Tony Sidaway wrote:
A whole section on the spelling of the word "encyclopedia"? This is one of the problems that are endemic to wikis. Relatively trivial topics become extended into a pseudo-debate.
I agree to some extent, but only in that it's a problem of organization and focus. I think this sort of information is useful to have, just not useful to have highlighted in prominent places. I've taken the liberty of moving the "debate about how this article should be spelled" sections out of the intro of a few articles to a #Name section near the end, which I think works fine. There's certainly no reason to remove information that might be of interest to someone, so long as it's verifiable and not unduly getting in the way of other information.
-Mark