See Dan Bahat, feel free to join in.. Zero talk 02:03, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
If the category was "Archaeological museums run by Israel" or "Archaeological museums featuring Israeli history", you might have a point. But it isn't, so you don't. "In Israel" has a specific meaning that is only true here according to a minority political viewpoint. We'd like to stay away from political viewpoints altogether, but when that isn't possible we go with the mainstream. Zero talk 06:55, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Incidentally, you are a good editor so I hope you continue. Zero talk 06:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Z. Still, I've been working for travel guide publishers for so many years and know to appreciate complete info. Check Buq'ata, Mas'ada etc. for a very practicable compromise for Golan issues. There are no categories "Archaeological museums run by Israel" or "Archaeological museums featuring Israeli history" and it makes no sense to create them. Btw, this museum has a large focus on prehistory, another one on Byzantine period synagogues plus a bit on Roman-period Gamla, and I think nothing more recent than that, so nothing on Israel as such. Israel is "de facto" where, once you're on the ground, everything around you is Israeli - laws, currency, access (visa, entry points), language, people (yes, Jews aside, all Golan Druze have Israeli permanent residency and ID cards and some even adopted IL citizenship, all speak at least some Hebrew, use the Israeli health system, job market etc., etc.), so what the international law says is utterly irrelevant on the ground. Not what the Druze feel and think, but that's a different topic altogether and is more differentiated than one might think. There are (a few) tourists who refuse to visit the Golan along with all occupied territories, and that's why indicating the int'l legal status is for sure of some significance, but for smb. who's planning his trip or researching the topic and using the categories, the 2/3 of the Golan now controlled by Israel are in Israel for all intents and purposes. Belfast is in the UK, contested or not, I hate the fact that Putin got Crimea, but I won't try to visit it via Kiev, similarly with Abkhasia and Georgia, or the territories Romania lost to the Soviets through the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty and never got back from the Ukraine even if the treaty has been declared nil and void, etc, etc, etc. I see WP as a source of practical info, not a manual of political correctness. The UN actually very much acknowledges de facto realities, while fighting for correct resolution of conflicts. I wouldn't be surprised or object if a Syrian Golan refugee would make it his goal to "fix" this issue, but you don't strike me as being Ahmad az-Zero Saif ad-Din al-Golani. Ma'assalama habibi and have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 10:50, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Hi, because I edit in the Israel-Palestine area of Wikipedia, I'm only allowed to use my administrator powers there in the most no-brain cases. Such as squashing vandals, which is not a description fitting this case. Blocking the recent IPs won't make a difference either, as whoever it is will just return with different IPs. The only way to slow down disruption is semi-protection, which again I am not allowed to impose myself. You should make a case for semi-protection at WP:RFP. Zero talk 14:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll try! Arminden ( talk) 14:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Hi there. I've been monitoring (not stalking!) your edits to the Middle East on and off since your constructive edits on the Acre article. You're clearly knowledgable in Middle East geography and affairs and I was prepared to swoop in and back you up if you made any constructive edits to articles that upset the pushy nationalist-political types that dominate parts of that topic area.
I'll briefly explain why I have effectively reverted your changes on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article. It's important that the prose of the article flow well, and the statements in brackets disrupted that flow. There is also no need to use prose to negate any dubious statement or apologise for anything. If a statement is wrong or irrelevant, feel free to be WP:BOLD and just remove it, as I have done! AnotherNewAccount ( talk) 13:33, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi back, ANA. I'm really happy that you found some gain in following my WP editing. It sometimes seems to me that editors are the only ones who read what other editors contribute :) and it's usually with scorn, while the common users couldn't care less - so every good encounter is encouraging. For your backing I really do feel grateful and I thank you very much for your kind words about my efforts, knowledgeable or otherwise as thy might be.
