Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Simple German 2

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	Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. *Votes will be ignored* when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them** (see the Language proposal policy).

Proposal summary
Language details: ~~German (deutsch, de ISO 639-1 )~~ German already has a Wikipedia. Editing community: Midnight Star (NP), OosWesThoesBes, PeterTheOne (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 does not exist yet External links: to be added
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It's always good to think of all people. There are more people who can't really be on the ball with Wikipedia's contents than you can imagine - even among enthusiastic regular WP readers.
German is one of the most difficult occidental languages. A Simple German Wikipedia could help.
The Simple English Wikipedia runs quite successfull and the German Wikipedia is the second largest Wikimedia Project.
A Simple German Wikipedia might attract new collaborators.
Projects need time to grow. Better to start this project soon then to wait some more years.
German is a much too difficult language. Simple German is needed. My German is very bad because of those difficulties. --OosWesThoesBes 10:47, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusiveness. There are many who for various reasons would find it difficult to communicate or understand the standard German Wikipedia who could use this proposed version.
By attracting new readers and editors, wiki. can expand and improve as a community. --Barliner 19:09, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Improves Accessibility for cognitively challenged and young people --PeterTheOne 21:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German isn't comparable to English at all, so one can't account for a Simple German Wikipedia just because the Simple English Wikipedia is a meaningful and well running project.
The emergence of a Simple German Wikipedia might irritate people.
Simple German as a constructed artificial language does not exist yet - writing it would be original research ;) And Wikipedia is'nt the medium to invent new language varieties. --Rax 00:28, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
'Simple German' does not exist, even if some people wish for it very hard, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't resubmit old requests without addressing the issues that led to their rejection, in this case, that a language "Simple German" does not exist. This proposal will be rejected.
Creating something called "Simple German" for Wikipedia would be original research. If you really want to have a Wikipedia in this language,
- first create it;
- make sure it gets widespread usage
- get an ISO code
- when you are through with the former three, you can come back.--Johannes Rohr 10:34, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]