Tom Cadden wrote:
--- geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
The nameing conventions say "article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature."
Correct. Indeed what is going on that debate is symtomatic of just how many people don't know the MoS and the naming conventions, and take offence if someone points them out.
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The fact that Wikipedia has a set of strict rules for naming pages doesn't seem to matter to most of the 'keep the French name' voters. It does seem suspicious that a group of French speakers can vote to ensure that a less well known French name is given priority over a far more widely name, internationally used, English version, on English Wikipedia, no matter what the factual evidence is, what the name conventions state or what the manual of style requires.
There is nothing strict or absolute about "should give priority". The kind of "rule" stated here should remain a flexible guideline rather than a tool for POV pushing. The unfounded allegation that the "Côte d'Ivoire" is being spearheaded by a group of French speakers has absolutely no basis in fact, and seems indicative only of an anti-French prejudice.
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