I see you did anything but undo my edit, you actually removed the older bit I felt urged to set right. Thanks! I fear though that smb. might put it back in. If that happens, I'll happily leave it up to you to find a better-flowing sentence as a means of countering the wrong impression left on the cursory reader by that non-statement. Cheeres, Arminden ( talk) 13:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)Arminden
When you change the spelling of a word from "Ava" to "Ave" on Wikipedia and in the comment section, instead of writing "correct spelling," you write "that's Ava Gardner you meant; this on the other hand, is Latin or something like that, pre-Jahiliya in any case and infidels stuff)" it demonstrates rude and bigoted behavior. Not that you didn't already know that.. VanEman ( talk) 23:01, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Wow, it worked better than I could have hoped for! You really did guess it's meant for you! I'm honoured. You did indeed go through all of my dozens of edits of yesterday till you found my "message in a bottle". You're a thorough man, Van. Put it to good use. Arminden ( talk) 05:05, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Arminden
PS: Yes, I am hostile to people with more stubbornness than knowledge. No, bigoted I'm not, I'm very open to well-founded opinions different from mine. I hold knowledge to be important, comprehension even more so, and consider true intellectuals to have a heavier word to say than others. I don't count myself to be a scholar or an intellectual other than in attitude and striving. Political correctness is a substitute for civility and politeness which disregards the authority conferred by knowledge. Big words, simple truths. [Arminden]
I can't believe I never noticed it said Jerusalem instead Holy Land. Nicely done. I can't believe I missed that. MontChevalier ( talk) 21:29, 12 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.74.82.26 ( talk)
Thank you for the flowers, i.e. merci mon chevalier! :) Don't get too wound up, neither did Guy notice the trap at Hattin, and that was more serious. Deus lo vult. Arminden ( talk) 03:03, 13 May 2015 (UTC)Arminden
If you mean HaZor'im, it was established by olim from Germany and the Netherlands from the Union of Religious Pioneers (ברית חלוצים דתיים), Ezra and the Mizrahi Youth. — Ynhockey ( Talk) 14:00, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at User:Makedonija. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Macedonia ( talk) 10:54, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
don't know who you are, don't know what you're talking about, and seemingly you don't either. ignored. ps: i'm pretty much out of this wp BS altogether, so don't bother anymore with threatening, blocking, cursing in polit. correct ways, etc. [Arminden]
http://www.jta.org/1976/03/11/archive/davidovich-suffers-heart-attack
so here's an article with a Jewish Russian with the same name as Boris's father you're telling me he's not Jewish too ?
Whats your obsession with going around covering up Jewish people's names ? You some sort of Zionist history revisionist ?
Go to vodka detox, them read again, then talk. [Arminden]
Hello Arminden,
A while ago you made an expansion to the article Barid (caliphate). In regards to this statement:
"The etymology of the Arabic word "barid" is considered by P. K. Hitti in his History of the Arabs to be "unclear". He takes issue with two of the proposed origins, writing that "Babylonian buridu is just as unsatisfactory as Latin veredus.""
This had no direct citation, and when I went to go and find the quote I was unable to do so within Hitti's work. Instead, Hitti's explanation of the etymology of the word barid reads as follows (p. 322, n. 5): "Ar barid is probably a Semitic word, not related to Latin veredus, Pers birdan, a swift horse, Ar birdhawn, horse of burden." I did however find the quote, not in Hitti's book, but in a review of the book written by Richard N. Frye ( here, page 585), in which he makes the quoted statement as an addendum to Hitti's p. 322 footnote. Would it therefore be more appropriate to change the citation from Hitti to Frye? Thanks, Ro4444 ( talk) 18:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Ro4444, hi. On the contrary, I must thank you. Please do go ahead and correct my mistake. I remember that I tried to figure out the etymology, was unsatisfied with the WP article as it was, and drowned in all kind of books and papers, one older than the other, which I found online. Please excuse me for leaving it up to you to fix the issue. Keep up the good work, Arminden ( talk) 21:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Great, glad to get that solved. I made the change and added a citation, so we should be good there. As for the etymology, most of the recent sources I used believed in either the Latin or the Persian origin; the Babylonian/Semitic theory doesn't seem to have been popular since the early 20th century (though my view may be colored by using predominantly English-language texts only). Even still, it was a good expansion for the article, for elaborating on the development of modern theories for the origin of the word. Thanks again for your help on this. Ro4444 ( talk) 21:46, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Arminden. I noticed that you are very sure of yourself and the truth of your edits. Nevertheless, there are certain community established conventions and editing rules on Wikipedia, of which you might not always be aware. I would urge you to take any potentially controversial edit to the talkpage for discussion and consensus establishing prior to making such edits.
