[WikiEN-l] Re: minor issue, but still a npov warning

[csherlock at ljh.com.au]

Anthere wrote:
> 
> Some already ponctually corrected a couple of things.
> But generally, they do not believe in Wikipedia neutrality though they 
> see the efforts to try to be neutral.
> You may not expect french people who really write a bad english to go 
> correct all what is biaised in the english wikipedia.
> 
> This is a good question : why did not they fix it ?
> 
> It took me three months to dare edit the english wikipedia after I met 
> it. I feared criticism of my english like hell; And still fear it very 
> much, as there are regularly unpleasant comments made about it.
> Recently, I had to block 2 times an editor who was being extremely rude 
> with non english people on meta. A place where international people ARE 
> welcome. When editors rudely handle non english in a place such as meta, 
> you might guess how nice these editors can be on the english wikipedia 
> itself.
> 
> Amongst french people, I am generally considered quite good in english. 
> Still, editing in good english is difficult for me and takes a lot of 
> time. Arguments which start on talk page and last dozens and dozens of 
> screens put me off. It takes too much time to read it all and try to 
> understand it all.
> 
> Many french scientists read english, because nearly all science is in 
> english, so of course, it is their main source of information. But most 
> french scientists do not manage english well enough to become editors.
> 
> It needs courage you may not realise. It needs efforts, and it needs to 
> overcome the comment of some people who do not think we belong there.
> 
> So, they look at the article, they may correct a typo, but do not go any 
> further.

Anthere,

If you find people being rude to non-English people I think you need to 
let an admin know so we can leave a message on their talk page warning 
them not to make personal attacks. I have personally never seen this, 
but if I did the used doing this would get a stern warning from me.

Ta bu shi da yu