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Thread:User talk:Fenakhay/Glottal stop/reply (2)

Hi, From what I understand, the editor used U+02BE, as recommend by Wiktionary's guidelines, to represent a glottal stop (and not primary stress), and then Fenakhay replaced this character by ʔ, the "dispreferred alternative" for the glottal stop, according to Wiktionary's guidelines again. I'm not a big fan of U+02BE because as you say it can be hard to distinguish from primary stress or from the ع. However, as a user, when I see Fenakhay's edit (and the edit summary—"What's wrong with this guy"—that I find at least surprising if not insulting, disrespectful, and offensive, unless I didn't understand something...), I wonder: Should users respect these guidelines (WT:AAR)? Do these guidelines apply to all Arabic dialects/varieties/languages? WT:AAR mentions dialects 8 times and colloquial 3 times and even has a section "How to add regional pronunciations" saying: "The template {{temp|arabic-dialect-pronunciation}} can be used to display pronunciations in the modern dialects of Arabic. See for example {{lang|ar|[[قابلة]]}}." So I think that WT:AAR's authors assume it applies to all Arabic varieties. What is the romanization scheme used by Fenakhay (I'll call it below, "Fenakhay's romanization" to simplify), can other users find it somewhere in order to understand it and/or apply it in their own contributions? On which scholarly sources is this romanization based? Or is it an original work from one or several Wiktionary contributors? Sources I found for Levantine don't seem to follow Fenakhay's romanization. But the community can choose another option, that's fine. Was there a debate among the community to use "Fenakhay's romanization" for Levantine Arabic instead of WT:AAR? If yes, where? If there was such a debate, shouldn't we add to WT:AAR that this policy doesn't apply to Levantine Arabic and link to Wiktionary's Levantine Arabic romanization guidelines? Because we want all Levantine entries (South and North) to use a common romanization, and because we want users (both readers and contributors) to understand Wiktionary's romanization guidelines, I think these questions are important and should be answered. Thanks for any help you can provide.