(This message contains my personal opinions, not those of the subcommittee.) Hello, The policy is not at fault for the delays. A slightly different version was ready four months ago; the unfortunate problem is that the subcommittee is ill-suited for policy development, which is best accomplished by a proactive editor with changes by others through the wiki process. The subcommittee is much better suited to actually processing requests, but we still have to get the policy development out of the way first. I've said this so many times I'm starting to doubt whether it's possible, but it should not take much longer. Assuming nobody suddenly notices another all-important problem and forces a full halt, we should begin processing requests within a week or two. Although the current delays are unacceptable, please be careful not to mistakenly hearken back to the good old days before the subcommittee; it was common for a request to take over a year, be approved and archived, and forgotten (without being created) forever more until a subcommittee came along and replaced the old process. For example, see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Cook_Islands_Maori>, proposed in July 2005 and still open as of December 2006, when the subcommittee closed it along with other old requests. Feedback on the policy would be much appreciated. Is there anything in particular you oppose or dislike? Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)