Hi Lancevortex the policy is stated at International phonetic alphabet Wikipedia usage and SAMPA Wikipedia usage Personally I like the policy because SAMPA is a total pain to read Editing with the IPA is a lot easier if you do the editing in Microsoft Word vel sim and then paste into Wikipedia There s also WikiTeX if you know how to use it I don t Readability is a matter of opinion I guess That said I must confess I didn t realise that SAMPA was merely a hack I suppose that s why I ve never seen it anywhere but Wikipedia Thanks for piquing my interest and making me actually find out about what I was arguing for I m converted just wish I had an IPA keyboard