On 11/15/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Hello Ivory Coast government person,
what's the name of your country in
English?"
"Côte d'Ivoire."
*click*
India has a population of over 1 billion. English is quite widespread.
As a result thier view of what the english language is quite
significant. Ivory Coast has a population of ~17,300,000 and is
francophone. As a result what they think doesn't matter much in terms
of figureing out what name is most commmonly used for the country in
english.
So are you suggesting that a bunch of backwards Africans should have no
say in what happens in the world. The superior developed nations
decided this already, and should not need to go over these debates
again. If they weren't countries then, too bad! That sounds a lot like
what passes as Wikipedia rule making.
Ec