[WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Fri Nov 19 09:27:31 UTC 2010


> I would like to point out that the "List of mountains in Serbia" and
> "List of mountains in Kosovo" are again POV forks. They contain the
> same data in different levels of quality. Additionally, the editors
> refused to include to albanian names so that we can even find the
> article. This is a problem with the wikipedia to allow such confusing
> things to happen.
>
> People don't care if some editor recognizes kosovo or not, they just
> want to know where the mountain is so they can go hiking or whatever.
> we cannot allow every list to be a POV fork.
>
> Either we define the individual mountains as templates to be included
> by both pages, or we include the kosovo list as a separate list on the
> serbian list, or we remove the kosovo list items from the serbian
> lists.
>
> We cannot have two lists of everything that have two POVs.
>
> thanks,
> mike

Even if we do have two lists, both names should be on both lists.

Fred Bauder




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