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I find the phrasing in "Rationale 2": "POV of that national group" most problematic and would like someone to strike out the "national". What group is being talked about is already clear from the first part of the sentence. Right now, the rationale phrasing might be mistaken in a way that the POV of a fairly large, but distinct group of Greeks is considered to be the POV of all Greeks.
Similar problems occur in the phrasing of "Rationale 1": "consensus of the large majority of Wikipedia editors except for Greek editors". The opposing editors are not defined by their POV, but by their nationality, and since the nationality is used as the only qualification, that might be mistaken again as a generalization (all Greeks have that POV). I propose changing that to "except for a large group of Greek editors", if the opponents are indeed exclusively self-identifying Greeks. Alternatively, or if the opponents are not exclusively Greek, strike out the "except for Greek editors" - "consensus of a large majority" already implies that there has been some opposition.
The rationale behind the proposed changes is that nationality must not be used as a label for a POV. This is disregarding and maybe even offending all respective nationals who have another POV. Regardless of what public support a certain POV might have in a nation, it is never and most certainly well below 100%, and it must be taken into account that groups of editors pushing a "national POV" (either by their own claim or by impression of other editors) are most often overrepresented in distinct areas of wikipedia - in proportion as well as in activity. Skäpperöd ( talk) 08:36, 29 June 2009 (UTC)