I suspect that your complaint will be the tipping point and these
"translations" will be removed in the next few days :)
Philip and I had dinner on Wed night, and we discussed this.
The point that seems to be bothering him is a toss-up between exactly
what this thread is about and killing off old translations that may
or may not have some valuable translated content (plus the fact that
it looks nice to have a ton of translations).
(Philip, feel free to jump in any time and correct me if I'm
misrepresenting the situation.)
Anyway, an idea I came up with as a compromise is to have a list of
"recommended" translations that would be easily selectable on
my.php.net, and a list of "at your own risk" translations that would
be slightly more difficult to select.
That way, we could push the 8(?) good translations and back-burner
the others without taking anything away or insulting people who've
worked hard on those now-dead (or at least hibernating) translations.
S