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To-do edit Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: Yossi Sarid, Havlagah, Palestinian views of the peace process Cleanup: Israel Export Institute, Agricultural Research In Israel, Israel lobby in the United States Expand: Category:Companies of Israel, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Category:Israeli songs, Port of Haifa, Allon Plan, Israel Antiquities Authority, Secular Jewish culture#Dance, Carmel Winery, Goldstar, List of Egged bus lines, Cellcom, Bezeq, Diamond industry in Israel, Geneva Accord, Zman Tel-Aviv Stubs: Israel stubs Update: National Religious Party NPOV: Israel and the UN, Israeli military action in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict Other: update WP Israel banner to include rating scale Translate from Hebrew: Yuval Steinitz, Women in governments of Israel [2] Translate to Hebrew: Gemara, Chief Rabbi, Palestinophilia, David Gans, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, David Bar Hayim, Jacob of Lissa, Nosson Zvi Finkel, Bezalel Ashkenazi, Solomon Schechter, Av Beit Din, Howard Fast, Guardian of Zion Award, Martin Gilbert, Hasbara, Israeli wine, Pierre van Paassen, Uri Davis
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Contents 1 Goals 2 Assessment 3 Neutral Point of View NPOV 3.1 Advice on NPOV 4 Scope 5 Other Pages of Interest 6 Members 6.1 Members Who Are Wikipedia Administrators 7 Project Templates 8 Project Awards

[edit] Goals

• Create and maintain fair and unbiased information on Israel, including history, culture, and geography.
• Create guidelines and maintain standards for pages involving Israel.
• Work to bring Israel articles to the highest quality possible. (You can help!)

[edit] Assessment

Israel-related articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1				1
	A
	GA
	B	3	1			3	7
	Start	1	4	4	1	9	19
	Stub			7	10	1219	1236
	Assessed	4	6	11	11	1231	1263
	Unassessed	2	1	0	0	1704	1707
	Total	6	7	11	11	2935	2970

[edit] Neutral Point of View NPOV

If a page is vandalized, follow regular procedure (see WP:VANDAL, WP:AIV). Please be vigilant to keep Israel fairly represented. There is a large anti-Israel sentiment in the world. Do not be biased towards Israel, simply state facts. However, protect pages against other biases.

[edit] Advice on NPOV

I find that Wikipedians are a largely moderate bunch trying to find and publicize truth. However, there are some bad apples in every bunch who are trying to disseminate disinformation about Israel on talk pages and within articles. Rather than stand idlely by or commit the same straw man or ad hominem logical fallacies committed by the people who are abusing this website, I prefer systematically debunking disinformation, as do Alan M. Dershowitz's The Case for Israel and Mitchell G. Bard's Myths and Facts.

One way that fair-minded Wikipedians could help is by not getting emotionally involved in an argument with an anti-Semitic or anti-verifiability Wikipedian. Remember that most of these people are just ignorant beyond reason and that you must not stoop to their level. As calmly as you can, disect their accusations without resorting to their straw man and ad hominem tactics. Remember that the truth is its own defense. Lastly, remember that not all criticisms of Israeli policy are anti-Semetic or necessarily wrong. Have enough courage to treat a true claim with respect, even if you do not agree with the claimer's conclusion. And keep informed on Israel and read about her history. --GHcool 04:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scope

The project covers all articles about Israeli geography, culture, history, politics, sports, and modern events.

[edit] Other Pages of Interest

• Wikipedia:Notice board for Israel-related topics (shortcut WP:WNBI)

New articles

• Portal:Israel/New article announcements (shortcut Portal:Israel/New)
• Portal:Judaism/New article announcements (shortcut Portal:Judaism/New)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish history/New article announcements (shortcut WP:JH/New)

Deletions

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel and Palestine

[edit] Members

Rules for joining

You must be an active editor, meaning that you are regularly on Wikipedia and not only once every few months. You must also be actively involved in editing Israel-related articles.

