[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

John Lee wrote:
> Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> 
>> On 4/10/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Why, exactly?
>>>
>>> Two well-known things are called Georgia.  It is thus logical for the
>>> title to be a disambiguation between them, and everything else known
>>> by that name.
>>>
>>> -Matt
>>>    
>>>
>> Ohh, come on, there's a huge difference between Georgia the Country
>> and Georgia the State. Georgia is a WHOLE country. Like, bigass, we
>> got troups, "why don't we take this outside, former Soviet
>> country-style", international trade, country.
>>
>> Disambigging those two would be like disambigging "Paris" to separate
>> "Paris, Texas" and "Paris, France". This is the worst kind of
>> US-centrism.
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> --Oskar
>>  
>>
> I've never set foot in the US and I've still seen and heard more 
> references to Georgia the state than Georgia the country in my entire 
> life. I think making [[Georgia]] a disambig is a good compromise.
> 

Stalin was from Georgia...

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