On 19 Nov 2005 at 23:37, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/19/05, Tom Cadden thomcadden@yahoo.ie wrote:
If you want to create a credible encyclopdia and not a semi-literate, semi-credible, semi-accurate joke. YES.
This is rather disproportionate, don't you think? I am rather surprised that a little debate of which of two names for a small African country should be used, either of which would be quite IMO acceptable as an article title, is creating this much heat. Wikipedia will not seem more or less literate, credible or accurate because we use [[Cote d'Ivoire]] instead of [[Ivory Coast]], or the other way round.
...but it *will* seem less professional and more childish if outsiders find out about all the silly bickering that has gone on regarding this name dispute.
On 11/20/05, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
...but it *will* seem less professional and more childish if outsiders find out about all the silly bickering that has gone on regarding this name dispute.
The way round this, of course, is highly possible and very easy, but highly unlikely: just don't do it.
Concern yourself with more important affairs, ye mortals of the world!
-- Sam