User talk:Avin

Howdy.

Welcome to the english Wikipedia. I have noticed your recent contributions, and would like to help you get up to speed on editing here.

First and foremost, be aware of Ignore all Rules. At Wikipedia, many of us are fond of citing "rules" governing how a user should or shouldn't edit. There is always room for your own judgement, however. While we have rules, you are also expected to be bold in your editing. Try to be familiar with these rules, but do not let them get in the way of your contributing.

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While I see that you are already on your way to editing pages, there is a guide which may help. In my experience, knowing what templates and categories are out there will help a lot. As an example, if you find yourself editing Hickam Air Force Base, you may notice a couple things:

{{Airports of Hawaii}} near the bottom of the article. This inserts a large table allowing the user to navigate to other airports in Hawaii more easily than finding the relevant links. Over time, you'll find that there are quite a few useful templates. Be on the lookout for them in articles.
[[Category:Airports in Hawaii]] and others, also at the bottom of the article. Categories help us categorize articles into groups so that we can find other articles like the one we're reading or editing. There are a lot of categories (almost 100,000!), so it may be tough to find useful ones at first. Try looking at articles related to the subject you're working on, and see what categories they are in.

Additionally, there are templates like this which will allow you to add data to articles which is highly standardized. This makes reading the Wikipedia much easier. Don't get discouraged if this looks complicated at first, it's really not so hard.

You may get stuck. We all do. There are a bunch of places to look for help:

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Welcome. ... aa:talk 00:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC) A[reply]

Naftule Brandwein

Why have you capitalised "Badkhn"? It's a common noun, not a proper name. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 22:31, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Hi, I have been using the maps at http://amudanan.co.il for some time, but I didn't know it was possible to specify latitude and longitude in the URL. Are there more useful options? Is it possible to specify a grid reference rather than latitude and longitude? Thanks and cheers. Zero^talk 00:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Useful option: for example, al-Majdal, Tiberias go from the Coordinates to GeoHack page, go to left column "Languages" Select עברית (Hebrew), On the right side under מפה you'll find links to amudanan topographical map 1:50,000 and PEF map. What is "a grid reference"?

Thanks, I didn't know that technique. The grid reference is the pair of large numbers in red (or is it brown?) in the upper right of the amudanan page that change as you move the mouse around. It is a standard reference to a map position. However amudanan uses an origin and scale different from older topographic maps like the Mandate-era 1:100000 and 1:50000 maps. Many gazeteers and catalogues like Pringle and Grootkerk, and many publications in archaeology, use the old grid coordinates to specify locations. There is a fairly simple way to convert from the old numbers to the amudanan numbers, see the section "More sources" at Talk:Al-Bassa. If there is way at amudanan to go to a particular grid reference, that would be great. Zero^talk 02:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can easily switch between and from the new grid or new network - רשת חדשה to the old Grid or old network - רשת ישנה in Amudanan just select רשת ישנה in the box to the left of the grid reference numbers.--Avin (talk) 03:16, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, indeed, good one! Zero^talk 04:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

About Khan Lubban

Hi Avin. You removed this picture from Lubya, saying this was in Al-Lubban. Do you know which al-Lubban, and if its one we already have a wiki article on? I ask because according to the Commons category for Khan Lubban its locale is inside Israel and is denoted as Lubya. Could you help me clear up the confusion? Thanks. Tiamut^talk 17:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing from the description provided in this book [1] that it is Al-Lubban al-Gharbi which is 21km north of Ramallah. If that the al-Lubban you were referring to? Thanks in advance for considering this query. Tiamut^talk 17:58, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Khan Lubban is located 1.5 km south-southeast of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya 32°03′32.68″N 35°14′59.26″E / 32.0590778°N 35.2497944°E. No we do not have a wiki article. See Khan Lubban on PEF map from 1880. ----Avin (talk) 20:40, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]