User talk:Xyz7890

Welcome!

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Luach.com

Hello, Xyz7890. I saw your recent creation of the Luach.com article - thanks for your contributions! Thanks especially for using the {{underconstruction}} template, as that lets new page patrollers such as myself know that you're not quite done with it yet. Good luck with the article! I just wanted to offer a few tips to get you on your way: first of all, make sure that Luach.com is notable according to our guidelines - mainly, that you can find multiple reliable third-party sources about the site. Make sure that you also don't write the article like an advertisement - Wikipedia tries to maintain a neutral point of view on all topics. I'm not suggesting that you've made these mistakes so far, or will - it's just that these are common mistakes by new users, and I'd hate to see your first article get deleted over a simple misunderstanding. If you need help with anything, please feel free to leave me a note on my talk page, or you can drop a question at the New contributor's help page, the help desk, or you can add {{helpme}} to this page and simply ask your question here. Anyway, good luck again with writing your article, and happy editing as always! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 00:44, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Star-K.jpg

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Beanie Babies

I noticed on your user page that an IP address user is adding things to the Beanie Baby list. I'll try to track that person down and be ready to help you out with any Beanie Baby- or Ty- related stuff. I'll also try to help you start a Beanie Baby WikiProject.P.S. Let me know on my talk page if you need any help with stuff.-- Barkjon  19:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok. I've got some IP adresses for you. I just picked out some of the latest ones. Maybe later I'll pick out some older ones. Here they are:

• 24.205.132.90
• 68.13.37.201
• 67.161.169.76
• 75.199.41.58
• 75.89.188.106
• I think the one you're looking for: 75.198.207.1

-- Barkjon  19:18, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

==Thanks for the invite re Beany Babies. I'm not at all knowledgeable about the topic, I just needed some information and, professional copywriter that I am, did a little cleanup work. PacificBoy 02:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Shiva

• See User_talk:Anthony_Appleyard#Shiva/Siva_dab_pages. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 17:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Luach.com

Please note that {{underconstruction}} is for articles actively undergoing some kind of construction. It is not something that should remain on an article for life. Cheers. --Sturm 08:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Beanie Babies Official Club

I have nominated Beanie Babies Official Club, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beanie Babies Official Club. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Rob Banzai (talk) 16:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Adding the Beanie Baby to Ace (disambiguation)

Hi, The entry you've added to the Ace dab page has a minor problem -- adding a piped entry like

Aces (Beanie Baby)

makes it look like there's a web page (or redirect) named "Aces (Beanie Baby)" -- which there's not.

The manual of style says that individual entries should not be pipe linked (the "entry" in this case being Aces the Beanie Baby). It also says that if a word in the description of the entry is linked, you can use a pipe for that link.

Since there is no specific article about Aces the BB, the entry on the dab page should be the unlinked name of the entry, followed by its description. Since each entry needs exactly one working link, you need a link somewhere in the description. This is what I set up with my edit:

• Aces, a Beanie Baby bear exclusive to Las Vegas

Alternatively, you could make the linked verbiage a little shorter:

• Aces, a Beanie Baby bear exclusive to Las Vegas

Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 06:00, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the recognition

Electricity on Shabbat and Beanie Babies - an interesting combination! Yechiel (Shalom) 23:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course, being a Jew, I am interested in writing on topics in Judaism. But I collected Beanie Babies when they were popular in the 90s, and from this, I have an interest in writing about them on Wikipedia.Xyz7890 (talk) 23:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Shabbat candles

Well done for creating shabbat candles. If done well, that article may go a long way; there are plenty of cultural and social references that could be mentioned.

Let me know if you need any help with the sources. I strongly recommend you do this early on, because otherwise nobody will ever get around to doing it. Simple things are good enough: Mishna Shabbat 2nd chapter, Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim chapter 261 etc etc. JFW | T@lk 05:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Response

In recent weeks, I have developed an interest in writing a lot of Shabbat-related articles, and contributing to other existing ones. I got so into them, that I divided them into subcategories to make them more organized. Then I got the idea from seeing a template listing related articles at the bottom of all Passover-related pages that there should be one for Shabbat as well. I knew that anyone could make such a template. But I didn't know how.

