Question: Is there a time limit here? (Should there be?) If we can't succeed in getting confirmation, don't we need at some point to say "Assume good faith; approve."?  A situation like this is really likely to discourage people and send them away, and that from our fault, not theirs.

I heavily revised my initial draft in light of MF-Warburg's private-list email of December 30. In particular, I removed all references to the possibility of non-Wikisource projects in ancient/historical languages, and tightened up much of the rest of the proposal. (I did leave two footnotes in, but that's because they're really true references, to SIL's policy.)  Please have one more look at the draft at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:StevenJ81/sandbox. I'd like to post this publicly by next Monday or Tuesday. 

I have promised the Committee I would start a separate discussion about allowing Wikipedias (only) in extinct languages. I plan to do that when the current LPP revision is finished.