Hoi,
There is no point of having a project in the incubator that will not be
published as a Wikipedia because it is highly unlikely that we will get
consensus or a qualified majority for such a thing. It is not honest nor
fair to raise expectations that we will not fulfil.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 May 2017 at 19:25, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please let me restate a couple of key points about my suggestion that
> people seem not to have picked up:
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> - I have not proposed this as a substitute for a community's trying to
> get its code changed. This is intended to be a workaround in the event that
> is not possible.
> - *I explicitly stated that the requirement remain that an ISO 639–3
> code exists. If a language has no ISO 639–3 code, it does not get an
> Incubator test, and it does not get a subdomain project. Period.*
> - I am quite sensitive to the fact that we don't want to make
> independent judgments as to what is or is not a language. So no code, no
> test. That does not change.
> - This is *only* intended for cases where the community itself has a
> code already, but finds its code offensive. It's up to LangCom to decide
> whether the request is legitimate or frivolous. I would assume that
> LangCom would take a pretty narrow view of this, requiring there to be some
> well-established history behind the request. I wouldn't presume to tell you
> what that has to look like, but perhaps at minimum there has to have been a
> request to SIL to change the code first, even if that request was denied.
> - Based on the rules above, I see no possibility of a sustained flood
> of applications from groups that lack a language code. If there is briefly
> such a flood, it will become clear quickly that such applications will be
> summarily denied, and that will take care of that.
> - If there are more requests from groups whose existing codes are
> based on exonyms that would *prefer* a change—but the request goes
> no farther than a preference–just say no.
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>
> Thank you for listening.
> Steven
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