User talk:UrielAcosta

Hello, UrielAcosta, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:

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Happy Holidays

Thank you for continuing to make Wikipedia the greatest project in the world. I hope you have an excellent holiday season. Lightburst (talk) 03:05, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise UrielAcosta (talk) 03:27, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't wait for us to work together! ~~~~

Let's go!

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Anarchism

Hi UrielAcosta,

I saw your work on articles related to anarchism and wanted to say hello, as I work in the topic area too. If you haven't already, you might want to watch our noticeboard for Wikipedia's coverage of anarchism, which is a great place to ask questions, collaborate, discuss style/structure precedent, and stay informed about content related to anarchism. Take a look for yourself!

And if you're looking for other juicy places to edit, consider expanding a stub, adopting a cleanup category, or participating in one of our current formal discussions.

Feel free to say hi on my talk page and let me know if these links were helpful (or at least interesting). Hope to see you around. czar 16:29, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. UrielAcosta (talk) 19:19, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

BC vs BCE

Hello! Just to let you know, i reversed your edits on the Hittites re BC to B.C.E. The MoS is clear about A. retaining existing styles and B. not mixing styles. Since that article uses BC, BC must be used throughout (also, we don't put in the periods between the letters). Thanks! Masterhatch (talk) 02:06, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I matched the BCE in the adjacent image's caption without checking the rest of the article to see if that format was consistent. UrielAcosta (talk) 02:10, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, no worries. :) Masterhatch (talk) 02:17, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

actually, not no worries. The MoS is clear. U dont like it, take it up on the mos talk page. Dont turn this into a revert war, please. Deal with it on mos. Masterhatch (talk) 02:20, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry, i thought it was u who reverted me. Was a different guy Masterhatch (talk) 02:21, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary deletion of material

In your enthusiasm for following the Manual of Style's deprecation of obituary-style language like "survived by...", you appear to have got slightly carried away, and have deleted paragraphs about people's families instead of just rephrasing them. The MoS doesn't prohibit the inclusion of this information, and there is no Wikipedia policy saying that you can't mention if someone was married or had children. Perhaps you could just amend the language instead? Richard75 (talk) 10:22, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit

Hi I did not understand this edit. So I am checking with you. Bruxton (talk) 04:05, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was a typo which I've now fixed- thank you for pointing out out to me. My original intention was to remove the editorializing reference to luck, but my keyboard betrayed me... UrielAcosta (talk) 15:48, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Request For Help

I would like kindly ask you to proofread an article History of the Jews in Derbent. Thank you in advance. Boxes12 (talk)

Dear UrielAcosta,

Thank you so much for your kindness and a wonderful job that you had done with the article History of the Jews in Derbent. It looks great! Thanks again! Boxes12 (talk) 18:17, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'm still working on it. Your work was very thorough and well-researched, by the way, which makes it enjoyable to edit. UrielAcosta (talk) 18:45, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am so very grateful for your time and effort. Thanks again! Boxes12 (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Judeo-Tat literature

Dear UrielAcosta,

If you will find interesting an article Judeo-Tat literature then your editing expertise will be greatly appreciated. It would be nice to have a well written article about the Judeo-Tat literature.

I am very sorry if I bother you with this article. Boxes12 (talk) 14:05, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No bother at all, I plan to look at the article in the next few days. UrielAcosta (talk) 21:39, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

God bless you for your kindness! It is so nice of you. Boxes12 (talk) 17:21, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you very much for your great editing job on the article Judeo-Tat literature! Boxes12 (talk) 20:01, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why remove Britannica as a source?

Hi UrielAcosta. I see you intended to remove the source listed as unreliable, but why did you also remove Britannica? Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 14:25, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see I made an editing error, accidentally removing it. Thanks for restoring it, and for alerting me to my mistake. UrielAcosta (talk) 16:06, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Author's page

Dear UrielAcosta. Thank you for taking an interest in improving the page about Joann Lublin. However, I would greatly appreciate it if you might consider deleting the cropped image on the upper right hand of the page, entitled signature, for reasons of personal preference. Many thanks for your help on this.

