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

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Delirium
> Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 07:52
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore 
> MoS, NCs for languagereasons.
> 
> Peter Mackay wrote:
> 
> >I'm having difficulty with the notion that the name "Ivory 
> Coast" could 
> >possibly be described as "widely used" or "widely known".
> >
> >With a straight face, that is.
> >  
> >
> Well, there are over 2,200 results on google news for "Ivory 
> Coast".  It may not be widely discussed in bar conversations, 
> but anyone who's been reading the news has seen it come up 
> quite a bit in the past few years.

Do tell?

I reckon that anybody who really cares  - about a dozen Wikipedians,
apparently - should politely discuss the matter on the talk page and come to
some sort of consensus. Whatever the result is, have one name redirect to
the other, and whoever wants information on the country is going to be taken
to the correct article whatever they type in.

Peter, who doesn't want this information, and wishes that the brainpower
devoted to the matter could be directed more productively.