but that could easily be resolved with the use of a solidus. As for which comes first... does anyone *really* care that much? If you do, I think you have your priorities mixed up.
Sam