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[edit] New articles

Hi. When creating an article about a person, you should tell more than "John Doe is a U.S. chemist", otherwise the article could be deleted because it fails to explain why the subject is notable to have a wikipedia entry. bogdan 10:32, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Ditto about Joseph Keller. He may be quite famous, as I spy an AMS Notices interview with him, but it would really help out if you just list one of the reasons you create a bio in the first place...something which is liable to indicate some notability. --Chan-Ho (Talk) 08:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lawrence Weiskrantz

Hi, thanks for expanding the article, and making clear the notability. As you have discovered - bio-stubs tend to get attacked pretty aggressively :) Keep up the good work. Megapixie 12:48, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sum of all human knowledge

Hi Newport -

the point I was making was precisely that the category was non-sensical in ways that are not shared by, say, "Great Yiddish writers" or "Mediocre British Zoologists". If you want to propose a vote for the deletion of "British zoologists", though, be my guest. I would probably vote "weak delete". Hasdrubal 21:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi Newport -

as it happens, I have a PhD in mathematics, and I do not know of any mathematicians who call themselves scientists - at least in English. (Your mileage may vary in other languages, due to the lack of Baconian criteria.) Mathematics is simply not about finding out contingent facts about the natural world by means of experiment and observation. - Hasdrubal

[edit] Isaac de Sequeira Samuda

Hi Newport. I moved Mr. de Sequeira Samuda's decent information down in the article. Was he born in England/Britain/UK? How do you use this guys last name?? Hopefully this works. See the talk page for why or drop me a line if you want to discuss further. This is also helpful for biographies, Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies). Cheers! --Tom 16:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish bio stubs lists

As you're particularly interested in working on biographies may I recommend a pair of compendia I've found useful:

This works both ways: you can find an article there, or add one from your own (extensive) list, tagging as a Jewish history stub to alert other editors. Overall, I've found it useful to check in with the Jewish History WikiProject as a focal point and source of internal links in these topics.

(Of course, if you know all this already, please pardon my rookie's enthusiasm -- just want to encourage and facilitate your activity :-) Cheers, Deborahjay 20:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olah and Hevesy

Maybe I should have been more specific on why I removed categories for these two names; I've put some reasoning on Talk:List of Hungarian Jews. Note that Georg Bekesy isn't listed as Jewish but George Hevesy is. This plus the fact that not all Jewish Nobel Prize sites list him brought it to my attention that Jinfo (the main source for this guy) doesn't say why they assume he is Jewish.

Off topic: a question I've always wondered: why is the Welsh language so complicated yet Welsh surnames so simple? (Jones, Evans, Williams, etc) 70.146.15.71

[edit] List of Western European Jews#Ireland

why delete

?? ClemMcGann 14:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the restore ClemMcGann 21:16, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again, in particular because I wrote the article on Otto Jaffe. I intend to expand the stub Charles Bewley. I would appreciate your opinion. I have a draft at User:ClemMcGann/bewley. In particular I need to refine the description of his anti-semitism. As the stub correctly states "He disapproved of the anti-Semitism practised by the Nazi party". Just, if you have a moment. (and feel free to edit). Regards ClemMcGann 18:00, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I have let Charles Bewley out, its not perfect, the tone is nearly there, the ending is weak, but, perhaps he is better out , regards ClemMcGann 01:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for Gustav Wilhelm Wolff ClemMcGann 16:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lord Kalms

Hi,

Re Lord Kalms:

"He spent his entire career from 1948 working for Dixons, and took over the running of these companies from his father Charles Kalms in 1962."

This is incorrect; the only company-running Mr. H.S. Kalms could have taken over from his father in 1962 was Dixons Photographic Ltd. Currys at the time were an independently quoted public company in which Dixons had no stake. The Link and PC World (Dixons subsidiaries) did not come into being until more than 20 years later! Mr Charles Kalms died in February 1978.

