User talk:John Z
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welcome aboard! I noticed high quality of your contributions and wanted to commend you for making WP better. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 10:41, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
By the quality of your edits and willingness to cooperate with others, I see a sign that you will be a great editor in the near future. Welcome aboard.
Guy Montag 07:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the start of the 6 day war page, good job. --Apyule 05:12, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sabra and Shatila edits
John, I appreciate your edits, but I don't think putting sources in edit comments is a good thing. Rather, I think they should be added to the article itself, ideally as footnotes. Editors who come along later are unlikely to look back through an edit history to try to understand that you've actually provided a source in an edit summary. Jayjg (talk) 16:13, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Poll at Talk:Terrorism
I've put together a little poll at Talk:Terrorism regarding the "lone wolf" section. Your input would be appreciated. Thx. Jayjg (talk) 19:37, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Palestine portal
Hi. You seem to be working on a number of substantial Palestine-related rewrites, so I thought you might be interested in Wikipedia:Notice board for Palestine-related topics and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Palestine. - Mustafaa 22:05, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Al Aqsa Intifada
Thanks for your note. The 13 Israeli Arabs sentence was already there, I just added the part about Asil. Yeah I agree that is a pretty weak sentence, I guess what I was trying do was add another sentence to emphasize the significance of his death to his Jewish and Arab friends while maintaining an optimistic yet neutral POV - please feel free to clean that part up, my mind is blanking. As for Azmi, I don't think he was actually hurt then, but there was an attempt by a Jewish mob to burn his house down. He apparently was injured a couple of weeks ago though, during a sit-in to protest a house demolition in Haifa [1]. Thanks again Ramallite (talk) 06:01, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Civil administration
You are absolutely right, the civil administration was established later, but since the whole thing was military rule in one way or another, that little fact slipped my mind. Thanks for the note, I fixed the text now. Ramallite (talk) 5 July 2005 05:38 (UTC)
[edit] Your edits
In case I haven't said this before, please let me compliment you on the quality of your edits in what are normally extremely contentious articles. Please accept this barnstar from me Jayjg (talk) 22:38, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Did Pakistan recognize Jordan's annexation of the West Bank?
I thought I recalled you saying this wasn't clear; could you please comment at Talk:West Bank#Pakistan? Jayjg (talk) 03:27, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
- Hi John Z, That's a good find. I was quite surprised but the source you give seems impeccable. --Zero 02:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism of History of South Africa in the apartheid era went undetected.
Hi -- I just noticed that some wholesale vandalism of the History of South Africa in the apartheid era a couple of days ago went undetected until today. An anon replaced the entire text of the article with the old text of the Apartheid article, including the bit about "diaspora Jews." Since this seems to have slipped under everyone's radar (including mine), and I don't know who has History of South Africa in the apartheid era on their watchlist, I thought I'd give you a heads up. --Bcrowell 18:27, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Silly passage
The 1958 convention could be used as evidence of customary international law, but Egypt would still only be in violation of customary international law, not the treaty itself. An argument could reflect this, but it's probably easier to omit references to the treaty altogether, as it complicates the issue for most people and is indeed anachronistic. --Cybbe 14:11, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nablus
If you are referring to your draft, I think that is a pretty good version although it includes too much from the history of Shechem. I would be happy with that version with a few edits (such as a shortening of the info on Shechem).Heraclius 18:41, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] re:Norman Finkelstein
thanks for letting me know, I've reverted back and reprotected it at the correct version. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 23:59, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Palestine - Land of Israel
Thanks for your contibution and support in the discussion pages. --Yodakii 10:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Territories under Israeli control
John, would you mind taking a look at the Territories under Israeli control article? I'd like to ensure that the issue is properly represented, and, being a knowledgable editor regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, I thought you'd be a good candidate for doing that. Jayjg (talk) 18:11, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks John, I'm confident you'll be able to help sort things out and improve the article. I'm sorry to hear you haven't been well though, hope that's better soon. I didn't understand the "ill-gotten gains" part, though. Jayjg (talk) 03:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] thanks
John,
Thanks for the tutorials and welcome message. Zeq 16:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] English-language sources
John, I sent you an e-mail on Friday, which I'm assuming you haven't seen based on your responses. I'll do my best to reply to you tonight. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 01:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
- You're the second person today who didn't receive an e-mail I sent via Wikipedia. I've sent it again, but if there's a problem with that way of sending things, you may not receive this one either. Anyway, it just said I'd try to reply to you on Saturday or Sunday, and that I didn't want you to think I was ignoring you. I'm also not sure what the translation sentence was saying, so I made it invisible until we can figure out what we're doing. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 13:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
-
- I quite liked your "crazed vehemence." It was kind of stirring. ;-) SlimVirgin (talk) 16:02, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Please look at discussion about Facts and fiction in the west bank barrier
I need your help to prevent the vandalism. Thanks. Zeq 22:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi John,
Thanks for your comments.
