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[edit] Old City

I came across an article about one of the gates of the walls of the old city, and was wondering if it would be okay to create a new 'old city' cat and move everything related into it, instead of having these articles in the main cat:

Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls Gihon Spring The Golden Gate The Jaffa Gate Jerusalem's Old City walls

Monastery of the Cross New Gate (Jerusalem) Phasael tower Shiloah inscription

The Zion Gate Tower of David Tower of Siloam Tyropoeon Valley Via Dolorosa Well of Souls Western Wall

--Shuki 21:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] need for new stubs

I think we should expand the number of Israel stubs, too much is getting lumped into the main one. {{Israel-stub}}

{{Israeli-political-party stubs}} - about 20

{{Israeli-culture-stub}} - about 20

{{Israeli-economics-finance-stub}} - >20

posted here WP:WSS/P as well.

-- Shuki 23:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be singular stub not plural stubs. Also, would {{Israeli-politics stub}} be better than {{Israeli-political-party stubs}}? ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 00:22, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Looks like it's not gonna happen. Not enough stubs, <60. I suppose that I'll retract it. --Shuki 20:58, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV pushing in Israel-related science articles

User:Thameen, who has been disruptive on a variety of pages about Palestinian terrorism, has created dozens of articles talking about an "Israel Palestine," complete with a self-created sea-to-sea map of the region. I moved one to Biodiversity in Israel (compare Biodiversity in Israel Palestine), but there are apparently dozens more judging by the links on that page; this appears to be a job for a bot, which is beyond my ken. Cheers. -- FRCP11 08:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Israeli members of Knesset

The name of this new cat seems awkward. Wouldn't it be more suitable to simply call it Category:Members of Knesset? --Shuki 19:56, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Definitely more suitable, this really looks weird. Of course MKs are Israelis. --Daniel575 19:29, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I will propose it at the CFD. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 14:58, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Congrats: Category:Members of the Knesset --Shuki 19:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Qassam rocket

Something is brewing to turn this article into relating dry weapons-specification only and leave out the story behind it. For FWIW, I'd appreciate any input on that talk page whichever way you think it should go. Thanks. --Shuki 19:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kfar Gil'adi attack

I know this is a request, but something along these lines is badly needed for inclusion on the Main Page. I may try to start one up, but contributions would be quite welcome. Tewfik^Talk

[edit] Foreign relations pages

Please see Israel-Venezuela relations and Israel-New Zealand relations. They could both use the perspectives of Israelis. There appears to be a revived movement to merge the Israel-Ven relations page into Foreign relations of Venezuela so I urge other users to vote against this. Respectfully, Republitarian 19:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Israeli military issues

Please see [1]. If you're interested, feel free to use this section as a temporary staging area - unless you know a warmer place. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 23:18, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Provided there are enough editors interested to join / to help, it makes sense to create Israeli military history task force. As for me... currently my primary interests lie elsewhere, but I'll try to help when possible. Bukvoed 19:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nazi POV pushing issues

Check here [2] and the talk page. Stormfront (website) Amoruso 23:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

The whole Iranian President issue : [3] Amoruso 01:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Palestinian POV pushing issues

user:Palmiro seems intent to blank out any material he doesn't like even when compltely sourced, reliable and verfiable, simply because he doesn't like it, on false pretexts such as "well poisoning". See here : [4]], Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, Rashid Khalidi, Ghassan Kanafani and more . Amoruso 23:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Amoruso 23:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Funny you should see the need to post this here, as none of these articles are about Israeli topics and I don't think any of the issues that arose in them were about Israel either (except the relevance of some of Rashid Khalidi's alleged views about Israel). I'd like to be able to make an offer that if you stop POV-pushing in articles about Palestinian topics, I'd stop doing so in articles about Israeli topics - but unfortunately, I've never been doing that, and neither have any of the other long-standing contributors to Palestinian subjects as far as i know. An interesting contrast to your behaviour, perhaps? Palmiro | Talk 21:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Of course these issues have to do with Israel. Palestinian terrorism often is. And it's you and other Israel-haters who have tried to whitewash the despicable acts of hamas and PLO against Israel. Amoruso 22:05, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Israeli MIA prisoner exchanges

More than half the article is about Israeli MIAs, not the prisoner exchanges. --Shuki 22:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caste system in Israel

Anyone want to comment on this article besides the need for cleanup? --Shuki 22:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

It should at least be moved to Caste system in ancient Israel, but I don't know much about the subject matter to heavily edit the article. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 04:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't "Caste System" most specifically apply to Hindu societies? The wikipedia article about it would suggest not, but there are no refs. Everywhere I've lived in Asia, it was a hindu thing, but I"m not a scholar in the area by any means and could be completely wrong. In any case, there is also a "priestly class" in those societies, Brahimns, but other groups also confined to certain occupations by family of birth, notably the persecuted "untouchables". This article seems like Israeli Aparteid, and attempt to use a politically charged term to demonize Israel in people's minds. Next, we'll be hearing about the Palestinians being "untouchables" in the Israeli Caste System. Ridiculous. Elizmr 19:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Would anyone be opposed to mirroring the He Wiki's usage of templates to organise regional council's and their constituent communities (like these [5][6])? Please let me know what you think. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 22:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Excellant idea. Do you need help? --Shuki 23:28, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

This should definitely be done, but IMO at a later stage since we'll just have 95% red links right now. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 00:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I've managed to put together a template of all regional councils (which probably needs renaming), as well as individual temps for Gush Etzion Regional Council and Shomron Regional Council, though the Gush Etzion one may have colouration issues, and the Shomron's Hebrew counterpart (interwikiied) has a פרבר distinction which I couldn't find evidence for in the yishuv articles (and two of them explicitly say יישוב קהילתי, though two also make mention of עירוני). I'm finishing Menashe Regional Council, which is the only other council with enough communities to make a template worthwhile for now. I'm also curious about how best to list the councils in the former template; I put the two "Jordan Valley" councils next to each other (instead of Biq'at and Emek), though the Upper and Lower Galilee are separate. I also tried to standardise some of the spelling... Let me know what you think. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 07:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

awesome. I thought why "settlements" mostly made by the excellent awesome work of Shuki didn't have a template yet. Amoruso 17:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Finally done, though there seems to be some kind of issue with the width on {{Center District (Israel)}}. Tewfik^Talk 05:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

On the contrary, I changed the width there before having it narrow wastes precious vertical space. I have not had the time to change the width on the other templates. I apologize if there was a good reason for the previous width. If not, every related template's width should be changed to a wider variant. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 19:12, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thats fine. I didn't have any specific reason, and your idea seems to be a good one. Tewfik^Talk 16:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

On a different note, I added Category:Tel Aviv District to the {{Tel Aviv District}} in the hopes of automatically categorising the pages it was on, but only one of them (Bat Yam) shows up. Also, some order needs to be made of the following categories: Category:Districts of Israel, Category:Subdivisions of Israel, Category:Regional councils in Israel, Category:Local government in Israel, Category:Settlements in Israel. Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 16:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind - it seems to have sorted itself out, Tewfik^Talk 20:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kafar Kanna

In the "North District" template in Kafar Kanna (and other atricles) there is a red link to Kfar Kama. However, there is an article about Kfar-Kama. Is this the one? Regards, Huldra 05:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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