Yes exactly, "try[ing] to use [a] premodern […] ortography" is not a valid
reason for a new Wikipedia.
Am Di., 9. März 2021 um 12:29 Uhr schrieb Phake Nick <c933103(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 2021-03-08 Mon 10:38, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
It seems to me that this should be rejected:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hanja_2
Our dear enwiki says:
"In South Korea, Hanja are used most frequently in ancient literature,
legal documents, and scholarly monographs, where they often appear without
the equivalent Hangul spelling. Usually, only those words with a
specialized or ambiguous meaning are printed in Hanja. In mass-circulation
books and magazines, Hanja are generally used rarely, and only to gloss
words already spelled in Hangul when the meaning is ambiguous. Hanja are
also often used in newspaper headlines as abbreviations or to eliminate
ambiguity.[19] In formal publications, personal names are also usually
glossed in Hanja in parentheses next to the Hangul"
It makes no sense to have an entire wiki in Hanja.
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Note that, what the article talking about, is the general usage situation
of Korean Hanja in regular Hangul-dominated writing for the language of
Korean.
Instead, the proposal for a Korean Wikipedia written for Hanja, is try to
use premodern Korean orthography where most Hanja-originated Korean words
are to be written using Hanja directly.
While it is indeed true that the general Korean society no longer write
their language this way and thus a Wikipedia in such orthography system
wouldn't qualify, it is inappropriate to reject request for Wikipedia in
such orthography using only the general usage situation of Hanja as reason
instead of specifically probing the use of Hanja-centric Korean orthography.
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