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Category:Reform Jews

Hi, I've created Category:Reform Jews, having noticed that corresponding Categories representing most of the other major movements already seem to exist. Many of the most notable and accomplished Jewish people have affiliated with the Reform movement, and I think it's important to create a Category that shows this. I'm able to find information about which individuals belong in this Category in lists of notable people affiliated with specific Reform synagogues. Does anyone else want to help out with this? To me, this Category seems like important information. --AFriedman (talk) 23:06, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposals for a Jewish state

Hi, letting any interested Wikipedians on this project know that I've placed a move request to move Proposals for a Jewish state to "Proposals to establish a Jewish state outside of Israel". Full rationale can be found on Talk:Proposals for a Jewish state. 84.92.117.93 (talk) 18:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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Israel FAR

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Russian American

User:Andrew Shane has been deleting references to Jews in the article on Russian American. He seems to have done so in other articles as well. In his last edit, he has deleted references to Sergey Brin and Isaac Asimov. Previously, he included Irving Berlin in his deletions. I started a section on the talk page, titled Talk:Russian_American#arbitrary_removal_of_Russian-Jews to discuss this issue. I am not Jewish, and am not an expert in this field, but I feel Russian Jews should be considered Russians, just as German Jews are considered Germans. If I am wrong, please tell me. If I am right, please support me or point me to the right discussion page. I would prefer not to get into an edit war on this issue.--Work permit (talk) 05:33, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

New editor needs assistance from Jewish History project

I am soliciting support from this project for User talk:Mhpjnac whose first article on The North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews has been proposed for deletion. Unfortunately, the name of the article and its content don't mesh up. The article is really written about the planned museum, not the roles and signficance of the Council. I personally do not know about the Council, nor can I judge its nobability at this point. I encouraged Mhpjnac to rewrite the article focused on the Council and to find reliable 3rd party sources to support its notability. Any help from members of this project to improve the article and help new editor Mhpjnac would be appreciated. Thanks--Mike Cline (talk) 21:02, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Jacob Frank now a mascot for Misplaced Pages sister project Wikiversity

Hi, I'm developing Jacob Frank (an 18th-century religious leader and follower of Sabbatai Zevi, and a topic within the scope of this WikiProject) as a mascot for Misplaced Pages's sister project Wikiversity. Wikiversity aims to be an online open school and university, and was also created to host original research. Because of its nature, it's open to educational resources in almost any format. Wikiversity's mascots appear on User talk pages when new Users are welcomed. In my opinion, the Wikiversity mascots could be used more fully as an opportunity to teach. The previously developed Wikiversity mascots lack intrinsic educational value. For example, they include a jack-o-lantern, a goat and twin babies not noticeably tied to anything else. In contrast, Jacob Frank is tied to a chapter of history that is relatively little-known and is probably interesting to some people who might not have heard of him beforehand. I'm also hoping to use his professed ignorance in real life and his doctrine of "purification through transgression" to introduce the Wikiversity policies of "Be bold" and "Ignore all rules" (Misplaced Pages has very similar policies with the same names). I would appreciate your going over to Wikiversity to provide feedback on the pages about the mascot: v:User:JacobFrank and v:Template:JacobFrank. The Template is left on new Users' talk pages; the Userpage is linked from the template and provides more information about Jacob Frank. Also, any ideas for other Wikiversity mascots? Thanks. --AFriedman (talk) 03:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

The New York Times and the Holocaust

The administrator helping me on my talk page suggested I seek comments from others on this topic. my article is being trashed by 3 users with no knowledge or interest in the Holocaust. First they tried to delete it entirely and were outvoted five to three. Now they have repeatedly gutted it place, undoing a longer, accurate and well footnoted article and putting an inaccurate two paragraph thing in its place.

I originally posted an article on a tragic, but non-controversial topic in Holocaust studies: the New York Times policy during the period of the Second World War to minimize reports of the Holocaust. I relied on two resources: the New York Time’s apology in 2001, and the work of Dr. Laurel Leff.

The issue is not controversial among knowledgable people because the Times itself acknowledged its guilt fully and publicly in its 150th anniversary issue on November 14, 2001, 56 years after the end of the war. Under the title, “Turning Away from the Holocaust”, retired executive editor Max Frankel wrote that the Times knew the accuracy of the reports on Hitler’s persecution of the Jews and the Final Solution, but that from the beginning to the end, chose never to make it a lead story, or the exclusive topic of an editorial. “… to this day the failure .. to fasten upon Hitler's mad atrocities stirs the conscience of succeeding generations of reporters and editors.”

