It was political.
On 28 Dec 2017, at 03:00, Steven White
<Koala19890(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
From a purely linguistic perspective, it's hard to argue with any of this. And I
don't have a skin in the game here; objectively, it doesn't matter to me if
Montenegrin becomes eligible or not. Still, I would say the following:
Concerning MF-Warburg's comment: I fully understand that the others are grandfathered
and wouldn't be created now. But the fact that they exist now means that the question
about Montenegrin cannot be considered in a vacuum, either.
Concerning Jan's comment: I hear you. But to extend your analogy, the Irish are
looking for an Irish English wiki because every time an Irishman tries to bring a
different POV to articles about Ireland on the British wiki, s/he is being shot down.
(Pretend it's 1975, or 1922, and the example is more trenchant.) Also, this whole
issue of language secessionism doesn't really exist in English, so to make that
comparison is only partially valid.
I do think we need to hear from Milos on this subject.
Let me add: On the Meta discussion page, I'm about to allow the discussion to reopen,
with a focus on really two questions only:
• The principal question is whether or not Montenegrins actually have "free,
unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge" on the current projects. What
they keep suggesting is that they don't: Serbian POV dominates, and Montenegrin POV
is given short shrift. I am going to ask the Montenegrin advocates to prove that with
concrete examples. But if they do so, then either (a) NPOV is going to have to be enforced
from the outside (if that's even possible, but thereby violating normal practices of
project autonomy) or (b) we're going to have to allow the Montenegrins to have their
own project.
• The second question: It's really quite remarkable in a way that the Montenegrins
got the Library of Congress to make the first change to ISO 639-2 in five years. I'll
grant that was probably just a political victory. But I'm going to invite the
Montenegrin community to share any new evidence that they may have that may have changed
LoC's mind, and could change ours. Maybe there isn't any new evidence. But if
there is, we should be open to it.
Steven
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