[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia
Berto 'd Sera
albertoserra at ukr.net
Thu Jul 5 16:22:29 UTC 2007
As you please :) I really care only for the result :)
Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Starling
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia
Berto 'd Sera wrote:
> Seriously, how would you manage? Do we call up the mobs to scream and
swear
> as we did before, or do we nominate 7 Valencian and 7 Catalan Knights and
> make it a Royal Tournament? That's all the choice you're given, you know?
>
> You EITHER
> choose an external reference
> OR
> choose yourself.
If you're deferring to an external authority to avoid conflict, or to
reduce workload, then that's fine. Just don't say you're doing it because
you want to follow the "no original research" policy. Most Wikipedia
policies are common sense. NOR is probably the only one which would be
disasterous if it were generalised to life outside Wikipedia.
-- Tim Starling
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