On 4/11/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, on reading [[Georgia (country)]], one learns that the Georgian name for their own nation in their own language is not Georgia at all but something quite unrelated. Clearly the solution is to place the article at [[Sak'art'velo]] and move the issue to a /different/ flamewar.
;)
-Matt
That's a really bad idea. MOST countries call themselves something else in their own language. Germany is Deutschland, Spain is Espana, Italy is Italia, etc. etc. etc. The WP naming convention is (and should be) that we call countries (and languages and people etc.) by their English name.
And I donnu, but the state of Georgia doesn't have a vote at the UN General Assembly, nor is it a member of the WTO, nor is it sovereign, nor is it... My personal view is Georgia (country) should be the main article and that we're seeing some clear US-centrism in elevating some random sub-national entity to the level of a sovereign state.