Paweł Dembowski wrote:
Well, we still wouldn't split the two, because it's still lunacy to split.
Why don't we just have a Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia then instead of separate ones for each dialect?
By historical accident more than anything else. I don't consider the current situation to be ideal, but my deep respect for the choices of the community means that any decision to merge is going to come over a time of careful discussion and consensus building.
--Jimbo