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Battle of Latrun

Well. In fact, I lack time. But even if I had time, what really lacks is a translator from French to English : the editor who had started decided to stop and I could not find any other. So... :-( Ceedjee (talk) 10:52, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments at T:TDYK

Hi Ynhockey,

Regarding this comment at the DYK page, I would appreciate it if you could strike out, remove, or at least soften your first two comments (about Gatoclass's actions being unilateral and Gatoclass's personally attacking you). I am not familiar yet with the details of the discussion regarding the Battle of Nitzanim and the quotes, so I'm not able to judge on the substance of that yet; I'm just bringing this up because for the past week or so there has been a particularly vicious fight going on at WT:DYK, with one particular user attacking many DYK contributors, so right now we are all a little bit on edge and a bit weary of all the fighting...so trying to be as civil as possible on the DYK suggestions page should help the process along. Your comments about Gatoclass's involvement in I–P articles are more constructive (although I'm not sure if I agree that his involvement is a problem), so those don't need to be changed; it's mainly the first little bit that I'm worried could cause some tensions.

If I have a moment, I'll try to look into this discussion a little more and see if there's anything I can contribute.

Thank you, —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 17:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Arab israelis

if it is not an adjective and is a noun why should the inaccurate term Arab be used to describe Arab Israeli citizens. Do you have a problem with using Arab Israeli to describe none Saudi, none Lebanese, none Syrian, none Iraqi, none Yemeni and none Jordanian citizens?....Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 13:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

It is called systemic racism. Arab citizen of Israel is a noun correct. The way that Arab is constantly used inaccurately when Arab citizen of Israel is intended is systemic racism...This means that the inappropriate use of Arab is POV always has been POV and always will be POV...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 14:01, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I see quite a lot wrong on many articles...I can only do so much on my own to combat systemic racism...there are many racists that change Palestinian to Arab where the reference is to Palestinians and there are many racists that change Arab citizens of Israel to Arab even though the reference is to Arab citizens of Israel...As the original sentence was written to avoid the double triple usage I can only assume that the person that changed the sentence was on Political POV manoeuvre...maybe you'd like to have the person that stuck Arab all over it without any Arab citizen of Israel reference...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 14:17, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Pop. of Tel Aviv

Hey, The figure at the right box on the Tel Aviv page doesn't match the figure in the passage! one says 390,100 and the other 391,300.... which one is the right one? it should b one figure, not two different ones!

Battle of Nitzanim

Hi Ynhockey,

I was trying to reduce the backlog of unassessed Military History articles when I came across your Battle of Nitzanim. I can categorically state that of several dozen articles, I found it the most interesting. Indeed, I went to nominate it for DYK but found that you had already done so.

My field of expertise doesn't extend much beyond English speaking countries (not a problem for merely categorising articles) and I knew little about the war of 1948. In particular, I'd never heard of that Battle of Nitzanium. The article gave me quite an insight into Israeli history, and also into the problems of writing history on Israeli-related subjects. I thinbk that you have donme a superb job, and I hope that the article makes the front page. It deserves to.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.128.20 (talk) 02:00, 21 December 2008 (UTC) Ooops. Forgot to sign. Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Battle of Nitzanim

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BorgQueen (talk) 18:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

File:Israel geostub icon.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Israel geostub icon.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 04:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Jane F. Sherman

There was no copyright material on the Jane F. Sherman page. Jane is a person and has no connection to any other Jane SHerman. Please restore the page.

Associated typer (talk) 19:49, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Ashkelon pushpin map

Nice work! I've just tried it out on Netiv HaAsara and it looks great. I'm going to add it to the kibbutz template. Cheers, Nudve (talk) 15:41, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S., maybe Template:Infobox Kibbutz/doc should be protected? -- Nudve (talk) 15:46, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

OK. I think it would be a good idea to create all the maps and then ask at WP:BOTREQ for a bot that would do it. I chose to try it on Netiv HaAsara because it's right on the border, and therefore a perfect test. -- Nudve (talk) 16:06, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Nice, but it's still lots of hand work. Ideally, mass copy/paste work should be done by bots, no? -- Nudve (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, you have a point there too... -- Nudve (talk) 17:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Followup: I've expanded the infobox of Kfar Eldad, which you just added, and the name appears far outside the box, which looks weird. Is there a way to make the caption appear elsewhere (not to the right of the pushpin)? -- Nudve (talk) 17:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

roger :) -- Nudve (talk) 18:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

re:Operation Pleshet

Nice work. Lorch writes about the Egyptian attack on Negba in the same section. Do you plan on creating a separate article on that? -- Nudve (talk) 12:35, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Alright -- Nudve (talk) 12:35, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Bank Leumi

Several points.

