Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Old French

Old French Wikipedia[edit]

Requests for new languages (Wikipedia Old French)

submitted	verification	final decision

	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 02:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposal summary
Language details: Old French (fro ISO 639-3) Editing community: Sajasaze, Jim62sch 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: — External links: —
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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Closely related languages: Old Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/Catalan, Vulgar Latin, Middle French.
External links to organizations that promote the language:

Support nl:Gebruiker:Boudewijn Idema, 20:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC).
Support Sajasaze 12:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support As worthy of having a Wikipedia as Old and Middle English. Keeno 13:36, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Taichi - (あ！) 09:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Jim62sch 21:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Agari 14:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Erik 13:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Absar 12:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support j'adore la langue de Roland ! --Andrusiak 09:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support Gray Porpoise 22:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support--Mustafa Akalp 10:25, 21 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oppose. Wiki's in extinct languages born dead -- Raghav 14:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]
- We have Latin, which has no native speakers. Perhaps doing things like this will even help to revive dead languages. --Gray Porpoise 22:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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