User:StevenJ81/sandbox/bgnewsclose

LangCom's statement above largely speaks for itself. We will add just a couple of notes to that:

Grigor's belief, backed up by Krassotkin, that a project can categorically exclude anyone on the outside from participating in discussions and !votes is simply not true, particularly when the number of contributors in the project is tiny, as was the case here. In such cases, potentially interested parties can—even should—be invited to contribute, as they were here. (The reason this is allowed is to encourage those potentially interested parties to start working on the currently-tiny project.)
It is almost never permitted to change the rules for discussion and !voting in the middle. In this case, the outside interested parties had been invited, so their participation was legitimate. On the very rare occasions that the rules can be changed in the middle, that change is always to broaden participation, not narrow participation.
Taking the two points above, the real truth is that if the people favoring keeping the project open had simply honored the RfD and allowed those pages to be deleted, there is a good chance we wouldn't be talking about a closure now.
The threats to call in the stewards, as well as the personal attacks on people favoring closure, did not help the people favoring keeping the project open win their case. (Note that the people favoring closure did not personally attack the ones favoring keeping the project open.)
The prohibition against a future Bulgarian Wikinews is not "forever". But at this point, LangCom's assumption of good faith toward the current team is (at best) strained. And neither LangCom nor the sysops at Incubator see themselves as competent to make sure we don't see a repeat of these problems right away. So for the time being, that's going to stick.
The issues around this project are specific to this project. Normally, LangCom does not get involved in content disputes nor in process disputes, nor does it want to. Nobody should assume that this is part of any larger issues around Wikinews projects ... or projects in Bulgarian ... or anything else. And nobody should assume they can make precedential "case law" out of this decision: this decision is limited to this wiki only.