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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:2001 ed The International Jew by Henry Ford.jpg

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Please explain what does "there is a concern" mean, and exactly what about this low resolution sourced image is being disputed and where? Thanks. ←Humus sapiens ну? 23:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for copyright authorization

I intend to use the graphic image labeled "2nd century Rome gold goblet shows Jewish ritual objects.jpg" <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg> as an illustration for a forthcoming textbook on Judaism to be published commercially by Routledge. Since you are listed as the file's uploader, my editors have recommended "if you are in any doubt you could contact the person who uploaded the image." I am hereby doing so, and would appreciate it if you could confirm, or at least provide background, for the picture's public domain status and permission to reprint.

בברכה

Prof. Eliezer Segal Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Calgary

   work    (403) 220-6988 or (403) 220-3279
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Office address:

   2500 University Dr, SS 1314
   University of Calgary
   Calgary AB T2N 1N4
       Canada  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.144.11 (talk) 16:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin Noticeboard on User You've Warned

You might want to comment here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User_John_Celona David in DC (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Humus sapiens/Infobox Jew

Hi. I wondered if you knew that the template space redirect to this page has been listed for speedy? Also, why is this template located in user talk space - is it a work in progress? --Dweller (talk) 12:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Middle East Textbooks Invitation

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[edit] quoting a blogger

I am aware that blogging being an unregulated force, quotes from a blog do not constitute a validation for a viewpoint or be counted as a source for anything with a factual basis. In this specific case however I am using a remarkable peice of writing, that happens to appear on a blog, to illustrate the ways that the language is and can be used. In that context I do not feel that the fact it is written by a blogger in any way diminishes its validity and the point it makes.

Futhermore the piece that I have tried to use as a quote not only perfectly illustrates the point but it is the fact that it appears on a blog written by a chassidic jew (and we all know that they are a retiring community that do not often make their views plain to outsiders) that makes it all the more relevant! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.66.110.45 (talk) 19:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I need your help again

There is a user who is harassing, name-calling, and is generally being disruptive to many articles. She has been warned on numerous occasions and archives pages before you can reply to her incivility. This has finally gotten out of hand, and I would like to know what to do about this user. To find out the details, please see my talk page. I was willing to ignore her for quite some time and take her abuse. But it has ended up going too far in this case. Can you please help me, or at least show me how to go through the process of reporting users? Thank you very much.--Lan Di (talk) 23:54, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The arguments made by Lan Di have in some cases been laughed at (not by me) for being pointless and nonsense. The user is incredibly in-civil towards me by engaging in discussions which are solely to attack me such as on User Talk:Angelriver and User Talk:MiB-24. I find the user to be highly disruptive and in my opinion not familiar with the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia. The user had pushed me to the limit and I exploded in one go and only once, the user is just as to blame if not more to blame than I am.--Lucy-marie (talk) 00:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

I would like to directly quote some of the comments made by Lan Di "All we have to do is attack her credibility". "I can also get my admin friend involved, as he likes me, and will help us out if I ask for it". "I will get my admin friend to slap her down extremely hard". "We really need your guys help in slapping her down again". These comments seem to show a pattern that Lan DI firstly has a disliking for me and secondly is going to make personal attacks and involve administrators to attempt to have me "slapped down". These comments are highly uncivil and do not focus on anything but me as a user.--Lucy-marie (talk) 00:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

And what about your comments to Lan Di which included calling him a "petty, ignorant, obsessed fan" as well as being uneducated and narrow minded? Civility works both ways, Lucy. You have a habit of incivility that started with me from my very first day here where you called me an "absolute wally", "stupid" and threatened to have me banned. Angelriver (talk) 00:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
That is one individual comment and not a systematic and virtually continuous pattern. Here is not the place for Angelriver and I to discuss our differences that is for one of our individual talk pages.--Lucy-marie (talk) 00:48, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree, Lucy. This is for our talk pages. Unfortunately though, you archive yours before rebuttals can be made. Angelriver (talk) 00:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] My Rfa

Well, not this time anyway it seems...my effort to regain my adminship was unsuccessful, but your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 07:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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[edit] Palestinian POV pushing

Recently, a new User Coda Stage (talk · contribs) created a number of controversial articles and categories that are profoundly POV. Some attention and input, as well as some discussion, would be welcome regarding: Zionist hunter (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zionist hunter); Category:The Nakba (deletion discussion); Category:Israeli war crimes (deletion discussion); and his creation of Daniel Machover and contributions to Doron Almog; Sabra and Shatila massacre‎ and Qibya massacre‎. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 07:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pro-israeli and Pro-zionist POV pushing?

