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*User:Gilabrand/Awards and barnstars

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For working on an article that you felt shouldn't even exist and helping to bring it up, even if temporarily, to encyclopedic standards. Nableezy (talk) 18:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

		The Jewish Barnstar
		For editing the page Jerusalem stone.Elan26 (talk) 20:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)Elan26

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		The Photographer's Barnstar
		I hereby award you The Photographer's Barnstar for the beautiful photos of Israel and Jewish stuff you have taken and graced Misplaced Pages with! I had noticed your contrbution way back in July 2007! The one of the Dome of the Rock viewed through the Cotton Merchants Gate (right) is my favourite! Happy snapping! Chesdovi (talk) 02:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your work on Hat, I hereby award you this barnstar. →Wordbuilder (talk) 17:23, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		This award is given to User:Gilabrand in recognition of all your imaginative and original photographs related to topics about Israel and Judaism, as can be seen on your user page. In particular, I was impressed by how many of these photographs enhance so many articles about people, places and things in Israel. Mazal Tov and may you be blessed to continue contributing to Misplaced Pages in this productive fashion for a long time to come. See Misplaced Pages:Barnstars: "The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Misplaced Pages through their technical work..." and you most certainly deserve it. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 04:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I was going to give you the copyeditor's barnstar, but I then realized that would be shortchanging your many other valuable contributions to and helping out with Israel and Judaism related articles. Much appreciated! nadav (talk) 07:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For all your quality contributions to Israel-related articles, you fully deserve this. пﮟოьεԻ 57 20:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		i frummer give you this award for all the great work you've put into many judaism, jewish and israel relates articles, all the while steering clear of controversy! ..thnx Gila!

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For the excellent editting and formatting that helped lead to Israel's promotion to featured article status. --Jdcaust 16:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

		The Jewish Barnstar
		I award you with this Jewish Barnstar Award for your helping keep the Judaism article up to standards. Keep up Your Good Work! Nimrauko 23:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For defending Misplaced Pages from all lies-on-the-ground :).--Mbz1 (talk) 14:25, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Gilabrand, Thanks for all your contributions on the Israeli cuisine article over the past few months. I'm happy to see that it has been promoted to GA status and I'm sure that is in no small part due to your efforts! Best regards, --- Chefallen (talk) 19:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you so much for the edits in Jewish wedding. I thought it would take years to make it a decent article, and you made it in a few minutes. Definitely this is a case where being WP:BOLD is the one and only solution ! --Licory (talk) 19:12, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

re Child

Thaks for this. I have this article on my watchlist and it seems to be a target for vandalism etc., so it's nice to see your good and useful contribution. Keep up the good work! Herostratus (talk) 17:32, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Mount of Olives

Hi, nice editing and picture-adding on this article. What are your thoughts on breaking off the cemetery into a separate article, such as Mount of Olives (Jewish cemetery), which would help us expand on the history of burials here? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 08:03, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. The lists on this page are really getting out of hand...I wouldn't write "Jewish cemetery" in parentheses, though. I think I would call the article "Mount of Olives Cemetery" and link it to this one.--Geewhiz (talk) 09:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

for the interesting etymological article you linked to in Emek Refaim. I have learnt something, for which I am grateful. RolandR (talk) 11:20, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for this edit. I was going to do something similar last night, but was too tired when I got home, and had to go to bed. --NSH001 (talk) 06:28, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for reassessing Ayoob Kara. :) --Metallurgist (talk) 03:23, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Also, do you have any recommendations for how to improve it further?

Allar, Jerusalem

Please restore the original article name and open a move request. Thanks. Tiamut 19:14, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Ahalan wasahalan, Tiamut. Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is well. About Allar, the article clearly states that it is 17 kilometers from Jerusalem, which puts it in the Jerusalem District. The only reason for adding anything to the village name is for disambiguation purposes. For that purpose, Allar (village) seems best but since you have done some nice work on the article, I'll leave that up to you.--Geewhiz (talk) 06:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Ahlan fiki Gilabrand. I don't know which source says its 17km from Jerusalem so I've removed that bit and gone with Petersen's description which is simply southwest of Jerusalem. Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948 are generally disambiguated by including the name of the district they were located in without prefacing it by "District of..." - its too wordy. As a result, I've moved it back to the original title. I think I violated 1RR by doing so, but don't want to undo and create an even bigger mess, so I've asked at arbitration for advice on how to proceed. In the future, if you could open a discussion on the talk page before moving pages, that would be good. We could then avoid these back and forths altogether then. Take care, Tiamut 08:48, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Golan Heights

