[WikiEN-l] The "Young and Innocent" page

[K Forstner]

> jason at jasonandali.org.uk    wrote:

> Okay, so there's a naming convention on this at
>   http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(movies)
>
> Why is it so? Why is the principle that American and British English
> have equal status abandoned here? Why is the ugly "movie" explicitly
> preferred over the perfectly good "film"?

No idea. I think someone (an American?) must have started using the word
"movie". Personally, I'd rather have an "ugly" word than one that might lead
to confusion.

KF