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changing links on domains

About this edit [1], the prefered domain by the city council is ".cat" even if examination of it would indicate that it's just a redirection to ".es". From a neutral point of view of wikipedia, none of them is preferable to the other one, and there are political reasons for Barcelona prefering .cat and many of the internal links on their website point to bcn.cat even if you enter thought bcn.es, so let's use .cat and leave it at that --Enric Naval (talk) 00:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

They supported it from the first moment and were among the first registered domains. They are also taking steps to move everything to ".cat". See this document of them talking about how they are switching everything [2], quoting "Barcelona City Council bought 170 .cat addresses, including those of the different districts.In addition, the Council has changed the name of its mail address and more than seven thousand mail users have now changed their addresses to the .cat domain, which is gradually being added to forms and leaflets.". They also talk about a "slow learning process" of linking to cat instead of es. I think it can be inferred that they are using two domains because they can't change all the infrastructure at once, and they will eventually move everything to ".cat", with bcn.es pointing to the same IP as bcn.cat, but all internal links pointing to bcn.cat. Mind you, .cat is not a redirect to .es, they are technically the same domain since they both have the same IP.

And, yes, it's probably to apease the nationalists, but it's a real preference by the city council, which is controlled by PSC and ERC, which were voted by Barcelona voters. --Enric Naval (talk) 16:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

In the acts of the session of October 4 of 2005, you can see statements on support of using .cat domain and implementing it [3], under "Mg 2.- Implantació del domini .cat a l'Ajuntament de Barcelona.". It's on catalan, sorry --Enric Naval (talk) 16:39, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not the goal of wikipedia to repair injustices done by nationalists, this website is for writing an encyclopedia, see WP:ENC. The city council clearly prefers ".cat", and we should go with that. Using ".es" instead would be making a WP:POINT about nationalisms on catalonia --Enric Naval (talk) 16:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Btw, your signature is linking to Nahuel, instead of linking to Nahuelmarisi --Enric Naval (talk) 16:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)