I do not have time to go and edit the voting policy right now. Please take my concerns into account.
> On 4 Jul 2017, at 12:31, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
