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/


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