Admiral Norton
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I have corrected the header to "Proper noun". It uses a different template, since they usually do not have plural forms. Also, there should be an entry at Лос Анџелес instead of a redirect. We avoid using redirects on Wiktionary. (see Wiktionary:Redirects) --EncycloPetey 17:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- I am aware that Serian has two alphabets. It is not the only language that does. Wiktionary policy is to have an entry for each viable spelling, and not to use redirects. You can see evidence of this if you look through entries in Category:Serbian nouns. Our policy is to have an entry for the Roman spelling and the Cyrillic spelling. We cannot use redirects, because the Cyrillic spelling might be a word in another language, and the Roman spelling might be a word in another language. Would you tell a Bulgarian that he cannot have an entry for a page because we need to redirect to the Serbian spelling? --EncycloPetey 17:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
- As EP said, for languages that oficially use multiple scripts, creating duplicate-content entries in every script is allowed and preferred way. Moreover, favouring one script over another by means of redirects even if the probability of redirect being a valid lexeme in some other language is highly unlikely should generally be avoided as it generally induces some kind of cultural bias associated with favoured script. E.g., favouring Cyrillic over Latin for Serbian would probably piss off some Serb radicals, as Cyrillic is regularly emphasized as a badge of Orthodoxy, and by extension of "Serbdom" itself ;) We have no space limitations, so.. --Ivan Štambuk 17:49, 3 September 2008 (UTC)