User:Node ue/Rezultat alegeri - Резултат алеӂерь
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It is clear that the vote is invalid and its results cannot be trusted as a real representation of the community for the following reasons, among others:
- The closure of a single Wikipedia is an issue which very much affects the future of all Wikimedia projects. In this vote, the votes of active Wikimedians from projects besides ro: and mo: were not counted, and the vote was not well-publicised.
- This vote is on the future of the Moldovan Wikipedia. Regardless of whether or not Romanians should be allowed to vote, it seems clear that for any fair decision, at least the majority of voters should be Moldovans, rather than Romanians. If Australians really wanted a separate Wikipedia, it doesn't seem fair that Americans, Canadians, and Englishmen should be able to use their votes to stop them.
- The credibility of individual votes is suspect. Many voters have barely over 25 contributions to any Wikimedia project. Also, one user deeply involved with the vote, Bonaparte, has been proven to use anonymous proxy IPs for sockpuppetry and meatpuppetry on the English Wikipedia, so it is feasible that he is doing the same here, and there is no way to check that. (CheckUser can only work if the users use the same IP)
- The rules of the vote were made arbitrarily and with no room for discussion.
- The introduction text to the vote introduced a bias by encouraging users that it is logical for them to vote a certain way. When it was fixed to be more neutral, the change was reverted immediately and constantly.
I am not opposed in any way to a vote to determine the future of this Wikipedia, however, I believe that if a vote is to be conducted, it should be well thought-out, fair, and less open to the possibility of cheating.