Relevant policies and guidelines: WP:CONSENSUS, WP:TRUTH, WP:BRD and many others regarding specific issues. Debresser ( talk) 08:57, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Debresser:. Thanks for your message. Honestly, WP is more of a "bad habit" of mine, I have no intention of spending any more time on doing additional studies of WP lingo and insider procedures beyond what accords with the real world, major encyclopedias and lexicons (Britannica, Larousse, Duden, etc.), common sense, and WP's usefulness for the common user.
The habit of using transliterated Hebrew terms as part of articles written in English is specific to religious Jewish circles. Not outside them. Check in the real world, google for terms, whatever. I will not fight anyone who has the time and hobby to deny reality on WP, of which there are many and who enjoy slugging it out on "talk pages" full of endless monologues. This is my own monologue :-) and all I have to say. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 10:31, 21 September 2015 (UTC)Arminden
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Heya, so just letting you know, there are actually two similar publications run by BAS, one is Biblical Archaeology Review, which is their lovely print publication, and the other is their online Bible History Daily publication which I occasionally write for—although I was on the cover of BAR two years back. Easy mistake to make when citing, of course. I made the correction in the mikvah article footnote. Thank you though, it sure is nice to see my name cited on Wikipedia! Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 9 Tevet 5776 21:13, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Sir William - or shall I say Sir Henry? -, I'm most honoured. I do get the daily newsletter,but didn't quite realise that it's fully independent of the print publication. Nice place to meet. Only in the field could be nicer. Keep up the good work! Happy holidays, Arminden ( talk) 21:23, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 21:23, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
I don't think it makes sense to include a list of all desert castles as a "see also" in each desert castle article:
Thanks, -- Macrakis ( talk) 21:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Macrakis:. I am sure you are right, and I think with time most of these "See also" links will be deleted. But please, not yet though. The term "desert castles" has been wrongly limited to the Jordanian ones. My point is to inform people about the wider CONTEXT. The Middle East is a horribly tribal place, helping people see the wider picture, in whatever area, is a gain. Thank you and happy holidays! Arminden ( talk) 22:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 22:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC) @ Macrakis: PS: I think NONE of the pages relating to non-Jordanian desert castles did link to the term, and I'm not sure even the Jord. ones all did. Or used the term "qasr" as universally accepted terminology. The topic got far too little exposure, and it shows in the WP articles. Besides, it was me, today, who added the examples from Syria, Israel and Palestine to the list on the Desert castles page, so I went on to connect a bit farther, as part of the same "widening of the horizons". The term is extremely vague as it is, giving it at least geographically a clearer shape can only help. Arminden ( talk) 22:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 22:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi @
Zero0000: Would you consider starting a page on spring-flow tunnels? I'm still not capable of that feat.
Zvi Y. D. Ron is/was THE specialist, he published apparently mainly between 1967-1992, but TAU still has him on its website
[1]. There is even a mention of a Zvi Ron publishing on the topic in 2013
[2].
There is a lot on this at
[3].
It's a technology DIFFERENT from the better known
qanat (see below), it has apparently first been developed in the time of Herod the Great (didn't see enough proof to fully accept that), the Judean Mountains have the most examples. At Abu Ghosh and Battir Roman inscriptions were found at apparently pre-existing spring-flow tunnels, with the names of the
10th Legion Fretensis and
5th Macedonian Legion, the first from the time of the first revolt, the second connected with the Bar Kochba revolt. So the systems were there in the 60s CE/130s CE. I am not sure if I understood it correctly, that there is no proper aquiclude in the Judean Mountains, just some type of aquitard (marl or similar), which lets some of the water through, in any case, for catching more water, the idea was of digging tunnels until they reached - where? the wettest spot?-, building there a collection pool which gathered the entire flow from the exposed ceiling, and taking the water out via channels in the tunnel floor, to be then distributed to terraces. But this is what I gathered from less than academical sources. Ron has a publication which might contain his main results, Zvi Y. D. Ron, Agricultural terraces in the Judean Mountains, appeared in: Israel Exploration Journal 16 (1966) 33-49, 111-122, but I didn't find it online. There is only one useful quote I could find:
Qanat vs. spring-flow tunnel: Although there are similarities in the construction techniques (both are excavated tunnels designed to extract water by gravity flow), there are crucial differences between the two. Firstly, the origin of the qanat was a well that was turned into an artificial spring. In contrast, the origin of the spring flow tunnel was the development of a ‘real’ spring to renew or increase flow, following an episode of the water table receding. Secondly shafts, which are essential to qanats, are not essential to spring flow tunnels.
