Jimbo wrote:

Presumably, though, we should have an article "Eskimo" about the word, linking to "Inuit" the people?

Yeah, why not? The only issue right now is that there is not enough extent Wikipedia text about the term "Eskimo" to move from [[Inuit]] to [[Eskimo]]. When that changes then [[Eskimo]] can be changed from a redirect to an article. This will require, however, some degree of future maintenance to make sure references in other articles meaning to link to an article about the people are changed accordingly.

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So if I can't say that Pol Pot was a genocidal maniac responsible for the murder of over 2 million of his own people and have to instead dryly state that "During his rule up to two million Cambodians were killed",

Is that a specific example?

Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot

I don't think that there would be much controversy in attributing those deaths to Pol Pot's decisions and policies, would there? Even Noam Chomsky would likely admit that much.

Yeah, perhaps the text should be modified a bit. But my POV on this issue is perhaps a bit too strong against Pol Pot, so I can't trust myself to be neutral.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)