On 11/13/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/13/05, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
[[Myanmar]] with Burma a redirect.
Another utterly ridiculous situation. The country has had a perfectly good name in English for some centuries now. Let's have done with it, move Munich to München, Venice to Venezia, Milan to Milano, Poland to Polska, and Austria to Österreich. Who needs English, anyway?
Perhaps a more useful example would be moving [[United Kingdom]] to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] -- certainly the country's official name, if not its common name. On the other hand, I happen to think of the relevant African country as Côte d'Ivore. I think most news sources (the ones I read, anyway, TIME and the Guardian/Observer) do the same. The BBC might as well. That, to me, is its natural name. (The fact that I am 16 may not be irrelevant.)
Sam