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imported>Sol Pacificus at 21:41, 11 November 2018

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	The issue, I think, is that the name of the city of Philadelphia is ''not'' "Philadelphia, United States", it is simply "Philadelphia", and adding ", United States" into the title isn't exactly... accurate to it's name, if that makes any sense?		The issue, I think, is that the name of the city of Philadelphia is ''not'' "Philadelphia, United States", it is simply "Philadelphia", and adding ", United States" into the title isn't exactly... accurate to it's name, if that makes any sense?
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	I don't think that makes sense at all. In no way would "Philadelphia, United States" imply that the name of the city is Philadelphia, United States because the comma used here is a standard way of referring to cities when there's more than one city of the same name. Even when there isn't, in formal prose, it is often preferable to name a city by stating the name followed by a comma and the country. There isn't anything inaccurate about this at all.		I don't think that makes sense at all. In no way would "Philadelphia, United States" imply that the name of the city is Philadelphia, United States instead of Philadelphia because the comma used here is a standard way of referring to cities when there's more than one city of the same name. Even when there isn't, in formal prose, it is often preferable to name a city by stating the name followed by a comma and the country. There isn't anything inaccurate about this at all.

	Also, as I've argued on Discord, it is better to be consistent with the standards and conventions of Wikipedia and other wiki and deviate when it suits our purposes. The reason why it makes me uncomfortable when people say that it's not important to align with Wikipedia is because in the past, they have abused this mentality to only abide by wiki principles, even ones governing civil conduct guidelines, grammar, and neutrality, when it suits their interests. At a certain point, we won't even be a wiki anymore. Hence, I would argue that we need to approach our policy by taking wiki standards as a reference then deviating when need be rather than starting from a point of thinking wiki standards isn't important and only abiding by them when it suits us.		Also, as I've argued on Discord, it is better to be consistent with the standards and conventions of Wikipedia and other wiki and deviate when it suits our purposes. The reason why it makes me uncomfortable when people say that it's not important to align with Wikipedia is because in the past, they have abused this mentality to only abide by wiki principles, even ones governing civil conduct guidelines, grammar, and neutrality, when it suits their interests. At a certain point, we won't even be a wiki anymore. Hence, I would argue that we need to approach our policy by taking wiki standards as a reference then deviating when need be rather than starting from a point of thinking wiki standards isn't important and only abiding by them when it suits us.

	This thread was actually supposed to have been closed two weeks after it was posted which was a few days ago.		This thread was actually supposed to have been closed two weeks after it was posted which was a few days ago.

imported>Sol Pacificus at 18:28, 11 November 2018

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	I don't think that makes sense at all. In no way would "Philadelphia, United States" imply that the name of the city is Philadelphia, United States because the comma used here is a standard way of referring to cities when there's more than one city of the same name. Even when there isn't, in formal prose, it is often preferable to name a city by stating the name followed by a comma and the country. There isn't anything inaccurate about this at all.		I don't think that makes sense at all. In no way would "Philadelphia, United States" imply that the name of the city is Philadelphia, United States because the comma used here is a standard way of referring to cities when there's more than one city of the same name. Even when there isn't, in formal prose, it is often preferable to name a city by stating the name followed by a comma and the country. There isn't anything inaccurate about this at all.

	Also, as I've argued on ~~Wikipedia~~, it is better to be consistent with the standards and conventions of Wikipedia and other wiki and deviate when it suits our purposes. The reason why it makes me uncomfortable when people say that it's not important to align with Wikipedia is because in the past, they have abused this mentality to only abide by wiki principles, even ones governing civil conduct guidelines, grammar, and neutrality, when it suits their interests. At a certain point, we won't even be a wiki anymore. Hence, I would argue that we need to approach our policy by taking wiki standards as a reference then deviating when need be rather than starting from a point of thinking wiki standards isn't important and only abiding by them when it suits us.		Also, as I've argued on Discord, it is better to be consistent with the standards and conventions of Wikipedia and other wiki and deviate when it suits our purposes. The reason why it makes me uncomfortable when people say that it's not important to align with Wikipedia is because in the past, they have abused this mentality to only abide by wiki principles, even ones governing civil conduct guidelines, grammar, and neutrality, when it suits their interests. At a certain point, we won't even be a wiki anymore. Hence, I would argue that we need to approach our policy by taking wiki standards as a reference then deviating when need be rather than starting from a point of thinking wiki standards isn't important and only abiding by them when it suits us.

	This thread was actually supposed to have been closed two weeks after it was posted which was a few days ago.		This thread was actually supposed to have been closed two weeks after it was posted which was a few days ago.

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The issue, I think, is that the name of the city of Philadelphia is ''not'' "Philadelphia, United States", it is simply "Philadelphia", and adding ", United States" into the title isn't exactly... accurate to it's name, if that makes any sense?
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I don't think that makes sense at all. In no way would "Philadelphia, United States" imply that the name of the city is Philadelphia, United States because the comma used here is a standard way of referring to cities when there's more than one city of the same name. Even when there isn't, in formal prose, it is often preferable to name a city by stating the name followed by a comma and the country. There isn't anything inaccurate about this at all.

Also, as I've argued on Wikipedia, it is better to be consistent with the standards and conventions of Wikipedia and other wiki and deviate when it suits our purposes. The reason why it makes me uncomfortable when people say that it's not important to align with Wikipedia is because in the past, they have abused this mentality to only abide by wiki principles, even ones governing civil conduct guidelines, grammar, and neutrality, when it suits their interests. At a certain point, we won't even be a wiki anymore. Hence, I would argue that we need to approach our policy by taking wiki standards as a reference then deviating when need be rather than starting from a point of thinking wiki standards isn't important and only abiding by them when it suits us.

This thread was actually supposed to have been closed two weeks after it was posted which was a few days ago.

Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-18014300-20181025173429/@comment-18014300-20181111182806 - Revision history

imported>Sol Pacificus at 21:41, 11 November 2018

imported>Sol Pacificus at 18:28, 11 November 2018

imported>Sol Pacificus: Created page with " Zero-ELEC wrote: The issue, I think, is that the name of the city of Philadelphia is ''not'' "Philadelphia, United States", it is simply "Philadelphia", an..."

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Zero-ELEC wrote: The issue, I think, is that the name of the city of Philadelphia is ''not'' "Philadelphia, United States", it is simply "Philadelphia", an..."