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

Tue Nov 14 16:03:27 UTC 2006

Hello GerardM, 

Accusing Bogdan of trolling is utter nonsense.
And, to cite you, I've had my fill with this nonsense
too often.

As to your "arguments":

Of course, the Soviet Union managed to create an ISO
code for Moldovan. Still, the language is regulated by
the Moldovan Academy, which states that standard
Moldovan is identical with standard Romanian.

Don't invent your nice world full of endangered
minorities. Moldovans are not a minority in Moldova,
nor intend to unite with "Imperialist Romania". So,
the Moldovan Academy is doing its job without external
pressure.

Dpotop

--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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