Mark, you're right, my use of the word "vandalism" was hyperbolic,
occasioned by my irritation at finding pages that contained more Cherokee
now than they did a month ago deleted and replaced with the bald comment
"wrong language" and a speedy deletion notice that seemingly couldn't be
removed (Angela has since found out why I couldn't remove the notices,
apparently it was because the {{stub}} template had been replaced with a
{{delete}} notice itself! It was the effect of this replacement that
prompted me to cry not merely vandalism but "bizarre" vandalism)...
I quite agree that the articles that are simply copies of English articles,
in English, about topics not particularly central to Tsalagi cultural
reality (e.g. the Pakistani motif, or Sid Vicious), ought to be removed. A
special case, I think, is the Wilma Mankiller article, which is so far
mostly in English but is a topic as important to cover in a Cherokee general
encyclopedia as, say, Winston Churchill in an English one. I am hopeful that
in the next few weeks that article will be significantly improved as to
content and POV as well as degree of tsalagisation.
Haruo = dzidzelalic
On 7/31/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ros, this doesn't strike me as vandalism.
I've done similar things before, although not to the same degree (I
haven't nominated mainpages, or pages which were partly in the right
language).
However, even those parts of this which strike me as being a bit
extreme, I am sure were made in good faith.
I do think that most of the pages so labelled should indeed be purged,
but you are certainly right that some should not.
Cheers
Mark
On 31/07/05, Ros' Haruo <rosharuo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I went to check on the state of my contributions
to
chr.wikipedia.org <http://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
/United_States_Supreme_Court>)
where the process of Tsalagisation was underway)
strikes me as
vandalistic.…
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