On 4/10/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
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.
(English) Wikipedia does not decide such things by a taxonomic classification of importance.
It decides it by the purely practical matter of seeing if one usage so outweighs other usages that it deserves the primary topic. Among users of the English language, the US State is referred to at least as often as the nation.
Probably, in fact, more so, but that's not important. What matters from the point of view of primary topic disambiguation is whether one use of a word OVERWHELMS other uses. In the case of 'Georgia', this test is failed both ways. Neither the state nor the nation so overwhelms the word that either should have the primary topic.
A quick look at the Wikipedia articles tells us that Georgia the state has a significantly greater population than Georgia the nation, besides ... which just shows the futility of basing this on 'importance', because in many cases it will be impossible to reach agreement.
-Matt