Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Rapanui

Rapa Nui Wikipedia

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 02:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposal summary
Language details: Rapa Nui (rap ISO 639-3) Editing community: — 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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~~there are 4,650 Rapanui speakers and they need to have a w:rap for easter island in chile!~~ Unregistered user Booksworm 16:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Support

~~#Support71.142.79.248 03:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)~~ Unregistered user Booksworm 16:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Oppose

Oppose until people willing to work on it are found because the proposer, who doesn't have an account on Meta like they should, seems to be proposing languages for the sake of it. Nikki 19:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe this language could survive thanks to Wikipedia, and native speakers could refind interest towards it. Languages often disappear because speakers believe that they are not important, but this is WRONG! All languages are important.--93.40.160.204 20:17, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]