Talk:Basic Latin alphabet

=Disagreements over disambiguation page=

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I firmly believe this page should be a disambiguation page. The term "basic Latin alphabet" is generic, and while saying "ISO basic Latin alphabet" certainly makes it specific, it really isn't without the "ISO" qualification.

The Latin alphabet, while always recognizable as such, exists in several different incarnations; the Classical Latin alphabet from which modern alphabets derive was not composed of 26 letters, so it certainly wasn't the "basic latin alphabet" referenced on pages such as those for the letters A, B, C, etc. Those reference the ISO basic Latin alphabet when mentioning the position of the letter within the alphabet.

To add to that, languages that aren't English very often do not have a 26-letter alphabet. The Swedish language, like other Scandinavian languages, adds three at the end, while the Italian alphabet makes without a few letters, for example.

It may be true that other pages have not yet been updated to avoid landing on this disambiguation page; however, that is no grounds for turning it back into a redirect, and a disambiguation page will make other editors aware of the problem (something that I have the feeling some are trying to avoid during this dispute, by marking important controversial edits as "minor" for one thing).

I will, for the time being, put the disambiguation contents back, especially, at this point, to make other editors aware of the issues that are being raised. I urge everyone to avoid reverting this without discussion.

LjL (talk) 21:27, 31 May 2013 (UTC)