You know what, I think everything one says is a POV.
Yes, and on Wikipedia, people try to work together to make it more neutral. However, Pavel was not open to that.
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.
Well, it's fine if Romanians vote -- IF they are active members of mo.wiki. As you said, "why should people from other Wikis vote"?? If you want to include people who aren't active on mo.wiki but are on ro.wiki, this seems unfair and I think because of that you should extend it to all Wikimedians.
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.
Umm, that's what's been done in making such decisions so far. Somebody proposed an American Wikipedia on Meta, and the people who voted against it came from not only America but Australia, the Netherlands, Germany... and since Wikipedia is an international project, I think that's fair.
The vote to close the Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, although started by a Serbian, is not limited to speakers of the language or residents of the countries or even members of those Wikipedias. It's open to all Wikimedians, as it should be -- such a monumental decision should be up to everybody.
Well, what's the point of keeping mo., if it's just like ro. ?
Please re-read that paragraph again. It wasn't just like ro.wiki until Pavel moved pages and replaced their contents...
Romanians are not foreigners on the Moldovan Wikipedia!
Ro.wikipedians are. Romanians who are established mo.wikipedians, like Ronline, are not "foreigners". But most -- Bogdan, AdiJapan, Bonaparte -- are foreigners.
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!
About half of the native speakers of Limba Noastra in Rep. Moldova disagree with you. They consider they speak "limba moldoveneasca". If it was open-and-shut, there would be no controversy about language in R.Moldova, people would just accept the so-called "fact" you just said. But it's not 100% clear-cut, it's not obvious one way or the other. Different people came to different conclusions, splitting the country ideologically, and the government considers it "limba moldoveneasca". We can't just say on Wikipedia, "there is no Moldovan language", because it is _not neutral_ -- millions disagree.
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.
...do you know of Grigore Ureche? In his Chronicles of the Moldovan Nation (letopisetul tarii moldovei), he has a chapter titled "about our Moldovan language" (pentru limba noastra moldoveneasca). He wrote his Chronicles in Cyrillic. He was not under Soviet time -- on the contrary, he was an early Moldovan patriot who wrote a lot of valuable material about his country. And this was before Russia annexed Bessarabia.
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.
No -- I've encountered these people before. People such as AdiJapan, Bogdangiusca, Bonaparte, are all self-designated Romanians.
Mark