On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
> The ISO-639-3 code is a requirement to eligibility. Because of historic
> reasons we have a few codes that do not comply with the code.One of the
> reasons for the language committee was to prevent such things from happening
> again.
>
> When we accept codes that do not signify an existing language, it becomes
> easy to argue all kinds of corner cases. This door is best kept closed.
In other words, we should keep a number of communities without
Wikimedia projects (Mapudungun is not the only case) to keep Gerard
not upset.
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