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Antlion

Thanks! Very interesting! Because this puts the whole "antlion" thing into context. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Glad I could help. Squash Racket (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiCookie

Just stopping by with wikicookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, kind of you. Squash Racket (talk) 07:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Monica Seles

I have no knowledge or real comment or opinion on the edit itself. My point was to Tennisexpert who doesn't seem to understand that there is no way for random editors to know that there had been a discussion of any type about the topic. To go and immediately revert every editor without explanation is not the way to do things here. I've worked on an article where I would see 20 IPs a day, each was reverted, nonsense removed, and a comment on the talk page. I kept asking if they wanted to keep playing whack-a-mole or deal with the actual issue and I finally just put a hidden comment about that exact issue so that it was clear to new editors that it wasn't just forgotten which started moving the argument to the discussion page where it belongs. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. This is much easier than the fun we had last month together. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:39, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for information. After seeing damage done by user:Velebit aka Standshown aka Stagalj aka... on Croatia related articles in fall of 2007 I have started to delete all his contributions. His way of working is to write POV stuff with knowledge that he will be discovered and again banned but his changes will stay in article. To block that sort of POV edits which are staying in articles I am deleting all his contributions --Rjecina (talk) 18:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Rome: link to Achacachi

OK: the link you have deleted guides to a page which can be found only by searching the newspaper's archive.--Broletto (talk) 10:43, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, actually I didn't delete it per an earlier comment above. But thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Squash Racket (talk) 14:40, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll try to understand this new thing (new to me, I mean). Thanks.--Broletto (talk) 07:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining.--Broletto (talk) 10:48, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Budapest

I that the "Islands" section in this article should be included within "Geography" section because it is part of geography. What is your opinion? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 07:50, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Probably, but there are a number of major issues with the article. I think we should pick some featured articles of cities comparable in size to Budapest and use that as a basis for the layout/section titles etc. Than work on those sections one by one and adding only referenced information. Squash Racket (talk) 07:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Convert template

Hi,

I reverted your addition of the convert templates to Israel, for the following reasons:

• I initially removed them due to a display issue ruining the article's formatting. It seems there's some limit to the number of templates/display elements an article can have, and this very complex article has reached it. I removed these templates and others to fix the problem (see Talk:Israel#Display issues - template).
• The templates are superfluous. The serve no real purpose. The definition of mile isn't changing, the numbers are constant. Using the template just makes editing more complicated, and less approachable.

Note that while I don't like the templates, I didn't act on the issue until the display issues, and they are the main cause here.

okedem (talk) 09:43, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

OK, I understand and accept. But generally these templates make it sure that one of the data won't get changed and the conversion remains accurate, so in other articles I think these are advisable. I see that Israel may have reached that limit which is unlikely at other, less complicated articles. Israel receives enough attention anyway. Squash Racket (talk) 09:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I understand that positive result, but I still think such a simple conversion can be left to editing, like other issues editors need to take care of themselves. Whatever... okedem (talk) 10:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikicookie

RCC

I left a response to your comment for you on the FAC page. Neat cookie award by the way. NancyHeise (talk) 14:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

SquashRacket, your additional edit to the communist paragraph added a notable fact but it did not change the factual accuracy of the paragraph. I welcomed your edit because it improved it. Your comment on the FAC page makes it sound as if there are omitted facts on the page but I consider that an exaggeration. Your added fact is not a worldwide phenomenon receiving constant and global press coverage but an isolated area that does not affect the majority of priests but a small minority. The fact was notable but it was not a terrible omission and one we certainly did not omit intentionally. It is a fairly recent event as the date of your references reveals. I will continue to hope that you will have a bit more faith in our work.

It is not a worldwide phenomenon, only the ex-Communist areas could be affected. But it is also clear that we are talking about more than a "small minority" here and that it is not a recent event, the few sources I added after a quick search are really just touching the surface of this issue. I didn't want to overemphasize this, because the efforts of John Paul II are also summarized in the same sentence. I didn't assume anything was omitted intentionally.

This article is definitely heading in the right direction, the FA status to me sounds like a final stage.

