On one hand it's another project for a Romance-based international auxiliary language, more in the vein of Interlingua and Interlingue than Esperanto. It has an energetic academic as a kind of a "lead developer", it has quite a few fans, and I even read a whole graphic novel written in it a few years ago online (it's indeed very easy to read to somebody who learned another Romance language). But I doubt that it is actually useful to a lot of people or sustainable if the leader loses interest.

Because of these doubts in general I even tried to get the English Wikipedia article about it deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lingua_Franca_Nova . The article was kept as "no consensus to delete", and I don't plan to try to delete it again.

I'm not really opposed to a Wikipedia in it, but I have low expectations and few reasons to believe that it will develop much. I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

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2017-01-31 16:20 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>:

There is a request for Wikipedia in "Lingua Franca Nova", which is a constructed language with an ISO 639-3 code. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lingua_Franca_Nova_2> I'm bringing it up because there is currently a very active contributor on Incubator.

A previous request was rejected in 2008. Of course, the Language Proposal Policy says:
If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto, it must have a reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion (this requirement is being discussed by the language committee).

What are your opinions about the degree of recognition? Can the language be eligible or should it be rejected? I have never heard of this language before, but I am of course only a linguistic layman.

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