You know i find extremely funny to read above such a cry for help on this topic here, while i was on the way to ask Humus sapiens why he used wikipedia as his tool for pushing what is looking like his pro-israeli and pro-zionist agenda (time to precise that i am neither an anti-israeli nor an anti-zionist)... I reviewed some of his articles creations ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Humus_sapiens/contribs ) before coming to this conclusion, by just having a look on how he reword sentences or piece of facts to reflect his POV in its initial edits, his purpose looks more than clear for anybody objective. Quoting dubious sources like palestinefacts.org from the Zionist Organization of America as if their were credible ones, while giving biased or distorted meanings to the actions or declarations of the other side of his POV, i.e. Palestinians if anybody more...

A random example: "In December 2004, he insisted that the Palestinian goal is Israel's destruction in interview to Iran's Al-Aram television station: "At this stage there will be two states. Many years from now, there will be only one... [There are] 300 million Arabs, while Israel has only the sea behind it." Khaddoumi said his platform was endorsed by the PLO in 1974. ([1])" [BTW another nice and objective source along others for an encyclopedia...] cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farouk_Kaddoumi&diff=8987385&oldid=7480722

Now can you explain us how the quoted declaration -from a dubious source to say the least- of that guy Khaddoumi can be translated in your words into "he insisted that the Palestinian goal is Israel's destruction", all this while you are wearing your "Countering Systemic Bias" banner (sic) and are a Wikipedia administrator? ROFL. Poor Wikipedia, you used to be more than decent before being hijacked by people with an agenda and far too much spare time to propagate their biased POV... "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable", right. :rollingeyes: (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 23:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I happened to spot this whilse looking for another comment I left on your page almost a year ago (guess I'll check the page history to find it!) Anyway this comment looks like POV pushing. It attempts to discredit the source rather than exmaine the information (and MEMRI reference now is at least solid evidence the statements were made). That is means "he insisted that the Palestinian goal is Israel's destruction" is also clear. Looking at the account where this accusation came from, it has very few edits very spaced out. I'm not making an accusation, but I'd urge you to examine the users contribution and to draw your own conclusions if you haven't done so already. Sigh. Oboler (talk) 19:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:WikiProject Jewish history

Hi Humus. Can you explain why the {{WikiProject Jewish history}} template is broken, and hopefully fix it. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 05:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Milhist coordinators election has started

The February 2008 Military history WikiProject coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting nine coordinators to serve for the next six months from a pool of fifteen candidates. Please vote here by February 28. --ROGER DAVIES talk 23:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent admin intervention needed at the Hummus article

Hi Humus: My attention was drawn to the Talk:Hummus page, a dispute over your name-sake it seems, see Talk:Hummus#Hebrew/jewish/Israeli references and Talk:Hummus#RfC where some users are deploying the worst kind of blatant antisemitic and Anti-Zionist vitriol in violation of WP:HATE and WP:CIVIL, over a minor food article, yet, unbelievable. There are comments there that should be deleted on sight as well. Please check out that page and the violating editors. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 11:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A note

Just a note that the criticism section of Palestine Children's Relief Fund has been removed again. You may want to improve the references if you have time. I'm not really that concerned with the content although now that I'm looking into it, I think there is good reason to have such a section. --Veritas (talk) 01:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Notable_victims_of_the_Babi_Yar_massacres —Preceding unsigned comment added by Galassi (talk • contribs) 19:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Steinberg's Religiosity

Here is a new reference about Isaac Steinberg's Orthodox observance during his service in the early Lenin's government:

http://books.google.com/books?id=S0Ls8Z-Y89cC

(Read pp. 126-128, available in the Google preview)

