Hoi, Again, when the proposal for Egyptian Arabic was posted, I asked the members of the language committee if we should allow for these languages to have a Wikipedia. The reply was that we should. Nobody opposed this. Consequently after a week, the status of eligible was given.
This is all the argument as it happened. Again, this has been said before...
Thanks, GerardM
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey shipmaster@gmail.comwrote:
Of course the process is political. There's nothing wrong with that.
Every time two or more people differ on some issue, deciding that issue requires political interaction, whether it's choosing between the opinions offered or synthesizing a new compromise position. Politics is not just partisan activity connected with established ideologies, though politicians umbilically associated with such ideologies are the ones who give politics a bad name.
Using "too political" as an excuse for not participating in the debates of the day is itself a political act.
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Hmm I think I meant it in the latter regard: Politics as a partisan activity connected with established ideologies, since the choice bolsters one of the sides in an ongoing -'partisan' if you may, the term is used loosely since there is no efficient official parties on the Egyptian scene except the ruling one- debate in Egypt.
However, I have to say that Gerard already made it clear that politics is not part of the equation in LangCom decision, so they dont take it as a factor, of course, we will not know what actually was a factor since the arguments are not published.
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