AimIsADick1. Age isn't important here: what's important is that this article states that Ethnologue started as a christian group focused on the bible.
That is a religious link (even if outdated) is it not?
There already was a religious link (it is published by a religious group). As I have asked before, please show that the publisher influences the reliability or validity of the data in Ethnologue. A resource being produced by a religious group does not necessarily mean the resource is biased or inaccurate. The positive reputation Ethnologue enjoys among linguists is attested to by several of the sources you have linked.
AimIsADickMy complaint was about ethnologue's database being paywalled, hence not being transparent; which necessarily affects the sources I can get off that site.
Lots of sources are paywalled.
AimIsADickI don't use fucking google translate; that butchers Esperanto horribly. (examples: using "konservita" instead of "savita" when saving a person, "kaŝmemorigita" instead of "rapidmemorigita" to refer to caching)
and I cannot speak Spanish, nor Japanese now (which I attempted to study and indeed could barely speak it)
Please translate and speak the sentence I provided to verify this.
AimIsADickWhat? Are you even gonna explain your reasoning? (Mind you, you don't even speak or read the language yourself.)
So now all of a sudden, when I cite you a link by an esperantist himself doing proper study, you starting screeching about "no validity". You keep complaining to me to "read my own sources", yet you can't even fairly read my sources I give to you.
Please read and summarize the arguments in the essay you linked and I'll respond to them (so that I don't have to do it myself agian). Also, why are you assuming I'm not fluent in Esperanto?