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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM, M. Williamson
<node.ue(a)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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