Tony Sidaway (minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com) [050210 23:50]:
David Gerard said:
> If we have a precedent that zh: can block the
existence of a Cantonese
> Wikipedia, can en: block Quenya? Please?
I hope we have no such precedent. Allowing the
speakers of a rival
language to veto the production of a Wikipedia would not be right.
Fuzheado's arguments appear to be along those lines - in particular the
argument that zh: needs the resources instead (as if volunteers are
employees who can be reassigned at will, even assuming the argument it
needs the resources so desperately is valid).
Their
observations (and I've seen some potentially persuasive arguments on
either side in the Chinese Wikipedia discussion though I have not
investigated it closely) should not be dismissed as irrelevant, but they
shouldn't be allowed to block an otherwise viable Wikipedia.
We have Wikipedias for things that are clearly dialects; Cantonese is
mutually-unintelligible with Mandarin.
But let's start a Quenya Wikipedia instead. Hell, that's not grossly
insulting! At all!
- d.