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296: 440: 764:", the lede is incredibly imprecise, because W is not even in the Latin alphabet. The Latin alphabet proper only has 23 letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Y, and Z. U and J are allographs of V and I that are used to aid later readers in interpreting Latin texts, while W came about for writing Germanic languages in the late first millennium. All of these should realistically be consistent as either or both the 203: 286: 265: 234: 382: 759:
The inconsistency is because editors conflate the Latin alphabet, the Latin script, and the English alphabet. A script by itself doesn't really have an order, because it includes any letter which is used by any language with the other letters of the script, while alphabets are usually ordered in some
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for writing systems is written (disclosure: I was one of the authors), if we want to maintain consistent terminology we should be very precise on exactly this kind of situation. As a longer-term effort towards consistency, I think a good project would be to rewrite ledes for other Latin script
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The likely reason they aren't consistent is that they were created and edited by different people. (I've no idea what "the Latin-script alphabet" means. If something different from the Latin alphabet, it needs to be explained.)
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Says "In the very early rock inscriptions of Thera (700006 BC)". That really sounds very early indeed to me. -- Roland Mas (not registered on Knowledge).
578:. I wonder, why up to today the articles do not seem consistent? I need to find out and simultaneously, getting comment from you, readers and editors. 587: 840: 772:. I think there might be an argument for phrasing the second as just "basic Latin alphabet" while maintaining the ISO 646 link, but with how the 350: 539: 525:
without more detail. Does anyone have a more precise time for when the earliest examples of the precursor of lower case b first appeared?
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that mentions the heading alignment should be maintained. For real instance, while I was reading both two alphabetical articles,
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way, but are limited to the characters used to write a particular language or set of languages. When you go to an article like "
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Being consistent is important, but let's ensure that we're consistently as good as possible. I've asked for expert help from
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The link to "Roman" should be disambiguated, but since it could be a post-Imperial reference, I can't justify using
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125: 613: 314: 251: 8: 423: 233: 175: 55: 793: 685:, removing the inconsistency seems to me a good idea. I've nothing else useful to say. 317:
interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage and content of articles relating to
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on Knowledge. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by
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to strive consistency among other alphabetical articles.
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Yeah, I can't wait any more until you implement it.
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