There is ample support for the notion that setting up the separate wikis was a grave violation of NPOV, but adopting retroactive policies for anything is never good without an overwhelmingly strong reason. There is no such overwhelming reason. So unluss one of those communities collapses form a total lack of interest, or there is a merger agreement by any two or more of these communities we will probably have to live with the fact of four communities for the forseeable future. My crystal ball cannot see farther than that. Ec
Speaking of sh:, why do we have separate Wikipedias for Malay and Indonesian languages? From the English Wikipedia article, it seems that Indonesian is just a standardised version of one of the Malay dialects and the two are mutually intelligible.
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