I noticed the comment about the adherence to the biblical prohibition (Heter Iska) in the charging of interest. I felt the addition of the shmitta year comment (sourced) was fair to balance this point. I would for arguements sake agree that both statements (interest and debt) should be removed.

In regards to the debt collection practices these are common knowledge in Israel. I entered outside academic sources to substantiate the statements. The examples and practices employed are legal in Israel and standard proceedure for debt collection for cases adjudged in Hotzaat Hapoel (Magistartes Court.

The comments entered are neither political nor anti-Israel in nature but true statements concerning business practices with a publically traded multi-national company. These practices are apparently employed equally to all who fall under the juridiction of the Israeli Magistrates Courts. Not only are the statements true but information substantiating this was documented from 3rd party academic sources.

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Actually that book you mentioned has some 20 pages of research into Israeli case law that you can read by clicking on the url. Also the other referenced article was indeed published by Tel Aviv University Law School again you can read by following that url as well.

You were fair to request the documentation and it was provided. I can very easily provide additional documentation to confirm the methodologies of Hotzaat Hapoel (Magistartes Court) and that Bank Leumi does indeed legally use these tactics in their debt collection proceedures.

If I have missed something I welcome being pointed to correcting those mistakes

Y......I went back to double and triple check the notations. the first one (#3) is the reference to the statement about debtors prison from a source book written specifically on the topis of bankruptcy and what that means in different countries. When I refer to Bank Leumis collection practices I reference (#5) a source published by the Tel Aviv Univ law school from a paper written specifically addressing debt and collections practices of creditors in Israel. If you feel I still need more documentation I would be happy to provide......thanks

The book reference does not mention Bank Leumi....it is not meant to....the book reference is meant to notate the widespread collection practices......i will update with source specific pertaining to Bank Leumi

I was hoping to hear from you on exactly what you feel is needed to substantiate my changes. I also do not agree with the unreferenced statement that Bank Leumi follows the laws of Heter Iska. You took issue with my entry that shitta laws were not observed in regards to relief from loans. I see not reference to prove this point.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kewmon (talk • contribs) 01:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

kewmon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kewmon (talk • contribs) 00:17, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Judaism

Hi. Do you have any sources on Jews living in Japan? Or do you know who is an expert on the Judaism articles regarding Jews in Japan? I have just finished the section on Islam in the article Religion in Japan. Now I'm trying to expand the Judaism section. Also can you give me your thoughts regarding what I've written on the Islam section? I'm hoping to do a similar thing like what I've done on it and apply it to the Judaism section. LOTRrules _Talk ^Contribs 18:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello again. I have looked trhough that article and those are just a few sources. I wanted more reliable ones such as books (that you might have known - I regretfully don't know the history of the Jews in East Asia that much). Ah, well I gues I'll have to use what I can. What did you think of that section on Islam anyway? I'd appreciate some constructive criticism from someone who hasn't worked on that article. LOTRrules _Talk ^Contribs 21:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Tel Aviv

Hi Ynhockey Please keep the photo I posted of the City of Tel Aviv!

It was uploaded with all the copyright needed to the List of Most Expensive Cities in the world! Plus, it is a much better photo for the Tel Aviv Wiki page.

thanks!

Deanb

Hey again! We should find a better pix of Tel Aviv as the one u posted isn't updated and only shows 2 of the 3 Akirov buildings!

Let's have a collage of photos like the LA/New York pics!

- Deanb

Hey sorry u were right, it doesnt have all the 3 Azrieli towers!

Let's find a better pic of the city! i've uploaded quite a few good shots in the past

Greeting

Wish You a happy new year.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Regional commands of Israel

