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

[Fred Bauder]

on 12/12/02 5:35 PM, Daniel Mayer at maveric149 at yahoo.com wrote:

> 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)

I don't want any part of doing China over again. We had it one one then we
changed it; going back to the first way... No. Enough!

Fred