Proposals for closing projects/Deletion of Moldovan Wikipedia
This is a proposal for deletion of the Moldovan Wikipedia as per the Siberian Wikipedia precedent. This wiki is already closed following this discussion back in 2006.
Arguments:
- At Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Moldovan Wikipedia, it has been decided to close the so-called Moldovan Wikipedia.
- Moldovan Wikipedia (http://mo.wikipedia.org/) stays frozen for more than 4 years now
- This project cannot be restarted as there is no ISO code for the en:Moldovan language/ro:Limba moldovenească, there are no native speakers, and the language isn't sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki (the Romanian Wikipedia) - see Meta:Language_proposal_policy:
- The identifiers mo and mol are deprecated, leaving ro and ron (639-2/T) and rum (639-2/B) the current language identifiers to be used for the variant of the Romanian language also known as Moldavian and Moldovan in English and moldave in French. (source: The Library of Congress - ISO 639-2 Registration Authority / SIL)
- All articles on the so called Moldovan Wikipedia are old versions of Romanian Wikipedia articles (back in 2006), that were just automaticaly transliterated into the Cyrillic alphabet. There is no need for such a content, as there are various online tools that can automaticaly transilterate content intro Cyrillic from any language written in the Latin alphabet. Even English if you want.
- According to the Constitution of Moldova, the official language of Moldova is written with the Latin alphabet, not the Cyrillic alphabet (art. 13 of the Constitution).
- Wikipedia is often mocked in the Romanian-speaking media because of the so-called Moldovan Wikipedia, as an example of voluntary work gone bad.
I propose that the mo subdomain should be taken down and redirected to the Romanian Wikipedia.
NOTE Moldovan language is not a dialect, or another standard langauge of a pluricentric language (like in the case of Croatian and Serbian), there is not even the slightest difference in the written form of the language in Moldova and the language in Romania. There is no Moldovan language standard. According to the national conception of Moldova, Moldovan is BY LAW just another name of the Romanian language: see Title I (DISPOZIŢII GENERALE) of the law on the Conception of the national politics of Moldova, and the 1989 Language Law that made the language official across Moldova. Reffer to en:Moldovan language and ro:Limba moldovenească for more sources on this issue and further reading.
I propose to close the discussion within 10 days from now, i.e. by Thursday, 3rd February, unless there are objections.--Danutz 17:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Support in favour of deletion
- Danutz 17:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC) As the initiator of this proposal.