Talk:Romanian language in Vojvodina

Stop this move war

This is a talk page, you know. Now, Danutz, Panonian please express your concerns here. I protected this article from moving and I'll lift the protection as soon as you reach an agreement... Duja► 11:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

But why was the page protected here? Isn't that POV? Why was this page not protected at Romanian-speaking Vojvodina, because that was the original title before the move wars? And also I don't see why this page was protected by an Serbian national (who is obviosly POV) and not by a not related user. Maybe you'll find Romanian-speaking Vojvodina as POV, but I don't see any POV at Romanian-speaking regions of Vojvodina, or more correct Romanian-speaking areas of Vojvodina. That is a fair title, because the article primarly is more like an geography article, or at least I intended it so, but I was not allowed to continue it because of the moving wars. How come articles can be moved while users edit them? --Danutz 11:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Because it happened to be the last title before you attempted the copy-paste move. Duja► 11:52, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Very convinious, ha? And now I'm sure PANONIAN will not take part in this discussion, and the article will remain here. The article is also ment for the category Category:Romanian-speaking countries and territories, because I was not allowed by POV users to include Vojvodina in this category. I said ok, no problem, maybe i was to POV, but I donnot see why not creating an article to refer to the areas where Romanian is spoken. You assert by that that Vojvodina is an Serbian-only speaking teritory. --Danutz 11:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

So, you failed in the attempt to include Vojvodina in the category, and you made a WP:POVFORK under a POV title of 0 Ghits which would ostensibly satisfy the criterion? Duja► 11:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

And, btw, what's wrong with merging this article and Romanians in Serbia under whatever title? Together, they would make a comprehensive article. I fail to see the contrast between Romanian language and Romanians in Serbia. Duja► 11:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Romanian language is spoken less than the number of Romanians. This article only reffers to the use of Romanian language and no to politics of Romanians. You think it is a POV title, and that is your opinion. In my opinion it is not. Also, like I said, this article was also created to avoid POV concern by including Vojvodina in Category:Romanian-speaking countries and territories. So, do you agree with the use of Romanian-speaking areas of Vojvodina? I find this largely NPOV as Romanian is spoken and official in Vojvodina, as the article prooves. --Danutz 12:02, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

"This article only reffers to the use of Romanian language and no to politics of Romanians." Now, why? The only significant difference is that it extensively (and largely unnecessarily) cites the official documents. What's the plausible reason to split it from the article on Romanians? (APART to be able to include it into the category that you created). Duja► 12:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

When I meant politics i reffered to parties of Romanians (CNMR, Alianţa Românilor din Voivodina). Other differences reffers to traditions, culture (apart from literature that reffers to the Romanian language). Romanian language is not always spoken by Romanians, as is the case of Serbians for example. In the census in Moldova only 13% of the Romanian-speaking population declared themselves as Romanians. In Israel, 5% of the Hebrew population speaks Romanian and an additional procesnt represents Romanians that speak Romanian. Also in Serbia you make a segregation between Vlachs and Romanians. On the other hand, there the article name "Romanian-speaking areas of Serbia" reffers to geography (geography where the rights are available, that's why we have two maps in the article and references to the localities) as does for example German speaking part of Switzerland.

German speaking part of Switzerland is a false analogy. Switzerland is semi-officially divided into three/four regions of distinct official language. The only similar example is Belgium, with Flemish Region and Walloon Region, both with officialdom. In Vojvodina, Romanian villages are interspersed with Serbian villages, or ethically mixed entirely, like Banatsko Novo Selo: there's no such thing as "Serbian-speaking Vojvodina" or "Romanian-speaking Banat". Although there are Serbs in Romania, they don't claim "Serbian-speaking Romania". Duja► 12:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The list of documents does not reffer at all to politics of Romanians, just to politics of Vojvodina, and their presence is just to show their translation in the Romanian language.

I just meant to say that "Official use of the Romanian language" is a bit legalese and boring, but that's fixable. But I still didn't hear a good reason why is this not mergeable with Romanians of Serbia, except for highly artificial reasons. You cannot make up a scope of an article as you're pleased: "oh, but I wanted just to make an article about language"... "no, I'm talking only about geography"... and there are "Media" and "Religion" sections. Why, essentialy, this article was created except to prove a point? Duja► 12:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

What point should it prove? Yes but media and religion refer to also to the media available for that specific ragion and to the eparchy of Varset that compromises the same geographical region. --Danutz 12:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The point that you desperately want to include (parts of) Serbia/Vojvodina into Category:Romanian-speaking_countries_and_territories, for reasons that escape me. As far as I can tell, ~95% of all Romanians in Serbia (excluding Vlachs) are concentrated in South Banat District and Central Banat District, so I can't buy any argument that "Romanian-speaking area in Vojvodina" and Romanians in Serbia don't coincide. Duja► 12:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The basic question is: what are "Romanian- speaking regions of Vojvodina"? The answer is: such thing does not exist. There is no single region in Vojvodina that is predominantly Romanian speaking. There are only villages that are predominantly Romanian speaking, but not regions. Also, the area that you described here as "Romanian-speaking regions" is predominantly Serbian-speaking and therefore, there is no single scientific reason for usage of term "Romanian- speaking regions". Regarding the article as a whole, I believe that it could be good article that speak about usage of Romanian language in Vojvodina (of course, after certain copyediting), and the first thing that one good article should have is an NPOV and CORRECT title. So, Danutz, please say what is wrong with the title "Official status of Romanian language in Vojvodina"? Is it POV or incorrect by your opinion or what? Second, this article cannot be geographical one because such geographical entity that you tend to describe simply does not exist (and Wikipedia do not tolerate articles about non-existing things). Therefore, only two solutions are possible: 1. either we should create an good article about usage of Romanian language in Vojvodina or about ethnic Romanians in Vojvodina (you choose what ever you want of these two), or 2. either we should delete article that speak about non-existing geographical unit. Also, you cannot compare this article with article German speaking part of Switzerland because most of Switzerland is indeed German-speaking, while in Vojvodina, you have only several Romanian villages that are surounded by Serb cities and Serb villages, therefore if you speak about this whole area (counting both, Romanian and Serb settlements, i.e. the area that you showed on this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Romani_Voivodina.png), this area is clearly predominantly Serbian-speaking. PANONIAN 15:06, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Let's just merge the articles. We have two okay-ish articles essentially covering the same topic. If merged they could quickly grow into a pretty good and comprehensive article. I can't really see any reasons not to merge them.--Hadžija 16:43, 17 May 2007 (UTC)