Michael Turley wrote
Civility and mutual respect are the difference between disagreement
and schism. It seems to me we have simple disagreement and nothing more.
You think the G8 'disagreement' on global warning, all discussed no doubt in the most diplomatic of language, wasn't a schism?
It is part of the theory of wikis that eventually they find an issue over which to shake themselves apart. Hasn't happened for WP, touch wood. If there is such an issue, it is not going to be the language, but the basic passionate incompatibilities, which fuel it.
I'm actually quite concerned that this particular issue is not going to be easy to ring-fence.
Charles