I would have to object to the position taken by people who can make a difference.
IMHO, all this Moldovan issue annoys you as much as it does me. I do not want to dispute on this, as much as you do not want to read all this junk.
I am wondering if the Moldovan Wikipedia is such unimportant an issue. I agree that it is a rarely used Wikipedia. And still, for an unimportant Wikipedia, it does create a lot of headache to the entire community. If this issue flames every three months on this mailing list and on all possible Talk pages and triggers revert-wars on related English and Moldovan Wikipedia articles, then I believe that there is obviously a problem.
Not that this entire dispute be fair or ethical - it is a dirty war that I personally detest -, but is it an ethically correct position for those who can make a difference to just ignore?
Is it so unimportant that a whole Wikipedia section could create confusion and desinformation? Isn't Wikipedia supposed to provide a "free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality"?
Personally for me, it is strange how people with the ability to take and implement a decision, simply choose to ignore. All possible and impossible arguments were already presented here, on the mailing list, and all over the English and Moldovan Wikipedia, and on Metawiki. What rests to do is use common sense to decide on this issue.
It is even stranger for me the way a decision already taken by stewards and bureaucrats was simply ignored and not implemented.
But, then, it is up to the decision-makers to decide the stance to adopt. I still hope that they will choose as soon as possible to stop deliberately ignoring this issue. The problem is that this issue will not cease re-appearing on this mailing-list. My reason for this is that an entire country and population (this makes an approximate 3.5 million persons) are incorrectly represented on Wikipedia. And one of these, or me - if no one else does it -, will certainly re-open this discussion in a two-three months time.
If you managed to read till this point, thank you.
Liviu
On 6/30/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Jacky PB wrote:
Where are the decision makers? Isn't there nobody
No one else is interested in this issue, and getting involved would mean wasting a lot of time with people fighting a lot over something unimportant. The safest course is thus to leave a rarely-used wiki sitting there, same as we do with dozens of other rarely-used wikis and nobody minds.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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