At 11:56 AM 11/19/02 -0800, you wrote:
Yes, I agree there should be some agreement about what is done on wikipedia. This is why I, and others, keep advocating that wikipedia start becoming a democracy and voting on stuff. Atm, wikipedia is pretty totalitarian-basically if mav, larry, vibber, and one of a couple others doesn't agree with something, it doesn't happen. One of the things they don't agree with is the idea that wikipedia, rather than striving to maintain the mistakes of earlier information sources, we should strive to eliminate those mistakes.
Sadly, one of wikipedias basic premises amounts to, "And we should always strive for a anglo-americanized naming schema because this is america and if you want foreign names then maybe you should leave the country cuz this is america and this is the american wikipedia and we are gonna use american names here and thats the end of the discussion"
Bullshit.
The premise is "This is the English-language Wikipedia, and therefore we use names that are familiar to English-speakers." In a Spanish document, I don't insist that my home town not be spelled "Nueva York".
Also, you're posting on the wrong list, if your issue is with names on the English Wikipedia.