Message: 6 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:34:33 -0400 From: Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] In The News - new name needed To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 98dd099a0510251434k75868cc2o8bdca051716cb814@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
I think this is right. Insisting people not call a page name by its obvious acronym won't work and won't be intuitive. A new page name will be better, and people won't continue calling something by an acronym that no longer makes sense for long (VfD is still comprehensible but becoming less so. And the news section is nowhere as trafficked or used as VfD ever is/was).
So... suggestions?
*Current Events (WP:CE) *News Desk (WP:ND) *Current News (WP:CN --> used currently for Clueless Newbie) *...your suggestion here?
FF
On 10/25/05, Ilya N. ilyanep@gmail.com wrote:
Unless we rename it to something like "Current Events" People will
continue
to abbreviate it ITN out of habit.
~Ilya N. (User:Ilyanep)
On 10/25/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 24/10/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I like that idea. But how would we deal with old links? We can't
just
deprecate a link and not replace it. If they call it ITN, it will still be called ITN if it points to [[WP:NEWS]].
I pretty much meant what Flcello suggests below: ask people to call it News (or something) rather than ITN. Not perfect - but most people say AfD not VfD now.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Hmm... I like Current Events better than News Desk or Current News. [[WP:CN]] should stay for clueless newbies.
Flcelloguy
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