User talk:Psycowitz

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December 2008[edit]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. RolandR (talk) 22:39, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem: Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.onepaper.com/synagogue/?v=d&i=&s=St.+Thomas+Synagogue:Our+Synagogue&p=9938, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at this temporary page. Leave a note at Talk:Beracha Veshalom Vegmiluth Hasidim saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:58, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am very curious. Tell me more about the synagogue. I'd like to help you write it up.Historicist (talk) 02:11, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I will get a chance to look at this on Thursday. And I will do what I can. ````Historicist

Now I see. It's the St. Thomas synagouge. Yes, one article is best. And it is usual to put the article under the name most people will be searching for it under. Lots of notalbe synagogues are known by monikers like Eldridge Street Synagogue, even though they have proper Hebrew names.Historicist 14:07, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Article issues[edit]

Hi. Since I see you've asked for input on your concerns about User:RolandR from another editor and it may help avoid duplication of effort, I'll reply to your question from my talk page here. I don't see any sign that RolandR is finding notability issues with your articles. Unfortunately, the problem that he is finding in your articles is one that Wikipedia can't allow to remain: our copyright policy is created to keep us compliant with US copyright law, since that law governs us. When material is copied into Wikipedia from other places, it must be blanked or removed as soon as it is discovered unless we can prove that it is public domain, licensed compatibly with GFDL or unless it conforms to our non-free content guidelines (which does allow us to use brief quotations in certain circumstances, though we can never copy much material). If there are other articles you had in mind that I did not see in looking at your talk page history, please feel free to let me know. I'll be watchlistng your talk page now for a time so that we can discuss the matter further here. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:16, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He hasn't proposed the deletion of the article. He's simply tagged it for notability, which means that it needs reliable independent sources to verify notability. This is true, even if there are other articles that also do not have them. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 01:08, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kol Ami[edit]

Welcome. I'm always glad to see people working on articles about synagogues. the thing is, under Wikipedia rules, a congregation has to be notable to have an article. This means that it has to be discussed in articles in newspapers and magazines, or in books. So, if you want this article to stay p, you will need to find such articles and add them to the page, footnoting the source as I footnoted the material on your rescued Torah Scroll. Speaking of which, perhaps a local newspaper wrote it up when you got it? Or perhaps some online Jewish website describes the arrival of the rescued Torah? Or perhaps the congregation's tikkun Olam activities have been written up somewhere. Those are the kinds of news stories that will have to be added, or, sooner or later, an editor will coe along and remove the article for non-notability. I hope you do work on it. Let me know if I can help.Historicist 14:16, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

You're on the right track. The prose needs to be rather coldly factual, like an encyclopedia. Take a look at the new opening paragraph. And the references need to be at the end of sentences. Take a look at what I did with the article you cited about the food bank. You write a simple, factual sentence, followed with a footnote (look how I did this in the article). the footnote , of course, has to support the sentence you write.NawlinWiki (talk) 23:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Kol Ami of Frederick[edit]

The article Kol Ami of Frederick has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Only 7 years old, no indication that it is unusual in any way.

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You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

The article Kol Ami of Frederick has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article, which appeared to be about a real person, individual animal, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the notability of the subject may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 23:07, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Kol Ami of Frederick[edit]

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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]