[Wikipedia-l] anglicization is stupid

[Steve Callaway]

You'll find it's CCCP in Cyrillic, Toby.... :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Bartels" <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu>
To: <wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org>; <wikiEN-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] anglicization is stupid


> Lir wrote:
>
> >we should refer to spacecraft from the USSR according to their Russian
name-not
> >according to the English name.
>
> As it happens, Lir, I agree with you.  English corruptions suck.
> (And while we're at it, that's "SSSR", not "the USSR" ^_^.)
> But the Wikipedia standard for a rather long time
> (as long as *I*'ve been here, at any rate)
> has been to use the most common name used in English.
> Now, if you want to change that, then this is the place
> to make your arguments.  But if you just move articles now,
> then you're only going to make people mad at you.
> You *first* have to convince the rest of them to agree with you,
> and *then* you and I (and anybody else that cares about it)
> can start moving articles over to their new names.
>
> This might, of course, never happen.
> You might never manage to convince the other people.
> If I had to guess, I'd guess that it will never happen,
> although I might be wrong, so you should present your arguments.
> But please don't try to force your opinion on Wikipedia now.
> People will just change it back, and they'll start to hate you,
> and then they'll ban you (some are trying to do this already),
> and then you won't be able to do anything on Wikipedia ever again.
> *I* don't think that that would be a very good outcome.
> We all need to work *together*, and that means compromises sometimes.
>
>
> -- Toby
>
>
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