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Change to "NIOL". If the reference point of "foreign" is the fact that the wiki's lingua franca is American English, it follows that a British English name is, too, foreign and should be integrated in such a table, no? Yet if the above proposal is anything to go by, that is clearly not a stance the community is willing to take. Moreover, yes, implying that a language is foreign to the entire readership is kinda alienating. A Romanian name for Toad, for instance, is foreign, to whom? To the vast majority of you, absolutely. To me, a Romanian native, it isn't. The qualifier of "foreign" is thus both inconsistently applied, and inexact, and while I'm not really bothered by it, I think there's nothing valuable to lose from changing it. Also, "NIOL" takes less to type. There's that, too. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 09:43, January 17, 2025 (EST) | Change to "NIOL". If the reference point of "foreign" is the fact that the wiki's lingua franca is American English, it follows that a British English name is, too, foreign and should be integrated in such a table, no? Yet if the above proposal is anything to go by, that is clearly not a stance the community is willing to take. Moreover, yes, implying that a language is foreign to the entire readership is kinda alienating. A Romanian name for Toad, for instance, is foreign, to whom? To the vast majority of you, absolutely. To me, a Romanian native, it isn't. The qualifier of "foreign" is thus both inconsistently applied, and inexact, and while I'm not really bothered by it, I think there's nothing valuable to lose from changing it. Also, "NIOL" takes less to type. There's that, too. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 09:43, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
:Those are all good points. — [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 09:49, January 17, 2025 (EST) | :Those are all good points. — [[User:Nintendo101|Nintendo101]] ([[User talk:Nintendo101|talk]]) 09:49, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
:The | :The terminology is definitely incorrect. [[User:Super Mario RPG|Super Mario RPG]] ([[User talk:Super Mario RPG|talk]]) 10:03, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
I prefer to avoid moving templates unless completely necessary, because it's just another thing that needs to be looked up when you're adding a template you've added a zillion times and suddenly it's a redlink. That's happened to me more than I'd care to count. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 09:46, January 17, 2025 (EST) | I prefer to avoid moving templates unless completely necessary, because it's just another thing that needs to be looked up when you're adding a template you've added a zillion times and suddenly it's a redlink. That's happened to me more than I'd care to count. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 09:46, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