It's a well known fact among the Yiddishist circles (to which I happen to belong). Steinberg's family, the former secretary of his New York office, and a number of other people can verify this information. Even the Russian poet Bunin mentioned in his memoirs "Окаянные дни" that Steinberg was religiously observant. Please don't delete my notion about Steinberg's Orthodoxy (or add it youself). The religious aspect of Steinberg's personality plays a significant role in his anti-Marxist version of socialism, close to Martin Buber's and Gustav Landauer's mystical anarchism. I believe, this fact is worth mentioning. Laplandian (talk) 14:45, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Second Intifada RfC

Hi, can you respond to this RfC for me, please? Thanks. ← Michael Safyan (talk) 01:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Palestinophilia

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[edit] AfD nomination of Palestinophilia

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[edit] Notification of review

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[edit] unsourced quote at Babi Yar?

An edit of yours from last summer is being called into question at that article [2]. Could you take a look and help us find the text you quoted? (or let us know if it seems to be gone). Jd2718 (talk) 18:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Historical revisionism (the good) vs. Historical Revisionism (the bad)

High Hummus. Remember me? You were the Wikipedian who greeted me when I was just a novice. So I will not forget you.

  • Now I've been working on the above which includes Historical revisionism (negationism) - that's the "Bad."
  • As regards the ugly we have Holocaust denial.
  • And I compiled a list, a kind of Who's who, if you will. (Give me a moment please). --Ludvikus (talk) 18:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC))
  • I'm back - here's the item: List of Historical revisionism (revisionist historians) --Ludvikus (talk) 18:37, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
  • The above was Speedily Deleted -- after I put up a '{{hangon}}' --by User:Jpgordon. I think he was mistaken in doing so. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:37, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
  1. I value your opinion & would like to know what you think - about the issues.
  2. But also, can you tell me what options I have? Can I appeal the matter & how?
Thanks, & Cheers (a WP greeting to which you introduced me). --Ludvikus (talk) 18:37, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weasel words on AIPAC

Hey Humus sapiens. I would like you to weigh in on the discussion topic of "Weasel Words" on the talk page for AIPAC (talk: American Israel Public Affairs Committee). A user keeps inserting the word "controversial" in the opening paragraph, providing no sources that describe AIPAC as "controversial," only fringe sources that criticize AIPAC. I would appreciate your input when you get a chance. Many thanks. Stanley011 (talk) 16:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Right to Exist

I have just started a page on Yaakov Lozowick's Right to Exist, and thought you would be interested.Elan26 (talk) 18:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)Elan26

[edit] Could you take a look at this?

Hi,

Could you please take a look at this [3] I'd appreciate your thoughts on it given the discussion there (given you edit in area so have some ideas about how notable something must be for it to be notable). I'll ask Jayjg for his views as well... you're the only two admins I've come across working in the Israel / Jewish area.

Oboler (talk) 12:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Just letting you know that that discussion above (now archived) is presented in evidence here [4] and it had tied in with some articles you created which have been "wiped clean" by CJCurrie. Just mentioning it as your name came up Oboler (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Al-Durrah article, FYI

I have used your name and a diff here [5]. The use of the word "reported" in relation to the death of Mohammed al-Durrah is being discussed as unacceptably POV, conspiracy -theory and may be a bannable/blockable offense at this point or in the near future. Tundrabuggy (talk) 20:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{main}}

Please don't place this at the very top of articles as you did with Persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire. It is used in cases where what follows is a summary of the linked article, not a subarticle of it. Cheers. There is no template for the purpose you intended, because a good lead section should make the relationship clear (in this case the lead should link to persecution of Christians, as well as other parent topics, like religion in the Roman Empire (well, that one doesn't exist, but you get the idea). Richard001 (talk) 06:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Allegations of Israeli Apartheid?

currently there is a vote going on in removing allegations of an israeli apartheid. i would appreciate your opinion on this matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid_%288th_nomination%29Wikifan12345 (talk) 23:37, 9 June 2008 (UTC)