[WikiEN-l] Multilingual?

[Rick]

This comment is offensive.  Wikipedia, as a whole, is a multilingual project, but the *English* Wikipedia is NOT, and it isn't acceptable to attempt to force non-English common usage on English speakers.
 
RickK

Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
Because the lowest common denominator of English-speaking users is to know
nothing about other cultures, this argument in effect can always be used to
lower standards of cultural sensitivity. The worry is that we then get a
tabloid version, not something compatible with scholarly practice.



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