User talk:Jaakobou

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Stuff I'm reading:

Wilayah Sanjak Medina Caliphate Iudaea Province - Judean Mountains Damour massacre Muhammad Ali Pasha Greater Syria Hamlet Merneptah Stele Reporters Without Borders Hama massacre Tadmor Prison May Laws War of the camps Make-work job Dead Sea canal

1066 Granada massacre Hashomer Black September in Jordan List of ethnic slurs Hurva Synagogue Arab Revolt Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca Ali bin Hussein House of Saud Syrian Jews Revolt in the Vendée Cairo Geniza United Monarchy Unitarian Universalism Karantina massacre Pan-Arabism

Damascus Protocol Bilad al-Sham Constitution of Medina Indian mathematics Carmen Sandiego Ahmad Shukeiri Iraq Dujail Massacre Halabja poison gas attack 1991 massacre List of fallacies Slow Cheetah List of countries by population Gable Faisal-Weizmann Agreement

Award

		The Golden Wiki Award
		I hereby award you this Barnstar for helping Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties. --Megapen (talk) 18:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Haim Farhi

Jaakobou. I think I've found a source that will resolve the riddle of the year of Farhi's murder (Thomas Phillip also gives 1820 by the way), and provide further details to giver a richer text. Itzhak Ben-Zvi, Eretz-Israel under Ottoman Rule, 2nd ed. Jerusalem (Heb)1966 pp.319-22,339-43. This is in Hebrew, and if you can consult it, I've no doubt we'll get further details on our man, to do him justice, and work the page up. Thanks in the meantime for the groundwork. I find him and his remarkable family very interesting, and had you not drafted the page, I would never have had my curiosity stirred. Regards Nishidani (talk) 11:28, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Can't find an online version of the book, and the closest target seemed, upon first inspection, to either be in Karmiel or Jerusalem. Don't believe I'll be making the trip anytime soon, sorry. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 12:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Btw, it seems that the book's name is Hebrew: "ארץ-ישראל ויישובה בימי השלטון העותמאני" which is a bit different than the English name you provided. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 12:03, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Don't you have interlibrary loans there? I know this is work, but in my home country, I can drop into any library anywhere and order a book located in any other library and have it within a week or two. Of course, this would be troublesome, but now that we have the article going, I should think that it's worth the effort to keep an eye out for sources like that, perhaps ask friends to look out for it or consult it and improve the article. I think in the long term with these articles, and the Farhi piece is long on background and short on details about the specifics of his life. It's a shame, that family, like so many in the area, was and still is, an amazing one, full of extraordinary people, and they deserve the best we can do for them.Nishidani (talk) 15:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: I think I found what you were looking for

Ah darn, I should've indicated that I need an image of the route itself; those are just images of a sign for the route on a different route. Thanks for trying, though! Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 16:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Be Bold

Thanks for welcome and article check. Thought about being bold for Disinfo, but didn't want to get into an edit war...someone calling themselves Disinformer made 12 recent edits, which smelled funny to me...Elizabeth BY (talk) 07:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

You can't know unless you try. He/She might be oblivious to WP:SOAP rules. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 07:48, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Busted

Three cheers for creativity and effort, but I guess you'll ultimately get banned for this stunt.

Cheers, pedrito - talk - 11.06.2008 06:36

Courtesy notice

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement#Pedrito's interest in Jaakobu -- Avi (talk) 12:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Your email

I received your email today. Please understand that for privacy reasons, I do not respond to Wikipedia emails. If you have a question, please post it publicly on my user talk page. Thanks. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 18:23, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Israeli Culture Pictures

What's up? I noticed you added a picture of Jewish Folk Dancing. The culture section speaks of "diverse culture." Don't you think we should post a picture that isn't a Jewish activity? Maybe a non-religious or Christian, Muslim, other activity would better represent the section on the "diverse culture" of Israel. Beam 23:18, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Heyo Beamathan,

I'm not sure we disagree here. The folk dance is an amalgamation of several cultures and it being performed by Jewish-Israelis is the only reason for the "Jewish-Israeli" in the title. I don't think there's a need to "show" the culture of minorities on the Israeli page unless there's a section dedicated to just that. To clarify, I'm not objecting some addition of a non-Jewish cultural image but I can't seem to have anything appropriate come to mind. Also, I would not want to see the folk dancing image or any of the other two replaced.

