Hoi!
Why should Belarusian speakers be *forced* to "maintain the unity" with something, in which they are completely *dis-interested
They cannot be forced and will not be forced. If and when be-x-old gets switched off nobody from wmf will migrate a single line of the existing be-x-old content. It will either be you guys doing it or nobody.
Now there is this be-x-old which is now submitting for the renaming to be-tarask. One linguistic entity -- one WP. Quite fair.
Theoretically yes, in practice no, because be-x-old is NOT a recognized linguistic entity. We just refused Romanesco based on this very reason, you want us to start a civil war in Italy to make sure you guys are happy in Minsk? Come on...
The alternative Belarusian speakers which comprise the majority of old [[be:]] crew simply *hate* the normative variant of Belarusian, and that's the start and the end of it.
I'm kind of ready to believe that a number of personal feelings are involved in this matter, yes :) Anyway, none of them is an ISO code.
there are plenty of ways for the adminning group to discourage the creation of undesired content.
Yes, admins always have power, no matter the edition. And it's not even easy to get rid of us bastards, because we have a better knowledge of the environment and can always confuse a newbie by saying/publishing apparently neutral stuff. Thank God this is not under my competence :)
Berto 'd Sera Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html