--- wikipedia-l-request@Wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:27:15 -0700 From: Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Serbo-Croatian wikipedia To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 849f98ed0601130027ufdf1101j@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252
Why, then, can't a Neo-Štokavian Wikipedia unite Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Metohijan, and Hercegovinian, Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox?
Mark
Because they don't want to be united. The word balkanize isn't named after the Balkans for no reason. Yugoslavia broke up after communism for a reason. And it has been going on like this for centuries. In the 20s and 30s during the Depression, my grandfather (Slovene) played baseball all around the country. He couldn't understand why two of his teammates, one Serb the other Croat, would not speak to each other. He would harass them saying, "You are both born here in America! You are Americans! You're on the same team!" I doubt Wikipedia is going to solve their self-inflicted problems and I honestly think it is a waste of everyone's time on this list for them to come here and try to ask foreigners to solve their problems.
.s