User:George Ho poked us [1] in relation to the proposals for closing projects [2]. I went there to deal with the simplest cases, but, again, Moldovan...
There are a couple of obvious reasons why this issue hasn't been solved for a long time. Most importantly, there are *some* people who use and want to use that orthography, so the logic says that it's not on us to interfere with it, but to wait for the native speakers (actually, "native writers") to appear.
We've been waiting for ~12 years and I think we could wait for as long as it's necessary.
But I was reading about the issue again. You know, a kind of compulsive reading: I knew I won't get any new information, as I'd read all of the materials and Wikipedia articles a number of times, but I was reading anyway.
However, it was productive at last and I've changed my mind.
The value of learning that particular orthography by Moldovan pupils in Transnitria is around zero. All of them are likely native in Russian and, outside of the specific usage, interesting to the specialists (likely just historians), the whole corpus written in Moldovan Cyrillic is likely the subset of what's written in Russian.
In other words, as soon as a Transitrian Moldovan learns Romanian/Moldovan Latin orthography, as better for her or him. And we should support it.
So, I tend to suggest to the Board backing up and deletion of the projects in Moldovan. However, I want to hear what you think about it before the final proposal. I would also suggest that we do not make the future requests eligible as long as we do not see a substantial number of native contributors. (Note that nobody appeared since 2005 or so.)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_closing_projects#Older_on... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects