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Hello, I am being rather attacked and I am wondering if you would be so kind as to intervene and review what is going on. I made a page for [Political Cooperative] and I am open to having anyone edit it, but instead of doing that, all the people who jumped on me yesterday for adding a citation in [Zionism] and even went as far as to lie to get me blocked are now deleting the content from the PC page without allowing anyone to view it, edit it or improve it. Slim Virgin in particular has reverted the page to blank about 4 or 5 times. Thanks. Pco01:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sasha Cohen and unsupported facts
Yes, the language is ungainly with the Sasha Cohen article, but that's to represent what the source says. There is nothing in the cited source where Sasha's mother says she's half-Christian; it's presented as the author's interpretation. I think public official is a vague term; city employee at least clarifies what official made the request--and that is backed up by the source. —C.Fred (talk) 05:12, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Who-clauses are ugly. :) The article doesn't present it in such a way that we're clear Mrs. Cohen didn't say it, so I'll let that half stand. I still think "public official" is a vague term, and it should at least be pinned down to the city. —C.Fred (talk) 05:19, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Your edits
Hey,
I just saw the recent change where you included ''''Bold text''' - which highlighted to me as a potential nuisance edit. I apologise for the reversion, as it seems you are genuinely improving the article. --Sagaciousuk(talk)14:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi
You contribute to some very interesting subjects. Why not put up a few details on your user page and enable your email!? We can collaborate on topics if you wish. ;>) frummer06:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
With all due respect to your tireless contributions, I must point out that your manner of editing is costing wikipedia a fortune and stretches out the history thread of the article unnecessarily. I made this mistake too until someone explained it to me. You can use the show preview button more often instead of continuously editing. In this way we can see how the article evolves and expands etc clearly. Understand? frummer03:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Stéphane Dion - Elected on an antisemitic platform?
Hello Lance6968. Hamiltonian deleted your contribution to the Dion article, and you put it back. On the Dion Talk/Discussion page, item no. 24, Bearcat suggests a compromise solution that might avoid an editing war (undoing, undoing revisions!) between you and Hamiltonian. Que-Can15:47, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please read the article dealing with sock puppets before you make accusations. A sock puppet is a second ACCOUNT, not an IP address resulting from someone not logging it. Thanks. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet
You keep trying to push political POV in articles that have nothing to do with politics and making unscrupulous reverts (back to versions with typos and redundant links), accusing others of vandalism without bothering to read talk pages. Why?--Boffob22:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You're obsessed
I noticed your bizarre obsession with Neve Campbell's Jewish heritage. Perhaps when you get older, you'll learn to respect ALL human beings, rather than just those you consider to be "Jewish."
Now with 200% more Jewishness!
Yes, folks, we're moving on up. This newsletter is now the newsletter for both WikiProject Judaism, WikiProject Jewish History, and WikiProject Kabbalah. In the future, I may split them, but for now I think we'll be just fine with one. As always, any questions or comments should be directed to me, L'Aquatique.
A Special Dispatch
Just a note, not aimed at anyone in particular. By order of the administrative cabal, it is officially not cool (and possibly dickish) to call someone an anti-semite when they aren't being anti-semitic. Anti-semitic is a very charged word, and it's important only to use it when you're absolutely sure it applies, lest it become the subject of a Godwin-esque law. Remember Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In the News
A new class on the importance scale has been added- C Class- which covers articles better than start but not quite to B Class yet. It is up to the WikiProjects to decide whether to adopt them or not. Currently, there has been little discussion within our Projects, so if you feel strongly either way be sure to note so at your Project[s].
Thanks largely to the efforts of Xyz7890, a new navbox has come into being featuring Halakha topics. See: Template talk:Halakha to join in the conversation about how it can best be improved.
To Do
The Simple English Wikipedia is beginning a project of creating and improving articles related to religion, including Judaism. At the present time, volunteers are needed to propose our most important subjects for articles to be created. The official working list is here and a more extended list is here. If you are unsure of proper topics, you might try checking our lists of top importance level articles: Judaism and Jewish History. (WikiProject Kabbalah currently doesn't have such a list)
[Simple English] WikiProject Christianity is considering running a monthly drive wherein two or three top importance articles from English Wikipedia are simplified and moved over to S.E. They have extended an offer to work with us in creating a similar project for Judaism related articles. For questions or volunteer opportunities, please contact User:John Carter.
WikiProject Kabbalah is in dire need of an article rating system for quality and importance. If you are familiar with that system and have some time on your hands, please create one. It could also use some infoboxes...
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Sir Moses Montefore, a Jewish activist who died 123 years ago this month
"Censorship" of names of G-d
There is an interesting discussion currently taking place regarding whether or not it is acceptable to censor (i.e. G-d, HaShem->YodHey) names of G-d in articles to protect Jews who may be reading or editing the article. You can weigh in here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Yahweh.
Article Cleanup Lists User:B. Wolterding has generously offered us use of his bot to generate lists that show which articles of ours are tagged for cleanup. You can read more about this service here: User:B._Wolterding/Cleanup_listings and if you would like to take him up on his offer, contact him on his talk page.
WikiProject Kabbalah's only Featured and Good articles have been removed from the WikiProject, on the grounds that neither article (Diane Keaton and David Beckham, respectively) actually mention the subject's affiliation with Kabbalah. If you have sourced information linking either of these people to Kabbalah, please add it so the articles can be returned to the WikiProject.
After a rather heated discussion, there are now two barnstars for use by the Jewish WikiProjects, {{The Jewish Barnstar}} and {{The New Jewish Barnstar}}, and you can choose which one you would like to use.. Remember: barnstars are for rewarding users who are doing good work on the project or on Judaism, Jewish History, or Kabbalah articles, and anyone can give anyone else a barnstar. If you see a user who you thinks deserves a thank you, give them a barnstar!
To Do/Help Requests
If you have some spare time on your hands, we could use an article about a Kabbalah scholar named Moshe Idel. According to HG there are quite a few sources easily available, you can contact him if you have questions. Be sure to nominate it for DYK if the finished article is eligible.
The folks at Shimon Peres need some assistance from someone familiar with both the Hebrew calendar and language to help them figure out the subject's birthday. If you can help, please see Talk:Shimon_Peres#Birthday.
We get a lot of articles that are being created and not announced! By announcing new articles, you attract attention to them, and the more people looking and editing the better they will get. If you would like your new article to appear in the newsletter, add it here for Judaism and Kabbalah and here for Jewish History.
There are some 40 odd standing requests for Judaism related articles. Please make them! I would, but I'm too busy writing this. .
This newsletter was automatically delivered because you are a member of one or more Judaism related WikiProjects. If you would like to opt out of future mailings, please remove your name from this list. As always, please direct all questions, comments, requests, barnstars, offers of help, and angry all-caps anti-semitic rants to my talk page. Thanks, and have a great month. L'Aquatique[approves|this|message]20:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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