[WikiEN-l] Major Correction

Thu Oct 30 21:01:58 UTC 2003

--- Andre Engels <engelsAG at t-online.de> wrote:
> "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com> schrieb:
> > Jimbo wrote:
> > >Presumably, though, we should have an article
> "Eskimo" 
> > >about the word, linking to "Inuit" the people?
> > 
> > Yeah, why not? The only issue right now is that
> there is not enough extent 
> > Wikipedia text about the term "Eskimo" to move
> from [[Inuit]] to [[Eskimo]]. 
> > When that changes then [[Eskimo]] can be changed
> from a redirect to an 
> > article. This will require, however, some degree
> of future maintenance to 
> > make sure references in other articles meaning to
> link to an article about 
> > the people are changed accordingly. 
> 
> I disagree. In general, if we want to remain the
> idea that Wikipedia is not
> a dictionary, we should be having articles about
> 'subjects' rather than
> 'words', in my opinion.
> 
> Andre Engels

[[Eskimo]] would be about the /use/ of the word and
the controversy surrounding its use (not really about
the word itself). Similar to our article [[fuck]]. 

--mav

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