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)]].
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