- That is to say nothing of Alaya
Because he/she does not even have a user page! Go check on meta, en, zh, and you can find none!
- If we subjected all new Wikipedias to such standards, we would
probably only have 20 Wikipedias
Well, Shanghainese is different from Ning-bo dialect (My grandma speaks that, and believe me, sometimes I cannot comprehend her slangs), Hangzhou dialect (I have been to Hangzhou many times, and again I can catch only a few phrases), Suzhou dialect, Subei dialect (many old men in Shanghai were from Subei, and they can be easily identified once they open their mouths). That makes four varieties of Wu already, and there will be more. Considering all other dialects and their varieties, you can have hundreds of Wikipedias already. Enjoy surfing!
And why don't you set up some more Wikipedias for dialects in other languages? English, for example, has many varities too. Why not have an American English Wikipedia, British English Wikipedia, Australian English Wikipedia. And yes, even in Britain people speak different English as well. So why don't we have one Wikipedia for everybody, since we all speak the language differently?
- Why are you so much against these Wikipedias being created if they
are as you say so useless? Could it hurt?
Yes, It will turn Wikipedia into a big joke.