[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Quenya language request, and Chinese Wikipedia again

[David Gerard]

Neil Harris (usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk) [050211 03:18]:

> Just as with politics, there are many actual positions hidden behind 
> people's ostensible positions. At the moment, we have a position where 
> "yes, but only when we are happy", or even "yes, real soon now" actually 
> mean "never". The key here is _breaking the deadlock_ of _indefinite_ 
> opposition to other Chinese language Wikipedias, by making supporters on 
> both sides commit in advance to a value of N, and automatically 
> triggering the change in policy when N is reached. Making people make 
> _objective_ choices always clarifies their positions.


The thing is you're still presupposing that an existing wikipedia has a
right to block the existence of a new Wikipedia.

I ask the Board: is this the case?


- d.