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Latgalian Wikipedia[edit]

See also the second (failed) or third (successful) request.
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This proposal has been closed as part of a reform of the request process.
This request has not necessarily been rejected, and new requests are welcome. This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy.

The closing committee member provided the following comment:

This discussion was created before the implementation of the Language proposal policy, and it is incompatible with the policy. Please open a new proposal in the format this page has been converted to (see the instructions). Do not copy discussion wholesale, although you are free to link to it or summarise it (feel free to copy your own comments over). —{admin} Pathoschild 06:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Proposal summary
  • Language details: Latgalian (Latgaļu, bat-ltg [invented])
  • Editing community: incubator:Stiernīts (NP), incubator:Kalvis.apsitis, Zordsdavini
    List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your
    name if you are a native speaker of this language.
  • Relevant pages: Test project
  • External links:
    latgola (promoting organization)
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  • Number of speakers: 150 000
  • Locations spoken: Latgale in the Republic of Latvia
  • Related languages: Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian

Support[edit]

  1. Strong support. This language already have the test-wp [1] which was started long time ago (about year ago). None asked request for new wikipedia - at last they did. Latgalian language have writing history and have to be saved. I am bat-smg proposer Zordsdavini 09:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC) (bat-smg:user:Zordsdavini)[reply]
    There is now 79 articles in test-wp Zordsdavini 12:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Now there is 110 articles in Test-wp Zordsdavini 19:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    Now there is 114 articles in Test-wp Zordsdavini 08:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Strong support. Latgalians are well-known nation in Siberia, they were exiled here, and I know several good latgalians, and believe to their statements that Latgalian is a separate language. --Yaroslav Zolotaryov 10:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support. -- Aleksis 12:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Strong support. (N) The Latgalian language IS a language (not just a variant, a piece of Latvian language). and it would be really great if there were a possibility to search information, to use Wikipedia also in my mothertongue thank You. 193.219.190.189 18:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC) 193.219.190.189 19:31, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support.--Ottorahn 20:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support.--bat-smg:User:Rtz 14:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support.--88.118.15.235 11:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support.--bat-smg:User:Algėrds
  9. Support Active test wiki. Kneiphof 12:47, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support.--bat-smg:User:Tadas12
  11. Support Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 18:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC). We have Samogitian, why not Latgalian.[reply]
  12. Support. Yes, why not Latgalian too! -- MyMetaWikimedia 22:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Strong support. (N) -- Veigule 05:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC) This is a significant and special language. Even the Bible has been translated into Latgalian![reply]
  14. Strong support. -- Nieks 13:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support -- "separate language" or not: it's a living written language and that's what counts. Fransvannes 09:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Strong support. (N) -- Saprge 13:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Strong support. (N) -- Seilkalnits 14:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  18. SUPPORT -- Rtz 20:14 / 2006 - 10 - 25
  19. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Aviātors 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Feens 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Strong support. -- lv:User:Tail 15:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Strong support. (N) -- lv:User:Garais 20:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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