On 10/26/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
When someone says that (s)he is speaking Bronxian, Philadelphian, San-Franciscian or even "The Language of 10th New York Avenue" and make a template about that, (s)he would be completely right. Of course, I would be the first who would list all of my native "regional languages" because I have the same feelings toward my regions as the person from Zlatibor toward Zlatibor. As well as I know a lot of people who have the same feelings toward the parts of Belgrade.
So, do you consider Belgradian to be your mother tongue? I, for one, think you're blowing smoke and disrupting WP to prove a point.
No, if it is possible to have "regional languages", I said that I have the same feelings for my regions as Zlatiborians for their.
How many people do you think honestly consider Bronxian or Philadelphian or San-Franciscan to be their mother tongue? Probably only a handful. And what are the chances that these people are Wikipedians?
There is more chance to have the person like that then person from Zlatibor. There are much more computers in San Francisco then in Zlatibor. If Wikipedia's official policy is to have "regional templates", I am sure that a lot of people would like to have their "regional language templates".
And language user templates would become a nonsense.
And I think that this conversation is nonsense, too. If you want to defend such principle even language user templates would become a nonsense, go on. But, I see that there are enough of reasonable people on the poll.
Wikipedia is about consensus, not "majority rules".
You have strong principles. The same one you are using about one more Chinese Wikipedia as you are using for the Zlatibor language template.