Ivan Krstic wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
That argument is speculative and alarmist. There is no evidence whatsoever to support any significant loss of support would result from having a Klingon Wikipedia.
It's not loss of support I'm worried about, it's gaining more of it.
Almost anything we do can lose AND gain support. We can't please everybody. Unless the effect is demonstrably significant it's not worth worrying over it.
There is a difference between a serious project, and taking one's view of the project too seriously. Your view is reminiscent of one who guides his views by what the neighbours think. It's like being intimidated by the old neighbourhood busybody who is always looking out of her window to see what everyone is doing just so she can have ammunition for her next session of hen cackling.
Hardly. Think of it more as a parent sending their kid to first day of school, and making sure they're dressed nicely so the other kids don't immediately find a reason to pick on them. Not a matter of intimidation or taking something too seriously - but a matter of picking your fights.
The decisions that kids make to pick on another one are a lot more complex than that. An overdressed kid is just as likely to be picked on. My son is 14, and it has never been a problem. I don't worry about what he wears. (His mother does enough of that.)
Some years ago, a friend of mine designed a language of her own, complete with a reasonably elaborate grammar, vocabulary, style, etc. Stories and poems of varying length are written in it. Would creating a Silverelven encyclopedia be alright, then, too? (If this isn't as ludicrous to you as it is to me, then let's just agree this is a large difference of opinion and leave the issue at that).
I believe everything you state about the development of this language. The fact is that she hasn't tried to start a Silverelven Wikipedia. It's unrealistic to expect that she ever will. Why bother to deal with a hypothetical question that has no practical application. Until she tries I can remain open-minded about it.
Wikipedia should not reduce itself to being solely a refuge for academic elitists.
Academic elitists? I think that's opening a whole other can of worms. An encyclopedic effort just needs to know where to draw the line.
What's so important about drawing lines?
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I have no idea what that means. :-) Ec