On 28/11/05, Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote:
Hi,
I usually don't read the postings of Mark Williamson (only the answers to his) but now I accidentally saw that he has forwarded the private email of another wikipedian to the list. Add to this the frequent flame-wars and attacks on people... Watching the list degrade into endless fights about absurd language proposals, in my opinion it's enough. I switched his account to moderated now.
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I support this decision. On Moldovan Wikipedia (http://mo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), he was the only person stubbornly defending the existance itself of this de facto dead Wikipedia, that - in my opinion - has no other effect than to denaturate the present day reality about Moldova (as no one writes, reads or uses Romanian language with Cyrillic alphabet; apart from the breakaway Transnistria region, where Cyrillic alphabet is imposed to people and where parents are itting in jails for demanding the usage of Latin alphabet in schools). And all this although he is not linked directly what-so-ever nor to Romanians, nor to Moldovans, nor to Russians, and thus not in knowledge of the cause. The debate on Moldovan Wikipedia has definitely degraded into an endless fight, that has advanced till the English Wikipedia. As I was informed recently by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bonaparte, "It seems that user Node deletes systematic an important part of the text." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language is a good example of such disputes. -- Liviu