[WikiEN-l] In The News - new name needed

Mon Oct 24 21:43:30 UTC 2005

On 24/10/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> I've raised this issue on the [[In the News]] page,
> but got little response.
>
> Rather than unilaterally propose a change on the page,
> I decided to bring in here first to see can we get a
> consensus here initially.
>
> A lot of users refer to the above page as ''ITN''.

...

> ITN is their registered name, not ours. For our own
> sake we should stop people using ITN when they mean
> our page. If necessary a new name is needed for the
> page to avoid a serious problem happening and
> seriously pissing off the real ITN.

I agree it's confusing.

ITN probably came about via the [[WP:ITN]] shorthand (compare
references to RFC, RFA, VFD, CV, and so forth); would it be worth
deprecating this and trying to spread the use of [[WP:NEWS]] as the
reference?

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