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

[Ray Saintonge]

Jason Williams wrote:

>On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:10:39AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>>Jason Williams wrote:
>>
>>>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"?
>>>
>>That "movie" is ugly is a pretty ad hoc aesthetic judgment, don't you
>>think?
>>
>
>Of course; since it's quite obviously subjective I assumed people
>would assume that I was stating it as such :-)  I wasn't trying
>to argue for wholesale replacement of "movie" by "film", just the
>same admirable agnosticism that is applied across the rest of
>the wikipedia.
>
>>At any rate, perhaps there was a discussion somewhere about this?
>>
>
>I expect so, but I couldn't find it by googling the mailing list
>archives and there isn't a Talk page corresponding with
>[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (movies)]].  
>
I was an active participant in that discussion in March 2002.  Its 
apparently factored remnants are at [[Talk:Film]], but it seems to me 
that it also went on across several talk pages.  I've never considered 
this debate as an American vs. British English sort of issue.  As a 
supporter of "movie", then as now, I obviously don't consider "movie" to 
be ugly.  I am of course pleased that (movie) has become our standard 
disambiguating term, but even here I recognize that most Wikipedia rules 
are subject to change.  As things stand "movie" has developed 
considerable inertia, and making the change over such a large array of 
articles could be very confusing.  Making the disambiguating term 
optional doesn't seem very attractive.

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