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[edit] Elia Levita

You added a statement that Elia Levita wrote the first Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary, but gave a name that does not appear anywhere else on the web. I've cut it to Talk:Elia Levita pending citation. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Check [1], which references this book. My source, however, was the Junior Judaica (1982). If that's acceptable to you, you could replace the text? Thanks. Dfass 04:51, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
OK. I take it the spelling was from the Junior Judaica? In any case, could you (in general) be more specific about what you are citing from where? You're doing a lot of good stuff, but you are also going to create a lot of work for other people if you don't cite clearly. - Jmabel | Talk 05:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, when taking any substantial passages from the Jewish Encyclopedia, be aware of {{JewishEncyclopedia}} as the preferred way to cite. - Jmabel | Talk 05:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Colon Trabotto

I have removed the [citation needed] tags; everything in that article can be sourced to the cited article in the Jewish Encyclopedia. You may have been confused by some empty brackets in the article; these were places where the original article had Hebrew characters not copied across.--Runcorn 21:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Isaac Albalag

<removed notice>

Sorry about that, I didn't realise the source was in the public domain, my mistake. I have undeleted the article.--Konst.able 05:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Seems like a pretty good article. I could try to get it on the "Did you know" (from Wikipedia's newest articles) section on the main page if you want. How about:
(Did you know)...that Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher of the second half of the thirteenth century whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?

--Konst.able 06:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 12 October 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Isaac Albalag, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Konst.able 06:55, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simeon ben Zemah Duran interwiki

Hello,

When you added the interwiki I tried it and it didn't work. Now, at apparently the same name, it is 100% fine. Thank you, DGtal 18:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Delinking dates

Hi Rich. So what's the policy with linking dates? I thought I had read some Wiki guide that said linking dates is helpful because it lets people display dates in different formats. Is that not the case? Personally, I couldn't care less, but I want to do the right thing. Thanks! Dfass 14:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely right. But formatting will only be applied where the month and day number are present - e.g. April 13 or 12 May 1977. Things like "2002", "January" and "March 1997" by themselves should only be linked under normal "make links only where relevent in context" guidelines. E.G. "May" in the article Maypole or maybe "1066" in Battle of Hastings, "Friday" in Sabbath and so forth. Rich Farmbrough, 14:42 13 November 2006 (GMT).
Another thing you may find useful to know is house style on headings WP:MSH. Basically things are only capitalised if they would be in normal English usage. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 17:08 13 November 2006 (GMT).

[edit] Nathan Marcus Adler

[2]: citation? - Jmabel | Talk 00:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joshua ben Hananiah

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Joshua ben Hananiah, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a direct copy from http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=551&letter=J. As a copyright violation, Joshua ben Hananiah appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Joshua ben Hananiah has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If the source is a credible one, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source.

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[edit] Apology

Hi, Just wanted to apologise for tagging your article for deletion, I was unaware of the Jewish Encyclopaedia and its public domain status. Rest assured, it's all now stored in my head and you'll not have to worry about a repeat of this incident from myself in future, and I'll keep an eye out for any of your work to make sure nobody else tags your articles for speedy deletion in future. Best Wishes and Kind Regards - Heligoland | Talk | Contribs 16:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

still on the above, i took the liberty changing the rest of the transliterations per Wikipedia:Jewish_Encyclopedia_topics & linked one or two things. i was very carefull, thos you might want check (no background knowledge, cld have stuffed up). i sympathise w/ your comment about j e spellings, i remember taking a very long time to find, i think, the vilna gaon when i 1st found that site...  ⇒ bsnowball  10:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
ps, very good article, most of those cut&pastes frm je are really just that. & does their biblio need to be copied, not sure, but i think the usual is cite what your quoting, & if reader want to go further, they refer back there?  ⇒ bsnowball  10:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
true, none of above is particularly important :) what i forgot that might be (or less uninportant) are that a link to the e j article is needed not just to the entire thing (also as source) given that they can be um, immaginatively titled. & some of the links to volumes of talmud thru abreviations end up as double re-directs because some of the titles themselves are redirects to the relevant seder, there not yet being an individual article. i did change all that i found on that article.  ⇒ bsnowball  10:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sabato Morais

