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Request for new writing-system category: runes (ISO code runr)

Although I've previously discussed adding a userbox for runic literacy (in the Babelbox section), it seems more logical to list that skill under writing systems instead of languages. I see only a few problems with adding "runr-n" userboxes:

  1. No native level would apply, because almost nobody consistently uses runes (an ancient script) to write their native language.
  2. Some distinction between variants of the runic alphabet (Primitive Germanic vs. Saxon vs. Norse) might be useful. The ISO system, however, treats all runic scripts as a single block of Unicode: what kind of modifier should be added to "runr-n" to specify a variant alphabet?

--Ingeborg S. Nordén 00:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

ISO 15924 is Runr not runr. About variants you may ask User:Evertype who makes the codes. (nice to have him in WP). That currently nobody has Runr-N does not matter. I support the creation. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:16, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

User iso15924

instead of creating 100 userboces we could make Template:User iso15924 and then let people simply pass parameters. "{User iso15924|-ISO 15924-|-level-}" e.g. "{User iso15924|Cyrl|4}". Maybe an advanced template coder could do this. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 13:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

IMO the old boxes should than be only aliases. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 13:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

TfD and CfD

Level N and 5 are up for deletion Misplaced Pages:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_26#Category:Writing_systems_categories Tobias Conradi (Talk) 04:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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