At 09:11 AM 3/25/03 -0500, Ed Poor wrote:
This has been discussed before, at length, and the
most
passionate and devoted contributor on the topic has
been maveric. I will go along with any naming convention
he devises (i.e., he has my "proxy vote").
The point of the naming convention has always been to
make the article title:
* unambiguous, and
* as short as possible
These two values compete somewhat, and there are always
thorny special cases. Is [[Paris]] enough to indicate
that big city in France? Does [[New York]] mean New York
State or New York City? -- not to mention (although I
just did; hi, cunctator!) that WITHIN New York City
"New York" generally means Manhattan!
No. Within New York City "New
York" means either the city
or the state, depending on context--but "the city" means the
part of Manhattan where most of the businesses and tourist
stuff are. Someone taking the bus down from the Bronx to
visit me, or the nearby hospital, or the Cloisters, wouldn't say
they were going into "the city".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of
Wikipedia conventions.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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