That's about it. Interested? Cheers,
Arminden (
talk) 01:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Arminden (
talk) 01:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Hi Zero. I hope I'm not pinging you too often? Please tell me if I am. Now I stumbled upon this typical potayto-potahto double, Yavne and Yibna. I worked on the history part so as to help somebody access the info quickly and efficiently: all Muslim periods under Yibna, the rest under Yavne, with "main" tags and repetitions on both pages if interest overlaps. I think it's in every WP reader's interest to keep things simple & logical, but by now I know what will follow. Problem is that I only noticed afterwards that there's been a merger attempt, closed by a very IT-minded arbiter with a negative decision. Negative is OK, but his logic I cannot fully follow. I will NOT go into stuff like this, but I see you have, so - isn't there some logical guideline saying, for instance, that a defunct village gets its own history, while the still existing town that took its place gets all the rest? Especially parts which it claims a connection to? Or any other rational principle. Ideally such which are, look & smell neutral. My main issue is: you got bits of info here, bits there, some overlapped, some were in the wrong place (more on Yibna aspects at Yavne & viceversa). Endless mess. Doesn't serve anyone. Except that people don't act according to ration, robots do, I know. Suggestions? Thanks & cheers, Arminden ( talk) 19:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
@
Zero0000: Hi. You're giving me too much credit, I don't have much of anything in terms of non-archaeological data. But I know a bit about history and settlement, Zionist or otherwise. The tell has not been even excavated although it is located very conveniently because it has a lot of Ottoman village remains and Crusader walls at the top, and getting to what the Israeli archaeologists are most interested in, post-70 Yavne and maybe Israelite & Philistine Yavne, would mean destroying that first (see quoted book by Raz Kletter
[4]). The mukhtar's house looked very much inhabited some 10 years ago, and the mausoleum of Abu Huraira is surrounded by city fabric. 1 km is nothing, sometimes the same population moves by even more after a major event. The name was preserved, and the location of a settlement is decided and defined by its convenient position on major trade roads, other site-specific sources of livelihood, source of water, important landmarks (mausoleum!), and in the past yes, defensive features (hill, tell) - so the latter one is the only unchecked box, but it is quite anachronistic. Nobody argued with topography against the merger. Plus self-definition is quite important, and they did call it Yavne. Kvutzat Yavne and Gan Yavne took those names rather than simply Yavne because they knew they're not *at* Yavne. Building next to, and not on top of former Arab villages, occurred in other places too. As a possible indicator to how "availavble" the tell and its surroundings was in 1948: the mosque/Crusader church was blown up only in 1950 (see Kletter), maybe together with other houses, maybe not - Kletter doesn't specify and Yeivin who protested with the IDF was always just interested in archaeology, not in modern residential buildings.
Another argument: if continuity comes up, which is ridiculous but likely to happen, the favissa was Philistine, Israelites and post-Exilic Jews didn't hold the coast for long periods. Byzantine Iamnia was much larger, they had a "large Samaritan population" (Negev & Gibson), so people came when times were good and left when they turned bad. There is no population continuity here any more than in any eastern Mediterranean town. An adversary of the merger made what I consider to be the best (if not fully accurate) point in the discussion: there was an Arab Yibna from C7 till 1948, and a Jewish Israeli town after that. Right. Except, who were the inhabitants in the first century or two after the Muslim conquest? I didn't find data on that, normally people stayed put for a while and either left later on, or converted, with or w/o new Arab settlers moving in right away - some Arabs came with Umar, some with Saladin, some with Baibars etc. Btw, Abu Huraira is buried in Medina, I would guess the mausoleum is probably Mamluk rather than 12th c. as the article claims, and the Mamluks had this policy of "inventing" holy tombs along the postal roads which were their only interest in Palestine (link betw. Cairo and Damascus), building makams there, and maybe attracting some settlers along with the pilgrims (see
Sidna Ali,
Nabi Musa). Also ironic: Abu Huraira was a Yemenite, so not much of a Palestinian/Philistine.
