[WikiEN-l] Georgia/Victoria

Mon Apr 17 22:52:52 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 17/04/06, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I would find it very odd that something named after something else
>>should ever get priority.
>>
>>However obscure the original is, like Camembert, or Jethro Tull, I
>>think it should be at the article place. (Actually Jethro Tull is
>>now a dab page).
>>    
>>
>Ok, so you're in favour of us making a judgment about which page
>"deserves" the title as the main article? Personally, I feel that this
>is the more "encyclopaedic" road. The alternative, prioritising the
>page that most visitors/editors visit/expect, is the more "pragmatic"
>road.
>
>To me, the fact that "Camembert" pulls up a stub article on an
>entirely unremarkable commune in France is surprising. Perhaps a
>similar surprise to that that would be experienced by Americans
>visiting "Georgia" and finding the birthplace of Stalin. The question
>is, is this surprise good or bad?
>
>Alternatively put, is Wikipedia bound by the principle of least surprise?
>
The conflict does not simply lie in that principle, but in the fact that 
not all people will be surprised in the same way.

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