I hope that part of my comment answers your last sentence. Squash Racket (talk) 03:40, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Naming issues

Re Britannica: tell me about it. These are the people's real names. I'm aware that with Hungarian, Serbian and Romanian in particular the diacritic actually changes the letter and so is important. Re moving the rest: I'm on wikibreak atm and have exams this coming week, but any user can correct those, including yourself if you so desire. Orderinchaos 15:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Apologies, but I really haven't the time to fix it at present (between sleep, cooking, travelling and exams :). I have no problem with someone else fixing them in the appropriate manner and notifying me on my talk page. If done in that order, I can look through the user contribs, see that the edits were done correctly, fix if necessary, and will be happy to defend them along with my 82 reversions. Orderinchaos 16:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Wrote a detailed response. Hope it's sufficient, as I won't be around for a while (exam week here). I find it somewhat amusing, I must admit, how crazy things are outside my home project sometimes - we Australians lead sheltered wikilives! Orderinchaos 13:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

date formatting

Thanks for cleaning up Salomon Group. However, I noticed you dewikified several dates. A wikified date is displayed according to the user's date format preference, the preferred way to write full dates per WP:MOSDATE. An incomplete date, on the other hand (such as "January 2002") should not be wikified, since that won't format it, but links it uselessly to January and/or 2002. Hopefully that clears things up for you. If not, by all means let me know. Thanks again. —EncMstr (talk) 05:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, thank you for the clarification. I read somewhere a long time ago that all dates could be delinked as unnecessary, not just the month-year format (don't ask for a diff though, it was just a comment). Squash Racket (talk) 09:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a long hot dispute, and even I and admins I work closely with are divided on the issue. If I'm editing an article substantially I tend to remove year links but keep date links (until such time as MediaWiki software can correctly display dates in line with user preferences without linking). Others favour linking years, but I've never understood what purpose such links serve. Orderinchaos 13:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Film

Hi. Well, though I will thank you for adding the urls, the problem that got to me was that, from all the urls in the article, you added the template to those two. I almost never use the templates in the articles I edit, unless they happen to have been used in other references. Why? I think they are cumbersome and restrictive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no requirement to use citation templates, as long as the style you use features all relevant data (and for published sources, the data we have is relevant enough - a published text does not need a retrieval date if you cite it in its original context). There is however a requirement to adapt one's editing style to what is already in there, if what is already in there is correct - both for text consistency and editing courtesy.

As for the redlink: what I usually do when I source an article is to check out if we have links to the authors, publishers etc. (red or blue, doesn't matter). Where I know about the author and think that he or she is worth an article, I even add the redlinks without them being mentioned elsewhere on wiki. Why? Because I want to "streamline" the entry and cover all possible ground, instead of revisiting the article each time we have a new link from it (there is little that bugs me more than wasting my time doing that). In this case, I found that others had created a redlink for the author in some other article. On one hand, I do wonder myself if all NYT contributors are notable by default, but, in this case, others seem to have decided so - let them remove the links in case they change their minds.

I'm sorry if I seemed hostile. What I wanted to do in fact was to cover all these issues in my edit summary, which may render my messages more bitter than I intend them, and I was quite annoyed because at least some of the above seemed obvious to me. Dahn (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ágnes Szávay

Hey. I reverted only the ones I happened to notice. There are probably a few more, but I don't have time to dig much deeper now. You don't need admin tools to move over a redirect with no page history, though, so you can revert the move yourself if you wish. Thanks, Prolog (talk) 23:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Feature Article Candidate Roman Catholic Church

This is a formal notification. You may have no further opposes to make

The nomination of the above article was archived by the Featured Articles Director, with the comment that the page had again grown too long. He has asked that all remaining objectors produce a list of their specific problems with the article in its current form. These will then be addressed by the article's editorial team before re-presentation for FA status.

Can you therefore please post a complete list of any specific remaining objections you may have on the article's talk page at: Talk:Roman_Catholic_Church. If possible can we have this list in by the end of June, so that editors can begin to address them all in detail in July. To prevent the nomination again becoming over-long, we would ask that you raise ALL of your remaining concerns at this stage, making your comments as specific and comprehensive as possible. It would help if all your comments were gathered under your name in a single heading on the page. Thank you. Xandar (talk) 01:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Re

just wanted to say thanks for your help regarding the article "romanian crime in europe" and sorry for modyfing your comment. All the best Rezistenta (talk)

No worries, just please don't edit others' comments next time. Mine was meant to be helpful there. If the quote is supported by a reliable, neutral source, better to just leave it there as it speaks for itself. Squash Racket (talk) 16:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

