[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us ?

[geni]

2008/11/13 Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com>:
> How can people manage to be this grumpy about something this petty.
> Suggesting that a country is full of criminals simply because they use
> a different writing system is disgusting trolling, and has no place on
> this mailing list.
>
> --
> DCollins/ST47

It isn't as petty as it may appear and it is understandable that
people would be somewhat vexed.

Transnistria is not widely considered to be a country for a number of
reasons. The written language is a Russian invention which I
understand was part of a program to rework Moldavia's cultural
identity. It is understandable that residents of Moldova would object
to it being called Moldovan.

Now you might think that since it is only used in Transnistria (there
may be a little use in Moldova among certain age groups but I've seen
no evidence of this) we could call it Transnistrian however this would
clash with the geopolitical objectives of a number of countries such
as say the United States of America.

To a large extent we can ignore the issue since at the present time we
are yet to encounter a native Cyrillic Moldovan writer. But this is
not a long term solution and moveing the thing to cy-mo is likely to
cause further issues.

While eastern european nationalism may seem somewhat petty to those of
us who live in countries where out national identity has not been
significantly threatened of late that does not mean that we should
underestimate it's significance to those who display it.

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geni