Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I thought we already settled this one: Wikipedia takes no position on whether the "East Sea of Korea" should OR should not be called "Sea of Japan".
I was just passing along the info.
I agree with you. If there's a controversy, our first instinct should be to not take a stand on it, but to report on it. Now we have some first-hand documentary evidence on the nature of the controversy, I guess. ;-)
But if this is an effort to make Wikipedia RECOGNIZE Ms. Yang's preference as taking official priority over the alternative, I think a polite refusal is in order.
Well, they asked nicely, and I'm not sure they really expected a reply.
To me, it is quite interesting in an abstract way that people are dying in (for example) Sudan this morning, and other people have a paid job which involves writing to me to complain about the name of a body of water. One should think that there might be more important things to do in the world.
--Jimbo