Angela (beesley@gmail.com) [050520 12:08]:
Something's gone very wrong when playing chess on the wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chess_championship) is acceptable but creating a demo Wikipedia in a new language is not. If this does not survive VfD, and you want a temporary small wiki, you're welcome at http://scratchpad.wikicities.com/. For a longer term Wikicity, you need consensus within Wikipedia that this language can *not* exist within Wikimedia.
Is there any actual deletion policy beyond "I feel like it"? Particularly, as seems to have happened here, when the nominator removes the page preremptorily themselves. As I understood it, from posts to this list, starting a new language in a test area in Meta: was something they were actually *supposed* to do.
What on earth is going on here? Beyond "if it survives VFD".
- d.