[Wikipedia-l] New request for Cantonese Wikipedia: vote at 29-6

Stirling Newberry stirling.newberry at xigenics.net
Sat Sep 10 12:57:48 UTC 2005


On Sep 10, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:

> Fuzzyhead, I encourage you to re-read the forwarded message.
>
> Perhaps you see it in terms of "Chinese Wikipedia" and "Chinese
> language issues", however the reality is very different.
>
> Somebody who was born with and has always lived with Mandarin is just
> as much an interested or a disinterested party as Jimbo, David Gerard,
> Angela, or Ray Santoinge.
>
> This is about Cantonese and Wu not about, as you say, "Chinese".
>
>
>


This was definitely POV vote stacking and was intellectually  
dishonest yes. Biased, unwiki and loaded with personal attacks.

You wonder why people don't trust you, this is why, you are not  
trustworthy. The question as to whether Catonese is a separaete  
*written* language is precisely the question that needs to be decided  
by the community.







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