Talk:Politics of Moldova

message: Hey, you left a note on my talk page, here is a brief run-down (although not complete) of why the NPOV and verify tags were added.
:The ethnic Romanians are now called "Moldovans" and the Romanian language in Moldova has come to be called "Moldavan" when it is actually identical to Romanian.
Strikes me as somewhat POV, use of "sarcastic quotes", assertion that "Moldovan" is identical to "Romanian" without a source.
:Despite being the largest grouping of people in the Transnistrian Region the Romanian element continues to be ethnically clensed as most Romanians in Moldova find themselves stuck between a Russian-led government and the Transnistrian region of fanatical minorities.
No source for the "ethnically cleansed" claim, no source for the "fanatical minority" claim.
:The re-introduction of Russian at Moldova schools caused widespread protests from the suppressed Romanian majority and much criticism over the increasingly authoritarian rule in Chisnau.
No source for the "suppressed Romanian majority", who is doing the criticising.
No sources have been given for the article. - FrancisTyers 21:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV and verify tags 

message: I don't understand the need for the tag on this page and I will remove it. Of course if a dispute arises it can always be replaced. TSO1D 20:02, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I partially removed the paragraph that read as follows:
"There have been reports of politically motivated arrests and arrests without valid legal grounds. These arrests are carried out exclusively against opponents of the Communist Party government of President Vladimir Voronin. In one case which was criticized by the West, opposition politician Valeriu Pasat was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on dubious grounds. Recently, 4 members of the opposition political party "Equal Rights" were arrested by Moldovan Special Forces. Under police pressure, they were forced to sign a confession without reading it. Police them threatened to plant narcotics and remove their kidneys, to sell them the black organ market. While under arrest, they heard screams of torture from nearby cells. "Innocents are sentenced: Justice, Chisinau-style" Olvia Press, 14 Nov 2006 (in Russian)"
Much of the paragraph is POV and some is frankly utter non-sense. Although Olvia can be used as a source on Transnistria related pages, using it here as a source is highly questionable. I rewrote the beginning of the paragraph about Pasat and political arrests, but I could not find a source for the Moldovan Special forces arrest of Ravnopravie members. TSO1D 23:13, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: TSO1D, I am inclined to agree with you (as usual, when you present your case in a well reasoned manner). However: Shouldn't we also apply the same standard to all Wikipedia articles? Will you help me do that? I have a very similar case on a couple of Transnistria articles, but there's an editor who doesn't know what POV means and has not yet learned the significance of WP:NN, or else he is just pushing his own bias. See and the way-too-prominent first section (no less!) of Transnistrian referendum, 2006 (currently locked, for edit warring over this very reason). - Mauco 03:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persecution 

message: Under President Voronin, however, relations with Romania have become very tense, with the president himself declaring that the Romanian element of Moldova, constituting a ⅔ majority, as a fanatical minority. Other key feuds have occurred with the President desperate to establish a separate Moldovan identity from that of Romania at the same time denying his own ethnic group independence in the Transnistrian region. The ethnic Romanians are now called "Moldovans" and the Romanian language in Moldova has come to be called "Moldavan" when it is actually identical to Romanian....it goes on.
: This is bad. Gotta make a sweep as soon as I have time. --Illythr 01:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Warning: Partisan POV detected