194.160.75.10

Szia Squash Racket! I am thinking of this IP editor that He is Svetovid. Because this is an old account and Svetovid is a collage student. Maybe He use this account from his grandparents' computer. This IP editor mentioned a consensus in his summary here:.Later Svetovid mentioned a consensus in his summary also: --Nmate (talk) 12:53, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Re:Transylvania

My administrative status has nothing to do with what went on there. Just because I am an administrator does not mean anything for what I did there.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 11:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to indicate you have nothing to do with past week's "heated editing", so no need to blind revert your changes by anyone. Does commenting out the whole infobox solve the technical problems? To me that too is OK. Squash Racket (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Whale tails need your help

I have trying to put together a comprehensive story of the Porsche 911 whale tail rear spoilers. But, the without much prior knowledge, the more I am delving into the stuff the ore I am getting lost. May be you can help. Take a look, please. Aditya 15:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

IP reporting

ANI reporting: please help me to understand your problem. Have I done something wrong? My IP address: 212.17.85.18 IP country: Austria IP Address state: Wien IP Address city: Vienna

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Carpaticus (talk • contribs) 10:25, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: Edits

 Done I removed all the ones I could find. (I'm using Huggle so I may have missed a few) My apologies as I was unaware of that discussion. Regards. Thingg 03:43, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Rebecca Soni

Thanks for the English reference about her ancestry. I was trying to find some links myself, after read the Hungarian article, but found none so far.
I saw your many contributions to Hungarian-related articles, are you Hungarian yourself, or just interested in our country?
Regards, Gruen (talk) 14:46, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:Taylormade

Hi Squash Racket - I've moved Taylormade back to where it was. It's easier for searching purposes if a dab page simply has the name of the item being searched for, rather than having "(disambiguation)" in brackets after it, especially when it's equally likely that readers will be searching for different items of that name. Given the high profile of one company with a variant of this name (Taylor-Made), and the fairly high profile of another company with this actual name as part of it (Taylormade Productions), it would be difficult to name either as the primary topic. In fact, googling Taylormade brings up Taylormade-adidas as the first hit and Taylormade Productions as the second, so they are likely to both be prominent search terms. A third company - which I've added to the dab page - came up next in the search - ahead of any other site connected to TM-adidas (such as golfing supply companies). It therefore makes more sense to keep the dab page at Taylormade, as is recommended at WP:Disambiguation ("The title of a disambiguation page is the ambiguous term itself, provided there is no primary topic for that term."). Grutness...wha? 23:48, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

If Taylormade Products would be equally important, then I think it would at least have its own article on Misplaced Pages by now, but as you wish. Squash Racket (talk) 05:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Central Europe

This edit is not 100% right. Vojvodina didn't correspond completely to the area that belonged before WW1 to Austria-Hungary. I'm talking about a small area located noth of the rivers Sava and Danube which have been included to Belgrade area (Palilula, Zemun and Surcin. See this map). I think the mention of Northern Serbia without any specification concerning Vojvodina is, at least, neutral. --Olahus (talk) 21:01, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to help the reader understand the subject. Does it really matter if the administrative assignment slightly changed since? Serbia is frequently associated with the Balkans, and northern Serbia is even less exact than referring to Vojvodina specifically. Squash Racket (talk) 05:08, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I asked for it because there was a Serbian user who insisted to say that the (entire) Belgrade are is in Central Europe (though Palilula, Zemun and Surcin comprise not even 1/4 of Belgrade area). That's why I opted for a simple phrase. --Olahus (talk) 17:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

• a user insisting on this is not good enough reason (happens all the time)
• if even Vojvodina as a whole is rarely considered part of Central Europe, why is that user so sure about those four municipalities of the Belgrade area?
• again: northern Serbia is less correct and less intelligible for an average reader than pointing to Vojvodina, I only left there the "simple phrase" in brackets to avoid an unnecessary debate
• I would also include the simple phrase Transylvania instead of/besides "parts of Romania", it would definitely help readers understand the otherwise strange looking map.