I see zero reason why Philistine, Israelite, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Yavne/Iamnia should be one topic, Yibna another, and Israeli Yavne a third, or some other combination leaving us with the HISTORY being split on two pages. There was no perfect continuity between any of those periods, and nobody normally asks for that. We can have 3 pages - History on one, with all periods, Yibna and Yavne each separate with their own period plus a "main" tag to the rest -, or 2 pages, giving primary focus to one of the two places who still do have "advocates" (unlike the long-gone ones), which is a matter of decision from above :-)
Going to eat, cheers
Arminden (
talk) 11:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Armiden
Arminden (
talk) 11:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
PS: Somebody made a farfetched comparison to Constantinople vs. Istanbul. By far closer to the topic: City of David and Jerusalem. Nobody would argue that the C.o.D. belongs on the Silwan page rather than the Jerusalem one, although the CoD lay outside the city confines for endless centuries (70 - ?4th c.?, 1033-19th/20th c.). Why? Because the city moved, but kept some of its identity BEYOND its physical existence. This very much also applies to Yavne. (It's also true that Silwan did not extend onto the CoD ridge until the 19th c. No comparison is perfect.)
Arminden (
talk) 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Arminden
Arminden (
talk) 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the latest discussion on Talk:Chalcolithic might benefit from your attention. Zero talk 08:31, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000:: Hi Zero. Did some restructuring, nothing much in terms of content, but now I hope it starts making more sense once the reader understands the different approaches from region to region. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:08, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Mormon University is on the Mount of Olives !!!. 5.29.119.219 ( talk) 05:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone KNOW if the boundary Olivet-Scopus is defined as "along the Tzurim Valley" or not? Thanks, Arminden Arminden ( talk) 09:57, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
TZURIM VALLEY is the border between Mount Scopus and Mount of Olives. 5.29.119.219 ( talk) 11:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
About the revert in Ghassulian, both the text and the map say it is in modern Jordan. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:15, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Sounds good to me! As long as we keep them apart, I am happy for the added info. Thanks! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 08:59, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this edit summary, [5] I am not German, even though I know the language. Debresser ( talk) 23:05, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
I know the temptation of falling back on regulations and set rules & habits. And I know the risk of stopping to think and relying strictly on those. If WP serves any purpose, it's of offering the user/reader easy access to good information. That is the raison d'etre or "fundamental law" of WP. Period. All the WP rules are made to serve that purpose. When rules and logic come into conflict with each other, it's like a law being contested in front of the constitutional court. There, as here, the question asked is: does it serve the purpose, as stated by the "fundamental law"? The spirit of the law takes precedence over the letter of the law. So, when something helps the user/reader without harming the page, it's good and it should stay. Robotically removing good info based on some WP regulation, which is anyhow subject to constant improvement, is not constructive, meaning: harms the value of WP to the reader. Please consider this. Thank you. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 07:25, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Click on the image, follow the "more information" link to Commons, and there you will see the information provided by the uploader. In this case, the book the map is from. Zero talk 02:29, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Hi, and thanks. I have, of course, but I am aware of no such book ("Palestine", 1889) by Conder. If you have it, or inf. about it, would you please upload it onto Conder's page? Thanks! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 02:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
See here. It is one of many books derived from Conder's more extensive scientific books. Zero talk 03:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Thank you! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 04:33, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Do not insult people in your edit summaries WP:Portal isn't some obscure guideline. It is THE guideline that covers portals. It's also found in other MOS pages, such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout. I also gave other template that are usually used in sections. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
For anyone who's wasting their & my time on WP: please read Wikipedia:Ignore all rules first, before insisting on endless going-by-the-letter reverts, mono- or dialogues and the like. Thanks. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:57, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
In British maps of the mandate period, the site is called "Kh. Umm Jūna". I don't know a source calling it that while it was still a living village. Zero talk 00:36, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Arminden, I noticed you have a running threat with Yerevantsi on Armenian Quarter. I wondered if I could help but I had a bit of trouble following the discussion. What was the original problem? You can respond on my talk page if you want. Thanks. Foreignshore ( talk) 16:47, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Foreignshore: Hi, and thanks! Yereveantsi seemed to be the "representative" of all things Armenian in Jerusalem, but maybe it's only the name that made me think that. I tried to figure out what actually IS the Armenian Quarter (AQ), since when is it there and how did the boundaries vary in time, how is it defined etc. I have formulated it as briefly and well as I could on the talk page under " Boundaries...?". If you want, please take a look. I always try to define the topic as precisely as possible before starting to deal with it, and the AQ is not so well defined, the "ideal" map is a perfect rectangle, but some bits in the east are now counted as part of the Jewish Quarter, which brings in the propagandists who spoil every discussion concerning Israel/Palestine. So facts first :-) That brings us to the next talk page topic: " Encroachment of Jewish Qtr: demography & history, or political pressure?". The maps differ, by choosing one over another one takes position in a dispute.
