Talk:Demographic history of Transnistria

ambiguous sentence or two

There's an unclear passage in the article, which looks like it was translated to English from another language.

The passage is:

Historically, after one century of russification, the Moldovans were no more the majority of population in the areas of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) established in 1924. MASSR was limited to some areas east of the Dniester, until Balta. East of Balta, most of the Romanians/moldavians -settled there since the end of Tartar attacks in the 16th century- were already "assimilated" by the slavs....

In that passage, I replaced an ambiguous link to the Balta disambiguation page by a link to Balta, Ukraine, which I thought was right. Now I am worrying a bit that perhaps Bălți, Moldova, was meant? I really am not sure what the passage is meant to be saying.

By the way, the MASSR, when formed in 1924, had Moldovan majority in each of its four districts, I understand from the MASSR article. Balta, Ukraine was in that area. What does "until Balta" mean? Some rewriting by someone familiar with this area and/or history is needed. --doncram 15:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Super Dromaeosaurus - can you check if the 306,000 includes Bender or not? The EU Observer article is a bit ambiguous as it uses 'Transnistria' and 'the left bank' interchangeably. Alaexis_¿question? 19:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

I didn't think of that. I am not sure, I've searched and it doesn't seem clear. But I'd expect it to. Romanian-language sources (and English-language ones that translated them) use "Left Bank of the Dniester", which theorically wouldn't include Tighina. However, if they included the Moldovan-controlled localities at the left bank of the river, the resulting population for Transnistria wouldn't end in ambiguous "000", unless the sum of the populations of these localities coincidentally gives this number. And this term is commonly used for Transnistria as an entity anyway, much like Georgians talk about South Ossetia as the Tskhinvali Region. But the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester does not include Tighina and it could also mean this. So I don't really know. I personally think a figure of 731,000 people for Transnistria without Tighina is a bit doubtful, and there aren't figures out there saying Transnistria had at one point 800,000 or close to 800,000 people (which would imply the city is now included). I'd say it is included in the 306,000 figure but again I can't be sure. I've seen after all 250,000 figures for Transnistria [1] and substracting Tighina's current population from the 306,000 figure could give a similar number. Don't take in account the current population numbers of Tighina, they are from 2015 and obviously outdated. Super Ψ Dro 19:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, based on the data in the 1989 Transnistrian census and Bender,_Moldova#Demographics articles, the 731k number seems to includes Bender. So the question is whether it's a valid comparison. Alaexis_¿question? 20:02, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Please specify. I did not understand what did you mean by that. Super Ψ Dro 20:14, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

If the 306k number doesn't include Bender and the 731k number does include it, we can't say that the population dropped from 731 to 306 thousand as we do now. Alaexis_¿question? 07:41, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

"2015 census" column in 1926-2015 ethnic composition chart

The data in the chart "Evolution of the ethnic composition of Transnistria, 1926-2015" for the rightmost column, "2015 census," doesn't seem to appear in any of the sources. The paragraph below the chart, which discusses the 2015 census data, doesn't match the figures from the chart. The citation at the end of the paragraph, [9], also doesn't use the figures from the chart. As far as I can tell, the chart data is unsourced. Does anyone know the origin? Heisenberg1963 (talk) 22:40, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

The source provides the percentages according to the census in which 14% of the population did not specify their ethnicity. It seems like someone did an extrapolation to make the percentages sum up to 100. Probably it can be considered WP:OR. Alaexis_¿question? 19:41, 22 February 2023 (UTC)