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The problem with titling a geographic article based on ""who should control the area"" rather than ""who does control the area"" is that it leads to endless arguments over who has the better claim.  Using ""who does control the area"" makes people unhappy, but at least it's easy to determine.

As a case in point: the city of Jerusalem.  Who ""should"" control and name it?  The current Israeli nation?  The Palestinians?  The British?  they conquered it in 1917.  Or should it be Turkey, the successor to the Ottoman Empire, who controlled it prior to that?  Egypt, who controlled it in the 13th century?  Germany? Fredrick II held it during the Crusades.  The Vatican, as spiritual successor to the Crusaders?  Italy, as successors to Rome?  Any surviving descendants of the Jebusites, who the Israelites displaced in antiquity?

Far too much of the globe is claimed by multiple groups for ""what it should be called"" to work as a naming policy.   19:26, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)"