Wiktionary talk:Votes/2008-01/IPA for English r

Why vote?

Do we need to agree to use more specific/narrow transcription — or, a fortiori, vote on doing so? It seems to me that this something that someone who wants to see it in an entry will add it. Like, um, context tags. We don't agree on using the {{dated}} tag for dated terms: we just use it. We don't agree on categorizing English prepositions as such: we just do so. So why this vote? (When I saw Ionas' original BP post, I thought it was meant as a heads-up, reminding or advising us. I thought some might disagree that doing so is necessary, and even, possibly, that some might think it's detrimental, but I didn't think it would come to a vote.—msh210℠ 18:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Although not coded in policy, the current practice is to use /r/, not to use what one feels like, and any changes to that have been opposed, even as they have been brought up time and again. If you didn't garner as much from the beer parlour comments then you missed that bit of history. We all agree to use a single symbol, so we're not really voting to stop disagreeing, as funny as that sounds. The question simply is which one to use. DAVilla 18:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the clarification. (No, I didn't realize that from the BP discussion: I thought current best-practice is to use what you (i.e., each editor) want. (I've been using ɹ myself, or ɻ as appropriate.))—msh210℠ 05:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)