On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:10:39AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Jason Williams wrote:
Why is it so? Why is the principle that American and British English have equal status abandoned here? Why is the ugly "movie" explicitly preferred over the perfectly good "film"?
That "movie" is ugly is a pretty ad hoc aesthetic judgment, don't you think?
Of course; since it's quite obviously subjective I assumed people would assume that I was stating it as such :-) I wasn't trying to argue for wholesale replacement of "movie" by "film", just the same admirable agnosticism that is applied across the rest of the wikipedia.
At any rate, perhaps there was a discussion somewhere about this?
I expect so, but I couldn't find it by googling the mailing list archives and there isn't a Talk page corresponding with [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (movies)]].