Talk:Alphabet transliteration

Several of the articles that begin with the words "In telecommunication" were written by someone who thinks nothing existed until telecommunication came along. For example, suppose an article is titled "Atlantic Ocean". Then it says: "In telecommunication, the Atlantic Ocean is an ocean east of the Americas and west of Europe and Africa, across which the Transatlantic Cable was laid....", as if no one ever knew of or thought about the Atlantic Ocean until it took on significance in the field of telecommunication. This "Atlantic Ocean" example didn't actually appear on Wikipedia (as far as I know), but several others like it do. One of them was titled "inverse-square law" and the author acted as if inverse-square laws were unkown until the concept was introduced into the field of telecommunication. I re-wrote that article. Now we have another case: this article titled "alphabetic transliteration". The author acts as if transliteration from one alphabet to another is known only in the field of telecommunication! That is truly bizarre. That telecommunication is one of the fields in which people may be concerned with alphabetic transliteration perhaps warrants a footnote in an article on alphabetic transliteration, but this dogmatic insistence that nothing was known to anyone until telecommunications engineers knew about it is loony. I have redirected the article to an imperfect but sane article titled "transliteration". -- Mike Hardy


 * Those were auto-imported from a public domain telecommunications dictionary (see History of Wikipedia bots), so yes some of them are a little more domain-specific than articles here ought to be. As you come across them, fix them up. --Brion 02:00 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)