Disputatio Usoris:Seahen

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E Vicipaedia

Salve, Seahen!

Gratus aut grata in Vicipaediam Latinam acciperis! Ob contributa tua gratias agimus speramusque te delectari posse et manere velle.

Cum Vicipaedia nostra parva humilisque sit, paucae et exiguae sunt paginae auxilii, a quibus hortamur te ut incipias:

Si plura de moribus et institutis Vicipaedianis scire vis, tibi suademus, roges in nostra Taberna, vel roges unum ex magistratibus directe.

In paginis encyclopaedicis mos noster non est nomen dare, sed in paginis disputationis memento editis tuis nomen subscribere, litteris impressis --~~~~, quibus insertis nomen tuum et dies apparebit. Quamquam vero in paginis ipsis nisi lingua Latina uti non licet, in paginis disputationum qualibet lingua scribi solet. Quodsi quid interrogare velis, vel Taberna vel pagina disputationis mea tibi patebit. Ave! Spero te "Vicipaedianum" aut "Vicipaedianam" fieri velle!--Xaverius 10:42, 2 Februarii 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, although ...[fontem recensere]

I wasn't going to insert that welcome notice, since you are proposing to close the community you have just joined! If you do make the proposal on Meta, please post a link to it.

Your modest claims beginning "As far as I can tell ..." invite a response, which no doubt some of us would supply on Meta in due course. Further research would show you that there are indeed current international users of Latin, and sources of authoritative usage, quite apart from the Catholic church and in quite different subject areas. While Wikispecies is beset with disputes about which languages to use, and which names to consider authoritative, we have no such dispute; our articles on biological species and the biographical and institutional background to scientific taxonomy are steadily increasing in range.

Latin is far from being the only current Wikipedia language without native speakers, as you may have noticed in looking through the list. Latin and Esperanto together can, I think, claim to be the most international, the most widely known, among such languages. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:43, 2 Februarii 2009 (UTC)[reply]