RE: Pending requests

"Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org> Tue, 01 December 2015 19:39 UTC

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From: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
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John Cowan wrote:

> 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.

If all this is true, I think it is a significant counterargument to the
claim that "WP Simple English" needs to be identified distinctly from
plain old vanilla Simple English.

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