Talk:Korean Wikipedia

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This article was nominated for deletion on February 18, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

I'm glad we have this article, but I can't help but wonder about the emphasis on the fact that the Korean Wikipedia uses hangul only -- I mean, what else would it use? Runes? Cyrillic? Using hangul (with occasional dabs of hanja and romaja) is, after all, the more-or-less universal practice when writing modern Korean. Why should we emphasize a trait which the Korean Wikipedia shares with the entire internet? -- Visviva 06:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Because some professional Korean texts use a larger amount of Hanja, while the net doesn't, and Wikipedia falls somewhere between a physical encyclopedia and the rest of the internet.--ikiroid | (talk) 16:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)