AGutman-WMF added a comment.
@LucasWerkmeister I agree with you that if two variants have two different pronunciation, they should probably be split into two different lexemes (in general, I think we should avoid having multiple forms with the same grammatical features within one lexeme). There is some leeway, however, in this rule, since different dialects may have slightly different pronunciations which we still want to group into a single lexeme/form. For instance American English "color" and British English "colour" are in fact pronounced slightly differently, but it would be over-kill to split them, since the difference in pronunciation is systematic between the dialects. Moreover, I agree that in general we should qualify variant spellings by a meaningful identifier (and indeed, my proposal requires this, as the integers can only qualify already Q-qualified language codes), but as @C933103 mentioned above, there are situations where there is no meaningful way to qualify two spellings (or at least, the editor haven't thought of such a qualification yet). These integer qualified codes allow in these cases to list the variants as spelling variants nonetheless, instead of adding spurious forms or lexemes. If in a future point a more meaningful qualification would be found (e.g. maybe use Q209316 for spellings with added e-s in Norwegian?), the codes can easily be altered, while restructuring spurious forms as spelling variants is more difficult. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236593 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: AGutman-WMF Cc: LucasWerkmeister, C933103, AGutman-WMF, mxn, So9q, Ijon, daniel, Asaf, Mahir256, Danmichaelo, Fnielsen, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Denny, Lydia_Pintscher, jeblad, jhsoby, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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