[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

> What nonsense. Wikimedia can and should do original research. It's only in
> the main namespace of Wikipedia that we have that restriction, and that's
> because we see an encyclopedia as a secondary source.
>
> It's only since the addition of ISO 639-3 that it's even feasible to use
> ISO 639 as a canonical list of languages, and that's only because SIL was
> recognised as the most competent body to do such a thing. The Library of
> Congress was doing a poor job of it, and I would absolutely stand by our
> decision to add language editions to Wikipedia that they didn't recognise.

How would you suggest deciding what is and isn't a language?