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Erlau (Hasidic dynasty)

The edits you are making to this article are unconstructive. There are many spellings of many Hasidic dynasties; Wikipedia generally chooses the most common or documented and puts alternate spellings in the lead. Since this Hasidut is being spelled "Erlau", you cannot change it to "Erloy" throughout the article. You also cannot change the JPG names of pictures; this will cause the picture not to be displayed. If you continue to vandalize this article, I will refer you to an administrator. Yoninah (talk) 08:40, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Sholom Aleichem. In general, wikipedia does not use localized pronunciation spellings. A Galitizianer yid would pronounce Erlau differently from a yeke, for example. We use the spellings as most commonly found in mainstream text and media (see Wikipedia:Article titles and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (proper names). In this case "Erlau" seems to be the more common way to spell it, even though there are many who pronounce it "Erloy". This stands to reason as the ChaSam Sofer lived in Germany, where the "au" ending is commonplace and the "oy" ending is non-existant. If you continue to change the names and disregard wikipedia policies, this may be considered disruptive editing and measures may need to be taken to protect the project. Ksiva V'Chasima Tova -- Avi (talk) 15:58, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I received your note on my talk page. I think that Avi best explains the reasoning for the choice of spelling, above. The same situation exists, by the way, on the Breslov page, where organizations that spell themselves "Breslev" exist, and are acknowledged in the lead of the article, but their spelling is not used as the main one. You cannot own a Wikipedia page, nor can you expect that a page won't be edited by other editors. I suggest that you involve yourself in constructive editing of the information on this page rather than continuing to change the spelling. Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 22:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)