On 7/14/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
However, keep in mind that these are both extremes, and neither is likely to ever actually happen. What they are there to demonstrate is that right now there __are no regulations__. If somebody told you there is a policy of 5 supporters, they are wrong. It is a *proposed* policy.
The page might claim it is only proposed, but in practice, it's the closest thing we have to a policy, so tends to be the one that is followed. I'm not aware of any recently created wikis that have not met this "proposed" policy. Policy is often derived from what actually happens, so in my view, the 5 supporters rule is, or is becoming through practice, the policy for creating new language Wikipedias.
Angela.