New Rule: No Non-English Characters

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Mazryonh

I haven't seen the talk pages you're referring to. Mind posting links of any examples?

To pre-emptively defuse any accusations of racism, you should post a message on the main page that this is an English-language-only wiki made for English-reading users. Any offended parties should feel free to make similar wikis (without plagiarism of course) in their own preferred languages.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Brigada
Nice page in English, but the notations in Cyrillic are not necessary. We don't need to see HOW the main characters names are SPELLED in Cyrillic. And again, if you don't have Cyrillic loaded on your computer, it comes out as gibberish.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/User_talk:RedCharger
Check out this page. Now it may be innocent banter between RedCharger and Kloga, but IMFDB as rules. How can the mods determine if a member is using Hate Speech or Threats or other behavior that will result in sanctions / banning if we don't know what they are talking about? Again this is an innocent example, but you can see why it is an issue.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/On_The_First_Beat
Again, a nice page, but the Chinese Characters will show up as gibberish on a computer without those characters loaded in their fonts. And being an English language site, why do we have to list the ORIGINAL language? But it showing up as gibberish on computers is reason enough to ask members NOT to do it.

Hope this helps.