* Mark Gallagher wrote:
G'day Steve,
Just came across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Georgia . It is obvious beyond words to me that [[Georgia]] should be the country, and the US state should be at something like [[Georgia (US State)]]. However, an ongoing poll evenly ties between that, and keeping Georgia is a disambiguation page.
I find this sad. :(
It's not "obvious beyond words" to an American. Who are we, us interfering non-Seppos who've been graciously allowed to join this project, to dictate to the Americans that their fantastic state is less important than some country they've never even heard of?
For shame, you arrogant foreigner!
Setting aside the facts that the state is bigger, has a larger population, and is more heavily wiki-linked to than the country... the current 'Georgia = disambiguation page' to 'Georgia (country)' and 'Georgia (U.S. state)' is decidedly non 'US centric'.
Regardless of who is and is not being 'arrogant' here it seems clear that neither 'Georgia' is so overwhelmingly more likely to be searched for than the other that it can be assumed to be the intended destination in a high majority of cases... ergo going to a disambig page is the logical course.
Did we really need to go out of our way to 'bash the Americans' again?