If a non-native speaker is screwing up wikipedias, he should not be allowed to 
continue.

On 17 Oct 2017, at 07:57, Maor Malul <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm more than happy to do it, but I have experienced Marrovi's behavior in 
> the Spanish Wikipedia, where he has been permanently blocked, and in the 
> Ladino Wikipedia, where he was doing the same thing (and in my opinion, still 
> does) and I do not trust him; I am even thinking it is time for a Global Ban 
> -the value of his contributions are reduced to almost zero with his attitude 
> towards other contributors and making his own rules on every project he has 
> worked on, as you can see on each one of the four wikis he has been 
> permanently banned from. 
> 
> I'd rather contact WMMX to see how more Nahuatl speakers can be recruited and 
> in the meantime, encourage the current nahwiki community to improve the 
> contents of the project, discussing it on Meta.
> 
> Thanks,
> M
> 
> On 16/10/2017 8:59 p.m., Oliver Stegen wrote:
>> Thanks, Steven - I applaud your wrestling with possible next steps and your 
>> proposal of a general RfC page on Meta. Alas!, I don't have enough Spanish 
>> to represent LangCom there. Maybe Maor Malul? (the only native Spanish 
>> speaker among us)
>> 
>> Fwiw,
>> Oliver
>> 
>> On 16-Oct-17 19:43, Steven White wrote:
>>> There is no question that User:Marrovi is difficult. The fact that the 
>>> proposal comes from him makes it hard to take seriously in many respects. 
>>> And in any event, unless the nahwiki project is really not in valid Nahuatl 
>>> (of some type or another), I don't see any policy grounds on which you can 
>>> justify closing this project.  
>>> 
>>> That having been said, I think you really need to take the comments by 
>>> Marcos Williamson (by e-mail) and User:Maunus (on-wiki) to heart. It's 
>>> really too bad that Marrovi's presence muddles the picture so much, because 
>>> there are apparently some serious issues here.  I am not sure, personally, 
>>> exactly what to do about it. In theory, I try to encourage the individual 
>>> Nahuatl test projects at Incubator, but Marrovi is also very active there, 
>>> and I do not have the language skills to know if he's writing garbage (and 
>>> can be blocked) or not.
>>> 
>>> As to the current nah Wikipedia, in principle I like the suggestion by 
>>> Maunus (that Michael endorsed). But I don't see how that generally fits 
>>> WMF's rules ("anyone can edit").  I've been wracking my brain over next 
>>> steps forward, and all I can really see is this:
>>>     • Reject and close this current proposal.
>>>     • Create a more general RfC page to discuss whether the rules for 
>>> nahwiki should (or even can) be changed to give more weight to the 
>>> contributions of true, fluent Nahuatl speakers. I think this should be on 
>>> Meta, because if it is actually on nahwiki, much will be in Nahuatl, and 
>>> most of us can't speak it. 
>>>             • When you do this, it would be best if someone had at least a 
>>> rough proposal in mind. And I suspect it needs to include some content 
>>> evaluation by experts in Nahuatl who are currently uninvolved in the 
>>> dispute.
>>>             • Probably someone fairly fluent in Spanish—that's the "major" 
>>> language that most interested parties speak–needs to draft that proposal 
>>> and then moderate.
>>>             • Marrovi needs to be strictly limited in his contributions so 
>>> that he does not continue to write "walls" of text. If you set such 
>>> limitations, I can enforce them as a sysop.
>>>     • See if Wikimedia Mexico can recruit more Nahuatl-speaking 
>>> contributors. 
>>> 
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Steven White (User:StevenJ81)
>>> 
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