[WikiEN-l] Naming convention: popularity vs. correctness

Mon Feb 10 02:58:52 UTC 2003

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:36:00PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> The current policy is the healthier one. Wikipedia should by and large
>> reflect the common consensus, at least on a zero-order approximation, not
>> try to enforce the "correct" view
>
>There's no reason to put correct in quotation marks here if nobody  
>disagrees other than by mere habit. And if that is so, it is proper for an  
>encyclopedia to use the correct term. That's why the Britannica uses  
>"Ockham's Razor". Using the Google popularity test for article titles is  
>unprofessional.

Look, English isn't your native language; I wish you would stop showing
disrespect for the common linguistic heritage of those for who it IS
their first, and usually ONLY language.

Jonathan

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