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Could you please stop inserting part about Coca tea to Tea? Coca tea is made from leaves of Coca (Erythroxylum coca). Tea is made of leaves of Camellia sinensis. The Tea article is about tea, not about every social drink drunk at the planet made by infusion, which would include not only Coca team, but also all herbal teas, Rooibos, Yerba mate, etc. Thanks. --Wikimol 19:37, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Coca tea edits

Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Coca tea. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Veyklevar 07:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Joe, Veyklevar is correct. Please read WP:VAND; removing other people's comments from talk pages is vandalism, as is removing warnings from your own talk page. You are free to rebut assertions by adding your own comments, but please do not remove material. Additionally, I am about to propose the merger of Coca tea with the main article on Coca. Your comments on that would be appreciated. Choess 20:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for leaving a polite comment on my talk page. From my understanding of policy, while it's acceptable, if a bit controversial, to remove personal attacks from one's own user page, I don't believe that's the case for article talk pages. (This is as much for the protection of the attacked persons as anyone else, since a history of attacks would be part of a case against persistently disruptive users.) In any case, removing the entire comment for a personal attack in one part of it is definitely excessive. However, I now believe that you have been editing in good faith, something that wasn't clear when you were just reverting — in general, discussion on the talk page is a good way of defusing revert wars. I will leave a comment for Veyklevar instructing him to refrain from personal attacks, and then leave a comment on Talk:Coca tea with links to some of the relevant policies to the disputed content (such as external links). I hope the two of you will be able to reach a consensus on what changes should be made to the article. (BTW, you can sign and date comments automagically by placing ~~~~ after your comments.) Yours, Choess 00:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, as you did to Talk:Coca tea, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Veyklevar 04:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]