Talk:Proposals for new projects/process

Dear Administrators,

We are a group of Arabs including many Egyptians, who are not satisfied with the existence of an Egyptian Language in Wikipedia.

We benefit from Wikipedia and we appreciate the Wikipedia Project and consider it as a useful source of knowledge، which comes from the community to the community.

As a part of this community we would like to share our opinion, in order to improve the way people receive this knowledge.

We would like you to remove the so called Egyptian language from Wikipedia under the link: http://arz.wikipedia.org/

There are a lot of reasons:

1. There is not an Egyptian language as it is claimed to be. There is an Arabic language and in Egypt there are a lot of dialects which derive from the original Arabic language, but none of them can be defined as a Language, as they have no grammar, no dictionaries and even there is not a common pronunciation of words. Every one would write a certain word in different ways.

2. The expressions used on the Egyptian Wikipedia site are mostly the exact English expressions, just written in Arabic letters. like "IP, Login, Save, etc." They have no Arabic or Egyptian origin. It is English in Arabic letters. This doesn't deserve to be a language.

3. Arabic is the language taught at schoolsin Egypt, and the language of many important literature and knowledge sources. By claiming the Egyptian dialect to be a Language, people will neglect Arabic language and by time they will forget it and lose access and understanding of their culture.

4. In Egypt there are different dialects; each city has its own dialect, from the north in Alexandria, till the far south at Aswan and from Sinai at the East till Libya. There are a lot of dialects. Why is the Egyptian Language on Wikipedia the true and official Egyptian language? Then instead of calling it Egyptian, call it "Egyptian, Cairo, followed by the name of district where the dialect is spoken".

5. We don't think it is your aim to add all dialects in each country and all dialects of each language. Think what it means 23 Arab countries, each of them, has many dialects!

6. If your aim is to let people understand the information on wikipedia, then let them learn their own language correctly. This is easier and more helpful than inventing a new language.

Our Suggestion:

If the above reasons still don't convince you, we suggest you to make a voting, to see the percentage of people for or against the claimed language.

We hope you can cooperate as soon as possible. Thanks for your understanding.

Log in and propose closing it at Proposals for closing projects if you'd like. Please only do so once. Kylu 04:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)