I am sorry but how is renaming ku.wikipedia to kmr.wikipedia a "Turkish Nationalistic View"? Have you even read the proposal before assuming bad faith? Do you understand how little the proposal intends to change?
- The interwiki link for Sorani wikipedia is "کوردی" which means "Kurdi" or Kuridsh in Sorani dialect (this should perhaps include "سۆرانی" which means "Sorani"). - Interwiki links for ku.wikipedia currently is Kurdî in latin script instead of dual Latin/Arabic script as Kurdish can be written in multiple scripts if we are referring to the macro-language Kurdish and not the Kurmanji dialect. - Interwiki links for kmr would probably be something like "Kurdî" or "Kurdî (Kurmancî)" as already discussed on the meta page.
In other words from the perspective of interwiki links we may at most include the dialect name in parenthesis to include the dialect of Kurdish.
So in sum I proposed the macrolanguage code ku to be replaced with kmr to properly represent the dialect the wiki covers with possible modification of interwiki links label to specify the dialect. What motive could I have for this (in your words "biassed") request?
-- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 01:55, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, M. Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Let me add to this that some of the same people compared my actions, in supporting a technical move to change the ISO code of a Wikipedia, to
those
of a group of Turkish soldiers who attempted to murder Kurdish women and children. This game of nationalism and accusations is nothing new on Wikipedia. I have been called a Russian, a Soviet, a Jew, a Kurdish nationalist and many other things.
I was even told once that I was an official enemy of the Romanian people
and
that my name and face had been stored in a secret Romanian government database of enemies of the Romanian nation and that I would be targeted
for
elimination. So please, let's keep nationality out of this. I am not
Turkish
but I am a linguist and a geek and this move makes linguistic and
technical
sense. I am more a supporter of the aspirations of peoples to be independent, but I'd rather not take sides in every single geopolitical conflict because this does not need to be tied to that. It is a simple technical and linguistic issue with two options for a solution that
should
be chosen based on common sense, not nationalist sentiments or loyalties, and I have chosen my side without those unnecessary influences.
Mark, your objections would make sense if I had only said "Oh by the way, he's Turkish." I didn't. As a matter of fact, White Cat has an extensive history of being subject to dispute resolution, editing restrictions, blocks etc. for disruptive editing with a Turkish nationalist point of view. While I do understand that you may disagree, I personally think that strongly held biases in the matter at hand are relevant to the decision he asks the community to make.
Nathan
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