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 Saintonge.
Hmmm! I have not significantly participated in this discussion except in the occasional side discussion. I hope that my failure to so act is consistent with the level of new light that I can cast on the subject.
I think I'm going to do some tipping off of my own if you don't mind (or even if you do), as so far the poll seems to indicate that non-Chinese are much more in favour of a separate Cantonese WP.
That's ominous.
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