User talk:Frikle

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Frikle, I've put lifnei iver on WP:VFD. This is much too detailed for wikipedia. I'm sorry for the good work you've done to it, but this article should have been deleted in March... I'm working on a special project for articles on Judaism on Wikipedia, together with user:Fintor. Interested? JFW | T@lk 23:26, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Well, looking on WP:VFD#lifnei iver it seems lifnei iver is here to stay! I've added some material, and I keep on wondering if anyone looking on a general encyclopedia will ever want to read about this. Perhaps Jewpedia might have been a better resource.
Wouldn't we love a wikified Gemara? Click on Abayei, get his biography! Click on Pesach, get a review of Pesach-related material. Click on Teiku, get a list of all Teiku 's in Shas!!
It seems you have made anonymous edits before getting your present username. Make sure you have your "anon" edits credited to your name! JFW | T@lk 11:00, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Categories

Many Jewish articles have grown a list of categories. While I applaud this categorisation, I feel there is a lot of overlinking (all articles were suddenly in Category:Rabbis, while this was unnecessary). I have deleted a large number of instances and discussed this with User:IZAK, who did most of the categorisation. You might care to review the categorisations whenever you edit a Jewish page... JFW | T@lk 12:09, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Attribution of edits

Hi, you mentioned that I should get my previous anonymous contributions credited to my account. Do you know how to do this? (from my talk page)
You'll have to identify the edits yourself, and then list them on Wikipedia:Changing_attribution_for_an_edit. A developer (who are generally quite busy) will change the attrib to you. JFW | T@lk 13:37, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Shalom

Hi Frikle:I just wanted to say hello, and to let you know that I have seen your work and I want to encourage you to continue as you are doing. I do NOT agree with JFW | T@lk that there should be some sort of "statute of limitations" on entries concerning anything about Torah and Judaism. I think his comment about "Jewpedia" stinks, and that he should be ashamed of himself, can you imagine someone criticizing Christians for addding "too many details which should go in 'Christianpedia'" ? The whole idead of Wikipedia is that it is an OPEN encyclopedia and no-one has the right to start limiting articles. Take a look at how many articles JFW | T@lk adds on Medicine, since he is a Dr. he is blind to the fact that most people don't give a hoot about all the DETAILED medical information he never tires of giving...and no-one tells him "This is not Medipedia"...So keep up your good work and do as you see fit, Wikipedia needs MORE people like you. Once again again, best wishes. By the way, you can see the method of categoriztion for all things Jewish at Category:Jews and Judaism where I am trying to craete a systematic order out of anything related to Jews, Judaism and Israel. IZAK 02:17, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

IZAK, for the record: I am certainly not against a proliferation of Jewish articles on Wikipedia. I appreciate that I'm a deletitionist on Jewish articles while warmly encouraging medical curiosities like TTP and Amiodarone. My view is based on the fact that Jewish articles very quickly attract POV problems. It's a matter of time before lifnei iver gets a seperate paragraph that will tell us the views of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, who ride roughshod through some Acharonim before telling us that everything depends on your own perceptions, basing themselves on a misreading of Rashi on the posuk... This doesn't happen to TTP and Amiodarone.
I am not involved in Jewpedia, and similarly I don't care for Medipedia or WikiMD (two medical wikis). JFW | T@lk 10:26, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi Frikle, thanks for your thoughts on IZAK's talk page. As I asked IZAK, perhaps we should indeed start a WikiProject Judaism and work out together if we should have some form of standard for articles pertaining to Judaism.
An example: lots of material is actually from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, which is now public domain. This material bears the imprint of the "Wissenschaft des Judentums" school that would later develop into Conservative Judaism, and hence a lot of these articles need a lot of work. A glance at Nahmanides should give some food for thought. An example of some improvals is Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, which I wikified and updated from a 1906 article.
I'll try and draft some form of "statement of intentions" for a Wikiproject. We will probably have user:IZAK, user:Fintor, user:RK and ourselves as participants. Please tell me how you feel about this. JFW | T@lk 12:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Hebrew language vs. "Canaanite languages"

