Latvian [[divi]]

I agree in principle with the limitations (to make things easier to handle), though I'm not in principle against 'grander', Grimm's-law stuff being first suggested here (why not? as long as the stuff is well done...). Should this become an official suggestion in one of the venues in the community portal?

Yes, if you want to. My main objection with really big stuff is that it is the kind of area where even professional linguists get things very wrong, so that makes it even more likely for amateurs to miss things. I don't have any professional schooling in linguistics, just a lot of curiosity that made me want to look for things and learn more. So I know a bit I think but what I know is not at a professional level and I don't think it is for anyone else here either. The limitations are mainly there to protect ourselves, Wiktionary and its users from our own incompetence. :P

I am a professional linguist, though not an Indo-Europeanist (I work on South American indigenous languages). But one of the things I've learned is to stick to logics and good arguments, because (a) big stars with famous diplomas often think their fame is all their need to justify something, and (b) non-big-stars, without any diplomas, surprisingly often contribute really intelligent, insightful ideas that deserve recognition. (The opposite can happen too, of course, but my field -- which is small -- has more than its share of big stars who want to be treated like kings... so I tend to be partial in favor of the underdog, as it were.)

I think I'll start a discussion about this at, say, the beer parlor. Since it's a bit late tonight and I still want to add a bunch of form-of pages, I'll do it tomorrow rather than today. Who knows? The idea might take root and bear fruit...