Amour wrote:So we should have a policy about which languages are allowed, and which ones are considered unreadable...
Supported languages should be limited to the languages the mods know. That is rather narrow, so they will probably need to have volunteers that will verify specific languages, so the supported languages would expand to include those... This way a user cannot complain about a language not being supported, if it is not supported then they can offer their assistance...
Here is a proposal for a new language system.
1) All supported languages (as defined by there are mods/users to verify those languages) will be listed as being able to add languages.
2) Language Other will no longer be able to be added.
3) When a Title/Synonym/Short Name for an anime OR episode, it is added with a flag of unverified.
4) Unverified Titles will be listed as unverified (or maybe even hidden)
5) The mods can mark the titles as verified
6) If there is no longer a mod/user available to verify a name, then that language is flagged so that users can no longer enter titles with that language. Existing verified records for that language would remain.
Other niceties:
7) Language verifiers are known by the system and they have the power to approve/modify/reject titles in the languages they support
8) Titles are creqed independantly from other data in the record.
9) In the cases of more than one language verifier for a language, changes made by a language verifier should be validated by another one.
10) Validation of proper encoding (or even automatic encoding) should be done and made consistent. Currently the anime titles are checked but the episode titles are not... Also English does not allow non-ASCII characters (even encoded), so I cannot do Pokemon properly.
BTW, you missed some types of writing, but that is irrelevant to the conversation.