[Wikipedia-l] anglicization is stupid

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Thu Nov 21 17:14:14 UTC 2002


Toby Bartels wrote:

>Zoe wrote (sarcastically):
>
>>Oh, good, I like that.  Let's change all the rules intermittantly, thus
>>requiring someone to go back to all of the articles that were created under
>>the old rules and have to change all of them.  That makes a lot of sense.
>>
>I'd propose that those that were the primary supporters of such a change
>be the ones required to go over and change things.  That's only fair.
>
I have no objection to that, either in this issue or any other that can 
have an impact on a large number of articles.  In practical terms, the 
important thing becomes maintaining compatibility during transition..  I 
wouldn't expect that the people who might object to such a change would 
be too keen to work at it.  

Eclecticology




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