I asked a Wikipedia-savvy friend for help on how to make one. It took me a while, and I just finished the template {{Shabbat}}, which lists mostly articles from the Category:Shabbat. After adding it all these articles, it revealed to me what was missing from the collection of Shabbat articles, so today, I went and created a few of them to fill this niche.

The Shabbat candles article contains small sections that I copied from other existing articles. The images, likewise, come from these articles. This is just the beginning of what I am hoping will grow into a much larger one. The purpose of the article is to describe not just the physical candles, but the candlelighting ritual and the start of Shabbat. All of these fit together into one article. Just so you know, I made "licht bentsh" redirect to this article, and I created a disambiuation page out of "candlelight" and "candlelighting" since that term has multiple meanings.

If there is anything you know that you feel you could contribute to this article, that would really be great! Xyz7890 (talk) 06:56, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Let me know if you need help with sources. We should mention the reason why Jews light candles on Friday night. JFW | T@lk 08:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I would very much appreciate if you could add sources. Xyz7890 (talk) 18:55, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanx for the barnstar! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 19:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

The **NEW** milk and meat

Great split! There is so much to write, but subsumed under Kosher food, there was so much to add all over that this never got the attention it deserved. If you'd like, I can provide rich information and sourcing on Wednesday morning, EST -- don't want to step on your toes while you work. I already touched up the intro. Kol tuv. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 06:00, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to reorganize all the Wikipedia information pertaining to kashrut. I have found it quite disorganized. For a long time, it has been contained in just two articles, Kashrut and Kosher foods. These haven't appeared to be well-planned subdivided articles, but rather have a lot of redundancy. Kashrut is a much more complex concept that would work a lot better with a single parent article titled "Kashrut," and a series of subarticles in a category with the same name. Milk and meat is an example of one of them. I agree there is a lot more to include, and I hope that anyone with useful information will make these contributions. Xyz7890 (talk) 18:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

If you'd like, I'll take this over so you can move on. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:22, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Given the openness of Wikipedia, anyone is welcome to make these contributions at any time. No one needs "permission" to make changes, provided good judgment is used. So if you want to go and make these changes, feel perfectly free. Xyz7890 (talk) 20:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. But I figured, since you had placed the construction tag, I would touch base with you prior to any significant editing. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:48, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:Halakha vs Template:Jewish life vs Template:Judaism

Hi Xyz7890: Welcome to Wikipedia. You recently created Template:Halakha but it is problematic because ultimately all the 613 Mitzvot fit into Halachah one way or another, and the new template you created would duplicate much of Template:Jewish life and Template:Judaism. Before commencing a vote to merge Template:Halakha into Template:Jewish life I would like to get your views on the matter and see if we can get some input from other Judaic editors. I will therefore copy the above comments to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template:Halakha vs Template:Jewish life vs Template:Judaism (now archived at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism/Archive 21#Template:Halakha vs Template:Jewish life vs Template:Judaism). Looking forward to hearing from you there. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 06:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Halacha

Hi Xyz7890: You may also want to use {{Infobox Halacha}} (see the discussions there at Template talk:Infobox Halacha) when creating Halacha-geared articles. IZAK (talk) 07:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

More templates about Judaism that should not be duplicated

Hi again, Xyz7890: See Template talk:Judaism#Duplication of other templates for many other Judaic and Torah-connected templates, especially: {{Jewish and Israeli holidays}} ; {{Jewish life}} . Thanks. IZAK (talk) 07:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Hi Xyz7890: See my response [1] to your latest comments. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 08:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Milk and meat featured article