In listing the details of the Time’s policy to ‘bury’ the Holocaust, Frankel cited one outside resource:

“No article about the Jews' plight ever qualified as The Times's leading story of the day, or as a major event of a week or year. The ordinary reader of its pages could hardly be blamed for failing to comprehend the enormity of the Nazis' crime. Laurel Leff...has been the most diligent independent student of The Times's Holocaust coverage and deftly summarized her findings last year in The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.”

Three people who originally tried to delete the entire article and are now ruining it have never made any contributions to an article on the holocaust or world war II, and are not really interested. they came over from the new york times page, where they try to prevent criticism of the Times. when they were voted down re deleting the New York Times and the Holocaust in its entirely, they have proceeded to gut it in place. i don't have any allies on this page. The administrator helping me on my talk page suggested I go to a wikiproject page to say i would welcome comments from others.Cimicifugia (talk) 03:55, 29 May 2010 (UTC)cimicifugia

"The poor" in Judaism and Jewish history

Hello, all. I have recently been digging up a lot of material related to the Ebionites, a little known early Jewish Christian group. Maybe it was a single group, anyway. That question is one of the reasons I've been dredging up material on them. In any event, I have found a substantial article, about 30 pages long, in an encyclopedia relating to the word and concept of "the poor" in the era around the beginning of the Common Era. The term seems to have been used as a self-description of the Qumran Covenanters, for instance. I was wondering if the members of this project knew of any articles which already exist which might be able to hold some of this material which cannot fit in the Ebionites article. Individuals are, of course, free to offer comments on any of the other recent threads as well. The directly relevant discussion can be found at Talk:Ebionites#"The poor" in Judaism. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 15:17, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Jews in China

History_of_the_Jews_in_China says there is a history of Jews at least in Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yangzhou, and Ningxia. Only Kaifeng has a proper page (Kaifeng Jews). Hangzhou has only a brief reference and the other city pages do not make mention of Jews at all. Wakablogger2 (talk) 08:50, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

All of the Jewish communities in other cities died out centuries ago. The reason the Kaifeng Jews have an article is because we know the most about them. They received some holy books from Ningbo in the 15th century (if I remember correct). The Jews originally fled south to Hangzhou when the Jingkang Incident took place. Matteo Ricci made note of a synagogue in Hangzhou, but I think that community was probably dead by then.

I imagine the reason that the other articles do not make mention of historical Jewish communities is because most people are unaware of them. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 10:55, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Mention should be made so people can become aware of them. Pearl S. Buck's book "Peony" has a map of several more Chinese cities with Jewish settlements, but the city names on it are no readable. There must be other such maps somewhere. Wakablogger2 (talk) 06:06, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Discussions of proper names for the articles discussing the three Temples of Judaism

The recent move of the articles below has engendered concern on WP:ANI if the consensus reached was representative of the wider wikipedia project. Therefore, three RfCs have been opened to fully discuss the proper names of the articles, so consensus can be reched. Please visit and opine at the sections listed below.

Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 17:49, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

RfC on Christ myth theory page name

Comments would be appreciated at an RfC about the best title for the Christ myth theory. See the discussion here. The article is about the theory that Jesus of Nazareth did not, or probably did not, exist as an historical being. Should it be moved from Christ myth theory to, for example, Jesus myth theory? SlimVirgin 23:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Footer template needed

I have noticed a need for a "History of the Jews in China" footer with links to relevant articles. This would replace the use of links in see also sections, which can appear bloated. Viriditas (talk) 01:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Dead Sea Scrolls related RfC

There is currently an RfC related to a matter related to the Dead Sea Scrolls at Talk:Ebionites#RfC. Any input is more than welcome. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 16:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Hasidic dynasty article names

I'd like to change these--see my post at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Hasidic_dynasty_article_names.Prezbo (talk) 02:38, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I proposed to merge the article 'Jews and the slave trade' into 'Judaism and slavery' to form a single article, possibly titled 'Jews, Judaism and Slavery'. The overlap between the articles is huge, the articles are not too long, and a unified article covering all facets of the topic would be more useful to the reader. Please voice your opinion at Talk:Judaism_and_slavery#Merge proposal. Marokwitz (talk) 06:51, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Judaism and violence

