policy wrt politics (was RE: be-tarask language subtag registration form)

[GerardM]

Hoi,
I am in favour for the (d) option.. I am happy to support all three
orthographic tags when there are acceptable words for them in all
orthographies for their names. When both groups are not willing to coexist,
when the WMF board insists on having both projects, it makes better sense to
have no single group known as be.wikipedia.org

With enough codes we would at least indicate the content correctly.

On 3/31/07, Mark Crispin <MRC at cac.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Peter Constable wrote:
> > a)  Reject any request with political issues to ensure this list avoids
> > politics?
> > b)  Evaluate any request solely on non-political criteria? (We would
> > still need to ensure that subtags are non-offensive.)
> > c)  Try to judge on a case-by-case basis what is the best way to walk
> > through the political minefield?
>
> d) A modified synthesis of (a) and (b).  In the event that any request is
> determined to have political undertones, then reject ALL requests
> associated with the politics until such time as ALL the players in the
> politics can come up with a unified proposal that is acceptable to ALL of
> them.
>
> This explicitly means that any player can veto his opponent's proposal,
> but only at the cost of blocking his own proposal.
>
> In effect this is "children, don't bother the adults until you learn to
> play nicely together".
>
> -- Mark --
>
> http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
> Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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