Squash Racket (talk) 09:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Hungarian Americans

Hi Squash,

The images you added back aren't verifiable as Hungarian Americans. I have a list at the bottom of that page though, of people who are, so if you want to add images, or have me add images, please do so/say so. Bulldog123 (talk) 06:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

"Having Hungarian ancestry" doesn't matter. That's the point. You need a verification to prove these people are "Hungarian Americans" not simply "having of Hungarian ancestry." Thanks on the Szabo catch. He was mistakenly put on the List of Hungarian Americans, which I'm revising and I overlooked him. Bulldog123 (talk) 06:19, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Having Hungarian ancestry makes an American a Hungarian American. All the information is easy-to-check in the respective articles.
I would ask you to be more careful after a number of warnings from several editors and edits like that on your talk page. Squash Racket (talk) 06:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

It's the same user over and over. He's just got a screw loose. Unfortunately Squash, you're being difficult and not listening. I can't let you put people who aren't WP:V on Hungarian Americans or List of Hungarians, which is why I'm moving those who are to the mainpage. Also I know about the 3RR. Bulldog123 (talk) 07:39, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Please continue on the talk page. Both Pulitzer and Barrymore are Hungarian Americans as the references prove it. Squash Racket (talk) 07:59, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Look I don't want to argue with you bacause my heritage is from Transylvania and despite the historical missunderstandings between our countries Romanians and Hungarians live now peacefully as friends over there. As a matter of fact one of my best friends is hungarian . So we should cooperate instead of becoming enemies or anything. All the best Rezistenta (talk) 17:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

So far your editing pattern didn't look too cooperative. I don't want unnecessary fights, so how about using inline templates (like citation needed) and the talk page before making controversial edits? Squash Racket (talk) 18:04, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Well this article lasted long in this wrong version and I tought I should set the views a little more balanced. Sorry if I wasn't so cooperative before but sometimes I'm lighting up very quick Rezistenta (talk) 18:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

John Hunyadi

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Yes, you are correct in your comments on User talk:AGK; in trying to give each user equal treatment, I ended up being unfair towards you. I withdraw my warning, in the hope that the underlying message (it's time to proceed to dispute resolution: the Talk:John Hunyadi is clearly not working) still gets through.
Best, Anthøny ✉ 11:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Grammar & Style

Hi, your last edits of the Transylvania page are quite meaningless, don't you think? The text resulted after your intervention: The first occurance of a somewhat similar phrase to this phrase referring to a forest... Please try to avoid word repetitions and grammar mistakes. Thanks! Carpaticus (talk) 20:37, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Adding this paragraph was quite meaningless per WP:SYNTH. If you try to be exact (without making a revert as I pointed out in the edit summary), it results in a style like that though I don't see mistakes in grammar.

Please try to avoid violations of WP:SYNTH and don't confuse the readers regarding the etymology. Thanks, Squash Racket (talk) 05:07, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Map of Hungary with Kosovo

I really don't care what your views on Kosovo are, nor do I care what the Hungarian government says, the general view on Kosovo (according to the UN and the majority of countries of the world, as well as the general Misplaced Pages consensus on Europe maps) is that it is a part of Serbia on maps. This is done with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, or Transnistria and other breakaway provinces not recognized by the UN and most countries in the world, and Kosovo is no example, no matter what your opinion on Kosovo is. So stop reverting. Thanks :) --GOD OF JUSTICE 00:58, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

• if you don't care about my views on Kosovo, why should I care about yours?
• if you don't care about what the Hungarian government says who will ever care about the Serbian?
• for example Germany has a Europe map with Kosovo on it...
• making comparisons between Kosovo and South Ossetia/Abkhazia/Transnistria is a bit dull effort, don't you think?
• do you have anything to do with that user?

Squash Racket (talk) 10:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

56 again

! thanks István (talk) 18:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Squash Racket (talk) 18:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Román vandál

Üdvözletem! Nem szeretnék most itt angolul írni, nehogy megsejten valamit egy román vandál gyerek. Rezistentáról van szó. A Hungarian peoplesnél megvádol vandálsággal, kiszedi az információkat (az 1millió 400 ezer magyar csak Erdélyben van, azon kívül vannak a moldvai csángók ami + 200 000) ezt ő nem értette meg, le van írva szintén a wikipédián is angolul. Tehát 1millió 600 ezer magyar lehet Romániában. Nem beszélve arról, hogy Hunyadi Jánost teljesen románná alakította át, engem figyelmeztettek hiába adtam forrásokat, örülnék ha össze tudnánk fogni itt páran és szent háborút az aggresszor oláhok ellen!