Hi, I noticed an article which needs your attention - Judaism and violence. I think this article is one sided trying to portray Judaism as a violent religion, and Jewish History as dominated by violence against others, which is clearly not the prevailing scholarly view. Balancing information should be added regarding Judaism's key principles of love of peace and the pursuit of peace. Extremists using Judaism to justify violence are only a tiny minority, and are far from the widespread interpretation of Judaism. I began adding some such material, but your help would be greatly appreciated. Marokwitz (talk) 09:47, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair-use discussion about a Holocaust image

There's a discussion here at files for deletion about whether we can claim fair use for a particular image from the Holocaust. J Milburn began it as a discussion about just one this image, but the same issues apply to most of the others we use too. Fresh eyes would be appreciated. SlimVirgin 14:53, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Holocaust-related Article nominated for deletion

The following article was nominated for deletion, The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism. Since the article is part of this WikiProject, please feel free to raise your opinions in the AFD debate. Marokwitz (talk) 08:32, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Jerusalem

There is currently a discussion taking place at Talk:Jerusalem over how the article should word certain issues. Some editors want the word "proclaimed" to be added to the first sentence of the article to describe it as the "proclaimed capital" of Israel as the international community does not recognise it as the capital of Israel, others disagree and think the status quo which has existed for about 3 years should remain (something that has been debated many times over the years but retained), and several compromises have also been suggested. The issue has now also spread to other matters, with some editors wanting it to say "proclaimed flag", "proclaimed mayor" , "proclaimed coat of arms" etc, to also highlight the fact the international community does not recognise the status of Jerusalem. This matter could have implications for other articles if changes are made and a similar pattern followed. So input from other editors would be helpful. Thanks BritishWatcher (talk) 14:16, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Jewish history-related articles have been selected for the Misplaced Pages 0.8 release

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Saul Isaac

I have just created a stub article on Saul Isaac, the first Jewish person to be elected as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. Only a stub so far, but I suspect that there may be sources somewhere which would allow expansion ... not just in relation to his political career, but becuase of his business partnership with his brother Samuel (who has a DNB entry).

I have searched the archives of The Times newspaper, which doesn't seem to have given him either one of the paper's standard one-para bios of new MPs, nor an obituary. Maybe other editors have access to some appropriate sources? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Mention of Aleppo pogrom in History section of Aleppo

I would have thought that the following paragraph:

In December 1947, after the UN vote in favour of the partition of Palestine, an Arab mob attacked and devastated the Jewish quarter. The ancient Great Synagogue was completely gutted by fire. The overall damage to the community was estimated at $2.5 million. Soon after, many of the towns 6,000 Jews emigrated.

would have been acceptable to add the the history section of Aleppo. A certain editor keeps removing it, claiming that the incident is covered in the demographics section. While the page does have its own Jews in Allepo section, I don't see why this occurance needs to be whitewashed in the history section. Also, should the demographics section hold historic infomation? Chesdovi (talk) 19:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

List of Jewish Nobel laureates

FYI, List of Jewish Nobel laureates has been requested to be deleted. 76.66.194.212 (talk) 06:15, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Stub template/category proposal

Hi - given that both Category:World War II stubs and Category:Jewish history stubs are close to the size where Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Stub sorting would normally look to create some new subcategories, I am about to propose the creation of a new stub type, {{Holocaust-stub}}, to do with any articles related to the Holocaust and to relations between the Nazi regime and the European Jewish population. Any input to the discussion on this proposal from your project at WP:WSS/P#Holocaust stubs would be greatly appreciated. Grutness...wha? 08:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Judaism and Politics

I also posted this inquiry on the Jewish Political Movements page, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post this here as well. I noted there that there's an article on Jewish political movements, but there appears to be no wider page on the subject of the Jewish political tradition, which includes Jewish political thought and political life that is not connected with particular movements. There's a lot that has been written about the history of Jewish political theory and Jewish political life that doesn't connect with any of the subjects on the Jewish political movements page. Perhaps a page on Judaism and Politics could be set up as well? Lkjowa (talk) 18:05, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I see that there's a page on Judaism and Politics in the United States. I'm thinking about a more general article along the lines of the article on Christianity and politics, an article that deals with the history of Jewish political thought and Jewish political institutions in the pre-modern era, as well as modern Jewish approaches to politics that don't fit in the Jewish Political Movements or Judaism and Politics in the US category. Lkjowa (talk) 18:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I started to build a page at http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Lkjowa/Judaism_and_politics. This is the first page that I've created on Misplaced Pages, and I'll take any help I can get. Thanks. Lkjowa (talk) 16:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Shalom, I have worked on the Wiki page of Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. But now this page is being considered for deletion. Please give yours opinions on this Discussion, Thank you so much for all yours contributions in this discussion , je vous remercie, אני תודה --Geneviève (talk) 01:01, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Unintentionally making Holocaust denial look reasonable

I'm concerned that the lede of Holocaust denial is unintentionally making deniers seem reasonable. The problem is that we define a key aspect of denial as estimating the number of Jews killed at 5 million or less. Yes, that is the "definition" per one of our sources, but all the rest speak of an order of magnitude difference. If, as we currently claim, a figure of 5.1 million is mainstream but one of 5.0 million is characteristic of denial, then it seems like an awfully petty difference, and by implication that deniers may be reasonable revisionists, as they pretend to be.

