On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Having a criterion that is dependent on the English language Wikipedia is not and cannot be seriously considered as a standard. What it considers note worthy is not necessarily relevant from a linguistic or otherwise point of view.
Are you denying the usefulness of the wiki model?
To become a Featured Article, a literature article would have to go through the very serious Featured Article Candidates Review. This is the best process we have -anywhere- on Wikimedia to weed out fake and non-notable things.
I'll tell you one thing, there was never a Featured Article on [[Siberian language literature]].
This is just one way for the Languages subcommittee to farm out the research work, to let an established review process advise their opinion on these particular cases, and spare the subcommittee many pages of useless back-and-forth arguments and spurious "facts" supporting different sides.
And it's about literary relevance, not linguistic relevance.
Neither is there a reason to privilege English: an FA is any major-language Wikipedia would demonstrate the same point.
Thanks, Pharos
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
What is "notable"?
Notable enough to have a Featured Article about [[Modern Latin literature]] or [[Modern Coptic literature]] on English Wikipedia or another major-language Wikipedia.
English should not have a wiki? I don't think it's a very good criteria if even our most prolific non-extinct language doesn't qualify.
I'm proposing a standard for languages that don't have native speakers, which must be judged solely on the output of their written literatures.
This would not restrict Wikipedias for languages with native speakers.
(Obviously [[Modern English literature]] is notable enough a subject to be FA-worthy anyway, and it would hardly need to be demonstrated)
Thanks, Pharos
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