[Wikipedia-l] stupid anglicization

[Bridget]

Yes, I agree there should be some agreement about what is done on wikipedia. This is why I, and others, keep advocating that wikipedia start becoming a democracy and voting on stuff. Atm, wikipedia is pretty totalitarian-basically if mav, larry, vibber, and one of a couple others doesn't agree with something, it doesn't happen. One of the things they don't agree with is the idea that wikipedia, rather than striving to maintain the mistakes of earlier information sources, we should strive to eliminate those mistakes. 

Sadly, one of wikipedias basic premises amounts to, "And we should always strive for a anglo-americanized naming schema because this is america and if you want foreign names then maybe you should leave the country cuz this is america and this is the american wikipedia and we are gonna use american names here and thats the end of the discussion" 

however, as far as I can tell far more people seem to support using native spellings of names, and that includes the use of non-western alphabets, an ability we have due to the power of #REDIRECT. It is also noteworthy that most of the people who speak out against using such "unamerican and inappropriate" naming generally make an argument stating, "Well, I tend to agree that we should use the native names but it's really not a big argument" 

This of course is why I urge voting. It would certainly be worthless to have a vote tommorrow and never discuss the issue, rather we should have a permanent poll in which any user can change their mind at any time. 

I also urge you to look at http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/expinfo.html which I believe shows that we should use a naming such that satellites are named with roman numerals. 



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