Removal of certain Middle Dutch variations
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua
I disagree as well. I think all variant, perhaps short of spelling errors, should be kept and added to {{alter}}
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Only alternative forms, not alternative spellings, and only the more common alternative forms should be listed as descendants, not the really obscure ones. It clutters up the list too much.
I can conceded that obscure forms should generally be omitted, but I think a) in a period of fluctuating spelling, who's to say which is most correct, and b) making the distinction between a spelling variant and a alternative form can be blurry, and c) spelling variants can illustrate archaic forms echoing the ODut form, or the transition and standardization of MDut to ModDut.