Posted by u/NLLumi
11 August 2021
reddit
I just got into a bit of a disagreement with another Wikipedian. I added explanations of signs in Israeli Sign Language for various locations around Israel based on this video,
until another Wikipedian came along to undo them all, claiming that ‘Wikipedia is not an instruction manual’, and if anything this should be relegated to a new section in the article for Israeli SL instead. (I don’t know of any article about any language that has such a section; closest I can think of is a short phrasebook, and this goes way beyond that.) Also, bear in mind that many of those signs are based on a prominent historic detail or landmark, so they are related to the rest of what the article has to say about those sites.
I was going to add signs for prominent political figures based on this video (Israeli SL & Hebrew, with Hebrew subtitles), but I figured that they would be undone as well.
What do you think? Should Wikipedia articles about places and people in general include information about their names in the local sign languages of their home regions?
Source: www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/p2mxi6/sign_language_names_for_places_people_in_articles/
