Ali.sweet

March 2011

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ANI

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. - TexasAndroid (talk) 20:28, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Palinca

Hi, Ali. sweet. I am responding to a notice about an edit war at Palinca. First, please be aware that persistent reverting of edits is considered disruptive and a violation of Wikipedia rules. (See WP:3RR) Also, making direct legal threats towards other editors or Wikipedia is also a violation of rules (See WP:LEGAL). Both of these violations can result in an editor being blocked from editing. It is always best to seek out other editors and discuss any issue rather than making persistent reversions or any threats.

Now, it does seem that there is a dispute issue about the terms Palinca and Palinka. I saw this old news item from 2002. Can you please provide details on this dispute and provide more recent references for this? Thanks. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 21:26, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Problems with your editing

Please be aware. You are fast hitting on a number of problems with your editing here. You are coming in like a bull in a china shop, and that is simply not going to work here.

First, you are blanking content, even if it is just a redirect. There are ways of handling bad content around here, and blanking is almost never the right way. It causes a number of problems on the project. Blanking of material on the project is often considered vandalism.

Second, you are edit warring to force your blankings onto the project. Edit warring is a fast way to get yourself blocked. There is also something around here called the Three Revert Rule. More than three reverts of the same article in a 24 hour period are very likely to get you briefly blocked from editing.

Finally, whether you intend to be the one to do the legal action or not, you are using warnings of legal consequences as a club to try to intimidate others into accepting your blankings. That is not acceptable behavior around here, and is also a path towards getting yourself blocked.

And ultimately they are not particularly useful threats. I'm not in the EU. Neither is Wikipedia. Both the project and I are subject to US law, not EU law.

So ultimately you have been going about things in totally the wrong way if you actually want the redirect gone. Continue your present actions, and you will most likely end up blocked from editing. But there *are* right ways to try to get bad material removed from the project. I've already directed you to the way to properly go about getting bad redirects removed. WP:RFD It's not as easy as just blanking it, as you need to actually persuade some other people that the redirect needs to go, but it's the right way to try to get your goals accomplished on the project. - TexasAndroid (talk) 21:35, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

IMO there is no reason to get rid of the redirect. Just add some text to the article explaining the difference between palinca and palinka. It is fine for the same article to describe both nationalities of the drink. 75.57.242.120 (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes. Agreed. I think the introductory sentence should clarify the 2008 EU ruling which limited the use of the name to the Hungarian version, but that the historical product is considered traditional in both Hungary (Palinka) and Romania (Palinca). We just need some proper references for that. — CactusWriter ^(talk) 21:58, 25 March 2011 (UTC)