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Requests for new languages (Wikipedia Nadsat)

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 22:02:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposal summary
Language details: Nadsat (nadsat [invented]) Editing community: NazismIsntCool (P) 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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• Relevant infos: en:Nadsat is a variant of English used by Alex and his "droogs" in en:A Clockwork Orange. Nadsat has more Russian loanwords than regular English. I can understand Russian as well as English (and of course, my native Romanian,) so I know what most of the Russian borrowings mean. NazismIsntCool 07:30, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • NazismIsntCool, if I were you, I would host it on Wikicities. And besides, you have horrorshow l33t sk1llz. (last sentence a mixture of English, Nadsat, and l33t) Scott Gall 07:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Would be cool to have a Nadsat-Wikipedia as well but I think the language so far is not as well developed to make thereof a Wikipedia. Tiontai 20:04, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Agreed. --Node ue 16:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Nadsat, cool as it is, is just a cant of English. The things expressable in it are limited without reverting totally to English. If not Nadsat, then why not a Polari wiki? Or a cockney wiki? Or a thieve's cant wiki. Etc. I do not support this idea. :) BryanAJParry
      • Leet is also a cant of English. With some of these languages, we can't be too careful of POV pushers. If we had a Leet WP, then hackers would write "HA HA THE DEMOCRATS WERE PWNED" or similar if the Republicans win the 2008 election or "WHY DID THOSE **** DEMOCRATS HAVE TO PWN OUR PARTY" if the Democrats won. Scott Gall 05:44, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oppose. As Bryan says, a cant of English such as is not suitable for a Wikipedia. Keeno 14:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• Support -- Raghav 14:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)