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

Tue Oct 25 22:01:35 UTC 2005

>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:34:33 -0400
>From: Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] In The News - new name needed
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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>I think this is right. Insisting people not call a page name by its
>obvious acronym won't work and won't be intuitive. A new page name
>will be better, and people won't continue calling something by an
>acronym that no longer makes sense for long (VfD is still
>comprehensible but becoming less so. And the news section is nowhere
>as trafficked or used as VfD ever is/was).
>
>So... suggestions?
>
>*Current Events (WP:CE)
>*News Desk (WP:ND)
>*Current News (WP:CN --> used currently for Clueless Newbie)
>*...your suggestion here?
>
>FF
>
>On 10/25/05, Ilya N. <ilyanep at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Unless we rename it to something like "Current Events" People will 
>continue
> > to abbreviate it ITN out of habit.
> >
> > ~Ilya N. (User:Ilyanep)
> >
> > On 10/25/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 24/10/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I like that idea. But how would we deal with old links? We can't 
>just
> > > > deprecate a link and not replace it. If they call it ITN, it will
> > > > still be called ITN if it points to [[WP:NEWS]].
> > >
> > > I pretty much meant what Flcello suggests below: ask people to call it
> > > News (or something) rather than ITN. Not perfect - but most people say
> > > AfD not VfD now.
> > >
> > > --
> > > - Andrew Gray
> > > andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

Hmm... I like Current Events better than News Desk or Current News. 
[[WP:CN]] should stay for clueless newbies.

Flcelloguy
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