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Merge with IPA2
There's a proposal to merge the article IPA2 into this article.
Opinions are welcome. --Amir E. Aharoni 08:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Notability and usage of the described systems
Hello,
I am trying to improve the coverage of the Persian language here. I don't know the Persian language much, but i have a linguistic background, an besides, no-one except me is doing it.
I am currently concerned with the issue of a Latin alphabet for Persian. Three proposals for a new Latin alphabet are discussed on Wikipedia: "UniPers", "IPA2" and "EuroFarsi".
UniPers seems to have the best coverage. However, on Wikipedia there are strict guidelines about the notability of a given subject. Sometimes it happens that enthusiasts of a subject will edit the article about it, while the subject itself is not notable outside a narrow group of people and is not suitable for an encyclopedia. For a writing system to be notable for an encyclopedia it should be used by a considerable group of people. Being described on one website is not enough. This is not a written guideline, but that's what i deduce from Wikipedia:Notability.
So - does anyone here use UniPers or know people who use it?
There is very little information about IPA2, a.k.a Pársik Except a link to its own website, PersianDirect.com . I haven't found that it is used anywhere except that website. (If you search Google for "IPA2 Pársik", you will mostly find information copied from Wikipedia.) I proposed it for deletion. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
There's no information about EuroFarsi in Wikipedia and there's only a link to http://www.eurofarsi.com/ . I could also find some info about it on Google, but it is hard for me to understand it, as i don't know Persian well. Do you know whether there are people who actually use this system? Or is it just a small group of dedicated people? --Amir E. Aharoni 07:46, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
- I also wish there was better information on the usage of these and other systems and hope it will be added.
- However, Wikipedia covers many languages, scripts, and transliterations that have no current usage, and often never had significant usage.
- Also, notability of one particular romanization is not the same as notability of the subject as a whole and the article. There are articles on romanization or transliteration of most non-Roman scripts and major languages using these scripts. --75.20.206.207 (talk) 03:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
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- I agree that there should be a good article about Romanization of Persian, but currently the opening paragraph is too generic and the rest of the article is about UniPers, which doesn't seem notable to me. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
