User:Adriatikus/Delete MoWiki !

'''Vote for the closure of Moldovan Wikipedia! Thank you!'''

If you are an editor of Wikipedia, vote on meta.wiki.

Why? Read below what reliable sources say, and my argumentation.

Existence of "Moldovan language"

 * "Moldovan" isn't a language. It was (and sadly still is) a political experiment of communist origin.

Speakers

 * As it's an invented language, there aren't native speakers.
 * The people of Moldova speak a dialect of Romanian.
 * The differences between the language spoken in Moldova and Romanian are minimal.
 * I challenge anyone to provide a single example of translation between Romanian and "Moldovan", like a book, a news conference etc. (I refute, as all academics do, Vasile Stati's dictionary).
 * There are books edited in Chişinău (capital of Moldova) that can be bought in Romania. E.g. Litera Publishing House sells fairytales and school books in Romania (these are for children!). (argument on "Moldovan-Romanian translation")
 * The Romanian TV station ProTV is broadcasting in Moldova. (argument on "Romanian-Moldovan translation")

Cyrillic alphabet

 * Althought it was imposed by the Soviets and abolished about 15 years ago, I'm not ab initio against. But before starting a "Cyrillic Romanian" project we should see how many users prefer it. And the voters should firstly prove they can speak the language as currently only one user (meta, en) edits MoWiki using on-line translators (since he can't speak the language at all) (solution: live on IRC, tested by an admin). Otherwise they are free to use/edit WP in their mother tongues.

Official use

 * The Moldovan Academy's Institute for Linguistics uses the term "Romanian language" . May I ask who is studying and regulating the official language of Moldova ? On what basis could someone correct the misspellings in MoWiki ?
 * The only official body stating the existence of this language is the Moldovan Parliament, ruled by the communists (this is not the place to discuss why they made this choice).
 * The discussions between Moldovan and Romanian officials are never translated.

Finally

 * Since this "language" is a proven political manipulation and not a scientific fact, maintaining MoWiki would imply making WP to comply with political arbitrary decisions.

'''This is not a political decision we are facing. This is a decision on two choices: a political one (maintaining MoWiki) and a scientific one (deleting MoWiki)'''.

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