2008/11/26 Alex Sawczynec glasscobra15@gmail.com:
So hang on a second here -- can someone please explain what's so horrifyingly inadequate about the current state that things need to be renamed? Unless something is completely disingenuous about the name "Republic of Ireland," I'm not seeing a pressing need for these changes.
Um, I was wondering that too.
Let's assume a reader of Wikipedia isn't going to go through megabytes of talk-page arguments and frankly couldn't give a hoot about editor conduct issues. They just want to look stuff up.
What's in it for the readers?
What's a one-sentence statement of the compelling reason from each side, stated from a neutral point of view?
- d.