If you consider Norwegian nynorsk to be a dialect, you have your facts wrong. It is one of two written forms of norwegian, they have the same legal standing.
Kjetil Lenes
Lars Aronsson skreiv:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
It is nice that you oppose, there are reasons why it might be a bad idea, but the ones that I know are not the ones you put forward. A reason why a change would be good is that it will prevent confusion.
Come on, nobody is confused about what language Estonian is. If giving a language code to a local dialect means we have to rename all URLs for one of the major Wikipedias (Estonian is the 34th biggest, Bokmål is the 13th biggest), this only means we have to oppose all future assignments of new ISO language codes. It is OK to use the standard when naming new Wikipedias, but it's not OK to suddenly change a well-known address.
We're here to spread free knowledge. That is not helped by renaming all of our URLs just because of some random ISO standard change. The no and et Wikipedias should be kept as they are.