Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
So in the interests of addressing systematic bias, I
say we leave it the
hell alone. If they want to be called "Côte d'Ivoire", that's where the
article should be. End of discussion. MOS be damned; it's the spirit of
the rules that counts.
So if in some fit of English-rules nationalism the United States were to
decree that "United States of America" is the name of the country in all
languages, would the French article be moved to
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America?
I submit that it would and should not be.
-Mark