Hi, please see:

Request for assistance in a conflict between users regarding Canaanite and Hebrew linguistics articles

Your interest and input would be appreciated. Thank you. IZAK 09:31, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • Update: The above discussion was moved to Talk:Hebrew languages as you know. Your comments were helpful, and your continued input is appreciated. Thank you. IZAK 06:47, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish Wikiproject

Mazel tov, it's here! Ezra Wax has commenced the "Judaism" WikiProject! The bris is next week. JFW | T@lk 14:11, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages Your input will be crucial. IZAK 08:27, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Edit attribution

Hi Frikle. Edits from the 4 IPs you requested (211.30.43.60, 211.30.43.184, 211.30.51.79, 211.30.46.184) have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 06:08, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

[edit] Vote

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Occupation of Palestine

[edit] Vote: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis. Thank you. IZAK 09:26, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Need for support

See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IZAK. Thank you. IZAK 02:56, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade

Vote "NO". Opposed to SamSpade's unfriendly views in the Jew article. IZAK 08:46, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Middle_East_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Islamic_terrorist_organizations and this one too: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Jewish_terrorist_organizations

IZAK 10:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion for IZAK

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence. Thank you. IZAK 07:07, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Hebrew Bible verses

Hello Frikle: See the verses in Category:Hebrew Bible verses with the two samples so far: Genesis 1:1, and Genesis 1:2. Is this the way the Torah verses should be "presented"? (Compare with the verses in Category:New Testament verses.) At what point should the classical teachings of famous meforshim be inserted, and in what way and how much? The time to decide on this is now, because at this stage the "project" is still being "formed" by User:Neutrality alone. Thank you. IZAK 03:04, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Review...?

Hey Frikle... I'm in the middle of making my first article, and am afraid that it is not quite right for Wikipedia. Review would be great. Zionist youth movement --jnothman talk 14:04, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Decalogue

FDuffy (talk · contribs) has been working his magic on Ten Commandments. Please review the edit history. JFW | T@lk 12:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gamliel

Hi Frikle: Would you like to add to the article Gamliel please? Thank you. IZAK 09:27, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry but firstly I've got my last weeks of uni and secondly I don't know how to differentiate between the various Gamliels. If someone starts some of these, I might have something to add though. Frikle 10:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Choy Lee Fut

Category:Traditional_wushu and Category:Contemporary_wushu use definitions from their respective subsections in wushu. These have existed since 2004. Shawnc 03:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of High Priests of Israel

Hello Frikle: What do you make of the characters on List of High Priests of Israel, especially the latter-names, they don't sound Jewish to me at all. IZAK 09:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, there seems no problem with the fact that many of the latter names are Greek because of the influence of Greek culture and the fact that the office of Kohen Gadol was at times bought and thus could have easily been taken by a Hellenophile Jew who wanted to divorce himself from all things Jewish including with a Greek name. However without sources there's no way to tell if these are just made up so I guess there's no place for this article if it's unsourced. Frikle 13:29, 28 November 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism

Dear Frikle! I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism. Please put it on your watchlist, and please add relevant AfD's as you find them. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism

Hi Frikle: Thought you would be interested in the latest adventure that has started at Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism (perhaps you may want to join) and the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism. Shabbat Shalom. IZAK 12:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mortgage Calculator

Hi Frikle. Many thanks for removing the spam link from Mortgage Calculator today. Your help in keeping spam of Wikipedia is greatly appreciated. Could I ask that when you revert this sort of edit, you also leave an appropriate test message on the user's talk page? In this case a {{spam2}} message on User talk:69.181.91.135 would have been helpful. This reinforces the message to the user that their edits are inappropriate and helps other editors see the history of this user's spamming activities when they visit the talk page in the future. Many thanks, Gwernol 21:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

sure Frikle 23:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your contact info

Hi Frikle: Hope you are well. You have not enabled your Wikipedia Email feature in your "tool box" on the left hand side of your user page. Sometimes editors overlook that when it's a useful way of staying in touch with other editors. Best wishes. Kol Tuv, IZAK 15:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)