At 10:56 -0700 11/4/06, Matt Brown wrote:
On 4/11/06, Mikkerpikker mikkerpikker@gmail.com wrote:
And I donnu, but the state of Georgia doesn't have a vote at the UN General Assembly, nor is it a member of the WTO, nor is it sovereign, nor is it... My personal view is Georgia (country) should be the main article and that we're seeing some clear US-centrism in elevating some random sub-national entity to the level of a sovereign state.
Once again, you are assuming that Wikipedia's naming convention should be by some taxonomic scheme of importance.
That isn't how it works.
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.
-Matt
I made that suggestion is recent communication to this august email group. My idea is that there is never a primary page. All edits must check for the correct person, place, etc.
Gordo