Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
So what? Wikipedia is not an organization for preserving the rights of a minority but an encyclopedia. As such, it should report the mainstream view and give adequate space and consideration to minority view points.
If hundred thousand people call a thing X and one thousand call it Y, wikipedia should call it X and mention that thousand call it Y. If three people call it Z, it's an aspect which need not be mentioned (except these three are _very_ important people).
Very very well said, and I agree completely.
Of course, it must be acknowledged that in some cases some decision has to be made as to where the article will be located, i.e. the article title itself. If people are heated up about that, it's hard to find a resolution.
I see this as very similar to the British/American spelling situation. Our solution on en.wikipedia.org is mostly to just try to relax and not get too uptight about it. (There is more to the policy than that, but really, it boils down to that in my mind, and this has worked out reasonably well.)
--Jimbo