Of course, the rest of the article is well written and makes the situation clear. But readers often do not get past the lede. I'm also concerned that a denier could quote the lede to support their claim.

Holocaust denial involves falsifying the historical record to deny that the majority of European Jews were murdered. It does not involve arguing over whether it was 5.0 or 5.1 million any more than it does real historians arguing over 5.1 vs 6.2 million. One reference to the contrary does not override the all the rest (Mathis, Shermer & Grobman, Yad Vashem, the Anti-Defamation League, JPR) who speak of an order-of-magnitude difference. This is too important to muck around with, and we don't need to be giving ammunition to deniers. — kwami (talk) 23:59, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Kwami, I have replied to this at Talk:Holocaust denial. In short, the article does not define HD the way you claim it does. I join you in encouraging others to join the discussion there. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 03:35, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

No, the article does not, but the lede does. That's the problem. — kwami (talk) 10:40, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

That assertion is false. See the article talk page. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 21:11, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Update: I eventually got my point across. Problem solved. — kwami (talk) 01:44, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Jews and Money

This article was just created and was almost simultaneously retitled Economic history of the Jews and put up for deletion. I also made a post to AN/I concerning the author, Noleander see this proposal. It has been tagged as an article in a series of articles on Jews and Judaism so members of this group should have constructive comments. Slrubenstein | Talk 22:16, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

This sums up its problems in a nutshell: User:Mathsci/example Slrubenstein | Talk 16:36, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Request for input in discussion forum

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Jews and banking

I would like to request input on two draft articles that I have been working on:

Yes, I understand that having an article titled Jews and banking sounds like an antisemitic canard and I am open to changing the title. However, I do think that there is an encyclopedic topic around the role of Jews and the emergence of modern banking. My interest in this topic was sparked by the disastrous attempt by Noleander to create an article titled Jews and money, subsequently retitled to Economic history of the Jews which has since been deleted via AFD (see Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Economic history of the Jews). It has been widely recognized by participants in the AFD discussion that there were many problems with Noleander's initial attempt including overly broad scope which suggested a coatrack, poor organization of the article, injudicious selection of sources and misrepresentation of some of the sources. However, a number of editors (myself among them) felt that there were one or more encyclopedic topics covered. It was proposed that some of the issues could be resolved by pulling out the encyclopedic topics and making articles about those specific topics. The two articles above represent my efforts to begin that process.

I would like to ask enlist the help of members of this project to review the entire text of these proposed articles as well as critique the article title.

I think the judicious selection of article titles is almost as important as article text because titles change much less frequently than article text does and the article title implies a scope that strongly influences what text is added and deleted from the article.

I am not too thrilled with the title "Jews and banking" as it still sounds antisemitic to me. I'm playing with "History of Jews in banking" but I'm open to other suggestions.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

--Pseudo-Richard (talk) 18:29, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Holocaust nav box

I've noticed that many of the articles that the Holocaust nav box links to do not have the nav box listed on it. Is there a way to have a robot automatically do all of the linking of nav boxes on the articles that it links to? If not, can't Misplaced Pages create a robot to do stuff like that? This seems like the exact type of task that could be programmed into a bot. It would save a ton of tedious work for people.Hoops gza (talk) 00:56, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Article rename discussion for Jerusalem during the Persian, Hellenic and early Roman Periods

The article Jerusalem during the Second Temple period was recently renamed to Jerusalem during the Persian, Hellenic and early Roman Periods. There is an ongoing discussion regarding the proposal to rename it back to its original title. This article is listed as part of this WikiProject, and comments may be left at Talk:Jerusalem during the Persian, Hellenic and early Roman Periods#Requested move. • Astynax 19:05, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Temple in Jerusalem

Would someone please have a look at this edit done today by a new user with 29 edits? None of it is referenced, some of it is out of chronological order, and he used the wrong era style. I can't tell if it's right to revert the whole thing or try to clean it up. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 18:46, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed move: Foreign relations of Palestine