I think there's still a lot more to go -- not to mention that it is apparently under the radar for some reason, noting that it hasn't been attacked by anyone yet for portraying a false/misleading/biased POV because of its predominantly Orthodox souring. Once someone finds it, it might be destroyed. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 18:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Requests when nominating

Hi Xyz7890: Regarding your nomination of the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Separation of males and females in Jewish law it is considered proper professional courtesy when nominating an article for deletion to notify the creator of the article as well, and there are even special templates designed to help with this, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to list pages for deletion:

"While not required, it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the articles that you are nominating for deletion. Also consider notifying WikiProjects listed on the discussion page. Do not notify bot accounts or people who have made only insignificant 'minor' edits. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the article and/or use TDS' Article Contribution Counter. For your convenience, you may use {{subst:AFDWarningNew|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators who are totally new users), {{subst:AFDWarning|Article title}} ~~~~ (for creators), or {{subst:Adw|Article title}} ~~~~ (for contributors or established users). You can determine the main contributors of the articles by entering the page name at Wikipedia Page History Statistics."

It is also considered good form to post the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism to allow other Judaic editors to be informed about AfD votes since it is impossible to track everything on Wikipedia.

No doubt you would be greatly appreciative yourself if some of your articles or work was nominated for deletion so that you could give your response and defend your position. Thank you for your attention to this. IZAK (talk) 19:22, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Voting for deletion

Why do people put articles up for deletion for lack of verifiable content 8 minutes after they are created? Do they expect 103 footnotes at inception? :) Have a wonderful shabbos! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 18:12, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah -- I voted that one down as well. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 05:16, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Category:Kashrut

I want to let you know that I have nominated Category:Kashrut, which you created, for merging to Category:Kosher food. The latter category was named to be more useful to non-Hebrew speaking users of the category system. It wasn't meant to include foods which happen to be kosher, which would be over-categorization in most cases. --Eliyak T·C 09:22, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

edit counter

Hey -- I added an edit counter to both your user and talk pages -- hope you like it. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 17:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Never heard of it before. Interesting. Xyz7890 (talk) 22:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Halacha template

Nice job with this! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 04:19, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I was checking out the debates (although I cannot comment, as they are archived) over whether or not this should be a template or a category. Hmm...although it's great to see the list of all of these on each of these articles, I'm finding that it may work better as a category (haha...don't tell IZAK). Although I think categories are grossly overlooked as tools in Wikipedia, the talmudic principles really don't have anything to to with one another except for them being just that -- talmudic principles. Just wondering what you thought. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:03, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

It is nice to put things into categories. I have created a few new categories myself. But templates like these (called "navboxes") are have many benefits. A friend of mine who taught me how to make them told me how great they are.

Navboxes link many articles together. They show all the other articles that one who is reading a certain page may have interest in reading as well. They reduce the amount of orphanage of article that would otherwise exist. And by allowing others to know of the existence of the other article shown on the template, they increase the likelihood that the other articles will be improved.

Categories are good too. So are "see also" sections. But the see also sections can usually list only a limited number of articles, and the categories can be hard to find sometimes.

I added the "Related templates" section to Template:Halakha in a way to settle IZAK's complaint that there were too many Judaism templates, and that too many overlapped. I, myself, found that it did not make sense to list Shabbat-related Halakha articles on this one, since they were already found on Template:Shabbat. If you place two or more templates on one page, they will appear collapsed so you will have to open them to view them. So instead, I provided a link to it on this one. Xyz7890 (talk) 20:31, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Caution with creating articles

