Hello everybody, especially Node_ue
It starts with him espousing his POVs.
You know what, I think everything one says is a POV.
The requirements of the vote are:
- You have to speak Romanian/Moldovan "adequately". Whether or not
your skills are "adequate", is to be judged by this particular user himself. 2) You have to have at least 25 contributions on the Moldovan Wikipedia... OR the Romanian Wikipedia!!!
Now, that strikes me as inherently unfair. Romanian Wikipedians are allowed to vote, sort of like a free pass? But no other Wikimedians?? It's not the ROmanian Wikipedia after all, it's the Moldovan Wikipedia!
You may argue all you want about whether or not Moldovan and Romanian are a single language, whether or not that Wikipedia should exist, but to let everybody from one Wiki vote for the future of another one, but nobody from any other wikis may participate, seems inherently unfair.
Why should people from other Wikis vote for the future of mo. ? The future of mo. is mostly a concern of Moldovans and Romanians, since it (the "Moldavian" language) is their native language. Would you consider it OK if all the wikipedians decided to open an Wiki in American (yes, I do know there's no such language, but that's exactly the point)? It just like the ellections in a country: why should citizens (in this case speakers) of another country (in this case language) vote for the fate of the country (in this case, Wiki)? It would be absurd.
The same user has been very... shall we say, "headstrong". He moved
dozens and dozens of pages from Cyrillic titles to Latin titles (instead of creating brand-new pages in Latin), and replaced their entire contents with direct copy from ro.wiki, systematically.
Well, what's the point of keeping mo., if it's just like ro. ?
Now, so far, of all the people who voted, the vast majority are
Romanians. How is that fair? Romanians get to decide the future of the Moldovan Wikipedia, but no *other* foreigners may weigh in?
Romanians are not foreigners on the Moldovan Wikipedia!
Well, maybe some Romanians don't see themselves as foreigners, but in
the eyes of the world, they are.
And it's going to be this way as long as people are uninformed by such pages as mo.wikipedia.org! All the people should know that: There is no Moldovan/Moldavian/Moldoveneasca Language! I am saying this as a person who has lived all his life in Moldova, who speaks Romanian and Russian fluently and who knows much about the history of his nation's language and traditions.
And please, do not say such things as: "Most of the people who voted were Romanians (or sth else)", because you HAVE NOT looked in their passports and you DO NOT really know who they are, you just know they speak Romanian fluently.
-- Sincerely, Eugeniu