1. Eric1985 (talk • contribs) (Creator of WikiProject Israel)
2. Zazzer (talk • contribs) (Lived in Israel) and (Studied it)
3. Humus sapiens (talk • contribs) 10:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
4. LordAmeth (talk • contribs)
5. Daniel575 (talk • contribs)
6. Amoruso (talk • contribs) Amoruso 00:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
7. Masterhomer (talk • contribs) 02:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
8. gronkmeister (talk • contribs)
9. Ynhockey (talk • contribs)
10. Tiamut (talk • contribs) (was almost prevented from joining this project for believing its intentions to bely the stated objectives, yet I am remain excited about ensuring that "quality", "balanced" articles related to Israel are produced)
11. Eliyyahu (talk • contribs)
12. FrummerThanThou (talk • contribs)
13. Michaelas10 (talk • contribs) - Yey for Israel
14. Shuki (talk • contribs)
15. GHcool (talk • contribs)
16. Elizmr (talk • contribs)
17. Shamir1 (talk • contribs)
18. Yossiea (talk • contribs) I'll do what I can!
19. IZAK (talk • contribs)
20. AyalZev (talk • contribs)-I am Israeli so i can get a lot of good info and rid wikipedia of the anti-semitism on it
21. sm8900 (talk • contribs) Material on Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
22. Leifern (talk • contribs) - already done some footwork on kibbutzim
23. Pco (talk • contribs) - Peace and information. Language is linked to peace. Honesty will bring trust.
24. Jeffpw feel free to check my edit history for Israel/anti-Semitism related contributions.
25. Valley2City (talk • contribs) - hmm... I don't know why my name is not on this list. I thought I joined a number of times. I am definitely a defender of Israel, and when discussions get heated, I remain as civil as possible. I also have a lot of good photographs of things in Israel which I have added and can add to article galleries.
26. Timeshifter (talk • contribs) I am also joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine. Wikipedia is NPOV. A 2-state solution seems like the only way for now. At least until freedom of religion truly takes hold in the Middle East.
27. b7i4g8
28. Shmuliko I mainly contribute about my home area. I'm creator of Category:Ashdod and most of pages in it.
29. Derwig (talk • contribs)
30. oemb1905 (talk • contribs)
31. Itzse (talk • contribs)
32. Greatal386 (talk • contribs) I'd like to help out
33. Phillip Rosenthal (talk • contribs) I'd like to help bring neglected articles up to par.
34. ebmonkey2 (talk • contribs)
35. Functionofxy (talk • contribs) i love editing
36. Number 57 (talk • contribs) Concentrating on politics and the election series of articles.
37. NYC2TLV (talk • contribs) Very active when it comes to Israeli culture topics. Hope to help out a lot more.
38. Yonatan (talk • contribs)

[edit] Members Who Are Wikipedia Administrators

These editors can help with POV disputes, edit wars, and general Wikipedia troubles

[edit] Project Templates

• {{WikiProject Israel}} - add to talk pages of relevant articles to encourage visibility of the Project, and consistency between Project articles.

	Israel Portal WikiProject Israel is part of the WikiProject Israel, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to Israel on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, visit the project page where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. This template adds articles to Category:WikiProject Israel articles.
Project Israel To Do (Drop-Down Menu): edit purge watch Here are some tasks you can do: Copyedit: Yossi Sarid, Havlagah, Palestinian views of the peace process Cleanup: Israel Export Institute, Agricultural Research In Israel, Israel lobby in the United States Expand: Category:Companies of Israel, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Category:Israeli songs, Port of Haifa, Allon Plan, Israel Antiquities Authority, Secular Jewish culture#Dance, Carmel Winery, Goldstar, List of Egged bus lines, Cellcom, Bezeq, Diamond industry in Israel, Geneva Accord, Zman Tel-Aviv Stubs: Israel stubs Update: National Religious Party NPOV: Israel and the UN, Israeli military action in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict Other: update WP Israel banner to include rating scale Translate from Hebrew: Yuval Steinitz, Women in governments of Israel [3] Translate to Hebrew: Gemara, Chief Rabbi, Palestinophilia, David Gans, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, David Bar Hayim, Jacob of Lissa, Nosson Zvi Finkel, Bezalel Ashkenazi, Solomon Schechter, Av Beit Din, Howard Fast, Guardian of Zion Award, Martin Gilbert, Hasbara, Israeli wine, Pierre van Paassen, Uri Davis
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• {{User WP Israel}} - another userbox for your collection

• {{Project Israel Invite}} - An invitation message for people who show qualities that we value in WikiProject Israel.

You are invited to join WikiProject Israel, an attempt to build and maintain an extensive and neutral database of Israel related articles on Wikipedia. To join, simply add your name to the members section of WikProject Israel.

[edit] Project Awards

• 
  The Wikipedia Corps tag is given to Wikipedians who have made extensive contributions to Israel- and IDF-related articles on Wikipedia.
  
• {{Bagel of Zion|YOUR_NAME}} for defenders of NPOV coverage of Israel to remember not to edit on empty stomach.