It has been proposed that Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority be renamed and moved to Foreign relations of Palestine. Please see the move discussion here. Alinor (talk) 06:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Discussion closed and then re-opened again from scratch at Talk:Foreign_relations_of_the_Palestinian_National_Authority#Requested_move_.28open_version.29. Alinor (talk) 06:34, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Palestinian rabbis

Please see The Arizal was a Palestinian with various disscussions at User talk:Chesdovi, User talk:Debresser (with next 8 talkback sections), User talk:Supreme Deliciousness, Assesing regional identity. Chesdovi (talk) 14:59, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Bar Kochba Revolt coinage fake?

A recent edit to the Bar Kochba Revolt coinage page suggests that the coins are a forgery. This is supported by a single source dating from 1909. Please voice your opinion on the article talk page. Poliocretes (talk) 15:45, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Concentration camp coordinates

There are still quite a number of concentration camp articles needing geocoding: see User:The Anome/Concentration camp articles needing coordinates for a list of these, and WP:COORD for a guide to geocoding. Many of these are proving difficult to track down, yet all are historically important. Does anyone here want to work on adding location data to these articles? -- The Anome (talk) 22:32, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Walraven van Hall

If anyone is interested, Walraven van Hall needs lots of work. Devcogneuro (talk) 19:13, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Hebraic compass winds

Hi. I just wrote a rather large article on Classical compass winds, focusing principally on the development of compass systems in ancient Greece and Rome. However, in the preliminary, I add a note on the use of winds as cardinal directions in the Hebrew Bible. As I am unable to read Hebrew sources, I had to rely on secondary sources. I would appreciate if anybody more knowledgeable could look over that section and correct any mistakes. Moreover, as I bothered to give the names of the Greek winds in the Hellenic script, it would be nice if someone could also to do the same, and insert the names of the Hebraic winds in Hebrew script. Walrasiad (talk) 05:36, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Avraham Firkovich

Avraham Firkovich — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.238.78 (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

"In his later years he became obsessed with "proving" that Crimean Karaites were not Judean in descent, but rather Khazarian"

This is false and experts in the field like Dan Shapira take great pains to point that out. Firkovich claimed Israelite rather than Judean roots. The one who started with the Khazarian business was Hakhan (with an 'n) Seraya Shapshal. Shapshal completely de-judaized the Crimean Karaites and even banned hebrew! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.238.78 (talk) 19:39, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Historic designation of the Palestine region

Please comment at Historic designation of the Palestine region. Chesdovi (talk) 15:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Lemba people

This article as the Jewish history tempate on its talk page. Is that really appropriate? The issue has been raised at Talk:Lemba people. Dougweller (talk) 06:36, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Featured article review for Yom Kippur War

I have nominated Yom Kippur War for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 14:00, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Dead Sea Scrolls

I added the project template to Talk:Dead Sea Scrolls since the article was listed in the categories on the project page and because the sectarian texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls offer insight on Judaism practiced during the Second Temple period. Is it possible someone can review my assessment of quality & importance scales. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 19:03, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Please help, and collaborate!

One man (and his collaborators) trying to delete these category:

Category:People of Jewish descent by nationality

Category:Jamaican people of Jewish descent

Jews and Judaism are both ethnicity and religion. Please help deletion. And help (collaborate) to recovery (resurrection) Category:People of Jewish descent. BevisMarks (talk) 05:50, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Alleging an editor be a "national socialist"

There is a discussion whether it is a despicable smear or not to allege that an editor be a national socialist at my (closed) RfC and at the bottom of my talk page.

My labeling this smear as "slander" (which I've clarified was used in a colloquial and non-legal sense) is now at ANI. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 16:12, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Or, to put it another way, your "pal" Lihaas has a userbox identifying himself as a National Socialist, and you consider it a smear for others to point this out and to draw the obvious negative conclusions from it.

It's disgraceful that you've tried to mislead this WikiProject in order to canvass support for your absurd viewpoint on this. You should be ashamed of your behaviour. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 08:44, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Lihaas collects user-boxes and displays hundreds, including that he is a libertarian. You picked one from those hundreds, to smear him and by association me.

You would do well to compare your edits with Lihaas's and show appropriate deference. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 08:56, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

No, he picked the National Socialist userbox, he added it to his userpage. "Deference", for that? Don't be ridiculous. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 09:41, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

James A. Paul. Human rights in Syria, Middle East Watch. pg. 91.
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