{"id":783,"date":"2007-03-18T04:14:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T08:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2007\/03\/18\/nomenclatural-justice\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T18:46:35","slug":"nomenclatural-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2007\/03\/18\/nomenclatural-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomenclatural justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a1438\" name=\"a1438\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep on running into people who refer to Wikipedia with over-definite articulation.  That is to say, with a definite article.  I am reminded of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003632.html\">comment from years past, care of Joho<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The circle of articulate digerati who have recently preferred the<br \/>\n&#8220;the Wikipedia&#8221; to the &#8220;Wikipedia&#8221; option, however, highlight the<br \/>\nurgency of the struggle for nomenclatural justice.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I have updated the Wikipedia FAQ to clarify and rectify the reality of the matter, and trust that the &#8220;the&#8221; the Wikipedia-loving fans of the aforementioned circle have grown accustomed to, will in the near future fade into the recesses of the past.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Please fight for justice in nomenclature, and save us all from grammatical confusion and disorder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003632.html\">Nomenclatural justice &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep on running into people who refer to Wikipedia with over-definite articulation. That is to say, with a definite article. I am reminded of a comment from years past, care of Joho: The circle of articulate digerati who have recently preferred the &#8220;the Wikipedia&#8221; to the &#8220;Wikipedia&#8221; option, however, highlight the urgency of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-cD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}