Hi Xyz7890: Welcome to Wikipedia. You have done excellent work on Judaic and Halachic topics. Please do not create articles for the sake of multiplying Hebrew sounding, Halachicaly named, and Torah topics when you could fit it all into existing articles that have plenty of room in them. Why create a seperate article on Sukkah hopping when there is so much room on the main Sukkah article? Is it so significant a topic in any case, it has essentially nothing to do with Halacha actually? I moved all of that to a new section at Sukkah#Sukkah hopping and redirected Sukkah hopping to there leaving nothing out. I will try to review your other work. Please feel free to contact me at any time and when in doubt please consult some of the more experienced Judaic editors, some of whom are admins, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism. Thank you very much, IZAK (talk) 06:37, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Although I see your good intentions, I disagree with putting too much information in a parent article, when these individual topics do not relate directly to one another. Doing so makes the parent article lengthy and confusing, and less appealing to the reader looking for simple information. Though WP:KISS does not apply to articles, think of it that way. Also, when these stubs are created, this encourages them to be expanded into longer articles later. Xyz7890 (talk) 19:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Xyz7890: I oppose splitting up articles and topics when they can be centralized given that they do not have that much information on them, as is the case here. WP:REDIRECT is just as important to have in mind here!IZAK (talk) 04:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Sukkah hopping

I have nominated Sukkah hopping, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sukkah hopping. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Alchemy

Okay, discussion - explain to me why this is valuable. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 22:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I feel this is valuable because it provides information on different rankings in the game, one of its important factors. That is my opinion. But if we just keep on reverting back and forth, there will be no resolution. We really need to seek the input of at least several others before removing this permanently. Until then, I feel that it is better to let accurate information remain unless there is a concensus to remove it. If you want, you can form a discussion on the article's talk page. Xyz7890 (talk) 17:58, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Significance of numbers of Judaism

Hi. The table of contents (TOC) I made won't update automatically as new numbers are added to the article. An editor will have to include the new numbers in the TOC. I just thought the compact TOC looked nicer than the long TOC that the article used to have. Feel free to go back to the old one if you don't like my alternative. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 02:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I actually do like it. At the same time, I am constantly adding to this page. Is it possible to design a new TOC template in this style that will automatically update? Xyz7890 (talk) 17:26, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. If you look at the coding for the TOC, it's relatively easy to add new numbers. In any event, I have the article on my watchlist and I'll try to update the TOC periodically. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 19:22, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Xyz7890 (talk) 14:34, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Shabbat lamp

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Honor your father and your mother

I personally think this should be redirected, but as per your requested I have begun a dialogue on the talk page and invited the other two users who redirected it to go there also. SGGH ^ping! 23:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I believe this is good enough as a separate article, because Ten Commandments is quite a long page, and I am planning to write this one as quite a long one too. It meets Wikipedia's notability standards and all information is reliably sourced, so there is no reason not to include it. Xyz7890 (talk) 23:38, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Sneeze (game)

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Prayer for dew

In addition to being a double redirect, the page you finally land on (List of Jewish prayers and blessings), has nothing on it about the prayer for dew. While I wholeheartedly agree that the prayer for dew should make it into the template, there simply isn't any information available in that page, and keeping the link from the template around is essentially false advertising. In general red red links should be avoided in templates and lists, and only added to the template or list after the article is created. --Bachrach44 (talk) 14:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Forbidden relationships in Judaism

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Hello, I've just posed three questions for you at that AfD. Would you be kind enough to answer them there?

Many thanks. Newman Luke (talk) 22:47, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

(Please respond at the AfD, and not on my talk page. I've got a backlog, and not much time to respond to it.)

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Hello, thanks for answering those. I've just posed some follow up questions in the same place. Would you be kind enough to answer them there?

