Talk:Bolivian gas conflict
Steve, why did you rename this page? I realize that it is not a "war" in the literal sense (something I indicated in the first sentence) but this is the term with which people are referring to the matter. If you do a search on Google, you will find not a single reference to "Bolivian Gas Conflict". We are not *always* the ones to label things. -- Viajero 00:10, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Viajero raised a good point on my talk page just now. Googling doesn't turn up anything for "Bolivian gas conflict"; precious little for "Bolivian gas war" either (in English, and Wikipedia gets the #1 hit for that phrase). However, Spanish (guerra) and French (guerre) sources seem to be calling it a "gas war", so perhaps it would be best left there (at least until such time as other English-language resources pick up on it). (Or is there a third alternative entirely that I'm missing?) - Hephaestos 00:32, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- I dont think it matters. Take the Iraq disarmament crisis article-- which I came in and gave its final name-- its an infamous example of name-waffling: Originally, (as I recall) some ansy guy named it US-Iraq war well before it was a war (maybe December ;) -- then someone added a date (2003) and...well it was a mess. Finally, I called it what it was. When hostilities started, the article led to a war article and this was how it was done. Once it was re-named people understood it and complimented me on the move.
- It doesnt matter that the name for a thing isnt exactly as the Google search says -- whats important is that our redirect links to, and that Google's spider will click through the redirect (which it does). Google also has good enough semantic weighting to place a conflict article (from Wikipedia) high enough. (Given we have both, right?) We should add "also called the "Bolivian Gas War" (Spanish:"Guerra de Gas en Boliviana"). Etc. 戴眩sv 01:34, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
One really nice addition to this article would be a map of Bolivia/Chile/Peru with the proposed routes of the pipeline, ports, etc. marked. Anyone gifted at editing gifs? There's one on Bolivia that might do the job. Hjr 01:57, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)