[WikiEN-l] need to work out clear policies on MANDATORY and OPTIONAL rules on WP

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 19 Nov 2005 at 23:37, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> > If you want to create a credible encyclopdia and not a
> > semi-literate, semi-credible, semi-accurate joke. YES.
> 
> This is rather disproportionate, don't you think?  I am rather
> surprised that a little debate of which of two names for a small
> African country should be used, either of which would be quite IMO
> acceptable as an article title, is creating this much heat.  Wikipedia
> will not seem more or less literate, credible or accurate because we
> use [[Cote d'Ivoire]] instead of [[Ivory Coast]], or the other way
> round.

...but it *will* seem less professional and more childish if 
outsiders find out about all the silly bickering that has gone on 
regarding this name dispute.

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