You'll see by looking at Category:Divisions by country for example that each country has a category for its formations of that size, so that one can easily compare and access all military formations of that size. The military of Israel has such a category, Category:Divisions of Israel, but nothing for the next size up. Creation of the new category allows it to be added to Category:Military district and regions by country, which lists the formations of that size that wikipedia has articles for. Cheers & happy new year, Buckshot06(prof) 18:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm aware of the provisional corps formed during each war, as well as the fact that there were (are?) nucleus corps HQs within the regional commands. When we get articles for them, we can create a category in Category:Corps by country for Israel. The number of articles in the category is not at issue here - it's the fact that this allows them to be sorted by their formation size. The only reason that 'only very large countries' have these categories are that only a few articles have been written for these size of units. For example, Uruguay, or Switzerland (and Switzerland had about three military districts), if/when we get articles for its military commands, will have the same thing. I would argue that the only reason Hebrew wikipedia doesn't have categories for formations above division is that it's structure isn't as big as En:wiki. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 18:57, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree. But we have to be a little careful about something that would fit into Category:Commands as opposed to things that are purely staff directorates. The whole category structure is arranged so that we have a distinction between operational commands and staff directorates. Category:Regional commands of Israel would be a subcat of that, considering that Israeli Iran Command (can you tell me more about that one, by the way?) etc doesn't have regional responsibilities. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 19:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Right. We disagree completely on this one then. If you wish, you can start a deletion discussion, and we can go from there. On corps, the Category:Corps by country is almost exclusively 'Field corps,' fighting formations, so I may fiddle with the cat. On the Iran command, would you mind taking a look at the article, which is referenced, I hasten to add, and moved/amend it? Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 19:12, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Operation Pleshet

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DYK for Re'im

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Gatoclass (talk) 05:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:FLs

Yeah, I've been working on FLs ever since I started on episode lists, so I guess I gradually became more and more involved in the process. As for List of Bleach characters, I've actually not been heavily involved in the process there, and Tintor2 has been the primary contributor (he's nominated List of Bleach chapters for FL also). He's using my model at List of Naruto characters for the characters list (he helped in making that list too), and it's looking pretty good. Some more information probably still needs to be fleshed out for that list throughout the prose (every character with an article needs a section for instance, the ordering of the "Other characters" section is weird) and after all that, a full copy-edit is necessary. I'll probably start a discussion outlining the remaining issues, but he's done a tremendous job in improving the list. Past that, I'm very close to a FT with the Bleach episode lists (see here). Right now, I think a lot of the character articles could benefit from any conception/reception information that's available, and that's a major hurdle for them going to GA. Also note that if you turn up any reception for characters we currently don't have articles on, you can argue for their inclusion as well, as reception is far more prevelant nowadays than it was say a year and a half ago. Anyhow, good to have you back working on the Bleach articles. — sephiroth bcr ^(converse) 07:40, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Operation Pleshet

On 5 January, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Operation Pleshet, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Thank you for your notice

Hello , got your notice on my post about Yatir Forest

I am new to Wiki, could you help me , as much as I understand an external link is posted as following

[1]

is this correct ?

Can the same be shown as hyperlink on a word ?

Since this is near to your City Arad, you are invited to visit, would appreciate your answer

Dan —Preceding unsigned comment added by DanOren (talk • contribs) 07:22, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Naval OrBat

Ah, you never bother me :-) you can't find any OrBat about a navy, because I haven't done any. APP-6a symbols are very well defined and logical for Land units, already for air units it gets much less elaborate and for navies the symbols are just simple letters (i.e. BB in a square is a battleship) or some really strange combinations, that are not logical. Therefore I used the basic navy unit symbol for all kind of naval units:
I uploaded I file I use for the color scheme:

I hope this helps you to understand the color scheme used for the OrBats. If any question remains - just ask me Ynhockey; --noclador (talk) 21:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Naval OrBat interim diagram:

Hi Ynhockey, good to see that your work is going forward :-) I think the graphic is great and have just two suggestions: I would change the second and third columns; so that Haifa base is in the middle of the graphic. My reason is that in this version it becomes clearer that Ashdod, Eilat and Atlit are bases in their own right, as there is no black line above them. My second suggestion is to make the Navy square bigger than the others to emphasize that it is a higher command. Both my suggestions are aesthetically, because all the rest is good work. --noclador (talk) 14:42, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me, I'm intrigued. Where can I see these naval orbat diagrams? Buckshot06(prof) 23:07, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Yn; hope to see more orbats from you! It looks good.. Cheers Buckshot06(prof) 23:25, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Well done!

		The WikiProject Barnstar
		For your extensive contributions to the Military history WikiProject, as evidenced by your nomination in the 2008 "Military Historian of the Year" awards, I am delighted to present you with this WikiProject Barnstar --ROGER DAVIES talk 04:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :) It's probably because of the whole Nitaznim episode, but yeah, you deserve that mention. Are you a member of WPMILHIST?

