[Wikipedia-l] Policy draft: Wikimedia projects are not the place for national constitution

Tue Nov 14 00:18:06 UTC 2006

For your information.
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=mol shows quite clearly 
that under both ISO-639-1/2/3 there is a code for Moldavian. To 
complicate this http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mol 
does nor agree with this sentiment. So nobody gets it right, not even 
the organisation that maintains ISO-639-3.

We have had our fill with this nonsense too often. Mark is correct where 
he says that the language is not the country. The Dutch language is just 
one example where the name does not imply that everyone who speaks Dutch 
as his or her mother tongue is Dutch. Bogdan your argument does not 
wash. When you mention trolling, I wonder when you looked last in a 
mirror. Anyway the best you can do is ignore. That may be kinda hard but 
consider, if this project stinks, anyone knowledgeable will be able to 
sniff it out personally. Then again, roses grow best on dung.

Thanks,
    GerardM

Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 12:00:31 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>   
>> Standard language of PMR is written in Cyrillic.
>>     
>
>   
>> Yes, it is a "separatist region", but that does not cancel the fact
>> that it is taught in schools there.
>>     
>
> Yes, it has been discussed this before: it's not standard Moldovan,
> as used by the government of Moldova. So why is it at the mo subdomain?
> Shouldn't it be at mo-cyr.wikipedia.org ?
>
> I think that's the main point of disagreement and both Moldovans and
> Romanians disagree with the current state.
>
> Anyway, Mark, what do you want to do with this encyclopedia? I don't
> that in the last six months it got *any* new original content, despite
> the thousands of trolling edits by numerous sock-puppets of Romanian,
> Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, American and possibly Georgian origin.