User talk:DanaEn
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Regarding ==WARNING FOR VANDALISM==
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as the one you made to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Pittiş. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. Please stop making unsubstantiated claims about "heavy smoking" and Florian Pittis's death. When you add info to a Wikipedia page please provide references because unreferenced facts are subject to removal. DanaEn (talk) 06:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
With the greatest respect I would like to tell you that you have no authority to post such threatening messages on other users' talk pages, as you are not an administrator. Mycomp 23:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
- That's not quite the case; as far as I can think of, pretty much any template message be used by anyone, in appropriate circumstances. The issue here is that the circumstances don't call for the warnings being issued. Immediately jumping to a "final" vandalism warning is a bit harsh, especially when it's clear that the user is willing to engage in dialogue about their edits, if you'd just consider talking to them about it. Time to try the talk page, perhaps? A little civil conversation never hurt anybody. – Luna
Santin (talk) 00:34, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Luna and thank you for your note, it is much appreciated.
Thank you for protecting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Pittiş
The issue here is very simple: the user Mycomp is not following Wikipedia's guidelines. She/he makes unsubstantiated claims about smoking and its role in the death of Pittis. Mycomp is adding info without providing references and according to Wikipedia guidelines "unreferenced facts are subject to removal". In this case, the unreferenced fact is Mycomp's allegation that Florian Pittis was a heavy smoker, but nobody knows or can prove for sure that he was (what does "heavy smoker mean? Did Mycomp count the cigarettes Pittis smoked?). Another reason for deleting Mycomp's "contribution" is that he is trying to promote an anti-smoking campaign on a biographical page. I have sent an e-mail to Mycomp explaining that this biographical page is not the place for medical information and/or education and that her/his statement is not objective. Finally I had no choice than to issue the vandalism warning. Please note that I am not the only user having a problem with Mycomp's allegations, user Galaad2 undid Mycomps' revision on August 13th explaining why (please refer to the article history).DanaEn (talk) 16:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
After talking to user Atom he suggested a few biographies of famous people who are known as smokers. I checked Winston Churchill's page and there is no reference included in the article about smoking. Why? Because it is not important. Why should this aspect be important for some personalities and not for others? Please ask user Mycomp to introduce info about smoking on other pages on Wikipedia. Until then I consider his actions to be in bad faith and continue to report him, as it is obvious he is picking on a particular page/person.DanaEn (talk) 04:13, 9 September 2008 (UTC)