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Is not an RS. I am sure Arutz Sheva also has plenty to say on this matter.Ankh.Morpork 12:05, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for tracking me here. Argue your opinion, don't state obiter dicta, at the appropriate WP:RS forum, and notify me when you do.Nishidani (talk) 12:09, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

I am interested in your view as to why you consider this an RS and have used it to make contentious claims; I ask this as I have similar style sources that I would like to include to provide an interesting perspective.Ankh.Morpork 13:09, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

You expressed a personal view on a source praised for its work by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Admiral William J. Crowe, which publishes views by Geoffrey Aronson, Yuval Diskin, George W. Ball, Philip Klutznick, Yehoshafat Harkabi, Sari Nusseibeh, Helena Cobban and dozens of other top-ranking authorities on US foreign policy and the Middle East. If you can't see at first sight that a Washington think tank/NGO with these interests and credentials and support is not suitable as per WP:RS, either visit an optometrist or refer the question to your new mentor, who will illuminate you. The question you raise is a non-question, since it implies that my use of this source is based on subjective, personal, rather than objective, wiki critieria.Nishidani (talk) 13:42, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Praise by wiki linked people for its work does not meet the standards required for the publications of this partisan NGO to considered an RS. Ankh.Morpork 17:47, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

(ec)As I said, go to WP:RSN if you wish to challenge this source. You haven't done your legwork. No one appears to be complaining of it as a source on several I/P wiki pages. You trailed me here, made no case for your idiosyncratic dismissal of an eminently good source whose work is admired certainly by distinguished scholars and diplomats, people who have no record for partisan enmity. Do not adopt the habit of reverting what you dislike on spurious grounds. IR is not a right, it is a measure employed to stop egregious abuses or edit-warring, and neither existed on this page before you followed me here.Nishidani (talk) 18:11, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for acknowledging that my edits are "unmotivated" and are simply borne from a desire to improve the article. Ankh.Morpork 17:58, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure. I'm quite happy to mentor you, (certainly not on my page where your presence is unwelcome, because I do not think you have the slightest interest in encyclopedic work. But miracles do occur.Nishidani (talk) 18:13, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Allow me to proffer this )for your use. What would your mentorship entail; I am fearful that it may be a little too classical for my liking. Ankh.Morpork 18:31, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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