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

[Sam Korn]

On 11/14/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> Absolutely not. It is a fact that an article is being
> kept in a location against the explicit rules in the
> MoS but a vote of users of one particular language,
> many of whom seem intent on putting their defence of
> that language above Wikipedia's own rules.

The rule is explicit.  The way it should be enterpreted in this case
is not.  The most common English name should be used.  Some people
consider Côte d'Ivoire more common, some consider Ivory Coast more
common.  If you stopped seeing things as black-or-white,
right-or-wrong, you might find this whole issue easier to deal with.
Both are acceptable, and the amount of debate this *minor* issue has
had is absurd.

Sam