1. I have asked the Gorontalo test community if it has access to any language experts
(professors or linguists) for language verification. I suggested to them that ideally
such an expert would be someone who has had no substantial involvement with the test so
far. However, as a backup, I suggested to them that someone who has been involved, but who
has really unambiguous credentials, might be good enough. (My own personal opinion is that
it has to be; if projects are going to remain frozen in Incubator because nobody can find
a language expert, then we might as well tell people in such test communities not to
bother. And I don't think we want to do that.) As an aside, the Ingush Wikipedia test
has been waiting for language verification for months; I intend to ask them along the same
lines if they have access to any experts.
2. I think LangCom needs to decide what it considers to be an acceptable conlang and
what it doesn't. The LFN test project team has been working hard and seriously on this
project for months. The language is a serious attempt at an auxiliary language, and
isn't a construction for a fictional world like Klingon or the Tolkien languages, so I
don't think there is a concern that LFN Wikipedia would be considered a frivolous
project. And LFN has more speakers than a couple of other conlangs that have Wikipedias
already (albeit grandfathered ones). Bottom line: as proposals on conlang projects go,
this is going to be about as good as it gets. If nevertheless you decide not to approve
this project, then I think you really need to decide on some criteria, or decide that you
are not going to accept any new conlangs at all.
Respectfully,
Steven White (User:StevenJ81)
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