[WikiEN-l] City names argument resurrected

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 09:11 AM 3/25/03 -0500, Ed Poor wrote:
>This has been discussed before, at length, and the most
>passionate and devoted contributor on the topic has
>been maveric. I will go along with any naming convention
>he devises (i.e., he has my "proxy vote").
>
>The point of the naming convention has always been to
>make the article title:
>
>* unambiguous, and
>* as short as possible
>
>These two values compete somewhat, and there are always
>thorny special cases. Is [[Paris]] enough to indicate
>that big city in France? Does [[New York]] mean New York
>State or New York City? -- not to mention (although I
>just did; hi, cunctator!) that WITHIN New York City
>"New York" generally means Manhattan!
No. Within New York City "New York" means either the city
or the state, depending on context--but "the city" means the
part of Manhattan where most of the businesses and tourist
stuff are. Someone taking the bus down from the Bronx to
visit me, or the nearby hospital, or the Cloisters, wouldn't say
they were going into "the city".

We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of
Wikipedia conventions.
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org