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 or should it be turkey the successor to the ottoman empire who controlled it prior to that egypt who controlled it in the th 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 mar utc