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Snikch13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

You've just blocked this user 48h; may I be so bold as to suggest the user's contribs mandate an indef-block? RadioKirk (u|t|c) 03:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Works for me. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 05:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

i laughed my ass off over the 0-Lazy English certificate

Props on the superfluous comma in "...adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation." I wish more admins had a sense of humor. TRWBW 03:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

MA, Markovich

a recent comment of his. I feel it's a personal attack/incitement on a few users/adminstrators and also a lie. it has support from both camps which was the reason. Amoruso 07:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm sure he did not mean to purposely mischaracterize the proceedings; more likely it is the result of frustration that all involved are feeling about the article. Regardless, I'll drop him a line. Thank you. -- Avi 07:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, work on this article has indeed been frustrating, you're right about that. For one thing, I have Amoruso following me to other people's talk pages and turning them into a battleground, and now his actions make me think even stronger that he is looking at every single entry on my edit history pages. Don't you see anything wring with him calling one of my statements a lie and choosing to to another one of my statements a personal attack when he has no good reason to say either?

I presume you have seen all the stuff he has done, and as an administrator you should have addressed this long ago, or at the very least referred another admin here if you felt too involved in the debate. Instead you seemingly let it slide by, only to jump on me about WP:AGF after a single comment by him that falsely accuses me of lies and personal attacks. It is bad enough to have had Amoruso make actual personal attacks against me, but to have an administrator who ignores that and talks to me about AGF when I have not even come close to violating it is annoying to say the least.

Anyway, I have responded to your comment on my talk page here which hopefully debunks the claim of personal attacks and lies. I have also asked you to clarify why you are using the term "mischaracterize" as well. Markovich292 04:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Avi, it seems the compromise is even larger now with official acceptance of it by the user Mantanmoreland on the MA talk page, one of the chief discussioners. Note than nobody disagreed to this proposal as a temporary solution, never, also not at the first time, except for some anon named TopRank . So basically there was never an explicit disagreement to the compromise and there's a wide agreement to the compromise now. Cheers, keep up the good work.Amoruso 11:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Jack Coggins article

I have done more work on footnotes - appreciate your comments when you get time, thanks. Dave 19:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:CIVIL

Thanks for a reminder. I didn't realise I had crossed the lines of civility and made a personal attack :). I didn't mean anything bad by my comment that he constantly added Zionists comments. I just wanted a good justification for why I was rechaning it. I'll be more careful in the future. BTW, should I appologize to him on his talk page (since I can't take back the edit summury) or otherwise let him know that I did not mean to be negative to him. ??Sup dudes?] 20:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Category vote

Hi Avi: Please provide your view at Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 October 10#Category:Saintly person tombs in Israel. Good Mo'ed. Thank you. IZAK 04:02, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Vote to delete Medzhibozh (Hasidic dynasty)

I have written the following to the nominator:

Meshulam: You should avoid this kind of move (the hasty nomination to delete Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Medzhibozh (Hasidic dynasty)) because it's a slippery slope and could lead to the nomination for and deletion of similar articles about smaller Hasidic dynasties - by people who are not experts and don't care - with unintended consequences. Votes to delete are open to the world and you are inviting people who have no idea what this topic is about at all to cast a vote, which is very unfair and lacking insight. It seems that you may have been better off trying to add a {{merge to}} template or considered MERGING the material at some point perhaps and WAITED (at least a month!) to do so. You should also have first started a discussion at a number of places where people who know something about this topic could have given their intelligent input, such as at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Judaism and Misplaced Pages talk:Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week. Or you could have contacted other editors who deal with topics like this to solicit their views. This action of your is extreme and I do not condone it. I urge you to withdraw this nomination. Thank you. (I am cross-posting this message on a couple of relevant places, to get people's attention.) IZAK 10:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

RfB With A Smile :)

BXO article

Thanks for your comments, Avi. I'd definitely appreciate it if you could take a look, as I think in particular that your abilities at narrative writing would help the article. But there's no rush. Thanks, Jakew 19:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Good edits!

Good edits on the article, thank you for being willing to meet me in the middle! Lordkazan 19:17, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

On the subject of that article, I hope niether of you mind my change to the structure of that sentence? :) --Crimsone 19:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey Avi - there is a jewish group that specifically opposes religious cirucmcision. I would feel more comfortable with you adding it to the article's section on jewish circumcision. The group is "Jews against Circumcision" - http://www.jewsagainstcircumcision.org/ Lordkazan 20:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the help with the new section on RACP - i didn't want to quote it all because of the length, but doing it all to prevent cherry picking is good to (though it's fairly one sided) Lordkazan 21:39, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

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I don't understand what you mean

Please don't say that I removed sourced information when you sourced it AFTER I removed it while it was unsourced. Plus, it doesn't even matter if it sourced or not, presenting the NYT's translation as Misplaced Pages's POV is a violation of the neutral point of view policy --Ķĩřβȳ♥ŤįɱéØ 04:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)