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I appreciate your edits at Tawfiq Canaan. I hope it passes. Fascinating man that one! Anyway, I hope Coggins passes too. Thanks again. Tiamut talk 14:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Since you originally blocked User:Phuntsok2000, I thought I'd run this fellow past you: User:Tsepel Cory. There's some mighty strange behavior. I'd say there's definitely quacking; perhaps you have a better idea of whom? (I found him at WP:SCV.) -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:55, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the above page. :-) Tiptoety talk 02:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
I created the user account Soulwaheed. I checked the logs and the edits from the IP - some of the edits were vandalism, but several are non-vandalism. There is a rangeblock, and on ACC, OverlordQ suggested I contact a CheckUser. Could you look into this?
I am a new ACC user, and I have read the docs, and with hindsight, I should have just deferred it to another user to create or not! In future (until I am 100% sure of how to handle such cases), I will only create an account if there are no issues!
Thanks PhantomSteve ( Contact Me, My Contribs) 08:15, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I do not understand your revert. Did you read the reference (that I do not brough, buit someone else)? They don't speak about Kostler's thesis. Hence I think that the violation of wiki:policy is the version that you impose, which claim that this paper disprove the Kostler's thesis. Isn't it? Look carefully at my changes (which are maybe obfuscated by my bad english skill): I state that this is not an "evidence" (since the authors do not claim it at all, and if you carefully read tha paper you will see that turkish people -- which are the origin of Khazars and then AShkhenazy according to Koestler, are as close as other middle-east people from Ashkenazy). Hence -- and to justify the presence of this reference (that I think interesting, although I'm personly not very convinced) -- I mention that it is "hard to disprove Koestler thesis on the basis of this study". Anyway, disproving or proving Koestler thesis with this study will be WIKI:SYNTH, since the paper does not mention Koestler. Thus, I think the best mannet to link Koestler and this paper is just to make a vague statement as the one I propose (hard to disprove...or hard to prove if you prefer). Is my attempt more clear? Did you still disagree? best regards 95.31.7.196 ( talk) 09:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Well, something's gone horribly wrong, but I'm not certain what. It looks as though the bot is mistakenly parsing nowiki text, and I'm not sure how to fix it. Can one of us go in and fix the RfC page manually, or will that upset the bot? Jakew ( talk) 08:06, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
-- I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 14:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Could you tell me why you changed the request for comment statement? The question you are now asking is not the one I was asking. So it is kind of pointless now. I will change it back to the question I was asking if you don't mind. Tremello22 ( talk) 18:17, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Avi, I wonder if you'd mind commenting here? Thanks. Jakew ( talk) 19:28, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I changed my username to aphzidos to meet the Wikipedia guidelines on names. That appears to have gone through, with you signing off on this as done. ( Name change log entry) However, my name still appears as "AAAS employee" instead of "aphzidos" and I don't believe it's due to a Signature or other setting. Could you help, please, or redirect me to the appropriate person/page? Thanks. AAAS employee ( talk) 14:37, 28 July 2009 (UTC) ...Forgive me; I'd failed to update my password keeper to give the new username. All is cool, unless my being able to log in with the old username was an error. thanks! Aphzidos ( talk) 14:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Thought you might like to add File:Littledevil512.png to your stash of faces. MBisanz talk 02:57, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Many thanks to you, friend! -- inquietudeofcharacter ( talk) 17:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Avi, do you happen to know anything about the abuse filter? It occurs to me that an awful lot of time is wasted in reverting a very specific and easily identified form of blatant POV pushing (although I haven't updated it since last June, this demonstrates the scale of the problem), and it ought to be possible to construct a rule to prevent this. I'm willing to roll up my sleeves and learn how to create such a rule if need be, but I just wondered what you thought & whether you were familiar with the tech. Thanks, Jakew ( talk) 19:15, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I removed the rights from both of them. You may not just hand out the abuse filter edit right without discussion. Prodego talk 05:09, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
(<-)Fair enough. Thanks for the explanations. -- Avi ( talk) 02:45, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Avraham, I keep getting emails from this editor because he is caught in this rangeblock of yours :
Editing from 88.110.0.0/16 (your account, IP address, or IP address range) has been disabled by Avraham for the following reason(s)
. I've already given him IP block exemption but he is still caught. I've refreshed the exemption. Any ideas how to avoid this? Cheers. Rodhull andemu 17:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
*Just had another email, he's still blocked, and I've asked him to log in & email you. Cheers.
