It's fun to think that way, but what should actually be done?
It would be equally unfair to ban him from Wikipedia, he has a right to express his opinions.
Voting may be evil, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen anyways. Is there a way to compromise between Voting-is-evil and Voting-solves-everything? There must be, in some form or another.
Mark
On 13/01/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Hi,
The conflict at the Moldovan Wikipedia has reignited.
A new user made a page called "Alegeri" (elections).
It starts with him espousing his POVs.
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.
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. He obviously didn't even review his work, because many images were broken because the image tag for ro: ([[imagine:...]]) doesn't work on mo.wiki (you have to use the default, [[image:...]]).
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?
Well, maybe some Romanians don't see themselves as foreigners, but in the eyes of the world, they are. And besides, very clearly, there are two separate subdomains. Whether or not Romanians are Moldovans and vice-versa, very clearly most ro.wikipedians are NOT mo.wikipedians, though a few are.
Your thoughts, please?
Voting is evil. If your description of events is accurate, then this user should be (to quote Garfield) dragged out into the street and shot.
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