ShermanUpper (talk) 16:12, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Dear UrielAcosta, Thank you so much for edited page Yaakov Yitzhaki! You did a wonderful job. I appreaciate it! Boxes12 (talk) 22:23, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Judaism in Dagestan

Dear UrielAcosta,

I would like to ask if you kingly agree to edit an article Judaism in Dagestan. Your English language skills is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Boxes12 (talk) 03:00, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear UrielAcosta, thank you very much for your edited article Judaism in Dagestan. Many thanks for your help on this.

Boxes12 (talk) 00:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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PBS, Feb 13, 2023: Bedouin police and "violently expelled"

Hello. I was using terminology by sources and from clip I personally viewed on PBS.

[1] Quote:

In the early 20th century, the Duchovnys made their way to Jaffa, where they opened an inn. Unfortunately, the Duchovnys, along with 6000 fellow Jews, were violently expelled from the state one night in December of 1914 by the local Ottoman government... The clip describes how one day, Bedouin police invaded the Jewish quarter of Jaffa, where the Duchovnys lived and worked, and forced them out of their homes with only bags and meager belongings. They were put aboard the Vincenzo Florio, a steamer headed to Port Said, Egpyt.
At night, the “relatively orderly” deportation turned violent. According to the clipping, men were thrown overboard, possessions were looted, jewelry was ripped off women and parents and children were separated, with the young ones “carried from […] the quayside.”
“There were desperate appeals on every side in the darkness, with heartrending screams. Everyone arrived in Alexandria resourceless,”...

Regards.HistoricReminder (talk) 05:17, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, given that the specific details in the source make clear that physical violence was used, & not just the implicit threat of violence that "forcibly" might connote, I've changed it to: "In December 1914 his ancestors were among 6,000 Jews who were forcibly removed from their homes by Ottoman police, violently expelled from Jaffa, and deported by ship to Egypt." UrielAcosta (talk) 14:39, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It does point to Bedouin police. I believe it's important to add, as so not to blame only the Turks. (Though that is a larger issue). Have a great weekend.HistoricReminder (talk) 21:54, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with after posting on talk page

BS"D

Hello Mr. Acosta. Thank you for helping me through the proper procedures of Wikipedia so far.

I have a question. I posted onto the talk page on R' Kanievsky's article. What should I do now? Do I wait for a... Hoich-editor? to make an official comment on it? Do I just update the article anyways? What is the right thing for me to do now?

Shibolet Nehrd (talk) 19:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(P.S. If I'm supposed to wait for official comment - please don't go out of your way to look at it. I just want to know what to do for myself.) Shibolet Nehrd (talk) 19:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know you'd posted on the Chaim Kanievsky talk page. You can read my response to your question there.

I've also added: "He was notable even among Jewish scholars for annually reading the entire text of many sources of Jewish law, including not only the Babylonian Talmud but also the less commonly studied Jerusalem Talmud" to the first paragraph of the "Rabbinic Career" section, with two sources, one from the National Library of Israel, the other the Yeshiva World article with the complete list quoted in the footnote; while I was at it, & based on the National Library of Israel source, I also added "known as the Gdol HaDor ('the greatest of his generation')" to the introductory paragraph.

I didn't answer the question of just how long you should wait, because I'm not sure if there's a specific answer. Speaking just for myself, I'd probably wait two or three weeks- unless the article is something that gets a lot of traffic, one that many people will be visiting, and maybe editing, every day (e.g. Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present)), in which case a week or even less might be appropriate. To be honest, I almost never look at the talk pages of the articles I edit (the rare exceptions are generally if I'm thinking of adding something that I suspect might have already been chewed over on the talk page), and I don't know how many people actually look at talk pages. In fact, this is a reminder to me that from now on I should probably check the talk pages of articles I'm editing, at least those I'm editing extensively.

UrielAcosta (talk) 16:18, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BS"D

Thank you for your help and guidance Mr. Acosta. As well, I've read the things you wrote, and I feel I have learnt a lot about both Wikipedia and general clear-mindedness from them. I appreciate your time spent to help me so much.

Shibolet Nehrd (talk) 03:19, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The alphabet was not created by Agop Dilâçar!

Based on what source do you claim the lie that an Armenian invented the Turkish alphabet? How can you refer to ideological newspaper articles written after 2000 and fake blog posts that do not rely on any source and use this lie for the Turkish alphabet? How do you ignore historical documents from 1928? How do you write this lie on the Wikipedia page, although Agop Dilacar does not say "I invented this alphabet" in his own article? 88.243.159.186 (talk) 13:57, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]