Let me know if you have interesting suggestions though, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 06:48, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Well maybe something from the ArabIsraeli minority would be good. I'll look around for a free image. Beam 12:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-06-17 Muhammad al-Durrah

Hello. I'm going to take over this MedCab case and try to work this stuff out. I posted in the talk page what I would like all participants to do to start. Hopefully this all works out well, I have zero intention of leaning towards any one side in this dispute, and I only care about getting it taken care of. Wizardman 18:52, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Apology

I just realized that I badly misread part of your presentation on the G.S. med case[1]. On re-reading, I can only think that I must have confused your comments in two different sections. My sincere apologies. I have suggested that we re-start and have asked P. for some specific comments in response to yours. If he is unwilling to comment, I will move to close the case. Sunray (talk) 19:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate the gesture. In general, my suggestion on how to resolve the problem (the way I see it) still stands. I'll keep following the page to see if Pedrito takes the time to reply to you. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 20:07, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

"Israel ranks high among Middle Eastern countries on the bases of human development"

Can you please take a look at this? It was changed from "highest" on the Israel page, but the explanation is wrong IMO and it was done quite unilaterally, as I mentioned on the Israel talk page.Lawabider (talk) 17:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

What was the reference for 'highest' and the given reasoning for taking it down a notch? Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 18:34, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Next steps

Pedrito has not yet responded to the message I left him on his talk page. I note that he has edited only once since then. However, you have participated in good faith and we cannot hold the case open much longer. Therefore, I propose the following course of action: 1) Allow Pedrito a few more days to respond. 2) If he does not comment further on the mediation page, I propose to suspend the mediation and make a brief summary of your arguments and his response, along with my questions to him on the G.S. talk page, requesting input from others. 3) Based on the outcome of that discussion, I will attempt to determine consensus on the matter. How does that strike you? Sunray (talk) 06:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I'll think about it for a bit and get back to you. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 07:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

September 11th again

Re this. I am concerned that having for so long held out against merging a page about one reaction to 9/11 (ie the celebrations) into a main "Reactions .." page, you are now actively trying to promote the merger of the main "Reactions .. " article into the "Aftermath .." article. For now I'll assume good faith (even if you are describing it as a "mediocre article", which is an irrelevant point anyway assuming you are referring to the current content). Are you arguing that, were this to happen, that the "Celebrations .." article would still exist? That is, that every reaction except the celebration be merged into the Aftermath article? That would be pretty odd. In any event, the Aftermath article is quite clearly about the longer term real-world consequences of 9/11, especially those internal to the US. The "Reactions .." page is covering very different subject matter. You can reply and explain a bit more here. --Nickhh (talk) 12:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Question: Are you following my contributions and promoting a "let's battle with Jaakobou" atmosphere again? Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 13:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC) clarify. 13:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

You've been doing a lot more following of me recently by the look of it, suddenly appearing on pages I was on and where you hadn't been for a while (al Durra etc). And yes, I looked in at the Reactions/Celebrations articles recently as I have been heavily involved in editing them. And I noticed the errors you have put into one of them, and put them right. This is good practice, even if you don't like it. And then I also noticed you trying to elicit support for some slightly odd merging, so I commented on that too. --Nickhh (talk) 13:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

So, to clarify on your statement, are you calling your style of harrassment "good practice" now? Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 13:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

No. I very clearly said putting errors right is good practice. How have I harrassed you anyway? --Nickhh (talk) 13:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

(a) I request that you do not revert back to stalking my contributions.

(b) I'm not interested in prolonging this argument.

Cheers, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 13:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Huh? Ffs - I have never "stalked" you, and you started this argument! Cheers indeed --Nickhh (talk) 13:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

You'd never editted either page before Jaakabou had. Smells like a duck to me. Kyaa the Catlord (talk) 13:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)