Just so you know, your edit here on 17 April is largely to blame for the recent escalation of passions at Golan Heights. Seeing as you've become involved in some heated verbal exchanges on the Discussion page there, I think restoring the map you removed from the infobox will be welcomed all around as a positive contribution in an NPOV spirit. Give it some thought.—Biosketch (talk) 04:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion, but the problems on that page were not started by me, nor will they end with me. I do not intend to re-add an image I think adds nothing, but if you believe that will end the squabbling (in your dreams), you can restore it yourself.--Geewhiz (talk) 05:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I didn't mean to imply that you're to blame personally for what's happening now – just that the removal of the image, without replacing it with some other map, was open sesame for the next guy to come along and make a POV edit to the article.—Biosketch (talk) 06:09, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Even if the satellite map was re added to the infobox, it wouldn't in any way justify the removal of the neutral and accurate CIA map elsewhere in the article that shows the areas geography and politics. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 07:14, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Ahava

As I explained on the AHAVA discussion page, I sought and received advice from the Misplaced Pages Live chat help page. I asked for any comments or concerns about the changes I proposed and you made none. It is a shame you have now removed my edits made in the light of those proposals without discussion or adequate explanation. I will repeat here in simple words the information I provided more than one week ago on the AHAVA talk page: 1. when listing a company’s products it is acceptable to list the types of products but not specific products. eg "sunscreen" is ok but not "Banana Boat Bronzing Sunscreen SPF 50 with a Hint of Lemon." 2. social media is not a reliable source nor are aggregators such as Health And Beauty Review 3. the inclusion of a rider such as "However no independent scientific evidence has been adduced in support of this belief.” is acceptable unless such scientific evidence is cited. If you have independent scientific evidence for the “belief” that Dead Sea mud has “benefits for deep cleansing and stimulation of the skin.” then please cite it. If not then it is reasonable to make it plain to the reader that this is just a marketing claim by the company with no more or no less status than the advertising slogan “Guiness is good for you”. And please do not try to hide behind the explanation “copy edit” as removing significant portions of the text is not just copy-editing. You have also deleted work by another editor without justification or explanation. The fact that you have described the internationally respected Israeli organisation B'tselem as an unreliable source indicates you need to do more reading and research in this area. I shall revert your changes and please do not do this again without discussion or adequate explanation. Thank you for your time and attention in reading this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Floccinauci (talk • contribs) 12:02, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

You are the one who needs to do more reading. Advocacy sites are not RS for Misplaced Pages. Your personal views regarding the veracity of claims published in an RS do not belong on Misplaced Pages. From this long winded piece of verbiage you have left on my talk page, it is obvious that you have no interest in improving articles but fighting with people. You seem to be obsessed with this one article. Blanket reversion of my changes, which are all policy-based, will only prove to the administrators alerted to this case that you are a battle-minded SPA with no interest in improving the article.--Geewhiz (talk) 12:35, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Administrator review of Ramot

This message is to inform you that I have initiated an administrator review of the recent editing at the articles Ramot (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). This review will result in any editors whose conduct is disruptive being sanctioned under the provision of WP:ARBPIA#Discretionary sanctions. You are welcome to participate in the review, which is located at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Israel/Palestine articles generally. Regards, AGK 12:17, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Please specifically see my comments in the "results" section, which relates solely to your recent change—for which you used the edit summary copyedit—to Ramot. Thank you, AGK 12:17, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't know what you are talking about. I have been working on improving this article for years. I would expect you, as an administrator, to find something better to do than leave false accusations on my page about "deceptive" edits. I wrote "keep it simple" and I stand by this edit (and every edit I make). I have done no warring or disrupting of anything. Your assumption of bad faith is misplaced.--Geewhiz (talk) 12:50, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

And allow me to point out that your contacts with Nableezy and offers to reduce his ban make your motives in leaving me this message especially suspect. Clearly you are not an uninvolved administrator.--Geewhiz (talk) 15:52, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Have you noticed

Image:Wailing Wall Road, 1967.jpeg is up for deletion? Chesdovi (talk) 00:28, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

AE thread concerning you

Please see WP:AE#Gilabrand. Your response would be appreciated. Thanks. T. Canens (talk) 04:22, 18 May 2011 (UTC) On closer inspection of these "charges," I am totally in the dark about what ban you could be referring to. Apart from these edits not being mine, I am not aware of me being under any restrictions or topic bans. In fact, it appears you are the one who is proxy-editing for a topic-banned editor.--Geewhiz (talk) 06:39, 18 May 2011 (UTC)