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 ::::::::Hi again. My view exactly, it shouldn't be a grey area. There are various options to do this. If it was me and en.wp were starting from scratch I'd probably suggest that MOS could very easily set a guideline that allows Economist/NYTimes MOS for article titles (only French German Spanish), or even USAToday/Daily Mirror MOS, and Chicago MOS for WP:OPENPARA (+Czech, Swedish, Latvian etc.). Have a MOS and enforce it. In the meantime however the situation is this: by my estimate 200,000 of 900,000 BLPs (as the articles most likely to not have an established English tradition) could carry diacritics. Of the 200,000 that could, at least 199,500 do. Of those that don't the most egregious are the 20-40 tennis stubs where 2 tennis editors have been warring (in behaviour which I cannot understand has not got them blocked) with East Europe editors, including other tennis editors, trying to correct them for at least 12 months, plus 200 hockey stubs from blocked user Dolovis, same issue. Aside from sports-fans who believe sports ranking websites are reliable sources, you're well aware of the minority of editors who are opposed on principle to ""foreign"" diacritics (""foreign"" meaning they aren't opposed to English diacritics, the Chloës Beyoncés etc, but object on firm principle to François Hollande not being made into Francois). When I say a majority I mean the same 10 names who disproportionately appeared to oppose every RM over the last 50 days, making as much noise as the 90 plus (I counted a whole 30 days) who are pro-diacritics but don't live for it. I only have a recent view on this because I've only just noticed it. If someone hadn't said something xenophobic in an RM then I probably wouldn't have bothered. But in my view this 10 are being disruptive and need to be closed down. It's that simple. My own bulk RM of first 5, then 2, then 15 of the remaining tennis stubs is not wholly about MOS principle or about consistency, it's about shutting down 10 disruptive individuals. In my view to leave those 15 tennis stubs there sticking out as a testimony to the WP:TENNISNNAMES saga, is to invite continued disruption. There's also the issue for British and Irish that we cannot treat East Europeans less than Irish, French and Germans any more since (a) the Wall came down, (b) they're in the EU too.   "