Rodhull
andemu
18:49, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I had already created it (see filter 1). Prodego talk 03:37, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
for granting rollback. It should make fighting certain types of vandalism much easier :) Garycompugeek ( talk) 14:24, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
you really think there is a problem with adding the country infobox to that article? Besides it being a "country" infobox, is there anything in the actual content that would be an issue? The only thing I can think of is the part on the government as that is just the government of the PNA, complete with the disputes, and not of the state. I changed that stuff so it is more consistent with the difference between the PNA and the state. But anything else you see that is a problem? nableezy - 14:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You've confused me here: [1] why is fall from power wrong and rise from power correct? And why is this subtle vandalism? In popular culture it was the newsreel from liberating the death camps which made AS non-U whereas Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s without any popular change in perception on AS? Apart from within the Jewish community (which presumably already viewed AS as a bad idea) few people were aware about what was really happening in Germany in the 1930s, when AH rose to power. -- BozMo talk 18:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
you might want to consider page protection for that one Seb az86556 ( talk) 21:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind: I modified your 3RR report, striking out your list of reverts and supplying a new list. Your list was page versions; I believe you're supposed to supply diffs, not page versions (if the rules haven't changed). ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 23:17, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
You have marked this case for closure, but the individual IP was never blocked. The checkuser simply said that a range block was impossible, not that the individual IP shouldn't be blocked. See for confirmation.— Kww( talk) 07:06, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't want to go off topic on Coppertwig's talkpage because that was not primarily about our ongoing disputes. What do you feel similarly about? I am always prepared to listen to your arguments Avi. I just feel that you have a conflict of interest and that would prevent you from admitting I am right even if you knew I was. Tremello22 ( talk) 18:32, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Let's discuss this on Talk:Israel Project. I agree that the criticism in the lede isn't very good. -- John Nagle ( talk) 15:59, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Ha, sorry about that. :) I have no idea why I put Anonymous Dissident instead of you, just one of those slip-ups I guess. I'll be more careful in the future. :) →javért chat 14:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
I just had an article deleted that was titled Aaron Cush Solberg. If you could send that to me, I would be most thankful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Laser358 ( talk • contribs) 16:34, August 13, 2009
THANKS —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laser358 ( talk • contribs) 22:48, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
So what's going to happen to TheNononsenseMan? Will an admin block him? Moby-Dick3000 ( talk) 11:36, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading this, was about to go looking for one myself. nableezy - 19:12, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I beefed up your non-free fair-use/non-free use rationale for the Said image. In my experience the format I used -- which was just a slight modification of the one you used -- works. Also I echo the above comment; the article was lacking an image. Tell me if you think the rationale works. Grunge6910 ( talk) 20:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
On your oversight election. Well deserved. :-) Best, →javért chat 06:18, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
The review is now complete. Ottava Rima ( talk) 17:54, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Avi,
could you create a wikimedia commons entry for
Mysteriously, "everett" seems to be in some sort of blacklist.
Cheers
-- Michael C. Price talk 12:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Michael C. Price talk 15:59, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
שלום עליכם, אברהם
I've noticed that the "Mozart" page is locked. I have a feeling "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mozart" needs to be locked too, due to recent news. I'd do it myself, but I don't know how. I can edit locked pages, but I can't lock them. Thanks.
--
MosheA (
talk)
11:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
(PS How do I lock pages?)
Someone falsely attributed something leading to a mistaken accusation. Now you want to mention it in a way that hints that maybe the accusation was true. You can't do that, the whole incident was trivial nonsense. Zero talk 02:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I believe that your edit summary here indicates that you are allowing your personal point-of-view to interfere with your editing here. Firstly, the additional edits that relate only to Dershowitz and not Khalidi in this article suffer from the the the logical fallacy, and forbidden editing technique, of Poisoning the well. Secondly, regardless of what your opinion is as to the appropriateness of Dershowitz in the article, you need to maintain a respect and civility for your fellow editors at all times. Sometimes editors get so involved with an article or set of articles that they lose sight of wikipedia policies and guidelines; it happens to all of us. When that happens, it may be a good time to take a brief respite from that article or class of articles. Lastly, please remember that the Khalidi article is subject to general ArbCom restrictions on Israeli/Palestinian articles. Thank you. -- Avi ( talk) 02:46, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Have you thought about your condescending attitude that other editors find insulting?
It is a cheap tactic to accuse a scholar of plagiarism, then fail to put it into context or to state who is the accuser. That is an example of Poisoning the well. A thin unsupported crack like that does not belong in an encyclopedia and you know it but insist that it stay to slap mud on the article subject. Your edits suggest extreme emotional involvement with these topics. Perhaps you would like to take a break? Skywriter ( talk) 03:00, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Your "(username or IP removed)" action for
this diff was very right; unfortunately, I used rollback when I
reverted and don't know how to remove the same from that in the page history. I considered deleting the page and restoring all but my revert, but you seem to have a better way to deal with this. Could your method be applied to my edit though the username is in a different part of the summary field? —
Athaenara
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16:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
In a recent SPI about me, you made a CheckUser determination that my account was "unrelated". [2] Could you please elaborate for me here what that means exactly? Which accounts/IPs were found to be unrelated to me? And what is the implication - if any - of a result of "unrelated"? Thank you. -- ǝʌlǝʍʇ ǝuo-ʎʇuǝʍʇ ssnɔsıp 23:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Why haven't you placed any sock puppet tags on the accounts of the user for this case? Moby-Dick3000 ( talk) 23:20, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Avi,
I'm a little concerned by the relisting of the RM at Talk:Circumcision. The fact that there's a completely new section at the other end of the talk page will make it difficult for everyone to see the opinions that are being expressed. I don't want to !vote twice, and I don't think anybody else should have to. I just wondered whether you can think of a better way of relisting that avoids the need for a new section? Thanks, Jakew ( talk) 14:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Re [3]: It's a discussion, not a poll. If consensus has not developed, relisting allows additional time for discussion, with the hope that a consensus will develop during that time. ☺ Coppertwig ( talk) 14:43, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the protection. Cheers, Tiptoety talk 00:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)