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[edit] Your edits on Campus SuperStar

Hi Sfrantzman, Cleanup on Campus SuperStar are reverted by some users who claimed that these edits are 'disturbing' to them. I have been trying to clean up on the article too but seems to receive attacks. Could you also share you thoughts on the cleanup of Campus SuperStar on its talk page? Cocoma 15:33, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chili/Chile Powder

It definitely has the signs of a joke article that is there just to confuse. Regardless, I don't know one way or another. I suppose it was a good idea to merge it, until new, verifiable evidence comes through and proves the article true or false.

Tumble-Weed 08:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] David Yudelman

Hi. I've nominated David Yudelman, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on August 18, where you can improve it if you see fit. Cheers, Bookandcoffee 20:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 23 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David Yudelman, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Peta 03:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maurice Benayoun

I just did some work on this article, but I should have looked in more detail at the history before, rather than after doing so. I removed the multiple headings as part of a cleanup, and I can see that you had added them in for same reason! Many apologies. I'll have another look at the article structure.--Ethicoaestheticist 12:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] W.R. Grace and Company

If William Russell Grace died in 1904, and J. Peter Grace was born in 1913, how could this statement be true:

"During the Second World War Peter Grace, W.R. Grace's son took control of the company."

Cryogenic freezing?

[edit] Your query about citations

Hi. Got your e-mail requesting information and help. Citations on Wikipedia are something I struggle with even as a veteran user. Believe me, there really needs to be better documentation about it. On the bright side, a good starting point is Wikipedia:Citing_sources. It has some good advice and links to other pages that will help. At the bottom in the list of links are links to citation templates. I try to use some of them, but it really ends up being a exercise in frustration. Your best bet is to use that page as a resource, and also take a look at the well sourced pages and Good Articles (that is, the source code of them) as examples of what to do. Best of luck! --Lendorien 05:57, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of massacres

The recent discussions about this page are in Talk:List of massacres/Archive 3 and a more shorter version of the same debate can be seen at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of massacres . The trouble we have had is that there is no tight definition for the word massacre, so anyone can call any killing of two or more people a massacre. But as the word has connotations of a morally bad thing to do it tends to be used as terrorism is used (see WP:words to avoid#Extremist, terrorist and freedom fighter).

So rather than try to define what a massacre is the way the list is now being developed is only to include incidents that are documented in verifiable third party reliable sources. As the introduction now says accusations of massacre as often tell you as much about the accuser as the accused.

I removed the old list because it was full of original research it is still available at User:Philip Baird Shearer/List of massacres so that anyone who wishes to lookup old list as an aid memoir, but please do not import any events into the new list unless you can finds verifiable third party reliable sources that specifically state that an event was a massacre. There is no reason why other sources can not be added to the description of the event to cover specific details, but the drive is only to include incidents that are claimed to be massacres by reliable sources. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 16:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes the reason the list is still small is because it is very new see List of massacres Revision as of 07:51, 16 December 2007 --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 16:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Just so I understand. Are you intending to only include incidents that are known as a "massacre" in a third party text? This would include well known massacres such as the Sand Creek Massacre and I assume incidents such as the Sicilian Vespers which is known as a massacre(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067619/Sicilian-Vespers). Can we also include on the list massacres that appear elsewhere in Wikipedia with the word 'Massacre' in the headline, such as the Sharpeville massacre?Seth J. Frantzman 11:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I do not own the article. But I have worked on it on and off for several years. What was discussed on the talk page was that as there is no clear definition of what a massacre is. To appear in the list it must have a verifiable source. This means that not only must the source exist it must be reliable. Taking the Sand Creek Massacre as an example.

  1. I moved the first instance to the talk page because I was not sure that the source ([1] ) was an official university page. The person who found the page was free to discuss it on the talk page and convince other editors that it is.
  2. I tagged the second one (Staff. The Crow Creek Massacre www.nebraskastudies.org ) with {{verify credibility}} because the source may be more reliable than the first one, but if no other source was found after a day or so it should be removed.
  3. But the new source (Heather Pringle, Crow Creek's Revenge, Science, 27 March, 1998) in my opinion meets the requirements. So I will not delete the article.

The citation must come from a reliable third party source. A Wikipedia link is not a reliable source. So the name of a wikipedia article is not sufficient to include it in the list of massacres there also has to be a reliable third party source. See also WP:PSTS, encyclopaedia articles are tertiary source, If a massacre is notable there ought to be some secondary sources that call it that and can be used to support the tertiary source. There is no reason why tertiary sources should not be used to provide extra details, but I think the substantial claim must come from a secondary sources. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 14:10, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I have deleted the article you created called All massacres because it was a POV fork of List of massacres. Do not recreate it under that name or another name, but please do contribute to further development of the List of massacres article. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 23:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] James Finn

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Judah Halevi, mayor of Jaffa

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Judah Halevi, the Chief Rabbi of Jaffa, Judah halevi was the cheif rabbi of Jaffa in the 1880s.

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[edit] Silvia Berti

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[edit] AfD nomination of Saul H. Benjamin

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[edit] Your Creation of Ein Rafa

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[edit] Letter of British Jews on 60th anniversary of Israel

I see you have attempted to make the article Letter of British Jews on 60th anniversary of Israel less POV. I think that that task is impossible. The sole existence of this article is POV. It seems to be an excuse to state controversial statements like: 'they cannot celebrate the birthday of a country "that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza, and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations."', as fact when they are only opinion. Thanks for tagging it. I am sure it will be resolved soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason.Schwartz (talk • contribs) 01:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Defense of Ein Rafa

Greetings Sfrantzman! Thanks for defending Ein Rafa's existence on Wikipedia. That could've potentially caused a chain-reaction which would involve village articles I created in the past, particularly Sheikh Danun and Kammaneh. Oh, and thanks for expanding the article's content as well. Cheers! --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid I do not know much about these villages, especially the Bedouin ones in the Galilee. Lately I've been concentrating on Arab towns and villages in the West Bank and the history of Nablus' and Bethlehem's families as well as the al-Husayni clan of Jerusalem. I'm not a researcher (just a junior in high school), however, I have a great interest in these subjects. Most of my knowledge comes from online resources. The source I used for Kammaneh awhile back was [2]. As for my family history, all I know is that my great paternal grandfather migrated with his two brothers and their families from the Mandeb neighborhood in Aleppo to Majd al-Krum. My father's family is still quite small (about 250 members at most). My mother's family came from Gaza to Kafr Yasif over 100 years, but her family is gigantic, probably the largest or second largest Muslim family in the religiously mixed town of Kafr Yasif. --Al Ameer son (talk) 20:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)