On 3 May 2015, at 22:17, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
It is simple. We have a policy.
If the policy is impractical, it’s not worth adhering rigidly to.
As a consequence of that policy we did reject a southern Azeri Wikipedia. We did so because it was included in the az.wikipedia. Now one administrator decides to force an issue by deleting articles in the Arabic script. That is not acceptable particularly not because there was no consensus for him to do so.
Trying to mix Latin and Arabic scripts in a single encyclopaedia is the problem. Policy that says they must be mixed is the problem.
There is no reason at all to give this silly sod what he wants. There are multiple options • they can restore the articles an the az multi script situation
That’s not good for readers.
• they can vote to have a separate Northern ie Latn script Wikipedia
No reason for that.
When they have made their choice our policy does deny them the az,wikipedia because effectively it is a new one., Az is a macro language code so it is not available.
It is no different from “no” for Norwegian.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/