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==Acronym/abbrev. stub names==
My personal opinion on acronyms and abbreviations is that if the acronym or abbreviation leads to a WP article on a subject, then it's fine. if it leads to a disambiguation page, then it isn't. For example - BBC-stub is fine, since [[BBC]] is a redirect to [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]; BA-stub is ''not'' fine, since [[BA]] is a disambiguation page. [[User:Grutness|Grutness]]...''<small><font color="#008822">[[User_talk:Grutness|wha?]]</font></small>'' 07:43, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:That made great sense to me at first and then didn't, because the situation can change. New dab pages are needed literally every single day. This criterion won't work for very long at all, though I see where it was coming from. This could be wandering into an area of contention better saved for Phase 3 revamping, as I have some larger issues with the abbreviatating and squishing practices. Not sure just yet. Would be happy to defer this if it seems warranted. If it's not too commingled with the larger issue, I'm still not quite sure where to go with it. The concept of "strong marks" from trademark law seems relevant (i.e. only [[IBM]] and [[3M]] will ever be IBM or 3M; if I start a band called the Immiment Botulism Mechanics or the Minutiae Metering Men, and try to use acronyms to refer to my bands that infringe on those marks, I can expect to get me happy arse sued off, and lose those cases (under US trademark law, anyway). But Wikipedia is WP:NOT [[WIPO]]. I dunno. I seems safter to me to effecively "ban" abbreviations unless consensus says go for it. "NZ" is "weird" enought that conflicts are not likely to arise. "NI" sees far less so. Yet I wouldn't really want to force everyone to write "Northern-Ireland-" (or "NothernIreland-" which I have different problems with not raised here; a Phase 3 issue...) BUT, at least the meaning is clear, even if longwinded. What about N.-Ireland or NIreland? etc.... It's a thorny issue. Again I'd be happy to call this one contentious and save it for Phase 3 and make Phase 2 proceed rapidly apace without addressing it but fixing everything else ID'd above as needing fixing. :-) — <span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[[User:SMcCandlish|SMcCandlish]]</span> [[[User_talk:SMcCandlish|talk]]] [[[Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish|contrib]]]</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ツ</span> 11:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
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