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Message re non-contribution

Oleg Kazanin, Fri, 2022-07-01 13:30
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Dear All,

I needed access to provide your data in en.wiki Mokshas article. Now I’ve been banned in wiki and all my edits re Mokshas are reverted, so the access is useless for me now. I planned to contribute with numbers of Mokshan speakers village by village but now I cannot do this as per new RF legislation or else I will be charged for the state treason (providing info to a foreign organisation) or similar for 15 years. Sorry for not contributing, Hope you understand
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Mokshan is not Mordvin it's a slur

Oleg Kazanin, Fri, 2022-07-01 13:24
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Please kindly check en.wiki articles Mordvins, Mordvinic languages and Mordva (slur) and remove the slur "Mordva" and "Mordvin" from Mokshan language description. Mokshas and Erzyas do not share common ancestry (according to DNA studies) and their languages are far related and according to scholarly works may be compared as Italian and French. Mordvins are not an ethnicty, but a soviet construct made in 1928, like Homo Sovieticus aimed to Russify both Mokshas and Erzyas Modern Uralistics regard Proto-Finnic as Finnish-Sami-Moksha, so the term "Mordvinic languages is obsolete. All info is available in en.wiki and confirmed by academic sources. Thanks

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