This proposalhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Literary_Chinese_Wikipedia has been open for a month. The original proposer makes the case that nobody in China uses this now, that all Chinese can read the regular Chinese Wikipedia, and that this and other Chinese Wikipedia projects (Cantonese, Wu, Min-Nan, and others) should all be deleted in favor of zhwiki.

* The few who have supported the idea did so on the technical grounds that this would make it easier to move the wiki, currently at zh-classical.wikipedia.org, to the updated langcode lzh.wikipedia.org. I replied on this point that those were not valid grounds, and that if we were going to undertake a technical close of this wiki to move it, we’d simply do it, and it wouldn’t be grounds for discussion or voting. Aside from original proposer (and leaving out the technical argument above), nobody commenting supports the idea.

* This wiki is, in fact, reasonably active and has plenty of content. * While our project currently uses a “special” langcode, the language does have a valid ISO 639-3 code (lzh). * Many have made the case on this discussion page that the written language is different from written modern Chinese. And, if nothing else, this wiki dates to 2006, so predates the current policy and is grandfathered.

I am proposing to reject the proposal on the grounds that:

* Per current Closing projects policyhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy#Proposing, “Not meeting the current Language proposal policy [linked there] is not a valid reason” (emphasis in original) * As far as anyone has said, the wiki is reasonably active, has content, and is not loaded with spam and vandalism. In short, there are no good reasons inherent to the project to close it.

I will do this in seven days from now unless there are objections.

Steven

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