Victor P.

Romanian-language edits

• Would you care to explain this recent edit of Klaus Iohannis you made?

Santa Klaus, Ficusul, ficusul, Marele mut, marele mut, Pămătuf, pămătuf, R2D2, președintele tăcut, președintele mut, Ficusul de la Cotroceni, Președintele defrișărilor bine făcute, președintele defrișărilor bine făcute, Ghiniohannis, Sasul, sasul

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Google Translation

Santa Klaus, Ficusul, ficusul, The great mute, the great mute, Pămătuf, pămătuf, R2D2, the silent president, the dumb president, Ficusul de la Cotroceni, the president of the well-made deforestation, the president of the well-made deforestation, Ghiniohannis, Sasul, sasul

This seems to be defamatory and vandalism?

• Also, please explain how "Hexagon" is an alias of France?

• Could you translate "cârlan nărăvaș" for me? Google Translate doesn't help, unfortunately.

• Same for cârpă kaghebistă, cârpa kaghebistă

• "Portofel" seems to translate to "wallet". In which way is that an actual alias of the person?

• I fortunately do not need help to translate "Mickey Mouse". Care to explain how it should be considered an actual alias of Victor Ponta?

thx, --Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 11:42, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, I was writing on the administrator noticeboard about your observations. First and foremost, France. In the Romanian press, they call france a hexagon (with a capital H) sometimes. because it is shaped like one (see here, here, here and here).

