I went to check on the state of my contributions to
chr.wikipedia.org<http://chr.wikipedia.org>this morning and found the
Main Page and 19 others have had their content
replaced with a Speedy Deletion notice accompanied, in many but not all
cases, by something along the lines of "Wrong language". Now it's true that
much of the content in the Cherokee (better, Tsalagi) Wikipedia has been in
English, and many of these pages doubtless needed culling, but to eliminate
the Main Page (part of which was in Tsalagi) or several others (e.g. Europe
ᎡᎶᏆ <http://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8E%A1%E1%8E%B6%E1%8F%86> and United
States Supreme
Court<http://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court>)
where the process of Tsalagisation was underway) strikes me as vandalistic.
I have reverted the main page (several of whose sections should probably be
eliminated and the rest fully tsalagised) and will look at restoring others
that may have hope.
I've been talking up Wikipedia in Tsalagi groups (e.g. Yahoo groups like
Tsalagi and AniTsalagi_Language) trying to get folks to give up their
Cherokee National fonts long enough to acquire Unicode so they can
participate here, and I have been in negotiation with the Seattle Public
Library to get them to add Cherokee Unicode fonts so I (and others) can
participate here from the public access terminals, and I'm sorry but
217.44.22.219 <http://217.44.22.219>'s approach here is costly. In
particular the speedy deletion of the Main Page of a Wikipedia that does
have content strikes me as reprehensible, and to do so without replying to
the disagreements voiced in the Talk Page is I don't know, what's a good
NPOV term?
Haruo = dzidzelalic @ chr:
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