[Foundation-l] English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 08:16:19 UTC 2006


On 20/12/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I repeat again the English Wikipedia community should reconsider how
> shameful and discriptive policy they has about users' identity and
> respect of cultural diversity, and how badly it affects other
> communities. I am very sorry to see such a request fullfiled to our
> request page.


Er, what on earth? You mean, that en:wp allowing name changes is
"shameful"? Please believe me when I say that this statement of yours
makes no sense in English.

It is entirely unclear why what you are describing is a problem with
en:wp rather than a problem with this individual user.

It is also not clear what word you meant by "discriptive."


- d.



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