Talk:Linguasphere Observatory

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With all due respect I think this article should be scrubbed. It appears to be advertising for a more or less vacant website. (Without spending money, neither link seems to provide any substantive information.)

I won't remove it, because I'm still irked by the way my Zeke Hoskin article was killed (it had a lot more merit than this appears to), but maybe some other guardian of the wikis will do the honors? --Haruo 20:12, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I accessed their website today (www.linguasphere.com). Here is the statement on the homepage:

"Linguasphere ICT is no longer in operation, if you are looking for information on ISO 639-6 please visit its offical site at www.geolang.com by either clicking the link or waiting until your browser redirects you."

Linguasphere's former website was mediocre, but it was not the bare-bones shell that appears today. However, it used to contain links to the complete text of the "Linguasphere register of the World's languages and Speech Communites" by David Dalby (Linguasphere Press, 1999) - an important scholarly work. The company that has replaced it, GeoLang, Ltd., has not put it back on-line. I consider the inability to access this work via the web to be a disappointing loss.

On their new homepage, GeoLang, Ltd. states:

"This site will provide free access to the system that enables identification of the worlds language variants within their derivative hierarchies, from your local dialect through to known major language families. The project is on course but this Company is in its first few months of operation so this web site is very much in the process of being developed."

and goes on to say:

"... the standardised data is due to be published in January 2008."

Charvex 07:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)