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I discovered that Omegatron is changing Latin phrases and acronyms he comes across in wikipedia to English expressions. He interprets the Use Foregin Languages Sparingly subsection as support for this. I, personally, am of a different opinion concerning the acronyms that are sprung from a Latin phrase (such as i.e.) because they are so widespread, and have been so for such long time, that they are part of the English language. This policy does not cover these special cases at all, are they covered somewhere else? If not, I would like to see a discussion on this issue (and maybe, if consensus can be reached, a policy). -- Probell 20:51, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
In addition, you might want to use HTML to mark other languages as being other languages.
For example, in Mozilla, if you right-click nota bene and choose Properties, you can see that it's in Latin because I have marked it up as <i lang="la">nota bene</i>
.
(Or would that be a bad thing on Wikipedia?)
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Damian Yerrick
{{la|nota bene}}
can generate <i lang="la">nota bene</i>
automatically.
Kowloonese 20:42, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
(from the village pump)
I haven't been able to find an answer yet. When it's important to provide translation of words in another language (German: Sprache), what is the standard?
At present there are many articles in the Wikipedia namespace that seek to give guidance on how to write better articles. I propose consolidating these into a much smaller number. On User:Jongarrettuk/Better writing guide I propose how these could be consolidated. The proposal is not to change advice, just to consolidate it. If I have inadvertently moved what you consider to be good advice that is currently in the Wikipedia namespace, please re-add it. I'm hope that the proposal to merge all these articles, in principle, will be welcomed. Of course, it may be preferred to have 2, 3 or 4 inter-connected articles than just one and would welcome advice on how this could be done. (In particular, perhaps all the guidance on layout should be spun off into one consolidated article on layout.) I'm also aware that putting lots of different bits of advice together may throw up anomalies or bits that people now disagree with (including bits that I myself disagree with:) ). I ask for support for the consolidation. Once the consolidation has happened, the advice can be changed in the normal way. Please feel free to improve on the current draft consolidation, but don't remove or add advice that is not currently on the Wikipedia namespace. If all goes well, I'll add a new Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles page on the 19th, though maybe some bits of the new article will need to be phased in over a longer period. I'll also take care to preserve all the archived discussion in one place. jguk 19:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)