On 10/24/05, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
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.
That sounds pretty sensible. The linear form of the article can be exploited for organisation. If relatively trivial sections of the article are placed further down, it doesn't matter much if they become a little bloated.
On the question of style, I'd say that the section in question could be rewritten as one or two sentences to the effect that the ae form derives from a romanization of the alpha-iota diphthong, major dictionaries in UK and US describe both ae and e forms as acceptable spellings, and the ae form is preserved primarily in the latin titles of some encyclopedias. The rest is just filling.