Talking about removal...
Mark... the request for permission was stating artificial languages are perfectly acceptable.
Aphaia added a paragraph which reflected better the current most agreed upon idea on the topic, which is precisely that creation of artificial languages may indeed ... just not happen.
You removed Aphaia comments.
I placed them back, slightly rephrased. I hope my rephrasing is acceptable to you.
But please, admit that the community generally do not share your opinion on the matter of artificial languages... and that these pages should reflect the reality of what is happening... rather than what you hope should happen. Writing down a misrepresentation will not help, but to confuse people.
ant
By the way... why does a foundation-wide vote exactly mean ? I must confess I am a bit worried to see you make many changes to this page. Generally, you confess opinions on the matter of new languages which are significantly different from community opinion... and I would prefer you avoid removing to many comments. For example : http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages&c...
I confess I forgot about the Foundation wide vote on the matter of
Some languages that have been decided are too similar to another language include a proposed [[:en:Filipino language|Filipino]] wiki (redundant with [[:en:Tagalog language|Tagalog]]), [[:en:Basel German|Basel German]] wiki (redundant with [[:en:Alemannic language|Alemannic]]), East German wiki (redundant with [[:en:German language|German]]).
Mark Williamson a écrit:
Hi Wouter,
"Thought police" refers not to your removal of requests, but rather your removal of individual comments. Which you did do.
Mark