User talk:HistoryBuff1983

Welcome[edit]

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism[edit]

Hi Historybuff1983, and welcome to Wikipedia. You contributed Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism. Someone has nominate it for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism. Thanks, IZAK 12:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism at AfD[edit]

Hi... Evidently it was bad form of me to have nominated an article you originated for deletion without notifying you directly. That was my mistake: I didn't know I was supposed to do that. My apologies.

I want to take the opportunity to stress that my nominating the article for deletion was not at all intended as a reflection on the quality of the article or an attempt to slight your work. Rather, I felt and feel that the subject does not meet the notability guidelines which are the threshold for inclusion, or the proposed guidelines at WP:NOTNEWS. In short, I feel that the reasons marshalled in favour of inclusion reflect a tendency some Wikipedians have dubbed recentism, a phenomenon which results, in my view, from a rampant confusion between notabililty and newsworthiness. I've made this case at greater length on the deletion discussion page. --Rrburke^(talk) 19:21, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Request help...[edit]

Hi,

Almost all of the pages you categorised are already organised using templates related to specific campaigns etc., so there is no need to create new categories. I will be attaching categories to the templates to ensure that they are all gotten, as well as finishing to clean them up. Tewfik^Talk 05:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to dramatically reorganise these pages, I suggest that you first open a discussion on the Wikipedia:Notice board for Israel-related topics. Tewfik^Talk 05:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You probably didn't notice, but most of them are redundant to already existent categories ie Category:2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. I think that Category:Military operations involving Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is good though, sinc ethe main cat is overpopulated, and I'm only going to rename it to fit with the standard convention. Your intention was a good one, but you can save a lot of work with a little more investigation next time :-) Cheers, Tewfik^Talk 05:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed that you were adding a lot of villages to Category:Cities in the West Bank. Make sure that they go to Category:Towns and villages in the Palestinian territories, Category:Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, or Category:Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank instead. Tewfik^Talk 06:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you are already engaging in all this categorising, you may want to create Category:Towns and villages in the West Bank and Category:Towns and villages in the Gaza Strip. Tewfik^Talk 07:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another point: if you create a sub-categorisation (as in Category:Palestinian refugees), it is only really helpful if you remove its members from the categories you put it in (like so), thus depopulating the first tier of the super-category. Tewfik^Talk 06:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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