On Sep 10, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
Fuzzyhead, I encourage you to re-read the forwarded message.
Perhaps you see it in terms of "Chinese Wikipedia" and "Chinese language issues", however the reality is very different.
Somebody who was born with and has always lived with Mandarin is just as much an interested or a disinterested party as Jimbo, David Gerard, Angela, or Ray Santoinge.
This is about Cantonese and Wu not about, as you say, "Chinese".
This was definitely POV vote stacking and was intellectually dishonest yes. Biased, unwiki and loaded with personal attacks.
You wonder why people don't trust you, this is why, you are not trustworthy. The question as to whether Catonese is a separaete *written* language is precisely the question that needs to be decided by the community.