I have been a bit inactive recently, but I hope to get back soon, with more sources. Cheers, Nudve (talk) 12:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Moshe Ya'alon

Thank you. Eleland has spent all week repeatedly removing the section from the Ya'alon page, where I had first put it.Historicist (talk) 13:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi. This user has reverted your removal of the picture he added. Its copyright status is dubious, but I'm not sure. If you have reason to suspect it's not free, maybe something should be done about this. -- Nudve (talk) 18:39, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Alright. I guess I agree with your taste :) Cheers, Nudve (talk) 18:56, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Zavena

• 1. I created the article.
• 2. I moved evreything in the article to Zavena.
• 3. Because the disambiguation page is useless as long as no other article exists so please delete Zavena, Switzerland and move evreything in it to Zavena. The Rolling Camel (talk) 20:51, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

espares

Hi,

I note in the history for espares you've undone a speedy deletion - and quite rightly according to the grounds it was submitted on. I don't think the article is an advert either. I would however challenge the eligibility of the article on grounds of notability however. Do you think it relevent as an encyclopedic article? The only evidence I can find for them being featured on the BBC as they claim is a brief mention on the working lunch website from a viewer saying they'd bought parts from espares. While I don't doubt the veracity of their claim (all right, maybe I do a bit but it's very cheeky if they're not telling the truth) I think it stretches the limits of the 'notability' clause. The page is also linked by no other article on Wikipedia.

Thanks, Ian

Mynameispritch (talk) 09:35, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Love...Speedy Delete

Y.H: I should have tagged it with a slower delete or with {{advertisement}} V. Joe (talk) 03:29, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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Avalara

YNhockey

You removed my request for a speedy deletion (this isn't a public company and is clearly a marketing piece). You said it should be deleted, but a "speedy deletion" doesn't apply here or something.

If that's the case, than what tag or method should I use with an article like that so as to get an admin to delete the listing?

Thanks Freedomring1 (talk) 20:30, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi.I've nominated this article to A-Class review at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battles of the Kinarot Valley. Add it to your watchlist so that you can address comments. Cheers, Nudve (talk) 06:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Re:

Regarding this edit.[2] I didn't remove the information "indiscriminately", it as not in the source contained. And also assuming that Herzl Gedj (Director of the Israeli Population Administration Department) is alive, making unverifiable allegations against him is a violation of WP:BLP.

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Russian Wikipedia

Hi, I noticed what you said about the Russian Wikipedia. I am bilingual in English and Spanish, and the Spanish Wikipedia certainly isn't of nearly as high quality as the English Wikipedia. However, this is more motivation for me to edit it often - I want to help improve it. Yes, the state of the Russian Wikipedia may not be great, but it seems a bit counterintuitive to say that you'd rather wait for it to improve before you start to edit there frequently... obviously, there is a lot of work to be done, but the point of a Wiki is that everybody helps each other to make content better. Every article you write there, every edit you make, is incrementally making the place better. --149.169.59.249 (talk) 13:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Question re: image

Hi. Operation Mole Cricket 19 is currently going through an A-Class review, where concerns were raised over this image. I've noticed you were the ones who uploaded the latest version of this image to commons, so I was wondering if you can elaborate on its source. Cheers, Nudve (talk) 08:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

A book that may interest you

Hi Ynhockey,
I think this book may interest you : "independance versus Naqba". It has been written by Yoav Gelber but it Hebrew and was never translated. ISBN: 965-517-190-6. I never read this (I don't read Hebrew) but according to Gelber, it is one of his best books. It costs "only" 98 shekels for 656 pages.
If you have the opportunity to read this in a library, your feed-back to me would be welcome !
Shalom, Ceedjee (talk) 10:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

FYI : Yoav Gelber told me it was not the Hebrew version of 1948 but that it was "far better".

If you don't have time these days, I can be patient 2 weeks :-)

See you, Ceedjee (talk) 19:28, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

William R. Buckley

While the article that you apparently deleted is about me, a real person, it is wrong to assert that I have no notability in the fields of self-replicating machines and machine ontogeny. Indeed, I am a reasonably well published author who is clearly recognised in the field of Artificial Life (for instance, I am the organiser of several workshops at academic conferences - ALife X, ECAL 2008, and GECCO 2009). It is my intent to establish a Wikipedia article that addresses my scholarly work. This is not a conflict of interest, as the only material placed in the article is fact. William R. Buckley (talk) 18:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I will then seek to negotiate with you the points of notability; verification seems less the concern, given my publications, etc.:

ASCII Magazine ca. 1987-1990 this magazine serves as an equivalent to BYTE Magazine - I wrote the column Hobnobbing with the Hyper Hacker.

