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Happy editing! Jayjg 6 July 2005 21:24 (UTC)

Thanks for great edits

I just wanted to thank you for the great edits you did to African American literature. Hope you enjoy Misplaced Pages. --Alabamaboy 7 July 2005 01:01 (UTC)

Good work on Belz! Btw, you don't need to use four tildes in the edit summary. JFW | T@lk 21:45, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Anonymous edits

How long are you editing the page before you hit preview? A long time, or only a few minutes? Jayjg 21:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I reverted that; I put the reason why in the comments. You have to be very careful about changing spellings in an article, as they often are links to other articles, and changing the spelling breaks them. Also, putting "Rabbi" before every mention of a person's name is bad form. The other edits seemed reasonable, but there were so many issues that I couldn't sort it all out. Your problem may be that you are taking to long, and so it logs you out. You should preview every 5 minutes or so to remind Misplaced Pages that you are still logged in. I hope this helps. Jayjg 22:06, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

If I may interject, your problem may stem from the browser you're using. Have you tried Mozilla Firefox? Also clicking the "remember me" box at login may (or may not) have an effect. --Briangotts (talk) 22:12, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry I made you waste your time. Editing section at a time is better anyway, it's safer in terms of losing edits. Jayjg 22:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Belz

From that article it seem like each member didn't give $10,000 "in Israel most local Hasidim do not have much to spare" I don't see anywhere that it says that each member gave that much money. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 08:35, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz

Misplaced Pages uses the most common English transliteration, regardless of Jewish tradition. Jayjg 14:19, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Chassidim

Hi Yoninah, I've noticed your ongoing high-quality work on Chassidus articles. While I'm a Yekke myself I'm quite fascinated with history of Polish Chassidus, to the point that I wrote up Simcha Bunim of Peshischa. There must be plenty of others that could do with a nice brief article with good source material. Any ideas? JFW | T@lk 19:29, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Your neighbour's articles may well be under the Yated's copyright. Could you ask him to clarify? There is always the risk that the Yated articles need extensive editing for style and NPOV before they can be used in Misplaced Pages. JFW | T@lk 19:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Of course it is very difficult to cite everything from sources. Some information is widely available, yet the source is hard to identify. Sometimes a good collative source is better than 100s of individual sources, although I try to attribute major views/interpretations straight to the original source. JFW | T@lk 22:52, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not suggesting you proceed in any specific way. The work of your neighbour sounds very interesting, and if it is adapted sufficienty may not even be a copyright problem. Good luck. JFW | T@lk 23:11, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi, I have noticed your work and wanted to welcome you. IZAK 09:43, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Me too -- you popped up on my watchlist for the Breslov page which I have worked on, along with other Breslov-related pages. (Yes I'm a Breslover.) Your many additions to the Breslov category are excellent! The Rosh Hashanah kibbutz page is wonderful -- I had that on my to-do list but you beat me to it, and did a better job than I could have re: a lot of history I did not know. I added a couple things and made a few minor edits, but on the whole, it is totally AWESOME! Rooster613 13:29, 29 September 2005 (UTC)Rooster613

Great contributions.

You only just appeared on my watchlist after editing Meir Kahane, but the rest of your contributions, even minor rewordings, are top-knotch. Keep up the good editing. Shem 08:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

African American lit

If you have a second, could you check out a discussion I'm involved in at Talk:African American literature. This German guy has an issue with how African American literature is structured b/c the article describes Black literature while following the history and politics of African Americans. To him, bringing history and politics into a literature article is wrong b/c the article should totally focus on art, form, aesthetics. I've already pointed out that Black lit is tied in with the history and experiences of Black people in this country. I also showed that Literature of the United States, English literature, Tamil literature and so on follows the basic sociological and historical framework that this article uses. However, I don't think any of this is going to convince him. I get the feeling that he would rather discuss Black literature without actually having to mention Black people at all. Any support or comments you can give on this would be appreciated.--Alabamaboy 13:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Many many thanks for the comments!--Alabamaboy 18:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for the support. I can't believe this is going on. I mean, tons of editors worked on this article, either in writing it, fixing it up, critiquing it for FA status, and so on. I've also agreed with almost all of Albrecht Conz's issues, with the exception of restructing the article. What, are we supposed to give in on everything just to keep him happy? Pain! Severe pain! Anyway, thanks again! --Alabamaboy 01:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if Albrecht Conz will be back, but I assume he will (he tends to take a few days between his comments). But with the defense of the article by you and others, I don't feel like such a voice in the wilderness in defending it. In addition, other editors can see that the consensus view is that the article is fine as is (at least, I hope this is true). Once again, many thanks. I am in your debt. If I can ever be of assistance, please let me know.--Alabamaboy 23:52, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

"Kiryat" vs. "Qiriat"

Well, this is a hard question. Misplaced Pages policy Suggests using the most common English form, which in this case would probably be "Kiryat" (compare , , ). Hebrew transliteration rules (see ) allow both K and Q for kof, while yod is transliterated as Y (in this case), so both "Kiryat" and "Qiryat" are correct. I think "Qiryat" is used in the official English names, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics uses "Qiryat" (see ), and so does the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (see , although there are a few mistakes there with other names such as Zanz instead of Sanz).

I think there should be a consistent naming convention of Hebrew and Israeli names throughout Misplaced Pages, so I shall make a suggestion under Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions.--Doron 06:18, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Pale

I added in a source. I pulled it originally from the pogrom article, but your message made me track down the original. I found the info in "Jewish Representation in the Independent Ukrainian Governments of 1917-1920" Henry Abramson, Slavic Review, Vol. 50, No. 3. (Autumn, 1991), pp. 542-550. Good job on the editing by the way. I also wanted to suggest, if you don't know, that a great source of public domain text on Jewish history is the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906. It is a little ideosyncratic, however, so most inserts need to be edited a lot, but it is useful as a starting place. --Goodoldpolonius2 20:55, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

ISBN numbers

Is there a particular reason you are putting the ISBN numbers after book references? All this does is refer the reader to a list of publishers and booksellers. I doubt many readers are going to actually scroll through that to find Breslov books, which most of those places don't carry anyway. Plus, ISBNs change with new editions. The more usual thing is to put the author, title, publisher, city of publication, date of publication, page numbers. You are listing only the publisher with no city or date.(??) I haven't seen anybody else here using the ISBNs and I personally find them distracting. And a bit commercial-looking, although they do not go to particular businesses. Rooster613 00:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)Rooster613 (yes, this was me -- forgot to sign my name)

• Re: ISBNs, if wikis want them there, OK, but maybe we should confine them to lists of refs at the end of articles? They look really weird in the article itself, especially if people don't know what they are (and a lot of readers don't.) I think we should ALSO put in the other pub info (city, date, etc.) for us oldsters who prefer to use libraries or go straight to publishers' sites<g> This will be my last post for a while -- Rosh Hashanah is tomorrow eve. Shanah Tovah! Rooster613 00:24, 3 October 2005 (UTC)Rooster613 (again)

Nice Job

Nice edit on Bagel. Thanks. Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:11, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Can I get your vote?

I have been nominated for an adminship and I was wondering if I could get your vote. If you feel inclined, please go to Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Alabamaboy and cast your "yes" or "not in a million years." Many thanks.--Alabamaboy 02:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)