[WikiEN-l] Georgia/Victoria

Matt Brown morven at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 17:16:01 UTC 2006


On 4/16/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're not talking about mine, are you? :) I'm happy to beat people
> with a fixed rule, but I'd like more confirmation that this rule
> actually exists and is accepted by the community. There is the
> guideline on disambig pages, but it's fairly vague. A hard-line "a
> city does *not* get priority over a cheese if most people would expect
> the cheese" would be helpful.

'Accepted by the community' is a hard one - partly because any
preference based on common use runs into a strong nationalist and
anti-US sentiment among certain users, despite common English usage
being generally preferable according to our naming conventions.

-Matt



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