Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/Template:User wikiszlsmall


 * Can you please rephrase that? Unfounded accusations of xenophobia are frowned upon. The Wordsmith Talk to me 23:12, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it is appropriately worded. Deletion of instances of foreign languages where they related to foreign language wikipedias is a definite manifestation of discriminatory bias.  en.wikipedia is the dominant Wikipedia, but that it not good reason for perpetuation of dominance by suppression of inter-language collaboration.  Use of "foreign language" as a deletion (suppression) reason is an example of xenophobia, a bias, systematic bias, unconcious bias, whatever.  To counter it, it must be called when seen.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:19, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The way you've worded it, it could be construed as a personal attack on BU Rob13. Please clarify that this was not your intent, or I'll have to redact the statement. The Wordsmith Talk to me 23:33, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Personal attack is certainly not intended. Perhaps a suggestion of unconscious bias, and suggesting unconcious bias is not an attack, certainly not for any reasonable person, and User:BU Rob13 certainly counts as a reasonable person.
 * On your threat to redact ... I strongly oppose it, and maintain that a perception of personal attack is in error.  The use of "foreign" in a rational for deletion, on a collaboration aid, is most definitely a flag for textbook xenophobia.  Perhaps there is a regional or recent sensitivity with that word that I am not sensitive to?  I have seen it used in attacks, but I maintain that my use is correct, as explained.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:04, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Given that you've clarified that you were not calling Rob a xenophobe, I'm not going to redact the statement, and I'll collapse this section. Given the current political climate in the United States there are a lot of accusations of xenophobia, racism etc going around. Your statement was vague enough that it seemed like another example of it, so thanks for clarifying that it was not your intent. The Wordsmith Talk to me 00:07, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Funny, I thought the US election was over, that there was a clear result, and my focus was on Silesians, me having an interest in traditional (dying) languages. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2016 (UTC)