Tiszteletem! MagyarTürk (talk)

Roman Catholic Church

Hello, you are receiving this message because you voted in the last FAC for this article. Currently, it is undergoing a peer review and I invite you to come view the page and offer any suggestions for improvement here . Over the past three months, the page has been improved with additional scholarly works, trims, two new sections suggested in and attention to concerns raised during the last FAC. Thanks in advance for your time, attention and help to bring this important article to FA. NancyHeise 23:38, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to a discussion

I invite you to participate at this discussion. Cheers! --Olahus (talk) 19:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Piped links

Please note that it is unnecessary to replace ] with ], as you did here. Redirects are a feature, not a bug. --Sable232 (talk) 01:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Library of Congress

Writing twice on the same subject in the same article is superfluous. For me, both the article's present text or the statements deleted are acceptable, but in the latter case, the "Romanians" part of the present text should be deleted. Borsoka (talk) 17:39, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

The reference "Transylvania, Walachia, And Moldavia From The Eleventh Century To The Seventeenth Century", A Country Study: Romania. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress has a ISBN number? Can be found enywhere on-line or in a library? Thanks! Carpaticus (talk) 12:36, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Here. Squash Racket (talk) 12:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Animated figure of the full golf swing

I saw that you moved the full golf swing to the hitting a golf ball section of the Golf article. I agree with you that it fits better there, but I feel somewhat responsible that the opening section is left with no image. I deleted an image of a golf ball next to a hole there for favor of the golf swing image, but the reason for deletion (that a visitor from planet X would gain no insight from the image of a golf ball) is still valid. So I'm asking for your help in figuring out an appropriate image for the opening section, The image of Tiger Woods was one possibility that I came up with. What do you think?Eaglebreath (talk) 20:27, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Idle question,

On the AN/I topic, you said two admins intervened. I only see one, who is the other?— Dædαlus /_Improve 10:38, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

I know this is rather late, but I'm not an admin.— Dædαlus /_Improve 07:22, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

slovakisation

thank you, you give only facts covered with sources, personal attack is absurdity. --Nina.Charousek (talk) 16:14, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

In his edit summary Hobartimus referred to the usual practice which means the addition of "citation needed" tags to articles and when no citations are added in a week these may be removed. So the personal attack wasn't justified. Squash Racket (talk) 10:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

you are not right, only english speaking reader can not proof this source, Hobartimus did give his own implementation, that was not covered with this source and you make the same in your last edit, use of both names is in general accepted and can not be insists on the grammatically incorrect version. --Nina.Charousek (talk) 11:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

if news are important enought, it is possible to find english sources. --Nina.Charousek (talk) 12:18, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

You removed it, Hobartimus added it back (so that is NOT "his own interpretation") asking you to add a "citation needed" tag which is - I'm repeating myself - the usual practice here.

The grammatically incorrect version is adding Slovak language names in Hungarian language sentences and the cited article mentions that specifically (see the part about Fico).

if news are important enought, it is possible to find english sources - that is your opinion, NOT a valid reason for removal of a Hungarian newspaper of record. Thank you. Squash Racket (talk) 12:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Yesterdays (band)

Hello. May I please ask you to weigh in here? Apparently, there may be reliable sources on this subject in Hungarian, but it would be useful to have someone who knows the language to help us confirm that. Thank you. -- Biruitorul 20:59, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I added a short comment. Squash Racket (talk) 16:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Transylvania

Hi! This text is in the public domain, so I simply copied it here from the website of the Library of Congress. I don't think it needs changes. Squash Racket (talk) 14:58, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Squash, I certainly don't want to get involved in a content dispute in this article since I know zip about it(even though that usually doesn't slow me down) I was more trying to copy edit for neutrality and readability of the text. I do not believe I radically changed the emphasis of the material since that was not my intent. Anyways, again, I have no "side" on this since I know zippo about the facts or the "truth". Cheers! --Tom 15:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries

The message I left regarding edit summaries was based on the 8 edits you made to Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. My message was meant only as a friendly reminder. Have a great day. :-)

—BMRR (talk) 16:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, hello Squash Racket!

Saw your food related changes... Wonder if you can help me . I thougt about adding a new section to Hungarian cuisine, called: Special occasions. About food eaten at Christmas, Easter, well you know. Unfortunatally I am a bit uncertain about these Hungarian eating and drinking habits. Would you care to help out with any suggestions??

Cheers

Warrington (talk) 13:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. ~My mom has Hungarian ancestors but she told me that she is not sure about Hungarian Christmas dishes, their family allways had deviled eggs - töltöt tojas in mayonaise, potato salad and cakes like Bejgli and fruit wine. Does not sounds like regular Hungarian Christmas dishes, or what do you think?

