[Wikipedia-l] New request for Cantonese Wikipedia: vote at 29-6

[Ray Saintonge]

Mark Williamson wrote:

>Fuzzyhead, I encourage you to re-read the forwarded message.
>
>Perhaps you see it in terms of "Chinese Wikipedia" and "Chinese
>language issues", however the reality is very different.
>
>Somebody who was born with and has always lived with Mandarin is just
>as much an interested or a disinterested party as Jimbo, David Gerard,
>Angela, or Ray Saintonge.
>
Hmmm!  I have not significantly participated in this discussion except 
in the occasional side discussion.  I hope that my failure to so act is 
consistent with the level of new light that I can cast on the subject. 

>I think
>I'm going to do some tipping off of my own if you don't mind (or even
>if you do), as so far the poll seems to indicate that non-Chinese are
>much more in favour of a separate Cantonese WP.
>
That's ominous.

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