Many thanks, again. Newman Luke (talk) 15:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Wheel of Fortune (U.S. syndicated game show)

Please take a moment to review the information already listed in the Wheel of Fortune gameplay before adding large amounts of duplicate information to the Wheel of Fortune (U.S. syndicated game show) article. All of what you added today is already covered in the gameplay article. Sottolacqua (talk) 16:19, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

If that is the case, readers should be pointed there for a {{main}}, {{for}}, or {{seealso}} tag. Xyz7890 (talk) 15:01, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Readers are pointed there. You are not reviewing the article in its entirety. See Wheel of Fortune (U.S. syndicated game show)#Gameplay. Sottolacqua (talk) 15:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of You shall not make for yourself an idol

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Psalms

Hey there! You're doing a great job with the Psalms articles; they're looking awesome. Also, upon coming here to tell you that, I noticed you contributed a fair amount to the article Electricity on Shabbat. Coincidentally, I just read that article last week and found it really interesting. Anyway, keep up the good work! AlexHOUSE (talk) 17:09, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

I feel it is a disgrace that Wikipedia has been around for 9 years, yet has articles on very few of the individual psalms, which have been around for thousands. All of the psalms are notable enough for articles of their own. I cannot write them all myself because it is a lot of work to do, but my goal is to make them all stubs at the very least. For now, I made all of those that don't have articles into redirects to Psalms, but that is only temporary so there are not red links on them. Xyz7890 (talk) 15:10, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

I disagree with your assertion that each psalm is notable, or requires a page of its own. In fact, I'm not sure what to think of your massive stub creation. Most of those articles have little to no content, and it's all the more confusion because you created them as redirects then undid those. Why don't you pick a single one, work on it til it's useful, then move onto the next, rather than mass creating all of these, especially when it's unclear if each individual one is notable on its own. Shadowjams (talk) 09:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Also problematic is the fact that pretty much all of the content that the articles do contain is simply copied from the commentary of the Complete Artscroll Siddur (Ashkenaz), with the effect that many traditional rabbinic interpretations are stated as if they were matters of non-controversial fact (cf. the unqualified assertion in the article for Psalm 20 that the seventy words in the psalm allude to the seventy years between the destruction of the First Temple and the construction of the Second). Nothing wrong with interpretations like this being included, of course (where would we be without our midrash?), but in an encyclopedia it's necessary to make it clear that these are rabbinic interpretations. CharlesMartel (talk) 23:58, 22 August 2013 (UTC)CharlesMartel

Articles for deletion nomination of Special Beanie Babies

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• Re: merge, see my comment at the deletion discussion. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 20:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion nomination of Significance of numbers in Judaism

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Conversion to Judaism userbox

Hello,

I noticed your conversion userbox and added it to my user page. Then I noticed I was placed into an Orthodox Jewish Wikipedians category. Since I was converted by a Conservative bet din and try to be friendly to all branches of Judaism, I was a bit surprised by this. Is it possible for me to display the userbox without being placed in an Orthodox category? Thank you. Cullen328 (talk) 06:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to change this. It is only this way because I copied the text from another userbox that just happened to have this. I am an adopted child by an Orthodox family, and I was converted when I was young, but I grew up fully Orthodox. Xyz7890 (talk) 00:28, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Userboxes

Shalom, I put your userboxes in a nice little infobox on the side so it looks nicer on your page. Hope that helps. If you dont like it, you can always undo it. :) Have a pleasant day!--Metallurgist (talk) 03:40, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Great work!

Hi Xyz7890: I came across you immense and stupendous great work. Wow what a job! Keep it up. Please feel free to be in touch with me. Shabbat Shalom. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 21:06, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ephraim Shapiro

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AfD

Please see this AfD of an article you worked on: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ephraim Shapiro (2nd nomination) Steve Dufour (talk) 01:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Odd prod?

[2] I've reverted you; were you perhaps intending to leave a notice instead of prodding his talk page? Risker (talk) 23:25, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I was intending to leave the notice, and somehow, I did it a little wrong. The article now has sources, so I am no longer planning to seek deletion. Xyz7890 (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Template:Torah Reading

Regarding this template: Is it appropriate to include "Book of Esther", "Song of Songs", etc. given that these are not strictly related to Torah reading? Mo-Al (talk) 19:56, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

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Simcha (disambiguation)

This is to let you know that I reverted your edit to Simcha (disambiguation) for these reasons:

• Your addition of the text about the definition of simcha (the "joyous event" text)

Simple definitions should not be included on dab pages per WP:DABNOT

• Your removal of the Wiktionary template:

This is proper per Wikipedia:MOSDAB#Linking_to_Wiktionary

• Your removal of the description of Simcha Jacobovici as the Naked Archaeologist

The description would be helpful to people looking for a specific person named Simcha. It would actually be good if all the name entries had descriptions.

