"It is interesting to see how this debate has never ceased.

When this article was named Myanmar for a long time, there was no real debate over the name of the country. When a small group of wikipedians allowed their emotions to get over their heads and moved this article to Burma right after the height of the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests (which if you checked the details, it showed that the entire moving process was pushed through before most people noticed it), the naming debate has ensued continuously for a full four years and running.

I believe this itself says alot about his classic example of a flaw in the way wikipedia is being exploited by a minority group in the face of widespread opposition, all in the name of ""political correctness"" which goes against wikipedia's core policies of WP:NPOV. Over 90% of ""Pro-Burma"" supporters may not always express it outright, but it is clear politics was at play. Conversely, over 90$ of ""Pro-Myanamr"" supporters where hardly supportive of the current political regime, but simply found this a huge joke on the internet, or like me, were trying to defend wikipedia's core values of NPOV.

It is such a shame that I have teenage students using this incident as an lasting example of why Wikipedia can never be trusted as a viable research source. Today, wikipedia is the only source on Earth which states that the largest city of Burma is Yangon. I can sympathise with people when they laugh at this anomaly.  

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