Hi Steve,
You may be correct with a small exception: I don't recall being
involved in an ancient greek Wikipedia request except perhaps someone
saying "it'd be a good idea" and me saying "I would support it".
For Syriac, there wasn't a whole lot of discussion (partially because
ATM I have directed potential Syriac-speaking Wikipedians to build the
Syriac Wikipedia at arc: (Aramaic), and if they add content, it can be
moved later; and partially because I have found nobody who even
replied to my e-mails regarding Syriac).
For Simplified Chinese, it was a discussion of whether or not one
existing Wikipedia should be split in two, although that's not really
a good excuse and it can in a way be considered a request for a new
Wikipedia (however, it was more because it already existed, somebody
requested it be deleted, it was closed, I was the one doing most of
the work on it, I found all of a sudden I couldn't edit it, so I was
fairly angry because I couldn't find who to talk to about it until
eventually somebody referred me here, and there was already a
brand-new discussion regarding the issue that wasn't started by me,
though admittedly I sent the most e-mails in that conflict I believe)
mark
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:23:32 -0500, Stephen Forrest
<stephen.forrest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:48:10 -0700, Mark Williamson
<node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Now, in this message I don't want to ask your
opinion about policy or
about whether or not a certain Wikipedia should be created, I just
want to know this:
Are you fed up with the requests from me for new Wikipedias? Why?
Having only joined this list the day before yesterday, I have no opinion.
However, in reading over the archive for the last couple of months,
you appear to have argued for the creation of several other languages,
even if you didn't explicitly request them. Examples are Ancient
Greek, Gothic, Simplified Chinese, and Syriac.
I say this not to criticize: as I said, I'm new here. But to me this
helps to explain the apparent perception by others that you are
requesting many new languages.
Steve