User talk:65.37.115.197

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Thank you for experimenting with the page Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Alphachimp 04:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not doing any experimenting. This is a legit edit, and I have the right to make it.

I'm reverting the edit again, with all due consideration, because

  1. The letter's main claim to notability is it's profanity; therefore the translation should not be censored (the original text in Ukrainian is not). The strong language is not used frivolously, but in order to accurately convey the historical fact. See also Wikipedia is not censored.
  2. Your edit deviates from accuracy: you omit certain fragments that are present in the original text (for instance the reference to Александрiйський козолуп in the Ukraininan, that you deleted for no good reason from the translation) and mistranslate certain fragments that were translated correctly in the previous edit (свиней ... пасти, means to feed or graze pigs, not to be a pig, to give just one example).

Please discuss the changes on the discussion page before making edits; I am not casting doubt on your “right” to edit, but Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, and it is customary to submit controversial changes to other editors before making them, as I did with my original contribution. Freederick 18:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)