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The lead of Jerusalem can't be modified without holding a new WP:RFC discussion

This is a note about your recent edit which changes the lead of Jerusalem. Please see this item from Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/Log#Palestine-Israel articles:

• Jerusalem is placed under the following page-level restriction: As the results of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Jerusalem regarding the article's lead represent the community's consensus at a well-attended discussion, a new request for comments must be undertaken and reach consensus prior to any changes being made to the article's lead section. AE: Seraphimblade 13:25, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm also alerting you to the discretionary sanctions under WP:ARBPIA. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 12:54, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Jerusalem is covered by discretionary sanctions under WP:ARBPIA

Please carefully read this information:

The Arbitration Committee has authorised discretionary sanctions to be used for pages regarding the Arab–Israeli conflict, a topic which you have edited. The Committee's decision is here.

Template:Z33 EdJohnston (talk) 12:55, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Israeli railways and discussing changes

Hi ה-זפר,

First of all, if you want to make a major change to a template, like here, certainly a navigation template that appears in many articles, please discuss the changes before making the edit, not vice versa.

In any case, I have opened a central discussion in your place, you are welcome to state your rationale for removing most of the template. —Ynhockey 10:08, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

1rr

There is a one revert rule per 24 hours on all Arab-Israeli articles.

You have repeatedly violated this and are refusing to get consensus at talk pages and instead resorted to edit warring. If you do this one more time I will file an arbitration enforcement complaint. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 19:41, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Enforcement

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages%3AArbitration%2FRequests%2FEnforcement&type=revision&diff=740892649&oldid=740884395 --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 00:48, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

The PA did not turn into the SoP

There was a debate on this last October and although it didn't reach a clear consensus, the claim that the PNA was transformed to the SoP was removed because of the lack of sources and the fact the Palestinian President himself said he is not going to dismantle the PA during a UN speech in 30 Setptember 2015.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 23:51, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

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Help needed with Zeek article

Shalom, I have been following your edits as of late as a token of excellence I would to ask for your assistance improving Zeek Misplaced Pages article. I will be honest and come forward that I have a stated COI with the company but I feel the information presented in the article is notable. Any input from you regarding this matter would be amazing. Thanks, Eddard 'Ned' Stark (talk) 20:38, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

@Eddard 'Ned' Stark, Surely I'll look into the article from now on. Regards. ה-זפר 05:24, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages and copyright

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• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Misplaced Pages:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. /wiae /tlk 22:10, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Copying licensed material requires proper attribution

It appears that you have added material to the article Bhutanese ngultrum using content from this web page. While you are welcome to re-use licensed content, here or elsewhere, Misplaced Pages's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying from other compatibly-licensed web pages, please at minimum mention in an edit summary at the new page where you got the content. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied licensed material before, even if it was a long time ago, please go back and provide attribution. Let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:29, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Also, I have removed part of your addition to the history section, as the content is almost identical to the web page here. All content you add to this wiki needs to be written on your own words. People who repeatedly violate our copyright policy are blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:32, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Diannaa, I understand, but you could help to rewrite the information, as it was important. Thank you. ה-זפר 13:36, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

I have done it this time, but you really have to learn how to do it yourself. Here are some suggestiosn: One thing I find that works for me is to read over the source material and then pretend I am verbally describing the topic to a friend in my own words. It's been suggested that not so much as three words should be together in the same order as the source. Stuff should also be presented in a different order where possible. Summarize rather than paraphrase. There's some reading material on this topic at Misplaced Pages:Close paraphrasing and/or have a look at the material at Purdue. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:15, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

@Diannaa, Thank you for the link, it really will help me to make my English better. I have followed the guide from you link and rewritten the History section of Ngultrum. It's nice to know you're a librarian, my cousin is a librarian too. Regards. ה-זפר 14:40, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

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Zeek Misplaced Pages Article

Hi There,

I have been following your recent edits on Misplaced Pages. You seem like you truly know your way around Wiki. I would like to ask you help improve Zeek Misplaced Pages article. Zeek is an Israeli-based start-up with a wide range of media coverage

Any input from you would be greatly appreciated. 

Looking forward to hearing from you. Ymd2004 (talk) 21:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ymd2004, Surely I'll look into the article from now on. Regards. ה-זפר 05:22, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your recent edits on Zeek. Your edits are evidence of quality Wiki skills. Would you consider placing your opinion in the article entry? Thanks Ymd2004 (talk) 08:01, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

@Ymd2004, I guess the page is saved before my opinion, and we must add more info and also an article page on the Hebrew Wiki as well. Regards, Thank you so much! David Aaron 19:29, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

AE

Per the AE thread here, you are indefinitely banned from all articles and discussions relating to the Israel/Palestine topic area, broadly construed. If you have any questions regarding the scope of your ban you may ask for clarification, but violations of the topic ban will lead to rapidly escalating sanctions. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:11, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

@The Blade of the Northern Lights, If you could just help me understand better "you are indefinitely banned from all articles and discussions relating to the Israel/Palestine topic area, broadly construed". Also If I need to learn what not to do to cause it again? Regards, Thank you David Aaron 19:26, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

The template {{AE sanction}} lays it out (I'd forgotten about its existence until the recent reminder on my talkpage). Let me know if you have any other questions after reading that. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 00:31, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Warning

Your recent edits are a violation of your topic ban. This is your only warning: if you continue to edit in this area, you will be blocked from editing. Guy (Help!) 11:05, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Topic ban"?

