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Aside from being the butt of regional jokes, it is a reletively distinct variety spoken on the german border with the netherlands, keeping close ties with neighboring Gronings, both of which have a frisian substratum and are unintilligable to other low german varieties.
This language is slowly disapearing and strongly needs preservation.
This is a legitimate language, so in all likelihood the proposal will be marked "eligible". If you're really serious about this, start creating content at Incubator, starting at incubator:Wp/frs. StevenJ81 (talk) 20:41, 14 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose. This is a bad idea indeed. East Frisian (in spite of its name) is a dialect of Low German, and we have a Low German Wikipedia. In fact, its native name is given above as Plattdüütsk. As always, one can hold lengthy discussion on what constitutes a dialect of a separate language. And yes, East Frisian does differ from other Low German varieties. I can very well understand how East Frisian speakers have trouble collaborating with speakers of Westphalian on the same website. But granting East Frisian its own Wikipedia, or indeed aknowledging this proposal as eligible, would spell the end of the Low German Wikipedia. It would have to be split up into various dialect wikis: East Frisian, Westphalian, Eastphalian, Sleswegian, Mecklenburgian... When you start a Wikipedia in a language without a standardised form, you will always have to cope with dialect differences. As for being the butt of jokes: just silence your fellow Low Germans with excellent articles! :) Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 10:15, 21 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Valid point, the integrity of Low German Wikipedia is out of the question. My intention is to combine requests for East Frisian Low Saxon and Gronnings Wikipedia, considering they both belong to the same subgroup within the Low Saxon continuum and display similar Frisian characteristics, and form a unified standard, which would be the best. Both the Low German and nl-nds wikis alone cannot cover the broad scope of these two vernaculars. Eitanish 17:22, 22 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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