User talk:Nlaporte
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Context added to Sender Rewriting Scheme
[edit]Hi, I removed the {{context}} tag that you added on 21 January 2007, after having an attempt at providing more context. Please check it. ale 18:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
POV-pushing on Lake Shore Drive
[edit]The sourcing that would be required to demonstrate that it is called DuSable Drive needs to be much, much stronger. The couple of tweets you added shows the opposite; that people are trying to force that term into common use, which means that it is not in common usage. A single handout, predating the compromise, is also insufficient. It is the very epitome of a primary source. What is needed is a secondary source or two that reports on what the public calls it, almost certainly from a poll, and that will take some time. Some of the applicable policies and guidelines are WP:CHALLENGE aka WP:BURDEN, WP:PSTS, [[[WP:RELIABLESOURCES]], WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS, [WP:TOOMANYREFS]], WP:NPOV, and WP:OTHERNAMES within WP:COMMONNAME. Abductive (reasoning) 21:16, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Abductive! I'm certainly open to waiting for some more secondary sourcing on DuSable Drive, although I am a little puzzled why you think it's POV-pushing? Is it because the name change was controversial? I'm also not sure about your interpretation that the tweets I cited show that the writers are trying to "force [the] term into common use". They are using the new name, which certainly sounds odd to someone who isn't used to hearing it, but I don't see any evidence that it's "forced". Nlaporte (talk) 02:31, 2 July 2021 (UTC)