[WikiEN-l] Re: Discussion on English Wikipedia in languages other than English

[Anthere]

David Friedland a écrit:
 > Angela,
 >
 > I thought about precisely the situation you describe when I composed my
 > original message. Obviously someone who is trying to communicate with
 > users on a wiki that's in a language they don't command should be
 > welcomed in trying to communicate in whatever way they can.
 >
 > My concern is with users who have demonstrated elsewhere that they have
 > a perfectly adequate command of written English but who deliberately
 > choose to not use English on certain article talk and Wikipedia project
 > pages.
 >
 > Clearly, legislating against it is not popular here. But I think we
 > should discourage such behavior because it's clearly intentionally
 > exclusionary. There is a point at which good faith can longer be assumed.
 >
 > For example, let's say a pair of editors repeatedly revert a change I
 > make to an article, then post some messages in a foreign language to the
 > article talk pages as well as to their own user talk pages and the "Xyz
 > Wikipedians' notice board". Some of these messages clearly contain my
 > user name.
 >
 > How should one respond to something like that? By politely asking that
 > they translate their messages to English?
 >
 > I'll start by posting machine translations and requesting that they be
 > cleaned up enough to be intelligible. I doubt I'll get very far, though,
 > because these editors are already on a campaign to defame me elsewhere
 > on Wikipedia.
 >
 > Here's to assuming good faith! :-)
 >
 > - David


Hi David

But reading your answer to Angela, I feel that you are not so much 
talking of a general trend, but rather of a couple of very specific 
situations, which involves yourself. Am I wrong ?

If so, perhaps the issue can be solved by a *rule* but rather by finding 
someone (in particular of their language) to talk to him/them and see 
where the problem relies ?

ant