Wrote a paper contained in the book edited by Clifford Pickover - Visions of the Future - about the goals of the field of artificial life.

Organised the workshop Machine Self-Replication held in conjunction with ALife X - I was the chief organiser.

Was the second director of the International Core War Society, from 1987 to 1992 - this information is contained in the Wikipedia article [Core War].

I am also mentioned in the articles Self-Replicating Machine, and von Neumann Universal Constructor (IIRC).

Was an invited speaker to ALife I (more properly known as the First Workshop on Artificial Life).

Given that I am referenced in other Wikipedia articles, as both a relevant subject of article text, and in the form of many supporting references, it would seem reasonable to me that a biographical article exist. Such an article will not be so stunning as that dedicated to, for instance, von Neumann but, I have made important contributions to automata theory, and particularly machine self-replication (see the paper Computational Ontogeny, within the MIT Press journal Biological Theory, volume 3, issue 1), showing how machines may mimic the behavior of physical development. I believe on this point that notability is substantially served. William R. Buckley (talk) 19:41, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

There will also soon be a Biota podcast that addresses my automata work. Further, one of my past lives was as a freelance opinion column writer for the Daily Titan, the newspaper of CalState Fullerton, and several of those articles garnered national attention, including one which brought attention of newspapers, television, radio, and the then California State Governor, Pete Wilson - see:

Campus Journalism: College Newspaper Column Draws Protests, Death Threats, Editor & Publisher, April 14-21, 1993, pp. 37.

Column Draws Anger, Death Threats, Orange County Register, March 31, 1993.

My work in Core War has been reported in Whole Earth Review magazine (IIRC - Kevin Kelly and Howard Rhinegold).

Also, you offered yourself as an expert on the basis for article deletion. Hence, it is not unreasonable for me to turn to you for further advice. William R. Buckley (talk) 22:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

I have another note of distinction for myself. How about the fact that I was interviewed by former Police Chief Darryl Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department, when he had a radio show on (IIRC) KFI 640AM. In this case, I was his only guest, and he spoke about my work for at least 30min on air, during a telephone interview. I spoke on-air with audience members who called in. Would that constitute something specifically about me? William R. Buckley (talk) 06:15, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I am not racist

Ynhockey, I was not making personal attacks or being racist on the talk page for List of national capitals by population. A lot of Jews are very nice people, and the fact that you're Jewish is no reason to assume that you are bad. But the truth is, a lot of Jewish people like to think of Jerusalem as Israel's capital because the area of land that Jerusalem is in should, in their opinion, belong to a Jewish state. But I think Jerusalem should belong to Palestine as that's the best solution to keep the peace between the Jews and the Muslims/Arabs. I understand that Wikipedia is not a site for opinionated discussion and maybe I shouldn't have added that last bit on, but I'm not racist. I'm sorry if I offended you, and made you think it was a personal attack. Jprulestheworld (talk) 10:17, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Image size

Hi Ynhockey, hmm,... I tried to reduce the size myself now, but got it only to 4,0MB. I think there are 3 reasons for the bigger size of your version: a) yours has 20 more dpi (mine 75dpi, yours 96); b) mine has much more white space -> less data c) I think when you saved yours you choose the option "Interlaced" - I always choose the option "without" and thus get smaller file sizes... but I think with all the data/details in the graphic it will be hard to reduce the file size significantly. --noclador (talk) 00:16, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

sorry about the late reply - I'm a bit swamped with work these days... as for the image size: my version is 4,508×2,768 pixel or 12,478,144 pixel - so luckily I was able to stay under the 12,5 Megapixel limit (although I think you can have the limit removed; i.e. see commons:File:Mont-Tremblant Quebec Canada.jpg which is 24 Megapixel). As for the graphic: it is great - a ton of information :-) (only on thing: under abbreviations you wrote aifcraft) everything else: good work (and a lot of work too ;-); --noclador (talk) 21:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Tag

		The Wikipedia Corps Tag For contributions to Israel and IDF related articles
		I hereby award the Wikipedia Corps Tag, for your contributions to IDF and Israel related article, including this awesome image. - Nudve (talk) 15:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

You've deserved an award for a while, so here it is. Cheers, Nudve (talk) 15:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Likud

Hi Ynhockey. Could you give your opinion on Likud's political leanings at Talk:Likud#Center right politics? Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 57 23:39, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

