july utc no one is disputing that a debate exists over the proper naming convention the question is over the degree to which that debate should be reflected in the name of the article i'm all for delineating the various points of view on why one name is used by one group of people and the article does a good job of that but as you point out the most widely used name is fgm and if a or to ratio is not a significant majority than i don't know what it is secondly the pov issue is very much with the people here and not with the literature lets be clear about the rationale of the un bodies which have opted to use the term fgc according to their own websites and this page they use the term fgc in communities where the term fgm may be seen as counterproductive to the goal of reducing the occurrence of fgm they do not use it in their published literature and their websites make it clear that it is an application of the term for case specific scenarios and not as an overall attempt to cease the use of the term fgm