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[edit] Elia Levita

You added a statement that Elia Levita wrote the first Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary, but gave a name that does not appear anywhere else on the web. I've cut it to Talk:Elia Levita pending citation. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Check [1], which references this book. My source, however, was the Junior Judaica (1982). If that's acceptable to you, you could replace the text? Thanks. Dfass 04:51, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
OK. I take it the spelling was from the Junior Judaica? In any case, could you (in general) be more specific about what you are citing from where? You're doing a lot of good stuff, but you are also going to create a lot of work for other people if you don't cite clearly. - Jmabel | Talk 05:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, when taking any substantial passages from the Jewish Encyclopedia, be aware of {{JewishEncyclopedia}} as the preferred way to cite. - Jmabel | Talk 05:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Colon Trabotto

I have removed the [citation needed] tags; everything in that article can be sourced to the cited article in the Jewish Encyclopedia. You may have been confused by some empty brackets in the article; these were places where the original article had Hebrew characters not copied across.--Runcorn 21:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Isaac Albalag

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Sorry about that, I didn't realise the source was in the public domain, my mistake. I have undeleted the article.--Konst.able 05:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Seems like a pretty good article. I could try to get it on the "Did you know" (from Wikipedia's newest articles) section on the main page if you want. How about:
(Did you know)...that Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher of the second half of the thirteenth century whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?

--Konst.able 06:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 12 October 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Isaac Albalag, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Konst.able 06:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simeon ben Zemah Duran interwiki

Hello,

When you added the interwiki I tried it and it didn't work. Now, at apparently the same name, it is 100% fine. Thank you, DGtal 18:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delinking dates

Hi Rich. So what's the policy with linking dates? I thought I had read some Wiki guide that said linking dates is helpful because it lets people display dates in different formats. Is that not the case? Personally, I couldn't care less, but I want to do the right thing. Thanks! Dfass 14:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely right. But formatting will only be applied where the month and day number are present - e.g. April 13 or 12 May 1977. Things like "2002", "January" and "March 1997" by themselves should only be linked under normal "make links only where relevent in context" guidelines. E.G. "May" in the article Maypole or maybe "1066" in Battle of Hastings, "Friday" in Sabbath and so forth. Rich Farmbrough, 14:42 13 November 2006 (GMT).
Another thing you may find useful to know is house style on headings WP:MSH. Basically things are only capitalised if they would be in normal English usage. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 17:08 13 November 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Nathan Marcus Adler

[2]: citation? - Jmabel | Talk 00:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joshua ben Hananiah

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Joshua ben Hananiah, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=551&letter=J. As a copyright violation, Joshua ben Hananiah appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Joshua ben Hananiah has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GFDL, you can comment to that effect on Talk:Joshua ben Hananiah. If the article has already been deleted, but you have a proper release, you can reenter the content at Joshua ben Hananiah, after describing the release on the talk page. However, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Kind Regards - Heligoland | Talk | Contribs 01:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

Hi, Just wanted to apologise for tagging your article for deletion, I was unaware of the Jewish Encyclopaedia and its public domain status. Rest assured, it's all now stored in my head and you'll not have to worry about a repeat of this incident from myself in future, and I'll keep an eye out for any of your work to make sure nobody else tags your articles for speedy deletion in future. Best Wishes and Kind Regards - Heligoland | Talk | Contribs 16:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

still on the above, i took the liberty changing the rest of the transliterations per Wikipedia:Jewish_Encyclopedia_topics & linked one or two things. i was very carefull, thos you might want check (no background knowledge, cld have stuffed up). i sympathise w/ your comment about j e spellings, i remember taking a very long time to find, i think, the vilna gaon when i 1st found that site...  ⇒ bsnowball  10:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
ps, very good article, most of those cut&pastes frm je are really just that. & does their biblio need to be copied, not sure, but i think the usual is cite what your quoting, & if reader want to go further, they refer back there?  ⇒ bsnowball  10:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
true, none of above is particularly important :) what i forgot that might be (or less uninportant) are that a link to the e j article is needed not just to the entire thing (also as source) given that they can be um, immaginatively titled. & some of the links to volumes of talmud thru abreviations end up as double re-directs because some of the titles themselves are redirects to the relevant seder, there not yet being an individual article. i did change all that i found on that article.  ⇒ bsnowball  10:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sabato Morais

Sorry about any edit conflict; I had already rewritten it and was trying to save it when you construction-flagged it. I hope my changes helped, but in any case, I am done with it for now. Good luck! Chris the speller 20:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem, my changes went in just before you added the picture, and were not lost. Chris the speller 21:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rav Zeira

Hi dfass, I noticed that you changed the article page of rav zeira as a redirect to Ze'era. I was the creater of the original article. I think that the more corret name is the original articles name. just like Rav Huna, Rav Chisda and others. So I would like to put all your [excellent] work on the article back to the original page.

Also, whenever you want to chang the name of an article, you should never use the "copy and paste" method, but rather use the "move" tab on top of the article. This is the correct way to do it and it save all the page history to the new article name.

you can respond on my talk page. --Shlomke 16:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Great work. --Shlomke 17:14, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time of day

"downtime on Wikipedia is infrequent and generally limited to the early-morning hours (1am–5am)": without a timezone, this doesn't mean much. - Jmabel | Talk 19:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome and Wow!

Hi Dfass: I wanted to add my words of welcome and to thank you for all your additions from the Jewish Encyclopedia. Wow! You are doing a great job. Perhaps at some point soon you may want to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Categorization and add the correct categories to each article you copy, and since you have focused on so many rabbis, take a look and see if you can see how to tag your articles following Category:Rabbis and its sub-categories. Also take a look at Category:Judaism and Category:Jews and Judaism for a good overview of articles pertaining to Jews and Judaism on Wikipedia. Once again, thanks for the great job you are doing, it will enrich Wikipedia's Jewish content. Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism. Feel free to call on me. Best wishes, IZAK 09:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] borges

can't help much w/ that (unless u speak spanish) its from a story called 'El Idioma de John Wilkins' in the spanish collected works, it isn't in 'labyrinths', the commonly avail. penguin collection. i have this from a bio of michel foucault who quotes it in the intro to a book of his, so i don't even know if its been trans into english. sorry. re the above, what i was doing was changing the links to volumes of talmud to the full title (think this is better than the abreviation redirects), not sure about who fixes double-redirects. ben.  ⇒ bsnowball  10:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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