Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Change of Interwiki name for Moldovan language

Apparently, you did not read my message. The main complaint was about how the decisions were not made by real contributors, but mostly by "invaders" who came only to argue and vote, and left immediately after the vote concluded. Now, I think that you certainly have the right to contribute to a decision-making process, having contributed significantly to mo.wiki; however this is not the case for most of the participants in the vote, whose only contributions were to talkpages (or, in the case of a couple, with two or three cosmetic changes to content pages to attempt to make themselves look like legitimate contributors). Even if the vote had said to close down mo.wiki, I do not think that would ever have happened because: There are real people who use the Cyrillic script for their language, and it is currently the only script allowed in education in the breakaway Pridniestrian Moldovan Republic (aka Transdniestr), for all official languages -- Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Russian. The main reasonings for closing mo.wiki were 100% illogical: 1) Because Cyrillic is ugly; 2) Because Cyrillic is a Stalinist tool for the seperation of the Moldovan peoples from "their Romanian brethren"; 3) Because Cyrillic is a relic of the past, and all people still using it must be ignorant or Stalinist, and thus should be ignored entirely because such people do not deserve a Wikipedia; 4) Because the Moldovan Wikipedia is a terrorist pithole (Anittas said that, it made me laugh, compared to the other reasons which made me disappointed in the most basic logic and reason which I previously thought to be universal traits of human beings); 5) The official script in Moldova since 1989 is the Roman alphabet, and no other nation recognises Transdniestr, so we should completely ignore the people using the script because it's not official; 6) Because it is offensive to the people of Moldova (this reason is especially illogical because all of the people who said it were Romanians); 7) Because using Cyrillic to write limba noastra is a perversion or some other thing basically equivalent with linguistic nationalistic blasphemy; and numerous other reasons which would be laughed at by any sane disinterested party. There is some disagreement as to whether or not Moldovan is an independent language, however there is no disagreement that Cyrillic is still used to write it by some people and is taught in the schools of Transdniestr (Schools teaching the Roman alphabet were declared to be operating illegally as public schools and shut down, so only Cyrillic-teaching schools remain). The Moldovan Wikipedia now has well over 100 articles, so if a new vote were called, and the invaders tipped the scale and voted for its deletion or closure in some other manner, there would simply be nothing to consider and the matter would be closed with the status quo respected. Mark On 23/08/05, Wikipedia Romania (Ronline) <rowikipedia(a)yahoo.com> wrote: -- SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIVM ERVDITIONIS HABES QVANTVM MATERIAE MATERIETVR MARMOTA MONAX SI MARMOTA MONAX MATERIAM POSSIT MATERIARI ESTNE VOLVMEN IN TOGA AN SOLVM TIBI LIBET ME VIDERE