Are there further comments about this? I'd invite those of you who want to change parts of the policy to edit < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Voting_policy> directly to address your concerns.
2017-06-13 19:20 GMT+02:00 Michael Everson <[email protected]>: > On 13 Jun 2017, at 06:58, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hoi, > > First there is no agreement. > > Not sure what you are talking about. > > > Second, for ISO-639-3 languages that are living languages there is no > need for a vote. > > That’s our rules, yes. > > > Third, for other ISO-639-3 languages there is a need for a vote. > > I suppose there are living languages with few if any users and other > languages with potentially very many. > > > Compelling arguments are needed and a two third majority is reasonable. > > What does everyone feel about this? > > > Fourth for codes that do not have an ISO-639-3 code the standard answer > is no. Without proper arguments this should not happen. > > And this is the BPC 47 thing. That’s a very important and > widely-implemented standard. If the 639 Agency had refused Elfdalian, we > would have created a primary tag for it. That would be a situation where a > non-standard answer might be useful. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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