Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/Macedonia/other page titles/Archive 1

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Comments on Preference
Proposal A, in essence, makes a good decision for each article, but that's a lot of decision. Proposal B is essentially much simpler, and involves many fewer decisions (debates, etc). It is therefore, my preference. Jd2718 (talk) 12:24, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Point taken, but I suppose you are aware that B comes at a big cost in terms of simplicity: lots of cases of syntactically unwieldy ".... of the Republic of Macedonia", when the alternative could be plain "Macedonian ...". Did you check out Proposal C, which is supposed to combine the best of both? (I'm currently trying to figure out how many actual conflict cases there are; I believe it's only a handful. Most pages aren't ambiguous at all.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:33, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm looking now at C, which indeed looks like the best, I'm not certain why I had glossed over it earlier. My concern about A is the amount of discussion each pagename might engender. We would certainly not be back pre-ARBMAC2, but that could have been an awful lot of case-by-case talk... Jd2718 (talk) 12:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for posting the stats - very useful context. I am now absolutely convinced that Proposal C is the best. It does, as you point out, the best of both, and creates attractive options for all, not just the majority, of pages. Jd2718 (talk) 13:20, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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