Sorry about any edit conflict; I had already rewritten it and was trying to save it when you construction-flagged it. I hope my changes helped, but in any case, I am done with it for now. Good luck! Chris the speller 20:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem, my changes went in just before you added the picture, and were not lost. Chris the speller 21:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rav Zeira

Hi dfass, I noticed that you changed the article page of rav zeira as a redirect to Ze'era. I was the creater of the original article. I think that the more corret name is the original articles name. just like Rav Huna, Rav Chisda and others. So I would like to put all your [excellent] work on the article back to the original page.

Also, whenever you want to chang the name of an article, you should never use the "copy and paste" method, but rather use the "move" tab on top of the article. This is the correct way to do it and it save all the page history to the new article name.

you can respond on my talk page. --Shlomke 16:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Great work. --Shlomke 17:14, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time of day

"downtime on Wikipedia is infrequent and generally limited to the early-morning hours (1am–5am)": without a timezone, this doesn't mean much. - Jmabel | Talk 19:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome and Wow!

Hi Dfass: I wanted to add my words of welcome and to thank you for all your additions from the Jewish Encyclopedia. Wow! You are doing a great job. Perhaps at some point soon you may want to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Categorization and add the correct categories to each article you copy, and since you have focused on so many rabbis, take a look and see if you can see how to tag your articles following Category:Rabbis and its sub-categories. Also take a look at Category:Judaism and Category:Jews and Judaism for a good overview of articles pertaining to Jews and Judaism on Wikipedia. Once again, thanks for the great job you are doing, it will enrich Wikipedia's Jewish content. Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism. Feel free to call on me. Best wishes, IZAK 09:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] borges

can't help much w/ that (unless u speak spanish) its from a story called 'El Idioma de John Wilkins' in the spanish collected works, it isn't in 'labyrinths', the commonly avail. penguin collection. i have this from a bio of michel foucault who quotes it in the intro to a book of his, so i don't even know if its been trans into english. sorry. re the above, what i was doing was changing the links to volumes of talmud to the full title (think this is better than the abreviation redirects), not sure about who fixes double-redirects. ben.  ⇒ bsnowball  10:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bolding Hebrew

Hi: Over the years a number of editors involved with articles that have Hebrew in the titles essentially agreed not to bold the Hebrew names but only the the English titles. Please ask User:Jfdwolff for his input as he was the one to insist on this. Thanks. IZAK 07:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hi

Islam related literature. peace. --Striver 12:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Palestinian rabbis

What does one make of the new Category:Palestinian rabbis and Category:Talmud rabbis in Palestine, should they be renamed to something like Category:Rabbis of ancient Palestine? so that it does not connect, and become confused with, the way the word "Palestinian" is used today (meaning the very unJewish modern Arab Palestinians, who have nothing to do with these rabbis!) Thanks. IZAK 09:48, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis to avoid confusion

Note: Many articles about the rabbis of the Talmud and Mishnah are derived from the archaic Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906, over one hundred years ago (when the Middle East was still under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks) and which used the archaic expressions "Palestine" when referring to the Land of Israel, and to the Jews living in the areas of the historical Land of Israel as "Palestinians." This is a big mistake that requires constant attention and correction, especially when copying and editing articles from the Jewish Encyclopedia or from similarly archaic sources such as Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897). At this time, no-one uses the term/s "Palestinian/s" (in relation to anything associated with Jews or the land they lived in and which they regarded as their homeland) nor by any type of conventional Jewish scholarship, particularly at the present time when the label "Palestinian" is almost entirely identified with the Palestinian Arabs who are mostly Muslims. Finally, kindly take note that the name Palestinian Talmud is also not used and it redirects to the conventional term Jerusalem Talmud used in Jewish scholarship. Thank you. IZAK 13:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response

