Angela (beesley(a)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.