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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       Ilmari Karonen <nospam () vyznev ! net>
Date:       2006-06-16 7:43:56
Message-ID: 4492613C.8010807 () vyznev ! net
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Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 15/06/06, ABCD <en.abcd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 6/15/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>But *which one would go first*?
>>
>>That's simple -- put them in alphabetical order - I mean, this /is/ a
>>dictionary, right?
> 
> Uh... um... WP:NOT paper. And alphabetical order is just Western
> systemic bias. Oooh, oooh, I know! You're really wanting us to use
> (the one that comes first) and you're suggesting this as a sneaky way
> to avoid consensus...

So we argue that priority should be given to "color", "aluminium", 
"center" and "encyclopaedia".  I'd like to see the BrEn/AmEn folks try 
to wrap their minds around that.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen
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