On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:56:06AM -0800, Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
Yes, I agree there should be some agreement about what is done on wikipedia. This is why I, and others, keep advocating that wikipedia start becoming a democracy and voting on stuff. Atm, wikipedia is pretty
Democracy and voting suck. Anarchist direct action is where it's at, baby. If you still want to vote, vote with your feet.
There is an English alphabet for the English language, and it does NOT include diacritical remarks. Wikipedia is a multilingual project; stop trying to make the English part of it be an amalgam of every language under the sun.
When a foreign word gets adopted into the English language, all English speakers get to say how it is used, and so far those who insist on using diacritics are a vast minority.
Why are you trying to destroy the Wikipedia?
I think Groliers Encyclopedia is paying you minimum wage to sabotage our effort here. You have no idea of the sorts of things that normally go into an Encyclopedia, and the things that don't. By your own admission you see the Wikipedia as "an information dump" with no more value than the same information scattered all over the web.
Why are you here Lir? Because you saw a nice community here, and you wish to prove you can be a member here after your initial rejection? I wish your motive instead was to build the greatest Encyclopedia in the world, and that the community aspect came after. The Encyclopedia doesn't exist to support the community; the community exists to support the Encyclopedia.
Sadly, one of wikipedias basic premises amounts to, "And we should always strive for a anglo-americanized naming schema because this is america and if you want foreign names then maybe you should leave the country cuz this is america and this is the american wikipedia and we are gonna use american names here and thats the end of the discussion"
The Wikipedia is no place to push a political platform. You claim to be from Iowa; speaking ill of your country, in the way that you do, is treason. Criticize the government; criticize trends and tendencies; but cease to lump all your compatriats together in your negative rantings.
I am Canadian. I wish to see proper ENGLISH spellings of things used. It is disengenous and intellectually dishonest of you to label such wishes as "pro-Americanizing" when the vast majority of the English speaking world shares them. But this shows your own American bias; you think all the English speaking world is in the USA. Get over it.
Jonathan