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great examples for why this naming scheme makes a lot of sense

Great example when doing according to the letter just makes more stupid. Sure, in English (which one, btw? US English? UK English? Global Universal English?) it's commonly named such, but you are reading that article on the site what poses itself as encyclopedia, more so as encyclopedia which strictly relies on other documentation for the article texts and data. Anyone sane would just add a remark at the start of the article about usage of that name in English, because that's quite important thing all and all.

But not only there are no such remark, but those people actively refuse to add one.

And finally, in the article:

> The Kalashnikov Museum (also called the AK-47 museum) opened on 4 November 2004 in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic

.. but it's not called 'AK-47 museum'! It's 'The Kalashnikov Museum and Exhibition Complex of Small Arms'!

So they just blatantly 'renamed' the museum to fit their shenanigans, completely ignoring their own principles of encyclopedia.

https://en.museum-mtk.ru/

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