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

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 12/22/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The en.WP Username policy has been changed.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Username&curid=168684&diff=95920637&oldid=95900078

Unfortunatly, it was changed without any valid basis.

It is not acceptable to remove longstanding policy simply because some
people on a mailing list decided to speculate randomly and accuse
enwiki of "ethnocentricism" without substantiation.

As a result I've reverted the change and contributed some suggestions
to the talk page.

I agree that the policy should be *improved* to address the real
concerns brought up, and to be more friendly to users who work across
many languages.  Simply removing the section does not, however,
address the very real issues which caused the creation of the policy
in the first place.