Template talk:Eastern Romance languages and dialects

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To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
- Help Romania reach at least GA-status
- Help History of Romania get WP:GOOD
- Request an article or create a missing one
Assess :
- Assess all articles tagged for this project that have not been assessed for quality
Cleanup :
- Review the Romania-related cleanup listing
- Normalize the use of "Northern Bukovina" (capitalized) and "Northern Bessarabia" (Bessarabian part of Chernivtsi Oblast) all over Wikipedia
Disambiguation :
- Disambiguate project articles and get points
Expand :
- Expand Postage stamps and postal history of Romania
Translate :
- Translate Romania-related articles from the Romanian Wikipedia
- Translate and keep in sync with the project versions in other languages: Projet:Roumanie (in French), Proiect:România (in Romanian), Проект:Румыния (in Russian)
Unreferenced : * Add more reference to FC CFR Timișoara.
Other :
- Make use in articles of the newly contributed images (about 5800!!) from the Wiki Loves Monuments Romania 2011 (WLM Romania external site)
- Review newly created Romania-related articles
- Check the articles needing expert attention or other work, and help with some of the items
- Create Awards for WikiProject Romania
- Contribute photos related to Romania at Commons:WikiProject Romania. Organize Romania related images on Commons. See also media-related tasks

WP:EXISTING

@Super Dromaeosaurus: I apologize for not following up on this sooner, but WP:EXISTING states that navboxes are meant to assist with navigation through existing articles, not non-existent ones like several of the ones in the navbox now. That's why I redid the navbox a bit ago (that and the color scheme did not look right). Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:00, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

From what I see that's not a policy but an essay and it also says a lot of "normally" or "should". I also argued that your changes destroyed the point of the template which I defined as to cover the dialects that each language has. Also you simplified the situation of Gumuțeasca and Totoiana as they're not dialects.

In my opinion we either have the template in its current status or just end it. Your version provides no informative value about Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian or Istro-Romanian while the information about Romanian would be duplicated with this template [1]. To be more blunt, a WP:TFD might be necessary. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 08:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Super Dromaeosaurus: It probably should be deleted in that case, at least until articles about other Eastern Romance languages are made. Arctic Circle System (talk) 10:00, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Only some Aromanian dialects could possibly get articles and only if Aromanian dialects becomes too large (far from being the case for now). The other two shouldn't get separate dialect articles. So that prospect is unlikely. Super Dromaeosaurus (talk) 10:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]