[WikiEN-l] Why voting *is* evil

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/11/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> We make the primary name a disambiguation page if one use of a name
> does not completely overwhelm the other uses of the name.  In the case
> of Georgia, neither does - plenty of people will say 'Georgia' and
> mean the nation, and plenty more will say 'Georgia' and mean the
> state.

Hmm, depends which people, doesn't it.

I do note with interest from the naming conventions guideline "Names
of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors;
and for a general audience over specialists."

So I'm glad that what I was saying about readers wasn't totally off the mark.

Also, the established principle is apparently: "Generally, article
naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers
would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity,
while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and
second nature."

(which doesn't really add much to this debate, other than to show how
incredibly useful that [[template:policy in a nutshell]] is)

Steve