On 7/13/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Thats all nice and good, but what does "western-English-culture-centric" nomenclature have to do with NPOV?
It doesn't. My point is that you're trying to stretch NPOV to the exclusion of other policy.
[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]] Excerpt: "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.
Another way to summarize the overall principle of Wikipedia's naming conventions:
Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors; and for a general audience over specialists. "
That policy is not NPOV. It's western-english-popular-culture-centric. It's the ruling policy here (it's specific on this topic, neutral POV is a general principle).