[WikiEN-l] WikiProjects overriding policy

[Stephen Bain]

On 2/1/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't agree with you Stephen. The naming convention was created to avoid
> overly convoluted names. The places articles are located should be easy to
> link to.

In a series of many articles, *when the majority need disambiguation*,
how is it not easier (in terms of browsing and linking) to keep all
the titles in the same format, even the ones that don't need
disambiguating?

Surely it's easier to know that for a given set of articles - and this
is a clearly finite set of precisely 646 articles - the titles will
all be in the same format. If the purpose of naming conventions is to
ensure as much consistency as practicable, surely having all articles
in a given finite set titled in the same fashion is the most
consistent outcome possible?

The case would be different where only a small number of articles in
the set needed disambiguation, or where the majority of articles in
the set would be the primary disambiguation target (your US Presidents
example fits this description).

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com