User:Compassionate727/sandbox
The Republic of Morac-Songhrati-Meads was a micronation in the Spratly Islands. Tracing its origins to the 1877 claims of captain James George Meads, it became the subject of international attention during the 1956 Tomas Cloma incident.[1] Its leadership waged an official and media campaign for recognition until almost all of them were killed in a shipwreck in 1972.[1]
In the late 1870s, British captain James George Meads, captain of the Modeste, sailed through the Spratley Islands.[2] In 1877, he claimed some of the islands as personal property,
- ^ a b Samuels, Marwyn S. (1982). "Appendix B: The Kingdom of Humanity and Republic of Moroc-Songhrati-Meads". Contest for the South China Sea. Methuen. pp. 168–172. ISBN 0-416-33140-8.
- ^ Whiting, Kenneth L. (2 February 1992). "Asian Nations Squabble Over Obscure String of Islands". Los Angeles Times. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Associated Press. p. A2.
Recently, we have gotten a couple of FPs from filter 1233 caused by new users, unaware of how we use the characters # and * around here, creating lists on article talk pages by using only line breaks. Looking at recent hits, disabling the filter in namespace 1 doesn't seem a viable solution. However, much of the vandalism seems to be repeating characters; it occurred to me that tailoring the filter so that on talk pages, it instead checks for strings of letters longer than most English words, about 13 characters or so. (For article namespace and the like, I think the current code is working just fine, but IMO talk pages should be less strict about proper formatting and punctuation.) Perhaps something like (\w{14}[\w\s]){3}) would do the trick, although I just cobbled that together in five minutes and don't know how to test such things against actual recent edits, so it could probably be better. My guess is that this would eliminate the false positives but also allow maybe twice that many bad edits through (most of which would be useless WP:NOTFORUM rants rather than outright vandalism). I'm not sure if that's an acceptable trade-off; thoughts?
no consensus, with the exception of David III, for which there was an affirmative consensus to not move. There were a number of arguments on both sides, some of which were weighty and some not. Most notably, on the opposing side, the mere assertion that the proposed titles were not an improvement was not weighty, nor was the argument that they would introduce ambiguity (except in the case of David III); however, the somewhat related argument that the proposed titles were less recognizable was valid and weighty under policy. On the supporting side, a number of editors cited WP:NCROY, which does not actually apply to Georgian monarchs (being Asian), and although a compelling case can be made that it should, given that Georgian monarchs used essentially the same naming conventions as Europeans, and that this would be more consistent, the guideline would need to be amended to reflect this before it would be binding here. However, as supporters noted, the proposed names are more concise, and Born2cycle's contention that they are also the common names was not refuted. Overall, because WP:CRITERIA is a balancing test that requires an editorial decision in all cases without prescriptive guidelines, the supporters had stronger arguments, but they were not sufficient to overcome the large opposition to proposed titles.