That's a rather inaccurate assessment. The official language of the
Republic of Moldova, which is recognised by every nation on earth, is
"Moldovan".
Also, whether or not Transnistria is internationally recognised as an
independent country, it's certainly undeniable that there is some
usage of the Cyrillic script over there.
And if having mowp is a statement by WMF to the legitimacy of
Transnistria, isn't *not* having it equally POV in the opposite
direction? Note that I don't personally think it's POV.
Mark
On 18/03/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
GerardM wrote:
Hoi,
The arguments that you use to deny people who use the cyrillic script
is political. By continuing this line of arguments you make your POV
case worse. What does it matter that Transnistria can be seen as a
relic of the cold war, what does Transnistria matter that its
government glorifies USSR and communism. Wikipedia is for people.
The continued insistance of this blatantly political POV makes me
consider that you the people in Transnistria are discrimated against.
They are denied their place under the sun. A place under the sun that
does not cost us much .. hard disks are cheap.
With this continued agressive insistence of the deletion of this
Wikipedia, I am more and more coming to the conclusion that it is
wrong for the Wikimedia Foundation to close down this project. The
reason: the arguments used are plain discrimation. It is
discrimination because of ideological and political reasons.
Its very existence is a POV fork - it's a language which nobody
offically recognises as being distinct from Romanian (I say lift, you
say elevator), for a country which nobody offically recognises as
existing. If the Foundation says yes, a country which doesn't exist is
allowed to have projects in a language which doesn't exist, they are
promoting the POV that the country and it's language exist and should be
recognised. /That/ is not a goal of the Foundation.
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