• Your removal of "given name" from the disambiguation tag

Adding "given name" puts the page in Category:Given names. It should be in this category because it contains a list of people with the given name.

I also see that you have changed the page back, with the comment "dic defs that link to articles are okay". I don't believe this is true; do you know of any provision for this in WP:MOSDAB? The links in the text you put back are examples of a simcha, not things that could be called just simcha. Also, your reversion reverted more than just my removal of the dict def.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I will be watching your talk page for your reply. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:09, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

I am looking into this now. For starters, I will apologize about the Naked Archaeologist thing. When I first saw the word "naked," I had assumed it was vandalism. Xyz7890 (talk) 18:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

I guess I can understand that! How about this compromise: put back all the changes I made except for taking out the "dict def". I still don't think the dict def should be there, but the other changes are more important. What do you think? --Auntof6 (talk) 21:03, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

I can gladly accept that for now.

I may also look into the possibility of creating an article about the concept of Simcha (event) in the future, though I will have to study to see what references could be used for such. The Simcha article has a "see also" section that says "Simcha is also the name of a kosher beer from Saxony, Germany. Simcha was a slang term used by Jewish-American organized crime to refer to a pimp." These do not really belong there, but I see them as a possibly gateway to future articles, so I have left them for now. I have to wait until I have more time for all that. Xyz7890 (talk) 03:43, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, I have made the change I described. Take a look and see if it matches your understanding of my compromise. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:27, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Your visual representation of the trop is an excellent idea and adds a lot (for me) to the articles. Thank you! Michael Sandler (talk) 10:21, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Your moves

H Xyx: Your recent move and renaming of Anti-work attitudes in Haredi Judaism in the midst of an AfD was not helpful. See my comments at the AfD. Please do not move around and rename articles during deletion discussions as that just creates confusion. Feel free to propose any name you want in the Afd discussion, but normally one should wait until the AfD is over and WP:CONSENSUS is evident to rename or move the article. Right now no matter what name you try to impose, the content and very existence of the topic are all under discussion at the AfD. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 05:52, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

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Lev Tahor BLP issues

Hi- I have seen a negative edit history on Lev Tahor. Being that Lev Tahor is a minority group they fall into the category of Biography of Living persons. Wether or not we agree with their ways of life - we should be careful to keep that article neutral as per BLP policies.

To me it seems that the article is and attack article WP:ATTACK. I have not even found basic information on their culture and ways of life. All other articles about Orthodox/Hassidic/Haredi Jews first give a general Neutral description about their way of life. Some of the articles are followed with controversies. I see that you have knowledge about the group. Maybe we should try to re-structure.Caseeart (talk) 04:58, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I have only included info that I got from the sources, and I have best tried to be neutral, writing it as a factual article. I am not the only he who has contributed to this article. Put a neutrality tag on top if you are concerned. Xyz7890 (talk) 19:50, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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Beth Sholom

Do you still have research materials related to Beth Sholom in Frederick? I'm hoping to update and expand the article. If you still have any of your old notes, I'd love to get a look at them. Zell Faze (talk) 17:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

• Sorry I didn't get back to you for a while. I don't edit Wikipedia too much anymore. I added some info about the Gladstein Fellowship of this congregation. Xyz7890 (talk) 00:52, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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Jewish prayers and blessings

Thank you for reaching your goal of individual articles on all 150 psalms, which meant creating 119 new articles, for expanding the list of Jewish prayers and blessings, for adding melodies, for "Patience is required." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1814 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:09, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

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