David Gerard wrote:
Let's assume a reader of Wikipedia isn't going
to go through megabytes
of talk-page arguments and frankly couldn't give a hoot about editor
conduct issues. They just want to look stuff up.
Right.
What's a one-sentence statement of the compelling
reason from each
side, stated from a neutral point of view?
A reader typing in "Ireland" (or an editor linking [[Ireland]])
is almost certainly thinking about the country, not the geological
structure.