[WikiEN-l] POV nomenclature

jayjg jayjg99 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 21:31:57 UTC 2006


On 7/13/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Dabljuh wrote:
> > Or, we do what's sensible and look what, for example, the
> > NY Times calls it, instead of making (possibly) POV names up.
> >
> > Let's see what we've got just on the title page
> >
> > - Israel attacks (several times)
> > - Israeli incursion (I like the sound of that)
> >
>
> The problem is that our article is also about the Hezbollah raid, and
> about Hezbollah rocket attacks into Israel, so needs some more generic
> name.  An article at something like [[July 2006 Israeli incursion into
> Lebanon]] would imply that it were only about, well, the Israeli
> incursion into Lebanon.

Exactly.  Which, no doubt, is what people will next recommend;
anything to divorce Israeli's actions from the context in which they
are taken.

Jay.



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