Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
First off, in regards to whether anglicization (or rather americinization) is dumbing down...why yes it is. As we all know, the biggest argument against using more foreign names for foreign objects is, "Oh, but its soooooo confusing".
It is, for the Americans. ;-) With redirects, we can catch all common spellings. The idea is that when someone who doesn't know the "correct" spelling (if there is such a thing) links to a topic, (s)he will use, with some likelyhood, the most common spelling. On the English wikipedia, that's the most common one *in English*. So, we'd want to put the article under that spelling, as to avoid redirects as much as possible when reading the 'pedia.
As for me apoligizing for my past actions and changing my behavior before I am banned, I would like to state that I am guilty of heresy and I did not vote for the rules or the king
You moved into the kingdom, now live by the rules of the king (the "establiched community", or Jimbo;-) or leave. That simple.
and I think every person should have free will, choice, and speech.
Yes. But in the kingdom, you're bound by the law. You can't cut throats here just because you feel like it.
I also am opposed to racism and genocide
What has that to do with the discussion? [I'll tell you the answer - nothing at all]
and I believe wikipedia should strive to be very very very unamerican culture friendly, especially in this era of militant anti-americanism.
So the English wikipedia should use more accents in their article titles because you and armed terrorists tell them to? Now that you mention it, it *does* fit with your prior actions ;-)
I demand
That alone should get you banned again, IMHO, if said in ernest. "Demand" here reminds me too much of mentioned terrorists. You are in no position to demand anything from Jimbo (which it boils down to in the end); neither am I.
that the authoritarians recognize the value of other cultures and languages and that while a german katze is most certainly a cat, Dumkopfmeyerstrasse is never Dumbheadmeyerstreet, no matter how many americans say otherwise, unless the local inhabitants decide that the americans are right and go and change the street signs.
Let's call it Dummkopfmeyerstrasse in the German wikipedia, and call it what ever is common English spelling in the English wikipedia. As there's probably no know spelling of this specific street, it would likely be the German one.
Magnus