Talk:Schola Latina Universalis

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The issue of quick deletion has been raised. I can only say that the Schola Latina Universalis offers its teaching for free, so lucrative ends of this entry can be discarded. Now, the notability of the Schola Latina Universalis is due to the fact that it is the first ever attempt to teach living Latin, i.e. recent Latin as a language for contemporary use, over the Internet. It is very well know in the Latin speaking world and has no parallel. Myself as a student, can bear witness that it is a most remarkable enterprise and a landmark for Recent Latin. I can't see how a page on it can be inappropriate in an encyclopedia that wants to reflect the institutions and realities of the contemporary living Latin movement. Retterama.

I just want to add that due to the impending holiday, I won't be able to engage in deep discussion in the next 48 hours. I think, in any case, that the Schola Latina Universalis, as an important institution of the Living Latin movement, deserves an entry in Wikipedia. Any suggestions for editing that can make it more suitable to remain, are appreciated. Retterama.

Your argument is a classic WP:ILIKEIT. To meet the notability standard the website requires multiple independant sources taking about the website. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 06:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. A reference has now been added where the school is praised by very significant personalities of the living Latin movement. Further than that, I can only hope that other independent sources proceed, as you indicate, to participate here to talk about the school and support the entry. Please allow some amount of time to see whether that happens. Retterama. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Retterama (talk • contribs) 11:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

It is very good to see a reference to Schola Latina Universalis in Wikipedia. In the admittedly small world of "New" Latin it is one of the few institutions that promotes speaking and writing in Latin. Mariscornu

Note that the school's information is used as a reference, internationally. On the Latin pronunciation page at the Russian website Lingua Latina Aeterna the school is used for a reference, along with a Russian textbook (Textbook of the Latin Language, V. N. Jarko, ed. [Uchebnik latinskogo jazyka, pod red. V. H. Jarko], 1969) and W. Sidney Allen's Vox Latina, as well as Wikipedia itself and an Italian site. It is the basic reference there: the text of the Russian page states (under the section "Restored Pronunciation" [Vosstanovlennoe proiznoshenie]), "The description of the restored pronunciation is based on materials of Schola Latina Universalis (SLU)." [Opisanie vosstanovlennogo proiznoshenija baziruetsja na materialach Schola Latina Universalis (SLU).] Mariscornu

Note that the Latin "Vikipaedia" page la:Schola Latina Universalis itself has raised no objections among the Viki Latinists, who should be in the best position to know. : Mariscornu (talk) 16:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)