Then I tried to research smth. online, with little success. Is Thoros an Armenian version of Theodore? Is there a saint by that name? I'll copy here my question from the AQ talk page: St. T(h)oros Church is puzzling me. Hethum I built it in memory of his son killed in battle by the Mamluks, but Prince T(h)oros was not a saint, so the St. T(h)oros Church must have been dedicated to/named for a Saint T(h)oros. Who would that be? If you can find out, please add him, even as a "red link", to the respective disambiguation page ( Thoros, Toros, Theodore?), and please link the name on the St. Toros Church page to that saint.
That's that. Thank you for offering to help out, no matter if you do or don't have any answers. Cheers, Arminden Arminden ( talk) 20:37, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Please read my latest post at Talk:Kadesh_(Israel)#Propose_deletion_:-.29_.2F_RENAMING. Please also review WP:SHOUT. Debresser ( talk) 11:17, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm preparing an article: see here. I'm not sure about the title, since there is a similarly named modern body that shouldn't be confused with it. If you know of any good sources or have suggestions for improvement, please let me know. Something missing is the way in which it interacted with the archaeological bodies like ASOR, PEF, FrenchOne, etc.. Zero talk 04:33, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
PS: links or cross-reference I can think of
Arminden ( talk) 07:43, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, and congratulations! Arminden ( talk) 13:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000:"The Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage has conducted work in the West Bank since 1994."- what about the Gaza Strip? 48-67: the Egyptians? Arminden ( talk) 16:10, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Now the main article is Wadi al-Hasa. Both Wadi Hasa and Wadi Zered are redirects to it. In the process I lost your talk page comment. I hope it is ok now. Zero talk 10:37, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: I truly apologise. I had no idea. First I renamed it very easily to "Wadi Hasa", which is used quite frequently in English, but then I wanted to add the article al- and the simple option was somehow gone from the menu. I guessed the "Wikipedia" option would do the trick, but it didn't. Two steps of mine, hundred of yours to fix it... Sorry again. There's a Romanian saying, one half-wit throws a stone into the well and hundred smart people work hard to pull it out again. Arminden ( talk) 11:22, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi. How did you know that i am a doctor?.i studied medical ethics very well and I am the 8th most editing user at medical context. What i do is according to wp:category it stated that: Names of topic categories should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of a Wikipedia article. Examples: "Law", "France", "George W. Bush". And i think this rule apply here. So i just apply the conventional naming rule. Israel is a occupational entity and palestanian just defence to free their country. Palestine is for palestenian and if someone occupy thier houses they have the right to use any mean to restore their homes and country-- مصعب ( talk) 14:54, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, CAMERA is an organization that exists entirely for propaganda purposes. It cannot under any circumstances be used as a source of fact as it is far below the required reliability. Zero talk 11:42, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Please note that any change to the lead of Jerusalem needs to be done with a consensus, you can't just make changes to the article's lead. Sir Joseph (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Me and pro-something? Joking, right? Arminden ( talk) 20:09, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Arminden, you are making a mess of the two articles Ancient synagogues in Israel and in Palestine. Please refrain from crossing from one to the other. You are practically enforcing some idea of yours about what the scope of these two respective articles should be without any prior discussion. You simply can't do that. Especially on articles where 1. there is prior discussion about this subject 2. WP:ARBPIA might be involved. Debresser ( talk) 16:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
"Archaeologists have uncovered many remains of synagogues from over two thousand years ago" - not true. In the Land of Israel there are at the most 4: Umm el-Umdan at Modi'in, Tulul Abu el-Alayik (very uncertain), Gamla (contested by some), Modi'in Illit (little published). Not over 2000 years old, but still 2TP (so pre-70 CE) are a maximum of 7 more: Wadi Hamam (Nahal Arbel), City of David ("Theodotus synagogue"), Magdala, Masada, Herodium, posibly Capernaum, and Tel Rechesh in Nahal Tabor. Basta. Qumran, Jacob Ory's second, ghost synagogue at Chorazin, and Alexander Onn's at Shuafat only deserve a mention if one wants to be over-inclusive.