• Here is a list of articles with the nicknames of Klaus Iohannis:
  • Sasul, sasul. He is Saxon, and the PSD call him that way in their internal talks sometimes.
  • Santa Klaus comes from his surname and from the fact that he dressed up as Santa Claus many years ago, as related in his book, "Pas cu pas" (released in 2014, literally translates to "Step by step"). You can see Santa Klaus used here and here.
  • Ficusul, ficusul, Ficusul de la Cotroceni. A ficus is a plant, some subspecies being house plants. Iohannis is a tall president, a tabloid claiming he would be 1.92 meters tall (or 6'3.6" tall, if you are using the imperial system) and he doesn't really do much. He hasn't been in scandals and his voice is pretty monotonous. Here are some articles about this nickname: this, this, this and this.
  • Marele mut, marele mut, președintele tăcut, președintele mut. The last one translates to "the mute president", not "the dumb president". This one is simple. He is not very talkative, and he is tall: see this.
  • R2D2. His movements are pretty robotic, so he is compared with a robot. I thought I had found articles when I edited his nickanmes, but now, I can only find a video from a radio station.
  • Pămătuf, pămătuf. A duster or dust brush, literally. The nickname was given by his critics because they are implying he isn't good enough as a president, nor prepared for the challenges a presidency has to face. See here and here.
  • Președintele defrișărilor bine făcute, președintele defrișărilor bine făcute. In 2015, Bogdan Diaconu, a politician, accused the President that he rejected a proposal for the law regulating the way trees are cut. For context, an Austrian company called Holzindustrie Schweighofer at the time was cutting trees illegally in Romania. If you want to read on the deforestation allegations, see here and here. For the nickname, check this link.
  • Ghinionhannis - nickname given by Gabriela Firea, a portmanteau between "Ghinion" (meaning "Bad luck") and "Iohannis". The context is that he said that it is bad luck for him that other teachers cannot own 6 houses like him through honest work (he was a physics teacher and the interview was taken in 2014) in an interview with Claudiu Pândaru. Summary of his response, here. The nickname, here.
• Well, I did exaggerate on the entry about the President of Romania. But... Most of them are nicknames attributed by other people to the politicians I had given aliases for the past few days. They are verifiable in news articles:
  • Ion Ștefan, current minister (he has gotten the nickname "Grindă", wooden beam, from an excuse as to why his house was 910 square meters big in his assets declaration, verifiable here, here, here and here);
  • Marian Oprișan was accused of stealing wallets in his youth (hence why he had gotten the "Portofel" nickname, see here and here);
  • Ion Iliescu (Marian Oprișan called him "cârpă kaghebistă"/"KGB rag" in 2005 (here), Bunicuța is from the SPP (here and here), Ilici (here), Nea Nelu' (more colloquial, and usually used in articles or in shows, like this one));
  • Emil Constantinescu (Țapul - here);
  • Adrian Năstase (Bombonel is a nickname that can be traced back to a 1994 weekly newspaper, part of it reported in this one; while in the early 2000s, Ion Iliescu called him an arrogant (see here and here));
  • Viorel Hrebenciuc ("guzganul rozaliu"/"the pink rat/rodent/mouse/vole" is a nickname given by journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu (see here) and "sforarul și armăsarul" was given by Traian Băsescu (here and here), and you can see the last nickname here);
  • Traian Băsescu (Petrov - he is in a trial with evidence for being an informant to the political police of the Romanian communist regime (read this, this and this for insight), Marinarul and Zeus (he was a sailorman, see the nicknames here and here, Băse is short for Băsescu and is widely used (examples: this, this and this);
  • Victor Ponta (Mickey Mouse - he was talking with two lampposts behind him, he even told in an interview on the nickname that he liked it, and his daughter thinks the character is cute. Dottore: In "Comedia dell'arte", Il Dottore is a fraud doctor. Traian Băsescu called Victor Ponta this way when he was suspected of having plagiarized his thesis. (more here, here, here and here. There is even a definitive ruling that he plagiarized it. Pinocchio: During the 2014 Romanian presidential election, Dan Diaconescu called Victor Ponta Pinocchio (simple analogy, it involves lying). It is used pretty often. See this example here. And cârlan nărăvaș is a nickname given by Ion Iliescu, roughly translating to "restless bloke" or somnething like that. Ponta was 39 when he became prime minister. See here, here, here and here.);
  • Călin Popescu Tăriceanu: Slăbiceanu, Moliceanu and Răzgândeanu come from some name callings done by Victor Ponta in 2006, said in this order: "What did you call mister Tăriceanu: mister Slăbiceanu, Moliceanu. What else do you call him: Răzgândeanu?," also claiming those were nicknames given by other members of the Parliament in the past: timestamp for the quote;
  • Mihai Tudose: He was compared with Lieutenant Worf from Star Trek and was asked on his opinion about the comparison in 2017. See here;
  • Liviu Dragnea: Dracnea (nickname given as a criticism, "drac" meaning devil (read this short report from a protest). Pablito: a journalist called Dan Tăpălagă used the nickname Pablito as a response to him asking him on a television station about his website's financing sources (slightly complicated stuff, and a reference to Pablo Escobar: read here, here and see the nickname used by someone else here;
  • Florin Iordache: Ciordache - he was minister of justice in early 2017, and he passed an emergency ordinance that generated protests where at some point, hundreds of thousands of people went out in the capital city. The name comes from "to steal" (a ciordi, a less polite way of it, though) and Iordache. (see Emergency Ordinance no. 13/OUG 13/Ordonanța de urgență 13). Also read this article
• I had to look up "cârlan" in a dictionary. It means a lamb that is not that much of an infant anymore, or a young horse. By extension, it means a young guy (and possibly, sometimes, an effeminate one). "Nărăvaș" means restless or not well behaved. So, the nickname Iliescu attributed to Victor Ponta would mean "restless or not well behaved bloke". He claimed in the links I sent above that it was nothing personal. (links again, for the sake of sources: here, here, here and here).
• As I said earlier, the nickname given to Ion Iliescu by Marian Oprișan in 2005 means "KGB rag". (source: here)
• As expressed earlier, Marian Oprișan's "Portofel" nickname comes from the fact that he allegedly stole wallets when he was young. (here and here)
• And on Victor Ponta's Mickey Mouse, as said in the articles I used next to the explanantion, it is simply based on a photo, a subject that was covered here.

That should cover everything. Have a good day! - Victor P. (talk) 13:28, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Appendix (I know this isn't the right usage of the word, but...): If there were any way on how I could add summaries to edits on Wikidata like I can on Wikipedia projects, that would be great. Victor P. (talk) 14:31, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Q16898350

Vă atenționez să fiți mai responsabil atunci când modificați un item așa cum ați făcut cu Q16898350. Presupun că e o eroare săvărșită din neatenție și nu un vandalism, așa cum am crezut prima oară când am văzut ce ați făcut. Donarius (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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