User talk:75.164.37.9

January 2023

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Ivory Coast—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 05:06, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Why should we say Ivory Coast when they want to be called Côte d'Ivoire? This seems like a simple improvement to the article. 75.164.37.9 (talk) 05:12, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Following up: Most people will look at Wikipedia if they haven't heard of Côte d'Ivoire before. In order for their preferred name to come into common usage, *someone* has to use their preferred name *before* it comes into common usage. This is a Catch-22 and I don't see why it needs to continue to be wrong. 75.164.37.9 (talk) 05:26, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Googling Côte d'Ivoire yields about 206,000,000 results, Googling Ivory Coast yields about 167,000,000 results. This might not be expert linguists research or anything, but this is a very simple indicator that Côte d'Ivoire is now the common name as well as the preferred name. 75.164.37.9 (talk) 05:39, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

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