Template talk:Persian languages

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I think the recent edits are just crowding the template; the Dari and Tajik articles already explain what the dialect in question is called by native speakers and other Persian speakers; Ajam/Ecem is a colloquial term in Kurdish for certain varities of Persian and their speakers, not a separate dialect of Persian recognized by linguists --Jpbrenna 00:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I think I just noticed why User:Tajik made the changes he did - he assumed that the whole section was under the heading Names for the language. It's not - the section heading is dialects, but I can see where he made the error. Anyway, thanks for adding the details, but as I said before, they crowd the template. Just use the commonest English name, navigate to the article, and improve the heading with more information about native names if necessary.--Jpbrenna 00:40, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of recent template changes

I changed some of the piped links, which were redirects, so that they will load faster. I also removed the diacritics from the language names -- they just look pedantic, and a few seconds after the use reads them, he will be at the main article page which will show the native name and transliteration with diacritics. Ditto for non-standard English names for the languages -- Tajik instead of Tajiki, etc. The excess of names was just crowding the template -- again, as soon as the reader clicks the link, he'll learn all about how Persian is sometimes called Farsi in English, and that its older native name is Parsi etc. --Jpbrenna 01:13, 20 July 2006 (UTC)