I think any of them are equally usable. This agonizing over political correctness seems pointless. I personally like "racial slur" the most because it seems the most common. Once we don't even know how to state a lack of political correctness politically correctly, we've gone too far. --LittleDan Dante Alighieri <dalighieri(a)digitalgrapefruit.com> wrote: At 10:01 AM 6/9/2003, you wrote: Well, the problem here is that there are two terms in common usage, ethnic slur and racial epithet. While I suppose you are correct that ethnic epithet would be more NPOV than either of the other two, it would be a contrived phrase that would not show up if someone was doing a search on the topic (as they will type in racial epithet or ethnic slur). Aside from that, I think the way to handle your issue in the article (that not all slurs have always been so, and vice versa) is simply to add a note to those words for which it is relevant. ----- Dante Alighieri dalighieri(a)digitalgrapefruit.com "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of great moral crisis." -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).