[Wikipedia-l] starting a new language

[Ray Saintonge]

ScottL wrote:

>   Are you advocating dis-including a language because it does not have 
>an acceptable abbreviation?  Or are you maintaining that it is not 
>actually a language?
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>   If the first, then I suspect that is not a good reason to disallow a 
>new wikipedia to be formed.
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The practical approach is still to presume that the existence of an 
official ISO 639 is strong evidence for allowing a Wikipedia in that 
language, and that the absence carries a presumption that we should 
not.  Nevertheless, any presumption is rebuttable.  Several constructed 
languages have a code, but the barriers for having Wikipedias in those 
should be higher.  For languages without a code there is still a large 
swath of q-codes available for user definition if a language meets our 
other criteria.

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