[WikiEN-l] Camel gets his nose in the tent!

Tue Jun 8 23:47:08 UTC 2004

Camel gets his nose in the tent! I think here on Wikipedia this sort of
treatment should not be routine, but used only in instances where there are
two distinct viewpoints that have proven difficult to resolve. This dispute
has gone on for a year or more.

Fred

> From: Robert Graham Merkel <robert.merkel at benambra.org>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:18:26 +1000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 11, Issue 31
> 
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:39:43AM -0800, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org
> wrote:
>> I would really like to see that article divided into two articles, one
>> called Danzig, one Gdansk, with the Danzig article about the long German
>> heritage, the article Gdansk about the present Polish city with historical
>> emphasis on Polish matters. I know this is Wikinfo philosopy but why can't
>> we try it out here in this one case?
> 
> Isn't that just going to wedge the door open for every disputed article to
> end up with multiple versions?