Forums:Inflection templates in the process of withdrawal
First of all, as you may see, I didn't really understand how controversial these things would be in the first place. I didn't know I was wading into the Tolkienologist version of the VI/emacs holy war debate. I find elvish.org's position on the matter personally distasteful, and I would normally be on the side of Ardalambion. I considered Ardalambion a hard source based on scientific logic. But in this circumstance (being an encyclopedia/dictionary that requires greater empiricism and common agreement), I've decided I don't want to be part of this debate. So I have agreed with Ederchil to gradually remove the embedded templates and the inflection sections altogether. There is still a place for mention of grammar, but in a much briefer way, such as in the mention of Quenya stem forms and Sindarin mutation notes, but nothing as comprehensive as inflection charts, since it appears that not everyone believes that the languages are inherently stable or can be learned in the first place.
Since it seems this did technically qualify as Neo-Eldarin, I will be keeping those things out of the wiki's main article space if I can. That does not mean I've given up on Neo-Eldarin theory, but any such edits will be purely user page projects from now on, and will not be scattered across hundreds of articles the way inflection templates have been.
I will also be working on IPA pronunciations now and then. Pronunciation rules are far less controversial, it seems, so that shouldn't be a big deal.
Have I missed anything significant? - Gilgamesh 19:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
