[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English

Stan Shebs shebs at apple.com
Mon Sep 19 20:47:11 UTC 2005


Alphax wrote:

>Stephen Forrest wrote:
>
>>This is a political consideration, not a linguistic one.  Since this
>>political point is not commonly accepted, it is POV and therefore
>>unsuitable for Wikipedia.
>>
>>
>
>What about the Portuguese Wikipedia? How do they feel?
>
>
Although Brazil and continental forms are both generally accepted
in pt, there are apparently regular eruptions of Brazilians flaming
the continentals over dialect, and vice versa. So not a problem
unique to en...

Stan




More information about the Wikipedia-l mailing list