On 7/30/06, John Lyden rasputinaxp@gmail.com wrote:
I'm finding more and more that despite having a Policy Stick to beat people with, many others are too afraid to hit them with it.
Policy is descriptive, not prescriptive. With the exception of core Wikipedia policies not subject to debate, you can't use policy to force things through without broad support.
The use of diacritical marks in page names for people, when the name is fully recognisable even by those not familiar with the diacritics, and where appropriate redirects exist, does not (IMO) have that broad support. It may have a majority, but I doubt even that when it comes to (english-language) Wikipedia contributors as a whole. Straw polls and the like just show how many people are rabid about the issue.
Certainly I think that neither extreme point of view has a majority, and that it's hard to even find a point-in-the-middle that could gain overwhelming support.
-Matt