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

[Stan Shebs]

Tom Cadden wrote:

> 
> For years the town of Kells in Ireland
>
Oh look at that, the article is at "Republic of Ireland" instead of
just "Ireland", even though very few English speakers would ever
rattle off the whole mouthful, and in fact would be far more likely
to say "Irish Republic" if they were trying to distinguish the state.
The article itself even says that "Republic of Ireland" is the
less-commonly-used form. So by naming rules strictly applied, and
keeping in mind the ambiguity with the island, it should be
"Ireland (republic)" instead, the parenthesized appendage being
the standard way to disambiguate.

There are simply some situations where mechanical rule application
produces ridiculous results, and we need to be more intelligent
about it.

Stan