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Requests for new languages (Wikipedia West Frisian)

submitted verification final decision This proposal has been rejected. This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page. The closing committee member provided the following comment: This request does not have an ISO 639 code, which is one of the basic prerequisites explained in the language proposal policy. —{admin} Pathoschild 00:45:09, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposal summary
Language details: West Frisian (Westfries, no code yet) (Hollandic dialect) Editing community: Mechielsen (NP), Dolfy (N), Plaats (N). 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: development wiki project External links:
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Information

Numbers 5, 6, 7 and 8 are the West Frisian dialects

• The West Frisian wikipedia will be in the subdialects of it, Westfries, Wierings, Tessels, Vlielands, Enkhuizers, Egmonds, Kennemers, Volendams, Zaans and Markens.

• This is the second request, beacause the first request was only for the West Frisian dialect Westfries, but it's better to make a wikipedia in all the West Frisian dialects. With al the dialects we reach to more people.

• It will be a wikipedia like the Limburgish, Low Saxon and the Zealandic wikipedia, so everybody can write articles in their own West Frisian dialect.

• West Frisian is not the language spoken in the province of Friesland, but it is a group of dialects in the northern part of the province of North-Holland and on two of the Frisian Islands (Texel and Vlieland).

Arguments in favour

• Strong Support - Since West Flemish, Zealandic, Dutch Low Saxon, Limburgish, Frisian, and Afrikaans all have their own flourishing language editions of Wikipedia, the West Frisian language should also be given the opportunity and priviledge to make their mark as well. --Jose77 02:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• Wesfries verdeent gweun 'ne wikipedia. --Ooswesthoesbes 07:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC) Translated: West Frisian deserves a Wikipedia.

• Test project goes good. SF-Language 10:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)