On Sep 5, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Helga Hansen mail@helgahansen.de wrote:
Since when is Wikipedia about beliefs?
The question of what policy to follow regarding article names, in general, has no externally valid single right answer. "Cat"? "Felis Silvestrus Catus"? "Kitties!"? "Neko"?
The default standard is the most widely used common (not jargon) name for the thing. The logic is, that's the most likely search start, particularly for non experts.
That is intentionally biased; towards a perceived norm, rather than an academic or technically more correct answer, towards internet search results as a proxy for popularity, towards the US as the most likely source of a first consensus on common name, etc.
Which of these biases to adopt as default was a value or belief system judgement. We know that, intellectually. But there was no other framework in which to decide.
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