Simple German failed? I saw an awful lot of support, and it was
definitely still a hot topic.
Yes, but it was disgraced by you, among others. And I did not remove it, I
commentified it, because the discussion was going off-topic.
Parseltongue, pretty much dead, yes. Pig Latin, a
pretty silly request
in the first place, but you must admit it got two supporters, and the
issue was never really resolved head-on as it should've been.
I did not remove
Pig Latin until it was refused even at Wikicities.
Sindarin, part of an ongoing debate about artificial
language
Wikipedias, can now be found at [[Requests for new languages/Tolkien
languages]], along with Quenya.
Yes, but with only moral support, and again with a
discussion going in the
wrong direction.
Silbo Gomero did not fail, nor was it rediculous.
Also only commentified. Show me how to write it down, please.
For the rest, I agree with you.
Such requests as Parseltongue, or maybe even Pig Latin,
do not disturb
me that much that you removed them, and I certainly would not have
added them back (well actually, I didn't add Parseltongue back, only
Pig Latin), had you not also gotten rid of scores of more questionable
cases.
As Angela noted, in the past requests have just been deleted. But they
were seldom legit requests for real languages, and when they were they
were often left up for a long time because the page never got very big
(*cough*scottgall*cough*). I don't think it was until very recently
that actual legitimate requests began being deleted, especially after
a time of less than a few months.
What should be pursued is NOT a policy of widespread deletion of
requests after time-limits, but rather of calming down the surge of
activity by somehow getting Scott Gall to request every tomian,
dickler, and harryish language he reads about on Wikipedia. He
requested an Ainu Wikipedia, and didn't even know that the Japanese
and Chinese Ainu are not related.
I left him a note on his talkpage asking him to withdraw some of his
requests, and to refrain from making so many. It seems that
NaziismIsntCool has begun to follow Scott's example and is now
requesting new WPs frequently, this should be quickly curbed with a
note on her talkpage explaining that the page is meant for serious
requests only.
Mark
On 20/06/05, Wouter Steenbeek <musiqolog(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Yes, since
a few of the Wikipedias you removed weren't because they
were old or because they failed, but because you decided they were
"rediculous".
And few did not agree with me.
Judge yourself: Pig Latin, Parseltongue, Silbo Gomero, Simple German,
Sindarin (which /nota bene/ both had my support but FAILED!), and a hell
of
a lot of mainly African languages being placed
months ago, supported by
NO-ONE, posted anonymously and even without any discussion!
W.
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