[WikiEN-l] Re: New York City

Mon May 10 02:41:56 UTC 2004

Rick wrote:
> The poll at [[Talk:New York, New York]] on whether or not to move the 
> name of the city to [[New York City]] is over.  The vote was 17 for and 
> 15 against.  Hardly a consensus.  If I tried to use that vote percentage 
> as justification for deleting anything from VfD, people would be after 
> me to remove my sysop status as a violation of consensus.  But 
> [[User:Nohat]] has taken it upon himself to unilaterally move the page.  
> I have moved it back twice now, and will do it one more time in the 24 
> hour period, if necessary.  This is a direct violation of the naming 
> convention for US cities and a violation of the meaning of consensus.
>  
> RickK

Let's keep these kinds of content disputes off the mailing list and on 
the wiki, please.

-- David