On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:00, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Friday 11 October 2002 12:40 am, The Cunctato wrote:
On 10/10/02 6:41 PM, "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
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Granted the English Wikipedia is the oldest and largest but it shouldn't be vaulted as /The Main/ Wikipedia with the other languages relegated to second class status in The Main WIkipedia's shadow.
By the same token, the English-lang Wikipedia is the oldest and largest (by far), and it shouldn't be shoved around simply for the sake of political correctness.
? How is finally having the English Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org shoving around the English Wikipedia? All the others are at xx.wikipedia.org so this isn't about political correctness, it is about what is fair and equal.
By writing "finally having" you imply inevitability. That certainly isn't the case. One could also write "How is redirecting the overwhelming preponderance of all Wikipedia entries shoving around the English Wikipedia? A small percentage of entries are at xx.wikipedia.org so this isn't about political correctness, it is about what is fair and equal (where equality means having every language group be given equivalent URLs, even though that concept of equality ignores the gross differences in the representation of the groups)."
By definition doing "what is fair and equal" for groups with unequal representation is being politically correct. The Wikipedia entry [[political correctness]] is pretty good.
Some acts of political correctness are good and necessary; but many aim to solve important problems with surface changes, and this proposed act is largely the latter.