2008/11/26 Michael Everson everson@evertype.com:
This one has two "political" disadvantages. Oversimplifying hugely, Northern Ireland editors seem to like calling Ireland "The Republic of Ireland" and this annoys Ireland editors. This one has two "political" disadvantages. Oversimplifying hugely, Ireland editors seem to like calling Ireland "Ireland" and this annoys Northern Ireland editors.
Editors aren't the people to survey for what readers would expect :-)
What would readers expect? That's readers from around the world, and including countries where English isn't a common first language - en:wp is very international in readership. I wonder how we'd frame that question usefully in a way that would generate usably objective numbers.
- d.