Hi Dfass: Thanks for contacting me, see my detailed response at User talk:IZAK#Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis to avoid confusion. Best wishes, IZAK 12:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Hi again: I have responded again, follow same link above. Thanks. IZAK 07:18, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Altmann title mendelssohn.png

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[edit] Hebrew

Hi Dfass: A technical note to remind you that you need to insert [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] in order for "Hebrew" to link to the Hebrew language, and not plain "Hebrew." Also, the correct name for "Palestinian Talmud" is Jerusalem Talmud. Thanks. IZAK 16:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

You're right, it's Yehuda Berg he actualy runs the center whereas the Pa does the the thinking. frummer 06:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

created - Yehuda Berg.

[edit] Update

You said yourself it's from the 1906 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia, I think I must point out that that's over 100 years old.


[edit] Jehiel ben Samuel Pisa

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[edit] Akiva

Sorry, must not have seem the template. Best, --Shirahadasha 07:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Congratulations on the construction of the elegant template for Rabbinical Literature. That is a nice addition. -- Dauster 19:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Working together

Dfass- Thanks for the Hello- We have managed before to work at the same time on articles. Since I usually create sections for the article, then it is unlikely that we will have an edit conflict. We did OK on Isaac Breuer at the same time and on Mesechet Azilut this morning. I know there have been others that we did at the same time. I usually add sections, categories, bibliography, external links. I do not usually touch your text. All the best --Jayrav 04:34, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Article tagging for editing

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[edit] Nazuraiun

Hi David: What do you make of Nazuraiun? Thanks, IZAK 10:32, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AFD

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nazuraiun. Thank you. IZAK 13:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Have you seen this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_March_13#Category:Jewish_Encyclopedia --FeanorStar7 23:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your well-written comment on the category question; I totally agree; there seems to be a lot of underlying negativity regarding this decision if you look at the other comments for delete. Strange; one person accuses me of completely misunderstanding the issue, but another person changed their vote due to your comment which was very similar to my reasoning. Those wacky Wikipedians! sigh; anyway, I finished my quick survey of adding appropriate categories to the biographies in the JE cat in case they delete it. Thanks for reading. --FeanorStar7 08:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I saw that you edited the Kabbalah article

I saw that you edited the aforementioned article. I would like to invite you to join my new wikiproject; Wikipedia: WikiProject Kabbalah. Thanks. Lighthead 23:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Well you can play a minor role and still be a participant if you want. It's up to you. Let me know. Lighthead 18:18, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Jewish descent" versus Jew

See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#"Jewish descent" versus Jew concerning the problems of using the term "Jewish descent" versus "Jew" as well as the related proposal. Thank you, IZAK 10:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Abraham ben Solomon Treves

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Abraham ben Solomon Treves, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Propaniac 15:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Rabbinical Literature

Regarding {{Rabbinical Literature}}, you've made this a Beta - In Use template since January. Is there any hope of making it live at some point in the near future? JFW | T@lk 12:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Alexander altmann smile.png

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[edit] Image:Alexander altmann smile.png

After I gave my reply, I started writing a fair use rationale for the Altmann portrait. There are a couple things that still need to be added: 1) source information on the picture, including photographer or illustrator name if available, and publication details of book edition it appeared on 2) I left some bracketed questions about the image in the rationale that should be answered so that it can be considered complete. Please tell me if there's anything more I can do. Best, nadav (talk) 23:42, 12 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claimed Messianic prophecies of Jesus

vote now Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claimed Messianic prophecies of Jesus --Java7837 19:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Porphyry bust

Hello,

I would like to use the image you uploaded: Image:Porphyry bust.jpg, on Catalan Wikipedia, but I can't use it outside English Wikipedia because there are some details missing. Could you please upload to commons? You can use the same license, commons:Template:PD-US. I would upload it myself but I don't know the author nor the year of publication.

