> Please put the language links in a separate table,
otherwise
> you are violating the first normal form of database design
> theory. Any introductory text on database design will tell you
> why that is bad.
I doubt that many of us have such a text in their
libraries.
OTOH Wikipedia is a real database rather than a theoretical one
so the rules for theoretical databases shouldn't apply. :-)
I don't have Jan's experience, but I do have Date's book on my
shelf, and a few others, and I do take database design seriously.
Unfortuneately, history and performance sometimes force decisions
that one might not have otherwise made for data integrity reasons.