User talk:Nadav1

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Contents 1 balfouria 2 Spelling 3 Ignore All Rules 4 Substituting 5 Balfouria again 6 Image:Traudlhead.jpg 7 Issai Schur

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[edit] balfouria

לפחות תמחוק את הדיון המטומטם בערך בלפוריה. לזה באמת אין חשיבות!

[edit] Spelling

Sheesh, I mixed up effect and affect <blush>. Thanks for fixing it on Israel-Venezuela relations. Sandy 14:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment, nadav. I have had to be exceedingly tolerant, patient, vigilant, and persistent (and this occurs across a large number of Chávez articles); I'm glad to know the problem is noticed. That cheers me up, although I have little hope that anything can be done about this tendentious editing and cleansing of Chavez criticism. Your comment is very much appreciated. Sandy 14:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ignore All Rules

Hello! I noticed your comment on the ignore all rules page today.

There's a game called Nomic which was specifically invented to show how having self modifying hard rules can be a really dangerous thing, and can cause the nomic to come to a deadlock or halt.

The Wikipedia: namespace resembles a Nomic much too much to be comfortable.

The key to prevent that kind of situation is Ignore All Rules, which makes it possible to sidestep the rules for a moment so that we can make them work again.

Two answers today :-)

• No matter how many rules you do or do not have, it's quite essential that your system keeps working. No matter how well crafted you think your rules are, if they cause a deadlock (oops, not so perfect after all), you're going to need a tool to fix that. Were you already aware that a well documented application of ignore all rules can fulfill the role of such a tool? What's your opinion on that? Do you know of any other tools that might be used?
• Your assumption of how the wiki works is not entirely correct. Most editors do not edit most pages most of the time. There's links to a pair of graphs on my user page, see if you can find them (else ask). Based on those wikistatistics, we typically have small groups of people (1-10) working on articles of a couple of K a piece. It would simply be crazy to have each editor slog through 100K of rules, just to make a 500 byte change each. ;-) And yet that's what some people expect. Is this information new to you? Do you have a different opinion?

Kim Bruning 21:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Substituting

When giving warning templates, please remember to substitute them. So for example put {{subst:blatantvandal}}, not {{blatantvandal}}. Thanks. JoshuaZ 19:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Balfouria again

Another anon (who looks to me like a different editor) has made further edits. I can't tell at a glance whether they are ok although it looks to me like the user may be pushing for a lack of mention of Arab-related geography issues there. If you could take a look I'd appreciate it. JoshuaZ 12:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Traudlhead.jpg

It was still ambiguous as to whether that image could be claimed as public domain. When it is ambiguous, I always err on the side of caution and delete. How did the uploader get this image? Did it come from the web or scanned from an archive? There is not enough summary to support the source of this image and citations to prove it would be public domain under German Law. I have restored the image with a PUI tag. If you can improve the source and tagging, then please do, otherwise, it will be deleted again. -Thanks, Nv8200p talk 13:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note - As I recall I scanned it from the book "Until the final hour" The picture was her Russian occupied sector identity card picture. Also I believe that this has no copright implications anyway {{PD-because|Under Russian copyright law of 1993 this picture is copyright free as it is part of an official document}} Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) 06:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Issai Schur

I greatly expanded your translation of the article on Schur in the Heb-Wiki, so you might want to have a look there. Thanks for making the first step... Uzi V. 21:28, 12 October 2006 (UTC)