Aaron et al.--
We've hit a bit of a glitch with the article software.
On May 6, 1999, Gary Gygax' article What's In a Name? was posted to the site; it dealt with whether computer role playing games deserved to be called role playing games at all.
On August 7, 2001, Seth Ben-Ezra posted an entry in his Dreaming Out Loud series by the same title, What's In a Name?.
Unfortunately, the links in the archives that are supposed to take me to Gary's article are taking me to Seth's--and so are the links that are supposed to be to Seth's article. I cannot find Gary's article on the current server.
I suspect that there's a different name--probably a number or something inserted in Gary's. I remember noticing that when two articles of the same name one was given a number, but I don't remember what number, how it was added, or what articles they were.
I was adding tags to articles, and started to tag Seth's article with Gary's name--a mistake, I fortuitously realized before saving.
Any idea how I get the articles when the system files them incorrectly?
--M. J. Young
O.K., put that down as weird. Seth's article was appearing whenever I called for http://gamingoutpost.com/article/whats_in_a_name/ and I could not find Gary's. I added tags to Seth's, and now http://gamingoutpost.com/article/whats_in_a_name/ gives me Gary's article, and Seth's appears at http://gamingoutpost.com/article/whats_in_a_name-2/ complete with the tags I had added when it was at the other address.
I'll call it a hiccough in the database, but make you aware of it in case there's something else to it.
--M. J. Young
You're right, it does sound like database weirdness, probably something unhappy with both articles having the same name.