[WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for language reasons.

charles matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Sun Nov 13 14:46:25 UTC 2005


Tony Sidaway wrote

>Another utterly ridiculous situation.  The country has had a perfectly
good name in English for some centuries now.

Tony, Ivory Coast may be argued both ways; but Myanmar cannot.  Burma was a 
part of British India, not a 'country'.  It would be wrong for the WP 
article to be called anything else besides Myanmar.

Charles 





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