[WikiEN-l] POV nomenclature

[Philip Welch]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

>> So "Operation Barbarossa" -- no problem. "Operation Crossroads" -- no
>> problem. "Operation Just Cause" -- should be "United States invasion
>> of Panama" (which it is). "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- should be
>> something more neutral (it is currently "Iraq War", which I find a
>> little too ambiguous, personally, since there have been many Iraq
>> Wars, but anyway, anything is better than the operation name).
>>
> <snip>
>
> Personally I like "Gulf War II".

Actually, it's the third Persian Gulf War, the first being the Iran- 
Iraq War.

Then again, there were five or six world wars before World War I, so  
who cares?

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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch