Hoi,
When you want to close options as possibilities in this way so be it.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 7 September 2012 12:07, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When people ask for a Wikipedia, there are
procedures to get them. When
people ask for functionality that affects the considerations applied
within
those procedures, it is for the language
committee to formulate an
opinion.
When the line between dialects and languages is
obfusicated it will be a
proper argument using the right vocabulary to convince. The right
vocabulary
is that it is ISO who decides what is a language
and what is not.
Anything
different is not acceptable. The notion that we
can add to ISO-639-6 is
a
definite no.
JAC can decide what is a language and what is not for themselves. SIL
in the past and JAC today have shown that they are incompetent bodies.
They are quite capable to decide what is English, French or Russian
language, but not much more than that. They have problems with German
language continuum, which is likely the best described in the world;
very well described South Slavic language continuum is a nightmare for
them; in the case of not so well described Romany languages,
Ethnologue classification has no tangents with the classification of
local linguists.
When multiple languages want to collaborate in
one Wikipedia, the
standard
answer is no. Particularly when people discuss
such wishes are not the
native speakers involved it is likely to be a "NO".
Fortunately, nobody asked you for the opinion. Editors of one project
are able to do whatever they want, while it's according to some basic
rules, which don't include enforcing your opinion.
This discussion list can discuss and it will
typically find people of
the
language committee interested and inclined to
listen to good arguments.
However, the problem with exceptions to a rule is that people will
consider
them as the new rule. This may mean that an
exception around Cree may be
seen as an argument for applying it as the rule for a different set of
circumstances.
So what?
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