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Conservapedia talk:Commandments (view source)
Revision as of 19:49, March 17, 2007
, 19:49, March 17, 2007→American English spelling and foreign names.
I'm going to sign on with MountainDew on this one, with the further observations that, particularly with personal names, while it is polite and well-mannered to use the named individual's preferred spelling, one should also keep in mind the limits of keyboards and editors' knowledge of how to generate non-English characters or characters with diacritical marks. For instance, there are accents and double-accents in a number of Hungarian proper names, and it would be ridiculous to expect non-Hungarians to be familiar with them or with the process of generating them. Perhaps in such instances we could have a template that the article author could use to request assistance from the computer-savvy in the crowd for such things. [[User:Niwrad|Niwrad]] 00:41, 17 March 2007 (EDT)
I'm going to sign on with MountainDew on this one, with the further observations that, particularly with personal names, while it is polite and well-mannered to use the named individual's preferred spelling, one should also keep in mind the limits of keyboards and editors' knowledge of how to generate non-English characters or characters with diacritical marks. For instance, there are accents and double-accents in a number of Hungarian proper names, and it would be ridiculous to expect non-Hungarians to be familiar with them or with the process of generating them. Perhaps in such instances we could have a template that the article author could use to request assistance from the computer-savvy in the crowd for such things. [[User:Niwrad|Niwrad]] 00:41, 17 March 2007 (EDT)
:Have thought about this some more and decided to create a simple help article and a template to request help with diacritical marks. The article recommends that such marks be rendered temporarily with standard punctuation; e.g., a lower-case e with a circumflex over it should be marked as '''!e^!'''. Then the author should include the template '''<nowiki>{{diacritical}}</nowiki>''' at the top of the article; the template automatically includes the article in a category named '''Editing help requested''' so the more experienced editors can easily find such requests for help. [[User:Niwrad|Niwrad]] 15:49, 17 March 2007 (EDT)
== "Metric" vs. "English" units in scientific articles? ==
== "Metric" vs. "English" units in scientific articles? ==