So it's "dumbing down" to speak English? How very European of you.
Zoe
Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:Toby Bartels wrote:
Lir wrote:
we should refer to spacecraft from the USSR
according to their Russian name-not
according to the English name.
As it happens, Lir, I agree with you. English corruptions suck.
But the Wikipedia standard for a rather long time
(as long as *I*'ve been here, at any rate)
has been to use the most common name used in English.
Now, if you want to change that, then this is the place
to make your arguments. But if you just move articles now,
then you're only going to make people mad at you.
You *first* have to convince the rest of them to agree with you,
and *then* you and I (and anybody else that cares about it)
can start moving articles over to their new names.
Count me among the people who care about it. Even if we get a broad
understanding on this the forces of dumbing down will continue to give
us flak.
This might, of course, never happen.
You might never manage to convince the other people.
If I had to guess, I'd guess that it will never happen,
although I might be wrong, so you should present your arguments.
But please don't try to force your opinion on Wikipedia now.
People will just change it back, and they'll start to hate you,
and then they'll ban you (some are trying to do this already),
and then you won't be able to do anything on Wikipedia ever again.
*I* don't think that that would be a very good outcome.
We all need to work *together*, and that means compromises sometimes.
Regretably, though I have noted Lir's efforts to address some of the
complaints about her eccentric usages, some others are not so forgiving.
I just find that she has a wicked sense of humour, and that is very
hard on those who take themselves too seriously. People who take
themselves too seriously often lead campaigns "to preserve our bodily
humors".
PS: Have you signed up for the new English mailing list
?
You can go to
if you want to subscribe to it; else you might miss some responses.
Another mailing list!!!!!!! I'm already getting 100 e-mails a day.
Should I want more?
Eclecticology
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