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 French Academy 

Hi Espoo.  I got your link after the RM discussion had already been closed as a ""no consensus"".  I can see why you find it frustrating.  The guideline says that, if an English language name is in common use, then we should use it.  I'm mildly surprised to see that ""French Academy"" is used as widely as your sources show it to be - personally, I've only ever heard it called The Academie Francaise (with or without diacritics), and I grew up in Texas!  Nevertheless my personal anecdotal experience means nothing when it comes to making decisions for the encyclopedia.

It does seem to be the case that most people in that discussion were willing to discount Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) in this case.  Why not bring it up there, on the guideline talk page?  I'll bet that's a good place to find people who care about that guideline, as well as people who've dealt with similar controversial cases in the past.  I've added the guideline to my watchlist; I'll keep an eye out for what kind of response you get there.  If Académie française is to be an exception to the Use English guideline, then I think it should be explained why it is, and how to recognize such exceptions in the future. - "