[WikiEN-l] [[Ireland]] and [[China]]

[Daniel Mayer]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:00 am, wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
> Hold on!  Let's not get carried away!  This most recent debate affected
> only a handful of countries with very special problems.  For most
> countries the short form is not problematical, and these articles can
> carry on just as they are.  [[History of the French Republic]] may be a
> perfectly valid article when [[History of France]] needs to broken into
> smaller chunks, but it's not an immediate necessity.  It would help
> nobody if we started to develop solutions for problems that don't exist.
>  The problem countries will make themselves obvious when then time comes.
>
> Eclecticology

Just following the new logic. Why should our article on the modern state of 
Mexico have history in it that doesn't belong to it? The history of the 
modern state called Mexico really doesn't start until until 1917 when its 
current constitution was drafted (arguably it may have started when it got 
its independence from Spain in 1810). So it is only logical that the article 
on the modern state should be at [[United States of Mexico]] and the main 
article on Mexican art, culture and history would be at [[Mexico]] (the 
history would probably start with Cortez since Mexican art and culture is a 
blending of Mesoamerican and Spanish art and culture). 

I really fail to see much of a difference between China, Mexico, France and 
many other nations in this regard.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)    

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