User talk:Dauster

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Dauster, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Karmafist 23:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome and thank you

Hi Bill: Welcome and thank you for your work with the Parsha pages, they needed help and you are doing it! Would you mind keeping track of Portal:Judaism and changing each week's Prasha in it? Also please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism that you could join. Be well. IZAK 11:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Parshiot templates

Hi Bill, I just came across this at User:Jnothman/Parshiot templates and I thought it may be of some help to you. Best wishes, IZAK 13:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Succession boxes

Hello Mr. Dauster,

First, I would like to thank you for the excellent work you have been doing by adding all of the parshiyot. However, I noticed that you placed the succession boxes at the top of the articles "to avoid conflict with category box". This is not the Wikipedia convention where the succession boxes are at the bottom of the articles. I have moved them back to the bottom for you.

Thanks again, YUL89YYZ 13:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vote for deletion

You may be interested in this vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/A_wife_confused_for_a_sister. Yoninah 22:39, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pointers for the Parsha

Hi Dauster: Thank you for your regular, reliable, outstanding and meticulous work with keeping the Parsha segment in Portal:Judaism updated each week! I have noticed some small recurring issues, that I keep on "correcting", and that I wanted to bring to your attention and hopefully it will assist you and ensure the continued high quality of your edits.

  1. Firstly, Wikipedia technology does not require you to type in two complete words for many disambigs, as say when you want to type "Israelites" or "Jews" it is not necessary to type [[Israelite|Israelites]] or [[Jew|Jews]] because the correct way to do it is to just add the final letter/s after the final "]]" --> like so: [[Israelite]]s and [[Jew]]s which give you Israelites and Jews.
  2. Secondly, when typing in the word "God" please avoid linking it to "plain" [[God]] as that link does not lead to the God of the Torah, Jews and Judaism, but rather to all other types of "Gods" as well. Rather, please try to use the following disambig method, especially when writing about anything to do with the Parsha and Judaism's God: [[Names of God in Judaism|God]] which also reads as God and will direct the reader to Judaic notions of God rather than taking them away from it. I am sure that the importance of this is self-evident and does not need further elaboration.
  3. Finally, the summary of the Parsha in Portal:Judaism's Parsha section should not be in italics, but in regular font. Italics is almost always used when quoting from other books or sources, to show that the words are from another source, which is not the case in this instance since it's just a brief summary of the Parsha and not a "quote" from anywhere.

I hope that you will find these pointers of help as you continue your very helpful efforts with the project. If I notice anything else I will try to alert you to it in the future. Feel free to contact me at any time. Best wishes and thanks again! ShabbatShalom, IZAK 06:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bible verses and chapters on Wikipedia

Hi Bill: Shavua Tov ! It is important that you see the following proposed Wikipedia policy pages and their discussion pages at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Verses of 1 Kings 4 and 5 AND Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text. Thanks for giving this matter your serious attention before discussion is closed and the "policy" is set. IZAK 09:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bible verse

Good work on the Parsha summaries. I noticed that you directly link verse to machon mamre. There is a very good template Template:bibleverse that will do that for you. Also, if in the future machon mamre shuts down, or changes it system, having a centralized template allows all the links to be changed easily (instead of tracking down hundreds of links). Have a good shabbos. Jon513 09:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism

Dear Dauster! I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism. Please put it on your watchlist, and please add relevant AfD's as you find them. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] {{Torah portion}}

Hi Bill: See the following at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template: Torah portion, it touches upon your "weekly work". Best wishes, IZAK 09:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi everyone:

User:msh210 has disagreed with me (see User talk:IZAK#Maftir) about placing {{Torah portion}} on each of the following articles. He has placed the following basic objection on each page: "What is {{Torah portion}} doing on this page? Completelt irrelevant.—msh210℠ 19:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)."

In response I am centralizing the discussions here. I am also providing the full text of my first response on each article's talk page here, listed as point "Reason/s (1)" for each article, the other three reasons were the same on/for all the articles: That: (2) The template {{Torah portion}} is at the bottom of the Maftir article's page, so essentially it's part of the "See also" section which is a legitimate way of connecting related and connected topics on an article. (3) If a reader finds the {{Torah portion}} to be "too intrusive" then any reader is free to click "Hide" on the top right section of the template's heading which shrinks it to an unobtrusive one liner. Finally, (4) the {{Torah portion}} is presently diligently updated weekly by User:Dauster early each Sunday so that any readers may learn more about the weekly Parsha. User:Dauster summarizes each week's Parsha and adds some interesting graphics which surely adds life and color to a page that may gain the attention of readers who don't know much about this subject and may want to learn more. Please refer all further comments and discussions to one centralized location at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template: Torah portion Thank you. IZAK 08:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

The following were not mentioned by User:msh210 on User talk:IZAK, but should be included here to show their relevance:

[edit] Just Thank You

Thanks for the Parsha summaries. It seems like a lot of work. Good job. Onethang 03:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WoW!!

You have done an unbelievable job assembling summaries, pictures, links, and commentaries of each parasha. I am so happy that Wikipedia became an avenue to spread valuable teachings of Torah. Keep up the good work!David Betesh

[edit] Your edit to Genesis

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[edit] Your contact info

Hi Bill: You have not enabled your Wikipedia Email feature in your "tool box" on the left hand side of your user page. Sometimes editors overlook that when it's a useful way of staying in touch with other editors. Best wishes. Great work with all the Parshah articles, I am sure that you must have learned tons! Shabbat Shalom. IZAK 14:11, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Noahide Laws cleanup

Hi, I was hoping we could collaborate on cleaning splitting and writing up more articles related to 7mBn. I've tagged Noahide laws for a cleanup. I'm not rushing in, I've read them all up, I'm waiting for the readiness of a few others so we can take this on together, and have it featured on the main page sometime. Its possible, there are quite a few of us and will potentialy be a subject of interest. Again, I'm one for words and think the parent article should be Seven Laws of Noach, as in 'Sheva Mitzvas Bnei Noach'. Anything that is should be another 'ism'. Chavatshimshon 01:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Hi Chavat: Do not change that title, it is the accepted English name for it (why is it that you have this great urge to change the titles of long-establishe Wikipedia articles?) Not everything has to be a direct translation or transliteration from Hebrew. Many Judaic and Hebraic topics do and should retain their English titles. Please contact the following to help you: User:Noahlaws; User:Jon513; User:Dauster; User:HKT; User:PinchasC; User:Shirahadasha; User:Shuki; User:TShilo12, they all have knowledge of Jewish Law and experience as Wikipedians and may be interested in working on this with you. Sincerely, IZAK 21:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, please join in the discussion on the Noahide Laws talk page about cleaning it up etc. Thanks! Chavatshimshon 08:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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