2008/11/26 Michael Everson <everson(a)evertype.com>om>:
This one has two "political" disadvantages.
Oversimplifying hugely,
Northern Ireland editors seem to like calling Ireland "The Republic of
Ireland" and this annoys Ireland editors.
This one has two "political" disadvantages. Oversimplifying hugely,
Ireland editors seem to like calling Ireland "Ireland" and this annoys
Northern Ireland editors.
Editors aren't the people to survey for what readers would expect :-)
What would readers expect? That's readers from around the world, and
including countries where English isn't a common first language -
en:wp is very international in readership. I wonder how we'd frame
that question usefully in a way that would generate usably objective
numbers.
- d.