geni wrote:
On 11/15/05, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
"Hello Ivory Coast government person, what's the name of your country in English?"
"Côte d'Ivoire."
*click*
India has a population of over 1 billion. English is quite widespread. As a result thier view of what the english language is quite significant. Ivory Coast has a population of ~17,300,000 and is francophone. As a result what they think doesn't matter much in terms of figureing out what name is most commmonly used for the country in english.
So are you suggesting that a bunch of backwards Africans should have no say in what happens in the world. The superior developed nations decided this already, and should not need to go over these debates again. If they weren't countries then, too bad! That sounds a lot like what passes as Wikipedia rule making.
Ec