[WikiEN-l] Policy across different languages

[Delirium]

jayjg wrote:

>It appears that Russian Wikipedia is about to reject Verifiability as a policy:
>
>http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C
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>Verifiability is usually considered one of the 3 core content policies
>on English Wikipedia.
>
>This leads to a question; must the different Wikipedias have the same
>core policies? Could Russian Wikipedia do away with NPOV and NOR as
>well?  Could some other language Wikipedia do away with WP:CIVIL,
>etc.?
>  
>
If they're core policies, then no; the Wikimedia Foundation is committed 
to supporting certain types of projects, not to generally supporting any 
project that a group of people want to have.

WP:CIVIL is probably more borderline, because it's more about internal 
dynamics of the community than about the encyclopedia.  Presumably all 
communities will come up against issues of civil behavior, but I'd be 
inclined to let them decide how to formulate policies to deal with 
them.  But we can't support an encyclopedia project under the 
"Wikipedia" name that isn't neutral and based on existing, cited sources.

-Mark