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Shalom also means "goodbye"

I am leaving English Misplaced Pages and all Wikimedia projects. After I relocate in August, I will create a new username.

Misplaced Pages is causing me more stress than it's worth. After discussing my options by email correspondence with three administrators this week, I have decided to leave.

I created a rant about 60 kilobytes long on my computer to complain about how unfairly the community treated me. I will not post it. That's not how I wish to be remembered.

I'd like you to read one article I've written or improved during the last two and a half years. Pick any article from my list or the toolserver's list. That's how I wish to be remembered.

Shalom also means "goodbye." I offer best wishes to everyone who made editing here such a pleasant and fulfilling experience. Yechiel (Shalom) 15:34, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

This series of discussions has been archived.
The following is an archived debate. Please do not modify it.
Your ER If you happen to see this, i have left more comments and added some questions. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 01:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC) Everyking EK has a penchant for re-writing history in his favor. See this. Take what he says with a grain of salt. Raul654 (talk) 05:24, 6 August 2008 (UTC) Second Annual WikiNYC Picnic Greetings! You are invited to attend the second annual New York picnic on August 24! This year, it will be taking place in the Long Meadow of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. If you plan on coming, please sign up and be sure to bring something! Please be sure to come! You have received this automated delivery because your name was on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 20:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC) Wikis Take Manhattan Wikis Take Manhattan Next: Saturday September 27 This box: view • talk • edit WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Misplaced Pages and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Misplaced Pages Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well. LAST YEAR'S EVENT Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Takes Manhattan/Spring 2008 (a description of the results, and the uploading party) Commons:Misplaced Pages Takes Manhattan/Gallery (our cool gallery) WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Misplaced Pages creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more! WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration. WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)! REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand. WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project: Wikis Take Manhattan page at The Open Planning Project 349 W. 12th St. #3 Between Greenwich & Washington Streets By the 14th St./8th Ave. ACE/L stop FOR UPDATES Check out: Wikis Take Manhattan main website This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency. Thanks, Pharos You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Misplaced Pages:Meetup/NYC/Invite list. This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 00:30, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Epilogue

I am writing to say goodbye to those of you who still watchlist my talk page, and to offer a chance for you to wish me well. One of the hardest things about moving on from a relationship is forgetting the painful memories and the lost hopes associated with that relationship. I accomplished many achievements here, but I never helped the project as an administrator (though I performed administrative tasks without the tool-set); I never submitted a featured article (though I did submit a good article at Talk:Endgame tablebase); and I never completed coverage of towns and villages in Israel (though I did create more than 100 articles about these places). I am proud of what I did, broadly speaking, and for my mistakes and failures, I am trying to retain whatever lessons I can apply to life outside the four walls of Misplaced Pages.

Last year I spent an extraordinary amount of time on Misplaced Pages. Without revealing too much personal information, I'll explain that I was working freelance part-time but I had most of my waking hours to spend at my discretion, and I donated that time to the project. Two months ago I relocated and began graduate school in the chemistry department of a major research university on the east coast of the United States. (You can read my admission essay at User:Shalom Yechiel/Drafts and archives/Wikipedia got me into graduate school.) My teaching and learning responsibilities do not permit anything more than a cursory interest in Misplaced Pages, and sometimes not even that. Last month I created an anonymous user account for editing and creating articles related to chemistry. Yechiel (Shalom) 19:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Best of luck on your new account. –xeno (talk) 19:27, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Hate to see you go, but I'm glad we can still count on your contributions, albeit under a new name. Good luck out there. EVula // talk // ☯ // 19:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

If you returned merely to move junk from your userspace into the mainspace and personally attack other editors... Enigma 05:32, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I did. I have been waiting for the opportunity to finally be done with this place, and it came at the right time. On that note... Yechiel (Shalom) 20:29, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Right to vanish request

{{helpme}}

Would an administrator please do the following:

{will post in a moment}

Hovering nearby for when your list is ready. Hersfold 20:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Hersfold.

• Delete redirect pages from my old user subpages and and the user talk subpages and .
• Delete my user talk archive subpages and all other user talk subpages . Note that my talk page is structured so that archives are copy/paste. Therefore if you left me a comment last year you will still have it in your contribution log (something which I think is generally important to maintain as long as the user who left the comment is active, barring truly exceptional reasons to delete user talk history).
• Delete my user subpages, listed here. Be careful that if the subpage is a redirect to a different namespace page, such as a Signpost article, you delete the redirect but keep the actual page it points to.
• Blank my userpage and delete the page history, which is several hundred revisions. I'm not sure how you want to do this, but when you're done there should be a single revision with an edit summary of "blanked the page" or similar, and nothing from beforehand. Leave the full protection in place.
• Blank and full-protect this talk page. Leave the revision history alone because, as above, I believe it benefits other people for it to stay, even though it does me no good.
• On a non-technical note, thank you for doing this. It is unfortunate - and despite what others might think, not entirely my own doing though certainly that was part of it - that my extensive contributions to the encyclopedia have been overshadowed by other issues which should have been forgotten long ago. I hope that as a result of my action, those issues actually will be forgotten.
• Unblock User:Arthana. I'm trolling now, but seriously, he is innocent, and I like to point it out whenever I can get people's attention. He is not the only innocent user who has been blocked, but to my knowledge he is one of the few who didn't manage to get unblocked. If my attempt to become an administrator had succeeded, I would have unblocked him.
• In the interest of disclosure, I will also ask for deletions of userpages belonging to other accounts I've operated. I will do this confidentailly through the proper channels, but I note here that it is being done.
• Goodbye, and I hope the work I did here will benefit people in the world out there. Yechiel (Shalom) 20:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Revision to Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri articles

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Speedy deletion nomination of Camp Moshava (Bnei Akiva)

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Abductive (reasoning) 23:19, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Misplaced Pages Review post

"...Fys/Dbiv/Sam Blacketer is sneaky and evasive but would not lie directly..."

Not true. In response to a personal request, Mr. Boothroyd directly lied to me about his sockpuppetry, followed by a story which may or may not be true, but certainly did not explain the fact that the e-mail address attributed to him had no trace elsewhere that could be found. -JR 64.250.228.220 (talk) 00:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Chess notation

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Proposed deletion of Fenix, North Carolina

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This article is about a formerly unincorporated community; it's notability is nonexistant and anything notable that happens from this point forward should be placed within the Fayetteville article. There is no chance that this article can grow beyond this. Ncboy2010 (talk) 13:56, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

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coming back

Coming back — Preceding unsigned comment added by Faraone Lk (talk • contribs) 16:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Chinese-American Chemical Society

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Terror attack listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of Camp Moshava for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chief rabbis of Ireland

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Nomination of ChessCafe.com for deletion

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Nomination of ICGA Journal for deletion

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Your draft article, Draft:Hyper Poland

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Thanks for your submission to Misplaced Pages, and happy editing. Liz 17:52, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of HaAyin HaShevi'it

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Good article reassessment for Endgame tablebase

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