Many Wikipedias have articles on topics that are culturally not very relevant.
The difference I'm talking about is that while information specific to
the Avoirdupois system would be very minimal, there would be no reason
not to have an entirely separate article about imperial units,
corresponding roughly to [[:en:Imperial units]].
("eng-chè" was a guess based on the Mandarin term)
Mark
Henry Tan-Tenn ti 2005/3/11 21:27:03 -0500 siá-kóng:
Mark Williamson ti 2005/3/11 EP 08:58 sia-kong:
I think we should clarify something so we
don't get people's knickers
in a knot over it: what you say about the article on area not
including more than passing mention of imperial units, does /not/ mean
there could not be a separate article about them.
Theoretically we could have articles on anything and everything that has
relevance to more than a few people in the world. But I am talking
about actual practices: writing readable articles that avoid being
overly verbose, lengthy, technical, pedantic, or represented in "pure
mathetmatics" by assuming certain base knowledge, i.e. a specific
readership. As far as I can see, all en: Featured Articles do so. And
that means leaving out certain things not of interest or relevance to
English speakers while retaining others. It would be a mistake to
assume such well-written articles are necessarily universal in relevance
or otherwise devoid of cultural assumptions as to be meaningful to other
language speakers without all sorts of post-translation re-editing if
not rewriting.
Would that be "eng-chè"?
I don't know. The topic has yet to be written down (or the article spun
off) due to its lower relevance :)
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