[edit] List of Czech Jews

I know that you are a reasonably experienced user, and I know that you have been involved in the article that is now at List of Czech Jews. There seems to have been a cut-and-paste move; also, the talk page associated with the article is a double redirect. Is there any chance I could prevail upon you to sort out what happened and what should go where? If necessary, I can do the admin-only stuff necessary to fix the cut-and-paste move, but I've only been semi-involved with it, and I'd really appreciate if you would sort out what is going on instead of me having to piece together the history. Thanks in advance. And if you can't or won't take this on, can you suggest anyone else reasonably experienced who has been involved? - Jmabel | Talk 19:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your attempt, and at least now there is a reasonable article title, but it looks like you compunded the problem I was most concerned with by making yet another cut-and-paste move. The article is completely divorced from its history. Please see Wikipedia:Fixing cut-and-paste moves. As I said, I can do the admin-only stuff necessary to fix the cut-and-paste move, but I'm not sure I understand the sequence of what was done, so I'm not sure where the history may be scattered. - Jmabel | Talk 20:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what's happened to the history either, I'm afraid. I only did the cut and paste because I couldn't find correct versions to restore. I couldn't do it by renaming because that would have meant renaming to a page that already exists.--Newport 21:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
That is why you should have asked an admin to do the move. As it says on Move page: "Please request a page move on Wikipedia:Requested moves if you cannot do so, but please do not just copy and paste the contents (doing that destroys the page's edit history)." I do suggest that you read Wikipedia:Fixing cut-and-paste moves so you understand the issue. - Jmabel | Talk 21:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Justine Levy

Thanks for the ref! And in French, too :) Mad Jack 17:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kelly Osbourne

She is described as "non-Jewish" by TIME magazine, and in Season 2 Episode 10 of the Osbrournes actually says "I'm not Jewish" on TV [1]. Udzu 19:07, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

שנה טובה to you too! Udzu

[edit] Michael Rossmann

Hi, I added information to the Michael Rossmann article which I noticed you started. I just wonder - if Rossmann is born in Frankfurt, can he be considered British? Also, he's a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, as stated on his online CV http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~viruswww/Rossmann_home/people/cv/cv.html. So I omitted the "British" references. Hope that's ok with you. Haonhien 14:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Physicists articles

Hey, thanks for clearing up behind my bot and adding your assessments, that's terrific. One little thing, you've been using importance of "medium" but it has to be "Mid" (Low, Mid, High, Top importance; Stub, Start, B, GA, A, FA class). Cheers! (no reply needed). --kingboyk 16:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your email to Amatulic

Thanks for the letter. All I can say, if you believe someone is a sockpuppet and can gather evidence of violations using m:CheckUser policy, then you can tag the offender's userpage appropriately; see Wikipedia:Sock puppetry. Remember, however, there are valid uses of sockpuppets. The individual in question, as far as I can tell, has been civil and able to defend his position, but willing to listen to arguments if presented logically and without criticising him directly, so at this point I can't fault him. In the case of Georg Cantor, his Jewishness may be relevant, in which case insisting otherwise would indeed a violation of WP:NPOV. However, if there are sourced disagreements on that point (and the sources are reliable, even if obscure) then I think the disagreement deserves to be mentioned while keeping the relevant assertion in place — thereby displeasing all points of view equally. :-) -Amatulic 22:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Amatulic: thanks very much for this. Cantor's Jewishness is highly relevant, because it influenced perceptions of his work both in his lifetime and subsequently (especially in Nazi Germany). I shall copy your comment to Talk:Georg Cantor.--Newport 22:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vote request

Please Vote, as per wiktionary the correct spelling is Wiktionary:anti-Semitic NOT Antisemitic. 67.70.68.51 12:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vote

Please vote 67.70.71.160 10:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Malcolm Lewis

Can you try making the article look like an article, instead of a CV? We're an encyclopedia, not a resume site. Might help. Fan-1967 16:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Not all professors are necessarily notable, even at Oxford, per WP:PROFTEST. Whether FBA automatically confers notability is debatable. Fan-1967 17:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biographical articles

I hope you don't mind but I've cribbed the format of biographical articles I've been writing from you and I think that I've even written an article that you were going to. Hope that is OK.--R613vlu 13:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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