This is because angwiki existed prior to the establishment of Langcom or
the current language proposal policy (m:LPP). IIRC the latter explicitly
says that some projects were created which today would not be approved
anymore.

Ben Salvidrim <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa., 17. Juli 2021,
15:11:

> Greetings LangCom,
>
> Perhaps this is something worthy of a more clear and official response.
> User is asking about the possibility of an Old Norse Wikipedia, GerardM
> responds advising that extinct languages are generally not eligible for
> Wikipedia language editions, but however Old English Wikipedia does exist
> (AngWiki at https://ang.wikipedia.org). I'm sure there is a reasonable
> explanation and it may be worth spelling out said explanations to explain
> what looks like an inconsistency in policy.
>
> Apologies is this is already covered somewhere on a Meta policy page, if
> so then it would be a net benefit to provide a link to the page explaining
> why some extinct languages are okay and others are not.
>
> Cheers all,
>
>
> *Ben Landry*
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>
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Kräfta <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* July 15, 2021 4:07 AM
> *To:* Ben Salvidrim <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Norse?
>
> Thanks! Although, there is an Old English edition of Wikipedia
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, 7:21 pm Ben Salvidrim, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Your request was for a "Old Norse wikipedia page"; Wikipedia does in fact
> have an article about the Old Norse language in several editions, including
> English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse
>
> If you were in fact asking about having an edition of Wikipedia written in
> the Old Norse language, then Gerard's response explains that we don't
> generally create new Wikipedia editions in extinct languages.
>
>
> *Ben Landry*
> *Salvidrim* <https://www.salvidrim.net/>
>
> *⁂ **English Wikipedia:*  9+  years of editing experience   *·*   Former
> Administrator–SPI–UTRS–OTRS  (2013 to 2018)
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> https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvidrim/
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* July 14, 2021 10:41 AM
> *To:* Wikipedia mailing list <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [Wikipedia-l] Re: Norse?
>
> Hoi,
> The existing policy of the Language Committee does not allow for extinct
> languages. Sorry but no.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:07, Kräfta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am wondering about the creation of an Old Norse wikipedia page?
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