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:::Or "int" for "international" if you want to make it even shorter. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 09:22, January 17, 2025 (EST) | :::Or "int" for "international" if you want to make it even shorter. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 09:22, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
:As a native portuguese speaker I am not at all bothered by the name. Overall I am neutral on the name NIOL as well, although it might seem a little confusing if you are not used to the abbreviation. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 09:31, January 17, 2025 (EST) | :As a native portuguese speaker I am not at all bothered by the name. Overall I am neutral on the name NIOL as well, although it might seem a little confusing if you are not used to the abbreviation. {{User:LadySophie17/sig}} 09:31, January 17, 2025 (EST) | ||
Change to "NIOL". If the reference point of "foreign" is the fact that the wiki's lingua franca is American English, it follows that a British English name is, too, foreign, no? Yet if the above proposal is anything to go by, that is clearly not a stance the community is willing to take. Moreover, yes, implying that a language is foreign to the entire readership is kinda alienating. A Romanian name for Toad, for instance, is foreign, to whom? To the vast majority of you, absolutely. To me, a Romanian native, it isn't. The qualifier of "foreign" is thus both inconsistently applied, and inexact, and while I'm not really bothered by it, I think there's nothing valuable to lose from changing it. Also, "NIOL" takes less to type. There's that, too. {{User:Koopa con Carne/Sig}} 09:43, January 17, 2025 (EST) | |||