[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 31

[Fennec Foxen]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:18:26 +1000, Robert Graham Merkel
<robert.merkel at benambra.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:39:43AM -0800, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:
> > I would really like to see that article divided into two articles, one
> > called Danzig, one Gdansk, with the Danzig article about the long German
> > heritage, the article Gdansk about the present Polish city with historical
> > emphasis on Polish matters. I know this is Wikinfo philosopy but why can't
> > we try it out here in this one case?
> 
> Isn't that just going to wedge the door open for every disputed article to
> end up with multiple versions?
> 
As I said, I don't think that would be the case here. We'd just have
one article on the city now, and one on it historically. The Wikinfo
philosiphy, on the other hand, would allow two articles on the city
(in general).
This would be roughly equivalent to having an article on [[Istanbul]]
and one on [[Constantinople]].