|From: Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:38:36 -0800 (PST) | | |> I would also like to point out that we most certainly do not have |> to worry about the reader finding the correct name (despite their |> anglo-brainwashing), as Zoe and others have argued, because we have |> #REDIRECT | |Instead of a redirect, I would see a short article that explains that |word "x" is the anglicised, or Americanized version of word "y", and |to please see word "y" for more information on the subject, or look |at the "x versus y" article that goes into the finer grain. | |If someone uses Peking as the capital of China, should it just |rediect to Beijing (a different approximation), or rather explain |that Peking was named such after the work of such and such scholar |but was later acknowledged... so on and so forth. | | |===== |Christopher Mahan |chris_mahan@yahoo.com |http://www.christophermahan.com/ |
This is a proposal that we have two articles, one of extremely limited value and the other missing important information, instead of just one article on all salient points about the topic, including variations in the name.
Tom P. O88