From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Delirium Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2005 07:52 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Tower of Babel - Voting to ignore MoS, NCs for languagereasons.
Peter Mackay wrote:
I'm having difficulty with the notion that the name "Ivory
Coast" could
possibly be described as "widely used" or "widely known".
With a straight face, that is.
Well, there are over 2,200 results on google news for "Ivory Coast". It may not be widely discussed in bar conversations, but anyone who's been reading the news has seen it come up quite a bit in the past few years.
Do tell?
I reckon that anybody who really cares - about a dozen Wikipedians, apparently - should politely discuss the matter on the talk page and come to some sort of consensus. Whatever the result is, have one name redirect to the other, and whoever wants information on the country is going to be taken to the correct article whatever they type in.
Peter, who doesn't want this information, and wishes that the brainpower devoted to the matter could be directed more productively.