Sorry for not replying to Mark's emails, but I
think that discussing
politics and whether Romanian or French has a grammar closer to Latin
is off-topic on this list. :-)
That was a sub-topic of an e-mail. When replying to e-mails, you are
more than welcome to ignore topics you find irrelevant.
Node, please do not accuse people for sockpuppetry
without any
evidence: when Pavel was on #wikipedia, he had an IP address of
a .md ISP and since Freenode does not allow proxies, he really
must be in Moldova.
Still, do you have evidence that any of the other so-called
"Moldovans" are real people, in Moldova?
Also, we should not confuse this Romanian/Moldovan
situation
with other situations where it's the debate whether a dialect/close
language should have a Wikipedia, like Scots/English or Serbian/Croat.
Nowadays, the dispute that "Moldovan" is different from "Romanian"
is absurd: even Voronin, the Moldovan president said that they're the
same language and just the name is different.
That's not really the issue here. What is the issue, is that 36% of
Moldovans (excluding residents of Transnistria) claim "Moldovan" as
their native language; the official script in Transnistria is
Cyrillic, the official language in Transnistria is Moldavian (they
still call it that in English officially in Transnistria, I think),
and many schoolchildren in Transnistria/PMR/Stinga Nistrului go to
"Moldavian schools", where the teaching is in Moldovan Cyrillic, or
"Russian/Moldavian bilingual schools", where teaching time is divided
between Russian, and Moldovan Cyrillic.
Mark