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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 01 December 2015 15:40 UTC

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Michael Everson scripsit:

> Nor should you. VOA’s specification could be very different from
> WP’s, could it not?

In the matter of vocabulary, the WP rule is to use Basic English
vocabulary first, but if necessary to use the Basic English 1500-word
vocabulary, and then the VOA Special English vocabulary.  So these
varieties are closely intertwingled.  For details, see
<https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_write_Simple_English_pages>.

Note, by the way, that this is a WP guideline, not a WP policy.

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