On 3 May 2015, at 22:17, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is simple. We have a policy. If the policy is impractical, it’s not worth adhering rigidly to. > 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. Trying to mix Latin and Arabic scripts in a single encyclopaedia is the problem. Policy that says they must be mixed is the problem. > 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 That’s not good for readers. > • they can vote to have a separate Northern ie Latn script Wikipedia No reason for that. > 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. It is no different from “no” for Norwegian. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
