Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 75 Important proposal
In the pervious closing proposals, the wikimeta community was tolerant to the inactivity and decided to live and let live the struggling simple projects. Unfortunately there has been little progress and many other projects, especially the English wikipedia have shunned the simple projects. Many projects in other languages have been closed for similiar reasons why some users want to close simple. However there was always a group of resistance, claiming to keep it for non-native speakers or for the children. It is time to step back and realize that keeping the simple projects won't bring a sudden burst of activity here. Users come and go and wiki projects evolve over time. I think that the consensus should also change and adapt to the current circumstances here. Even if the current proposals fail again, in the next year another complaint will arise up and the discussion will repeat itself again as it has done before. The majority of the opinion will progressively push for closure of simple language projects.