Forum:Norwegian written languages mixup

To start of, a little lecture about the nowegian languages

-from wikipedia's article about the Norwegian language. "As established by law and governmental policy, there are two official forms of written Norwegian – Bokmål (literally 'book language') and Nynorsk (literally 'new Norwegian'). The Norwegian Language Council recommends the terms 'Norwegian Bokmål' and 'Norwegian Nynorsk' in English." ... "Norwegians are educated in both Bokmål and Nynorsk. A 2005 poll indicates that 86.3% use primarily Bokmål as their daily written language, 5.5% use both Bokmål and Nynorsk, and 7.5% use primarily Nynorsk. Thus only 13% are frequently writing Nynorsk, although the majority speak dialects that resemble Nynorsk more closely than Bokmål." However, when new wikis are requested, you get the choice between nb (bokmål), nn (nynorsk) and no (also labeled bokmål). JSharp told me that this was because wikia uses internationally standard lists, which is understandable. The problem is, it creates confusing situations. Not long ago, someone made http://nb.runescape.wikia.com/. The thing is, http://no.runescape.wikia.com/ already exists. Had no and nb been different languages, this would have been ok. However, the no site contains 100% bokmål (nb). Now, the choice between the different forms shouldn't be removed, as some weird person could for some reason decide that he'd want to have only bokmål on his wiki and be very strict about keeping it so. But, in 99,9% of the cases, people will plainly don't care whether their norwegian language wiki contains norwegian bokmål or norwegian nynorsk. So, what I ask you to do is to first of all rearrange the dropdown laguage list on requests.wikia to show Norwegian (bokmål/nynorsk) Norwegian (bokmål) Norwegian (nynorsk) also, next time someone requests a norwegian wiki, check if it exists in one of the other types than the one requested.

*The wall of text crits you for 10k lingual damage* 23:51, 6 October 2008 (UTC)