[Wikipedia-l] interlanguage rules

[Matt M.]

> Third, you say that if someone on the French Wikipedia is breaking the
> "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" rule, they should be stopped or the rule
> changed; but this implies that *all* rules as formulated on the English
> Wikipedia are rules for all the rest.  This isn't my understanding at
> all--at least, if nothing has changed since we last visited this issue,
> the non-English Wikipedias enjoy (and in my opinion *should* enjoy) an
> extreme amount of autonomy.

Indeed, some rules for non-English Wikipedias are actually MORE
restrictive - the Esperanto one has a firm rule about not being
Anglo/Europo/Americocentric, which is obviously more important in E-o than
an English-language Wikipedia.

Matt