I don't think there's any clear definitions
yet, but the points that I
think would be worth considering are:
* The amount of difference to an existing language
* Whether it is generally, somewhere or hardly anywhere considered a
language rather than a dialect
* Whether there exists a well-defined and generally accepted orthography
* Whether there are Wikipedians willing to write for the Wikipedia and how
many.
In general, we have gone with ISO-639 in deciding what is a language
and what a dialect, only Allemanish and Aromanian have been accepted
without such a code. However, that too is not an official policy, just
a "the way we have done it till now".
Andre Engels
I am aware of most of this, but my concern is: how much must a poorly
recognised and unstandardised language variety differ from its prestigious
sister to be granted a wikipedia?
Wouter
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