User talk:Mcorazao/sandbox3
Some suggestions
[edit]- Treating the government as exclusively authoritative in such cases amounts to original research. While I agree that what you are talking about is a problem, the OR policy would not seem to apply, as gov sources are generally considered reliable. The problem is that some people editing in good faith without scholastic backgrounds can misapply any sources, including gov sources, generally by reading their terms too literally, or by otherwise not following the purpose of the document or the purpose of WP. These "local yokels" generally do not observe the policies or guidelines WP has in the first place, so developing a special guideline for regional articles may have limited effectiveness. However, so far as article titles are concerned, the relevant policy breach would seem to be: Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Article_titles, rather than WP:NOR, as WP:RS has presumably been satisfied by the (mis)application of a gov source.
- Using Google hit counts as proof... seems inconsistent with WP:COMMONNAME.
Other than that, the rest of it seems well thought out to me. Ameriquedialectics 19:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry I haven't had a chance to work on this. But your revisions look very good. I would support this as an addendum to WP:USCITY. Ameriquedialectics 19:43, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- Or as it's own guideline. Good job on this! Ameriquedialectics 20:07, 10 March 2010 (UTC)