WP:PROF

You seem to have speedily deleted M. F. Ashby under A7, even though the article contained the information that he was a member of the Royal Society. Please see WP:PROF where you will find such membership listed as the actual most obvious example for what counts as the automatic qualification for notability. It was recreated, quite properly, and went to AfD where it was a snow keep as Michael F. Ashby. DGG (talk) 02:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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AFP pie chart

Hey! I was thinking that the AFP pie chart may be a good image to have uploaded on Wikipedia, perhaps for the Knesset or related articles. Would it be free to upload? Thanks for letting me know. --Shamir1 (talk) 02:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Purity of Arms

Hello,
I have removed the material but I was wondering from where you dediced the concept dated 1994. Don't we make modifications that take into account it is an older principle. But I don't have any precise idea of its origin (except the Palmach)... Ceedjee (talk) 20:34, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

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Border Patrol

This image is not misleading. It specifically states that those are border policemen. It was on a part of the article concerning the Israel Border Police and other alternatives to conscription. This is just an image of border police in action. Explain to me how this is misleading.

Re: 2009 Israeli elections

Hi there. I didn't remove the absentee ballots, I just added them to the regular ballots so that the number of votes listed on the template include both absentee and regular ballots. – Zntrip 22:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm really confused now. Here it looks like Kadima got 729,054 votes. Yet on the latest version of the election table, before I altered it there were 758,032 votes for Kadima. If that figures in the 39,003 absentee ballots that you listed, that would mean there would be 719,029 non-absentee ballots cast for Kadima. I can't find that number in either of the sources you provided. I think for now we should just use the Knesset election board site number of 729,054. – Zntrip 22:54, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

I updated the template with the results from the Knesset election board. I'll notify everyone on the other talk page. – Zntrip 23:20, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/West Bank - Judea and Samaria

Hello. I wanted to tell you that I really liked your clear analysis of the usage of the terms Judea, Samaria, West bank in [3]. Best. Tkalisky (talk) 21:04, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Location maps

Hi. I just saw that you created another local pushpin map. Nice work as usual :)

Can you add it, as well as others you may have created or will create to Template:Infobox Kibbutz? Cheers, Nudve (talk) 06:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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I'm checking out this Friendly talkback feature I just noticed. Nudve (talk) 11:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

re:Deanb

You can check this user's upload log (or my deletion log) for the last 3 images. These aren't straight forward copyviolations. They were images taken from flickr that had CC licenses, but the licenses were not compatible with wikipedia (they were NC). I wasn't entirely sure if this was deliberately uploading images in violation of their license, or a case of the number of different CC licenses being confusing to Deanb, so I AGF in this case and issued my warning (also, the images were uploaded on Feb 23 and 28, and I felt a block might be stale). But I deleted a large number of this user's uploads a month ago as copyvios, and issued a warning then... so Deanb should have been more careful when it came to uploads. -Andrew c ^[talk] 00:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I do not know of a better way to search flickr. With this user, sometimes searching in Hebrew helps. With the most recent 3 I deleted, it also helped that this time Deanb listed the authors and stated they were from flickr. -Andrew c ^[talk] 01:11, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks

Hey. Thanks for the welcome. :) Smekh (talk) 22:46, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Jerusalem Light Rail

Dear Ynhockey,

Thank you very much for getting back to me and adding your input. It is very much appreciated. I have to admit to some discomfort in using secondary (media) sources when primary sources are readily available, however, you are the veteran Wikipedia-ist here so I concede to your experience. On the other hand, the term 'neighbourhood' is one that is politically charged, as it lacks neutrality. In West Jerusalem, the word 'neighbourhood' is suitable. That is not the case in East Jerusalem (or for that matter in the West Bank and the Golan Heights) owing to the fact that its annexation has not been recognised by the UN, and so does not officially belong to the State of Israel. The term used for these communal entities in UN Security Coucil Resolutions (and these are the key references in political science and international law) is 'settlement'. A deviation from this opens up the dialogue for a wide range of disagreement and wording that hold different semantic value, and create a forum where the word 'colony' becomes equally valid. Further, 'neighbourhood' has a fluid, unfixed legal interpretation. By bringing the dialogue down to the term 'neighbourhood' once again frees up - negatively, I might add - the forum for introducing nation states as 'territories' (like 'neighbourhood', a term that may be descriptively correct, but lacks a legal footing when the sovereignty of states is at stake.)

Please rest assured that I will not amend the section. However, the consequence to future dialogue of using politically charged terms such as 'neighbourhood' in this context needs to be seriously considered.

Yours sincerely,

Derfb