It seems to me that EM's concerns are valid, wether or
not people choose to deal with or recognise them. That
is, that there should be a reasonable firewall between
encyclopedic projects and others. A "vanity project"
instigator myself, I can understand how people can
hold a reasonable objection to the idea that Wikimedia
be a haven for any number of conlang projects,
disguised as encyclopedias. The word is out, and most
certainly there will be more requests.
Since both the hapless Esperanto and the hopeless
Interlingua already have an established place, there
is little viable argument against conlangs in general.
The only reasonable option is to limit them to the
very few that promise some utility.
CS
User:KuniShiro on
Erik Moeller wrote:
Timwi-
>Thanks for your support. Many many people, in fact
a clear majority,
>support full rights for the Klingon Wikipedia.
Unfortunately, it seems
>that this has no significance here. Klingon is
being treated like
>cripple-crap simply because a very small, but
very
loud minority has
>some sort of quabbles with it. And because one
of
them has been given
>(and is apparently allowed to retain) the
power to
have everything their
>way, and then intimidate everyone who tries to
undo it.
Interesting. Is this the way you respect a
compromise which you yourself
proposed?
I failed to make it clear enough that I expected the
limitations imposed
on tlh to also apply to tokipona. Now everyone
things I wanted the
Klingon Wikipedia, when in fact I only wanted equal
rights.
And the only reason why we still don't have equal
rights is because
people like you insisted on opposing tlh, because
you said conceited and
respectless things like "If anyone puts it back up,
I'll go in there and
suspend it myself!", and because the prejudice
against the more
widely-condemned Klingon is being adhered to more
than the much more
reasonable opposition against the less widely-known
Toki Pona.
Timwi
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