On Apr 11, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
So we translate en. articles into other languages--and deal with the issues of non-English speakers *then*. You denounce people for being arrogant Americans because they want [[Georgia]] to be a disambiguation page, but then you suggest that non-English speakers should read Wikipedia through *machine translations of the English edition*!?
Hi Philip, I don't think I denounced any arrogant Americans. And if I did, I'm not sure what double standard would be committed by suggesting to a speaker of some non-Wikipedia-fied language that he read the English Wikipedia, rather than wandering in the ignorant wilderness.
It's not that. It's that the onus shouldn't be on the reader to translate en. for himself: the onus is on us to translate en. for him.