Your (well, at least, it sounds like what you would say) harassment of me on my livejournal nonwithstanding (and you might wish to check it, I have replied)...
You seem to have a very wrong concept of ownership of articles.
Neither you, nor the country of Romania, nor the group of all Romanians as a whole, has any ownership over the Romanian Wikipedia or any articles therein.
Would it be fair to say that all of the ro.wp articles that are translated directly from English with no addition of facts are similarly "stolen"?
No, it is Wikipedia, and we frequently copy from one another.
This is not "plagiarism".
I know of the Wikipedia licencing policy, but this still is utterly unethical: One person copying articles from one wikipedia to another and then claiming they are different just because the script was changed.
They *are* different -- do they look the same to you? No. Different letters. They may or may not be in the same language ultimately, depending on your POV, but they are definitely different. They are stored with different byte articles.
And no copying occurred. It is called transliterating.
Actually, this is what infuriates me and makes me fight here. This is why I, a Romanian, am involved. The "Moldovan" identity is the problem of the Moldovan people. I have already said that once a native Moldovan speaker wants a Moldovan wikipedia, I'll help him create it.
You are infuriated because someone is using your articles? Well, I am infuriated that you are using text I have written! Surely, somewhere in ro.wp is a direct translation of some content I wrote in English. Oh no!
But you are not Moldovan. You are not able to write Moldovan. You pretend helping some people that did not ask for your help. No native Moldovan expressed an interest in your wikipedia.
I am Moldovan. It is your _opinion_ that I am "not able to write Moldovan", especially given that you attach no adverb. "Native Moldovans" (assuming you mean Moldovans living in Moldova) have expressed an interest, although in very limited numbers.
In fact, all people from Moldova, here on Wikipedia, say they speak Romanian. You have Oleg Alexandrov, which used to help you, but then dropped you when he saw you profess extreme oppinions.
He never "dropped me".
You have Dmitriid, which marks ro-2 in his Babel box, not mo-2, and would agree for an automatic translation tool from Romanian, a tool that exists (as he said two days ago).
And I said that I agree to it to, as long as this tool will be implemented on ro.wiki just as it is on sr.wiki and zh.wiki, and as long as IMPROVEMENTS ARE ACCEPTED, which Bogdan did not allow so far -- I gave a list of improvements, and he ignored them entirely. Spelling still sucks.
And these are the ones that you claim to have (or have had) on your side. Because there are Moldovans, like Pavel, that are utterly mad at you for supporting Stalinist points of view.
Psh. They're certainly not the only ones.
BUT: RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO COMMUNITY, no interest in your work, aside from the interest of your opponents (the people you plagiarize), and that of some innocent bystanders on this list and elsewhere, that are forced into listening all this because you won't accept that you serve nobody's interest.
Oh, please. There is too a community. You are infuriated for no good reason. Take a step back, and take a good look at the situation. You have worked yourself up into a tizzy over nothing. I'm not sure why this is worth the effort to you -- there's a good chance you will lose the fight, and anyhow, no matter what, you are being destructive.
Mark