I agree about your advice that I will try to work theminto my editing. But I think that on the legal issue you made a mistake.
You wrote:
""although both courts rule according to the same Int'l law" - of course the ICJ used only international law, while the Israeli court can use Israeli law too. The ICJ unanimously agreed that the 4th Geneva Convention applies de jure to these territories - this is a major legal, not factual difference between it and the Israeli court. The Israeli court may say different, but practically all international legal experts disagree with it here. "
This is not true. The Israeli court decided to apply the 4th Geneva convention and it is sais so in the decision
Please read the decision, it is based on solid application of Int'l law and on facts. That is all. The only difference between the courts are the facts and the decision clearly show that.
If you think differently, please find a source (legal source) that sais so - I am very intrested to read such source.
Thanks, Zeq 18:46, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi John,
Thanks for your quick note.
Please assume my good faith AND that I also know what I am talking about. You are correct about the position of the state of Israel (the goverment) but you are not corrfect about the court.
The court addressed exactlu your concerns and sais that even if Israel does not accept that Geneva apply in the territories Israel (must) act as if it apply. So I suggest you read the decision, some of the best legal minds in the world (Barak) have wrote it.
In the prefix and in section 14 they discuss why the Geneva apply and later they rule according to it in many sections:
14, 16, 17 35, 37 48,49, 50, 26, 95 and more......
Best,
Zeq 19:47, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
PS I would appriciate help with the solving the balnket revert by well respected editor. This is not the wikipedia policy (I hope). I am doing my best to contribute from my extensive knowledge on the barrier to this article and encyclopedia. I am doing so without using "original research" although I have a lot first hand knowledge based on my work with the UN on this issue.
- Hi John, just wanted to thank you for your comments about me on Zeq's page and your help in trying to resolve this matter. I think Zeq, being new here, is struggling with POV, OR, and a language barrier, but it looks like he's slowly coming along just like most of us did. Thanks again! Ramallite (talk) 20:00, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Please vote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ramallite Zeq 19:49, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#Ramallite
Would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#Ramallite? I'm concerned with the POV expressed by some of the oppose votes. Jayjg (talk) 18:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Palestinian nationalism
Do you think you could help here? I wrote this off the top of my head to replace a POV-filled article whose useful content was near nil. I have limited references available to me to fix it. Palmiro | Talk 21:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject International law
If you have a minute, please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International law. We're getting things off the ground, hoping to eventually build a community of contributors interested in international law. Yeu Ninje 04:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] wikimodel.com modeling causality help wanted...
... facilitating quality wiki work.
I have synthesized a wiki at http://www.wikimodel.com for modeling causality. I would greatly appreciate additions to the work in progress! Thank you --Dialectic 00:23, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Golan Heights Law
Greetings. I thought you may be interested to learn that I translated most of חוק רמת הגולן as well as its three broad provisions. Regards, El_C 04:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of military occupations
Please take a look at my last posting to Talk:List of military occupations#World War II. You were right I was wrong. --Philip Baird Shearer 19:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sabra and Shatila massacre
You seem to have done some good and reasonably neutral work at Sabra and Shatila massacre and other related topics. Could you take a look at my question at Talk:Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre#Confusing_paragraph and see if you have any insight? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 04:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:Boston Tea Party
Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [2]. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
