David Gerard said:
If we have a precedent that zh: can block the existence of a Cantonese Wikipedia, can en: block Quenya? Please?
I hope we have no such precedent. Allowing the speakers of a rival language to veto the production of a Wikipedia would not be right.
Fuzheado's arguments appear to be along those lines - in particular the argument that zh: needs the resources instead (as if volunteers are employees who can be reassigned at will, even assuming the argument it needs the resources so desperately is valid).
But as of yet, Wikimedia policy in general seems to disagree sharply with this idea. Although, perhaps to the surprise of some, while I am FOR considering the creation of a Quenya Wikipedia, at the moment I am decidedly AGAINST its creation among the set of existing Wikipedias and given what has and has not been allowed so far.
Given tokipona:'s having been moved off-site (although apparently with little or no notice to or involvement of Tokiponites), I think that the Klingon Wikipedia should be moved to kli.org and the Lojban Wikipedia should be considered - CONSIDERED - for being moved to lojban.org.
Their observations (and I've seen some potentially persuasive arguments on either side in the Chinese Wikipedia discussion though I have not investigated it closely) should not be dismissed as irrelevant, but they shouldn't be allowed to block an otherwise viable Wikipedia.
We have Wikipedias for things that are clearly dialects; Cantonese is mutually-unintelligible with Mandarin.
But let's start a Quenya Wikipedia instead. Hell, that's not grossly insulting! At all!
Indeed. I'm sure Cantonese and Wu speakers would not take that as a smack in the face of their linguistic selves.
Mark