Hi Antony,

The reason we should not reject this proposal is the same reason we have two 
Wikipedias for Punjabi. 

There is no major linguistic difference but complete linguistic coversion is 
not possible. Also, we will have to consider one script superior to other.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
Member, Language Committee

> On 03-Apr-2017, at 10:30 PM, Antony Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There is a request for Sindi in Devanagari 
> [meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi]. As far 
> as anyone can tell, there is no linguistic difference between this and 
> Arabic-script Sindhi, which already has a Wikipedia at sd.wikipedia.org.
> A user has pointed out 
> [meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi&diff=16501764&oldid=16478916]
>  that online conversion between the two scripts should be possible (neither 
> script uses capital letters), so is there any reason we shouldn't just reject 
> this proposal?
> 
> Regards,
> Antony
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