User talk:20.138.246.89

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Sourcing on Polish Jews

do you have something against source-checking on Jewish lists? That's how it appears. Though the list you were most on List of British Jews is also the most reliable one due to its source-checking. 72.144.158.201

Great Britain and its reps

Hi there. Sorry I should have explained in greater detail in talk. Who, in your opinion, is a good quick-list entry for British academics? I made a discussion topic: TALK:List of Jewish scientists and philosophers. 65.8.28.68 17:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Homeopathy

I see you added some text add homeopathy, but someone else User talk:Jefffire removed it. I'm making a new consensus outline at User:Homy/homeopathy and I copied and changed your contents a bit. I will approach him whether he agrees with the new outline. Feel free to make your changes there. Your version is here --Homy 16:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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Polanyi -- linking "entrepreneur" twice

You removed an internal link to "entrepreneur" on the Michael Polanyi page, because it was a duplicate link. Generally, I would agree that linking a word twice in an article is unnecessary, but in this case, consider whether the context is sufficiently distinct to warrant a second link. The first appears in Polanyi's "early life" segment; the second, which I added, appeared in the "economics" segment. I chose to link again in that segment because I suspected that at least some readers who would skip the first segment might be interested in constrasting "scientist" with "entrepreneur" by clicking through at that point.

I'll leave it to you to decide whether my argument is persuasive and to reactivate that link. I've only been editing Wiki for a short time, and recognize that I may not have a full grasp of the norms in this community. -- Bionictulip 21:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

WP:NOR

Per your comment "Point is, a standard reference work describes him as Jewish so it violates WP:NOR to go beyond that," I'd like for you to explain how finding a source that says only his father is Jewish is "original research"? 141.213.211.81 14:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

"Finding a source that says that his father was Jewish and then deducing from it that therefore he is not Jewish is original research."

The source does not simply say "Bela's father is Jewish" and thats it. It says he has Jewish ancestry from his father's side and German from his mothers. It cannot get clearer than that that his mother was not Jewish because then there would be no purpose of saying he's Jewish on his father's side if his mother was too. Is there an online version of Encyclopedia Judaica everyone can access for free? If not, then you must quote where it says both his parents were Jewish, because that would be the only statement which would counter the other. Therefore, it is not original research to conclude only one of his parents was a Hungarian Jew (which qualifies him for the list). 141.213.211.81 11:31, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Secondly, when did I deduce Bela was not Jewish? 141.213.211.81 11:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

So now the list is no longer an ethnic list, but a religious list? If you want to implement that, lets see if we can reach a consensus, change the title, and do it. 141.213.211.81 11:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I don't think Bela's boyfriend was Jewish. :P You still haven't quoted where Encyclopedia Judaica says "Bela is Jewish." Is there a free Encyclopedia Judaica accessible or not? 141.213.211.81 11:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

And yet again, how is it original research to deduce Bela was not fully Jewish when there is a source that says it ? 141.213.211.81 11:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean by "he is not?" Why would someone who has significantly recent Jewish forefathers not be Jewish? That's like suggesting that someone whos mother was German and father French would not be considered by some to be German ethnically. There are many, many people listed on wikipedia who have only partial Jewish heritages, don't identify as being Jewish, and are still listed as such. With your argument, it would be rightful to not include them on a list of Jews. Do you agree with this? I don't, but if you do, we could find some way to come to a consensus. Of course, that would require a massive change to many lists of Jews. 141.213.211.81 11:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Because someone can be Jewish AND something else, and it isn't fair to the individual to just pile him/her into one categorization when they may not agree with it. This has been being practiced on such lists for...just about the beginning of the lists existence and you've seemed to be in agreement with it for most cases. Why is Bela's so special? Did he say somewhere that he's not German just Jewish? 141.213.211.85 21:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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Reliable sources

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Promotion of Ideologies

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. As a member of the Wikipedia community, I would like to remind you to adhere to Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy for editors. Thank you.

You CANNOT advertise WP:Fringe theories as if they are worldly facts. Paul is dead is not a fact. Big Foot existing is not a fact, despite links that say it is. Fringe theories belong in their allocated articles such as Salvador Fernandes Zarco and Origin_theories_of_Christopher_Columbus. You have already added them on February 20th to List of Sephardic Jews, if you continue to rotate them from list to list, I will report this on the admin noticeboard as a violation of undue weight and promotion/advertisement of ideologies. For now, please don't do it again. Mehmeda 20:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)