Tony Sidaway (minorityreport@bluebottle.com) [050210 23:50]:
David Gerard said:
If we have a precedent that zh: can block the existence of a Cantonese Wikipedia, can en: block Quenya? Please?
I hope we have no such precedent. Allowing the speakers of a rival language to veto the production of a Wikipedia would not be right.
Fuzheado's arguments appear to be along those lines - in particular the argument that zh: needs the resources instead (as if volunteers are employees who can be reassigned at will, even assuming the argument it needs the resources so desperately is valid).
Their observations (and I've seen some potentially persuasive arguments on either side in the Chinese Wikipedia discussion though I have not investigated it closely) should not be dismissed as irrelevant, but they shouldn't be allowed to block an otherwise viable Wikipedia.
We have Wikipedias for things that are clearly dialects; Cantonese is mutually-unintelligible with Mandarin.
But let's start a Quenya Wikipedia instead. Hell, that's not grossly insulting! At all!
- d.