"Synagogues securely dated to before the destruction of the Temple" do NOT include Capernaum and Qumran. Capernaum (the black structure underneath the "white synagogue" of C4 has not been excavated except for some minor areas, it's no more than conjunction on the base of the principle "once holy, always holy" - plausible YES; "securely dated" - certainly not. Qumran: there is no proof whatsoever that any of the excavated rooms served as a synagogue; there are 2 large rooms which MIGHT have served this purpose, so weak conjecture, nothing else.
Dabura leads to a silly comics figure. The "Golan" addition might wake sleeping dogs (Israel, heh?), but that's not an argument for a wrong wikilink.
Please refrain from reverting en masse, unless you have GOOD arguments for each single element. I do in this case. Arminden ( talk) 17:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Calm down. One (1, like in uno - eins - un) revert is never a "war". Get the facts right, then get back to work. Arminden ( talk) 18:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Your edit summary here seemed a bit rude. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 06:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre 13:46, 26 January 2018
quotation from article: "removal of the "I mmovable Ladder","
Geographyinitiative ( talk) 13:53, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Now I see. EdJohnston, thank you! I thought the angry Geo guy made the typo when he started this nonsense here. Sorry for the typo. There is no way in the world it can be misconstrued as intentional - just follow the logic of my chain of edits. Enough of it, let's go on with our lives. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 17:49, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
quote from page: "of the " Immovable Ladder,""
after the change to Church of the Holy Sepulchre at 13:46, 26 January 2018 Arminden, the page was as follows:
quote from page: "of the "I mmovable Ladder","
It is an example of 'changing internal or external links on a page to inappropriate targets'. link vandalism. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 01:24, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
You violated 1rr on ARBPIA with this edit, kindly self revert. Icewhiz ( talk) 20:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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I'm amazed you've done that. It's your job to source material that you want to add. You know about our verifiablity policy I'm sure. Doug Weller talk 10:03, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
I liked your edit at Tel Megiddo. If you don't have other sources ready try this one: Early_Iron_Age_Epigraphy_and_Chronological_Revision_a_summary_article_in_P._James_and_P._van_der_Veen_eds._Solomon_and_Shishak_ trespassers william ( talk) 12:27, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There is not a single sourced statement in the paragraph I edited, so it is fair game for deletion. Instead of deleting, I edited it for poor English and repetition. So much for trying to improve the article...Once you are reverting, by the way, you are welcome to re-add the ugly tag at top citing lack of references.-- Geewhiz ( talk) 07:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Arminden. Your recent edit [6] to Zimri (prince) restored unsourced material in violation of Wikipedia policy. Here's the relevant policy page: WP:V. And here's a relevant quote:
If other sections are also in violation of WP:V, then they should be fixed, but the existence of unsourced material in the "Islam" section is not carte blanche to restore unsourced material elsewhere in the article, especially unsourced material that accuses living persons of belonging to a terrorist group. See WP:BLP. Alephb ( talk) 10:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Alephb. We have a misunderstanding. First, I did quote a valid source. Second, I don't think there were any names mentioned there, so no specific person can be affected; and apart from that, the four initial "Priests" have been legally convicted, which eliminates the issue of hearsay/POV or whatever. Cheers,
Good work but section headings should not be posed as questions, see MOS:HEADINGS. Doug Weller talk 12:04, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Question marks: shortest way to indicate controversy. Otherwise risk of overly long headings for 2nd- or 3rd-grade paras.
