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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)

: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 ([[Diacritical marks]]) 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? ==