My intentiom was to try to develope further the article Hungarian cuisine, I mean. Not adding cathegories to the different articles, if is that what youwere saying in your last xcomment.

Warrington (talk) 15:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I just added those because somebody put on a big tag orphaned article. I hoped that some other countries will find the dish and add some more info.

Well, about my family, it is a bit difficult, we lived in so many countries (America as well) and we have American, Hungarian, Norvrgian, Italian and South-African relatives as well.

And what about you?

Warrington (talk) 16:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you!

Warrington (talk) 16:37, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Saffron?

I am having trouble with a suposedly American user who thinks that saffrron is a typical Hungarian spice. He is adding saffron all the time on Hungarian spices. I am absolutely sure that saffron is not a typical Hungarian spice. Need help!!!

see his new comment on Hungarian cuisine talk page and his last change in the article. He thinks I do not know about Hungarian food!!

Many of the authentic Hungarian recipes he includes use spices like saffron. One must remember that although Hungary today is only the size of Indiana, there are different regions of the nation. The food in the Dunantul is not the same as on the Alfold. The food in the far south and Serbia is not the same as the Felvidek (north) and Slovakia

Warrington (talk) 08:56, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Right.

Please, could you explain this to this saffron enthusiast on the Hungarian cuisine talk page? He is edit warring on adding saffron to Hungarian spices, please, will you?

Warrington (talk) 09:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Aha! that is a Transylvanian spice, see

Származása, élőhelye

Elvadulva az egész Kárpát-medencében megtalálható, főleg üde akácosok aljnövényzeteként.

Felhasználása

Zöldség- és csontleves, baromfiételek, báránysültek, de saláták, mártások ízesítője is. Kiváló még sült húsok, főleg báránysültek, tojásételek fűszerezésére is. Kora tavasszal megjelenő zsenge hajtásaiból salátát is készítenek, később a levelek már keserűvé és rágóssá válnak. Mindenféle gomba, gombás ételek és gombás mártások elengedhetetlen füszere. Íze erősen eltér a petrezselyemétől, mivel gyenge, zamatos levelei édeskések és ánizsillatúak – ezért édespetrezselyemnek is nevezik. A francia konyha kedvelt fűszere. Levesek, saláták, mártások ízesítője. Kiváló még sült húsok, főleg báránysültek, továbbá tojásételek fűszerezésére is. A francia konyha által használt „fines herbes”, azaz finom fűszernövények egyike.

Illóolaj tartalma 0,3%: főként entragol, apiin-glikozidot, keserűanyagot tartalmaz.

Gyógyhatása

Teája vese, hólyag, és légző-, és emésztőszervi megbetegedéskor jó hatású, kitűnő salaktalanítószer.

Yes you are right http://www.csor.hu/node/183?page=1

and I think saffron is an old spice which was used in Hungary in the Middle ages http://www.gourmandnet.hu/konyha/site.php?tpl=theme&id=71

http://www.mon.hu/engine.aspx/page/article-detail/cn/boon-news-ed07-20051022-021107/dc/im:all:health-family http://network.hu/gelleon/blog/kl%C3%A1ri-blogja/kozepkori_magyar_konyha-4132

Of course I understand Hungarian, and German and Norvegian and Swedish and Danish and some French and Dutch. But I am not an expert on every Hungarian topic, except food. And I make mistakes when writingh in Hungarian… And I really don't know what Hungarian Ghristmas food is, I still don't. Do Hungarians really eat fish soup at Christmas??

Warrington (talk) 10:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Is there anyone who is?

Warrington (talk) 11:00, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		To you

Warrington (talk) 21:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Problem

He is calling everybody administrator. If will make him happy.... User is having serious problem. He need to find explanation for his "discovery" of 6 months old discussion which was deleted. All users which have supported "his" position about this discussion are banned for being puppets of banned users.

I am going on noticeboard because this must stop. He has writen in 3 days books on wikipedia--Rjecina (talk) 05:14, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

In the end I will wait for things to calm down.--Rjecina (talk) 05:37, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Simple speaking all users which has used that source are banned. Who know why, but this is raising interesting question ? If you want more information you need to write email, because I am going on short wiki vaccation.--Rjecina (talk) 05:55, 17 February 2009 (UTC)