Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/English Dialects

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Description

I've been thinking about creating a group of Wikipedians to more-or-less enforce WP:ENGVAR—the standards of allowing different national varieties of English on the English Wikipedia. Responsibilities might include:

Tagging talk pages of articles with the appropriate tag from Category:Varieties of English templates
Requesting creation of/creating editnotices for national varieties of English (e.g. Template:Editnotices/Page/George Orwell bibliography.)
Patrolling pages to enforce WP:ENGVAR and WP:RETAIN.
Mediating disputes about English dialects.
Taking requests for checking pages to ensure that they conform to a national standard (maybe this could also be a step in the WP:GA/WP:FA process?)
Creating and employing scripts or semi-automated tools to check articles for English dialects (such as User:Ohconfucius/EngvarB.js.)
Creating, maintaining, and promoting Bable userboxes and related categories for English dialects and grammatical style.

User:Radiopathy is also interested and generally focuses on checking pages for conformance to British English. Would anyone else be interested in assisting with English dialect issues like this? Are there any Australian, Canadian, or South Asian Wikipedians who would also be interested in making conformity for their own national English variations as well? I have also proposed this as a taskforce under the parent WikiProject Grammar —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:12, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

—Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:12, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Satu Suro 23:35, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.