sona pona:Notability: Difference between revisions

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Editors have varying opinions on what the wiki should include. {{w|Deletionist}}s are often concerned with learners absorbing [[word]]s and [[styles of speech]] that are not widely used or understood in practice, by which {{tp|sona pona}} would artificially influence the language rather than covering it responsibly. {{w|Inclusionist}}s have argued that within Toki Pona, presence in a [[learning resource]] or [[font]] may amount to notability, and {{tp|sona pona}} coverage could provide better usage disclaimers, nuance, and citations than other resources.

 

Current standards include:

* Features that are not in standard use may still be notable—of historical significance, memetic in the community, circulated through many completionist resources, etc.—but must be marked and described as nonstandard. They should also explain what the standard style does instead and why.

* Additions to existing systems require a higher level of notability than new systems.

* A list may warrant its own article, even if not all of its items do, and even if the list does not form a coherent style of Toki Pona usage.

* [[mw:Help:User page|User pages]] are not subject to notability requirements.

==Word articles==

{{Main|Project:Word articles}}

 

===Glyphs===

There is little data on usage of {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} and {{tp|[[sitelen sitelen]]}} glyphs in the community. Many are <em>proposed</em> by [[font]]makers or other [[Tokiponist]]s for {{wikt|completionism|completionist}} purposes, but see little to no <em>usage</em> in practice.

 

On the one hand, these glyphs should not be given undue weight. On the other, readers may already be disproportionately familiar with them from font repertoires, dictionaries (such as {{tok|[[Linku]]}}), and even personal experimentation with fonts. They could easily assume that such a glyph is in common usage, and that the wiki article is merely incomplete if the glyph is absent.

 

 

 

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