[Foundation-l] Throwing some data onto the flamefest fire (was: English Wikipedia ethnocentric policy affects other communities)

[Milos Rancic]

This case needs referendum on English Wikipedia, so other communities
would be able to know is this something which is dominant position on
English Wikipedia or not.

On 12/23/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I regret to post my previous mail. You English Wikipedians shall be
> cursed of disclimination.
>
> I have told to the Japanese community you lifted up that fool
> ethnocentric and discliminative policy. I would like to add some
> editors hadn't believed Engilsh Wikipedia did enforce so a
> discliminative policy. You made me a liar. Well, it is not a big deal,
> but still the fact remains you are racists.
>
> Bye,
>
> > Today it includes a little less explanation and the word avoid was removed.
> >
> > "Names with non-Latin characters: Unfortunately, most of your fellow
> > editors will be unable to read a name written in Cyrillic, Chinese,
> > Japanese, Korean, or other scripts. Many of them will also be
> > additionally burdened, as such names may be displayed for them only as
> > question marks ("??? ??"), squares ("□□□ □□"), replacement characters
> > ("??? ??") or worse, nonsense or mojibake ("Ã!%ôs*"). If your name is
> > usually written in a non-Latin script, please consider transliterating
> > it to avoid confusion, and allow easier access to your talk page by
> > typing your name in the search field or URL bar."
> >
> >
> > If you really can read that as bias.. then I'm afraid we're just going
> > to have to disagree.
> >
> > I guess I'll just have to be branded a "bigot against people named
> > mathematical symbols". ;)
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