Hoi,
There is no such thing as a superior script when both are actually used. When you are to choose one, for practical reasons it would not be the Arabic script as it does not include vowels. It follows that Arabic can not be converted to the majority of other scripts. When it is indeed Devanagari, the question is if it needs extension. Marathi for instance does use other characters than Hindi. Also the way characters are written is not necessarily uniform. 

So I am afraid it is more complicated. Do we have demographics for the number of people who use Devanagari and Arabic script for Sindhi and what is the official status for either script?
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 3 April 2017 at 22:57, Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Antony,

The reason we should not reject this proposal is the same reason we have two Wikipedias for Punjabi. 

There is no major linguistic difference but complete linguistic coversion is not possible. Also, we will have to consider one script superior to other.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

On 03-Apr-2017, at 10:30 PM, Antony Green <toniogreen@web.de> wrote:

There is a request for Sindi in Devanagari [meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi]. As far as anyone can tell, there is no linguistic difference between this and Arabic-script Sindhi, which already has a Wikipedia at sd.wikipedia.org.

A user has pointed out [meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi&diff=16501764&oldid=16478916] that online conversion between the two scripts should be possible (neither script uses capital letters), so is there any reason we shouldn't just reject this proposal?

Regards,
Antony
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