Thanks, --Meldor 20:52, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Circuit minimization

Please see my note at talk:circuit minimization. --Trovatore 06:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Hildesheimer_seminary_1928.png

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[edit] Moses Hagiz

It looked like an editor was using the article to fluff up Yoffen. I, therefore, removed the references to her in the article and left the one reference at the bottom of the article. --Yeshivish 07:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

One removed reference was to the fact that he was an important figure. We don't Yoffen in 2008 to tell us that he was important. It's analogous to writing a paper on Napoleon and then shoving the paper into the Napoleon article because the author of the paper also thinks that Napoleon was important.
The second reference that I removed was "Carlbach focuses on three of the most important episodes ..." What Carlbach focuses on is not important to Chagiz. It is therefore obvious that an editor (not you) put these references to puff up Carlbach.
The removed references do not in any way effect the substance of the article.--Yeshivish 15:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cue validity & Base rate

I was following the directions on the Category:Psychology page to put articles into subgroups rather that the general category Category:Psychology, a category that is so large it is meaningless. Category:Psychology is considered a problem category by Wikipedia for this reason. I got involved in an altruistic attempt to help Wikipedia out with this problem. (I should have known better!) As to your particular articles, I tried to put them in a reasonable subcategory, or sub subcategory of Psychology as that is the correct procedure. (I personally do not care what subcategory it goes into and feel fee to change it. Just put it in some subcategory per Wikipedia directions or make a new subcategory for it.)

If an article is in Category:Psychology by virtue of having Category:Psychology on it directly, that pretty much says it is an orphan Psychology article and has no fellow articles, or alternatively, adding Psychology is redundant and the article would be there anyway indirectly without gorging the general pile in Category:Psychology. Articles that are well categorized end up in Psychology through a subgroup. For example, Bipolar disorder, by means of being put in Category:Mood disorder, ends up in Psychology because the article on Mood disorder defines the Category:Mood disorder and is in general category Mood Disorder which is in Category:Psychology so there is no need of putting it in twice by adding Psychology to Bipolar disorder.

However, I am bowing out of this enterprise anyway. The number of articles in Category:Psychology is way too massive and it is a hopeless task. Most people sticking Psychology on their article do not know what they are doing and do not bother going any further and subcategorizing it. And being a psychologist myself, it is depressing to look through it, much of it junk, and I am done. Put your articles wherever you like. Altruism is overrated! Regards, --Mattisse 14:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A hobby perhaps, but hopefully not a joke.

I suggest reading Wikipedia:Overcategorization. Why makes life harder for Wikipedians, even if it is a hobby to you? I wonder if you realize how much work goes on behind the scene by others, for your hobby? Regards, --Mattisse 02:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Serious discussions about using the names Reform vs. Progressive Judaism

Hi Dfass: Please see the present discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks#WikiProject Judaism needs help - geographical bias concerns. Your input would be greatly appreciated. (They are the result of discussions that unfolded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Concern about duplicating Reform and Progressive labels.) Thanks so much, IZAK 00:37, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Image:Friedlander portrait.png

Hi, could you clarify where you obtained this image from, as it would be good to move this to commons in order to appear on s:Author:Michael Friedländer. Thanks, John Vandenberg 08:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Input with Saudi Arabian Jewish history

Hi Dfass, hope all goes well. Maybe you can help improve the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article. It links to smaller articles about Jewish tribes in the areas of present-day Saudi Arabia, such as Banu Awf, Banu Harith, Banu Jusham, Banu Najjar, Banu Sa'ida, Banu Shutayba and they all cited sources. Now User:Bless sins is requesting "sources" for the same information about the tribes in the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article, as well as making other requests for sources and whatnot. (If you like, and have a minute or two, see the discussions that have been taking place at Category talk:Jewish Saudi Arabian history.) Please help out in the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 14:33, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Isaac_breuer_portrait.gif

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[edit] Rabbinic Literature template

I reverted your latest addition to the template thinking that I understood the template's rationale/working hypothesis and not realizing that you initiated the template in the first place. Please excuse my boldness. On the other hand, I still feel my revert is justified. —חנינא (talk)


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