[Wikipedia-l] no: or nb: (again)

[Mark Williamson]

I like "standard norwegian" - you should ignore this guy as he is a
typical norwegian high-school Nynorskhater.

Mark

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:49:30 +0100, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got the following message on my (Dutch) userpage:
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> I don't subscribe to the mailing list, so I respond here:
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> The Norwegian Wikipedia uses no: as its interwiki code. Until we have
> decided to do otherwise, please respect our choice of domain and
> interwiki name.
> 
> Also, note that no: is not the "bokmål Wikipedia", as bokmål is only
> one spelling standard of Standard Norwegian, which also includes
> riksmål (both bokmål and riksmål are major spelling standards, the
> latter being used e.g. by the most significant Norwegian newspaper
> (Aftenposten). Wolfram 2 mrt 2005 15:34 (CET)
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> So now I have (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-February/037750.html)
> someone saying it would be best to always use nb: and (above) someone
> saying it would be best to always use no:. Then I have people at nn:
> who really don't want it to be called no: at THEIR wiki. Could someone
> please tell me who I am to listen to? By whom and where is the
> decision made in a case like this?
> 
> Andre Engels
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