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

I was told about a Topic ban, but couldn't understand why? and what triggered it? If so How can I not let it happen again or correct it? also if really banned how to get unbanned and make sure I don't face it again? What should be learnt or kept in mind by me? I'm really confused. A Help and a guide will be really helpful. Thank you. David Aaron 12:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

• See WP:TBAN. You may not edit any articles in this area, including talk pages and related articles, and may not comment on it. Guy (Help!) 12:48, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Guy, How could I request to be unbanned and If anything more I'm supposed to refer to? Regards. David Aaron 12:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

You would request lifting of the ban at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment. I recommend you do not. An appeal at this stage will fail. Your ban covers articles related to Israel and Palestine, details at Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles. Guy (Help!) 13:17, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Guy, What would you recommend me to do? I mean when could it be best for me to appeal? I see it's "indefinitely banned"!? I could have been given a notice, until I realized the issue on Golan Heights was finally brought down to talk page and discussed = reverts stopped. David Aaron 13:46, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

I would advise you to follow the advice given by the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy to hikers seeking to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. I mean, literally. Stay away from those areas, edit productively and uncontroversially somewhere else, and don't even think about how soon you can go back to pushing your POV on those articles. Guy (Help!) 14:01, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

@Guy, haha, nice, well yes I got what you said: edit productively and uncontroversially! One last worry, what happens if I did a uncontroversial edit on articles related to IL-PS conflict, like adding ref, image or sentence enhancements in mean time? also could there be a catchy way to notice which articles are covered under the topic? Thank you so much Guy! David Aaron 14:26, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

No, you may not edit those articles at all. You also may not mention or discuss the subject on other pages (except to appeal or request clarification regarding the ban, like you're doing here), may not ask or encourage other editors to do things on your behalf, and so on. My general advice is to take those pages off your watchlist entirely, go find another area of interest to edit in, and do that and stay out of trouble for six months to a year. After some period of learning how things work here and showing you can do it well, you can appeal and might be given another chance at it. But for future reference, this is a collaborative project, and your attitude that you don't need to discuss your edits when they are disputed won't fly here. If someone disagrees with you, you need to take it to talk and discuss it, not just plow ahead. Seraphimblade 14:36, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

• (edit conflict) Hi, David. Please look up what topic ban means here: no, you can't edit the PIA topic area at all. It doesn't make any difference if the edits are uncontroversial. Still less if you yourself think they are uncontroversial.. but the long and the short of it is you can't edit those pages at all, nor discuss the PIA topic on any page, for example not even a user talkpage, except in the context of making an appeal.

JzG gives you good advice. You may however, if you still want to, appeal the ban at one of three venues, as described here. (Appealing to the administrator who placed the ban, Blade, would be pointless IMO, as he merely conveyed the consensus at arbitration enforcement noticeboard.) That is to say, you can request review of the ban at the administrators’ noticeboard ("AN"), or at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard ("AE") or at "ARCA". The difference between them is that at AN, your ban would be reviewed by the community, at AE by uninvolved admins, and at ARCA by the Arbitration committee.

Please note that you're free to edit the rest of Misplaced Pages. If you do edit productively and uncontroversially somewhere else for six months, an appeal might be productive. (If you just stay away from Misplaced Pages for six months, I can pretty well guarantee it won't be.) Good luck. Bishonen | talk 14:42, 12 October 2016 (UTC).

The two above have covered what I was going to say. I will just add: resist the temptation to push at the boundaries. If there is the slightest doubt, don't do it. JohnCD (talk) 14:46, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Israeli slant

Editors have previously claimed that you have too much of an Israeli slant in your editing style. This may fall foul of our policies in regards to neutrality. I ask that it would be more conducive if you tried to edit a bit more neutrally otherwise our articles may contain bias. Thank you. Pwolit iets (talk) 08:42, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Violation

Also, you edits to Jerusalem may mean you have fallen foul of your topic ban. Don't do it again. Your topic ban clearly states that the topic area is broadly construed and you seemt o be ignoring this, which may indicate a lack of respect for wikipedia norms on your part. Pwolit iets (talk) 08:49, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

I know and I did change my editing style, but now I just feel like crying, if you check the history of the page you mentioned above, a user added the extra time zone, I just removd the time zone wich is not even followed in the city, and asked it to be discussed, also removed an unofficial website. I don't know even if replying to this message is a violation, but yes I really can't understand why was I put in the topic ban, and how do I be sure if an article is a part of the topic. Regards and Sorry. David Aaron 12:21, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Misplaced Pages:The 10,000 Challenge and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Misplaced Pages:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:05, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Your edits at Israel

Your recent edits at Israel are the latest violation of your topic ban. Please stop editing articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict or you may be blocked from editing. Thank you. — MShabazz /_Stalk 13:53, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

ANI about repeated topic ban violations

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jeppiz (talk) 15:21, 23 October 2016 (UTC)