Hoi,
It is simple. We have a policy. As a consequence of that policy we did
reject a southern Azeri Wikipedia. We did so because it was included in the
az.wikipedia. Now one administrator decides to force an issue by deleting
articles in the Arabic script. That is not acceptable particularly not
because there was no consensus for him to do so.,
There is no reason at all to give this silly sod what he wants. There are
multiple options
- they can restore the articles an the az multi script situation
- they can vote to have a separate Northern ie Latn script Wikipedia
When they have made their choice our policy does deny them the az,wikipedia
because effectively it is a new one., Az is a macro language code so it is
not available.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 May 2015 at 19:41, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 May 2015, at 07:14, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I have had some more thoughts on this..
> >
> > My proposal is to have the az.wikipedia community decide what it wants...
> >
> > Do they want a Latin only Wikipedia or not. When
>
> If.
>
> > they do, there Wikipedia will be renamed to Northern Azerbaijani and
> they will lose the az code.
>
> No! That’s your agenda. Leave it as it is, take the Arabic out and put it
> into a new Wiki. That seems to be what the users want. They haven’t said
> “We want to relabel the languages”. They’ve said they don’t want to mix
> script content.
>
> > When
>
> If.
>
> > they want to keep Arabic after all, it is no longer an option for them
> to deny content in a legitimate script for their language.
> >
> > When
>
> If.
>
> > we agree that this makes sense in the light of our policy, we will
> inform the board and give the board two weeks to express their approval.
> >
> > We will then put it to the az.wp community and it is for them to come to
> a decision they will have to live with. There will not be any other options
> considered.
>
> The options are”
>
> 1) Do nothing. Keep scripts mixed.
>
> 2) Keep az.wikipedia.org for Latin. This is a national orthography. Add
> azb.wikipedia.org or az-arab.wikipedia.org for the Arabic-script version,
> which is used in Iran.
>
> 3) As 2) but deprecate az.wikipedia.org for Latin and make them use
> asj.wikipedia.org. This is a bad idea.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
>
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