Thread:Jim1997/@comment-258494-20170405223630/@comment-258494-20170405223855

Ryoung122 wrote: Greetings,

Regarding your recent edit to Georg Olaffson, if using the alternate-language (in this case, Icelandic) spelling, please include in parentheses and state the language being used.

Our minimalist approach to the incorporation of alternate characters is, in part, due to my philosophy that this is, first and foremost, an English-language edition of the Gerontology Wiki and, secondly, we should be fair. No one is going to write Nabi Tajima in Japanese, so we should not assume other languages should have privileges.

I'm O.K. with using non-English diacritical marks and symbols if the text is "alternate" text (that is, designated as another language) but not with the English language. For me, this is more than just so that search engines will run smoothly: it's that I think the whole concept that we should write English-language material in the language of the home country misses the point of a lingua franca.Ryoung122 (talk) 22:36, April 5, 2017 (UTC) Wikipedia is an example of the inconsistency of article coverage that comes with the other philosophy.Ryoung122 (talk) 22:38, April 5, 2017 (UTC)