Third, you say that if someone on the French Wikipedia is breaking the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" rule, they should be stopped or the rule changed; but this implies that *all* rules as formulated on the English Wikipedia are rules for all the rest. This isn't my understanding at all--at least, if nothing has changed since we last visited this issue, the non-English Wikipedias enjoy (and in my opinion *should* enjoy) an extreme amount of autonomy.

Indeed, some rules for non-English Wikipedias are actually MORE restrictive - the Esperanto one has a firm rule about not being Anglo/Europo/Americocentric, which is obviously more important in E-o than an English-language Wikipedia.

Matt