Talk:Battle of New Orleans

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Is there some reason why we don't call this Battle of New Orleans? The motivation appears to be that people would search through alphabetical listings for this article by "New Orleans," instead of "battle." But surely they wouldn't; I know I wouldn't. --Larry Sanger 14:49, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

I will add the redirect. Of course search engines can handle it either way--I just checked (I got the same results with new orleans battle pakenham as with battle of new orleans pakenham. So there is no advantage to users in changing. There is a big advantage to editors like myself to keep the battle topics together rather than scattered. (Look at what we did with "Joan of Arc" for example). I just today added "Pequot War" which seems the only reasonable title, and am working through Napoleon's biography (Napoleon with redirects from other possibilities.. Richard Jensen 15:18, 3 May 2007 (CDT)