Research: Doug, sorry, no time. Too much spent here as is. About to be killed for it :)
Your changes were unexplained, and they violated, WP:LANGVAR, MOS:DATEFORMAT and other things. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 06:26, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Walter Görlitz:. If you prefer, we can communicate in German. You reversed wholesale w/o properly looking through the edits.
"Orthodox" requires a capital O, no discussions there.
Spaces: I edit quite a bit on my phone. In citation notes, long words like "accessdate" create awkward blanks; using a (WP allowed) hyphen solves the problem. Similarly, adding spaces between categories has the same result. Try and you'll see. Nobody has ever had an issue with it until now.
Spaces in and under headings: fully unneeded, not required - in ENGLISH Wikipedia, unlike other languages. However, separating picture files from the text by a space helps editors find what they're looking for.
I hope this clarifies my intentions. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 07:48, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
How generous. You broke it,you fix it. Had enough of stiff, self-righteous WP patrolmen. Arminden ( talk) 16:38, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, just wanted to let you know that I altered your edits to Belmont. Belmont is already quite long and there is a disambiguation page for Belmonte, so I don't think we need to make Belmont even longer by adding 'Belmonte' items. And if we do decide to add Belmonte, we should add them all. Leschnei ( talk) 14:04, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
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@ Zero0000 and Mannanan51: Hi, sorry to bother, I still lack some basic editing skills. Could you please create a page for "Theoctistus of Palestine", using what's already there on the Euthymius page and the disambiguation page? Thank you as always! Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 07:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
@ Zero0000 and Mannanan51: "It is created" - the words of a true demiurge! Many thanks, truly grateful. Arminden ( talk) 13:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Arminden, I wanted to thank you for your very good and pertinent edits on Mosaic of Rehob. Keep-up the good work! Davidbena ( talk) 00:42, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Arminden, shalom. As you questioned whether or not there was a synagogue named "Rambam" in Jerusalem, the following link is to allay all doubts: Enjoy! Click here. --- Davidbena ( talk) 11:27, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Arminden, shalom. I noticed where you were taken aback by the way some of our Wikipedia pages are written in such a way as to place a transliterated foreign word before its actual English meaning. My humble view on this matter is that it depends on what the article actually treats about. In Sefer Torah it seems relatively alright to place the English meaning before its Hebrew transliteration, but I must say that this is not always the case. Take, for example, other foreign words used now in English: Hamantash, or Shofar, or Za'atar, or Genmaicha, or Onsen, or Wampum, or Sushi, or Minyan, or Glasnost, or Perestroika, among an endless host of other foreign loan-words whose names are known as such by most English speakers. The article Tallit, it would seem, falls into this last category, since it is well-known by such name. I see no rule that requires of us to put the English meaning first. Of course, an explanation is almost always given in ordinary English which explains the meanings of these foreign words. Davidbena ( talk) 11:59, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
David, I am exposed to many hundreds if not thousands of non-Jews of various origins annually, and I think I know from first-hand experience how well they are accustomed to Jewish terminology when confronted with it: not. Let's not forget the difference between the bunch of people active here as editors, or our friends from a chosen environment, and the vast majority of people who do look up WP every now and then, but aren't studying the topics in depth. As about secular Jews... you'd be surprised. Traditional education isn't what it used to be :) About many Jews using Wikipedia: so what, and then it's fair to leave the rest outside? I won't even start reminding you who's been using that argument against Jews. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 14:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Davidbena, David, did you look at my actual edits? I always left the Hebrew term in place AT LEAST once on the page, in the lead or in another prominent place, but replaced it with the well-established English word (where there is one) in the rest of the text. Where the term is very specific and has no popular English equivalent, I added an explanation next to it, because constant clicking is a big nuisance; the user will thank me :) All in all, I am sure no rule needs to be changed: ENGLISH must have priority, and specific Hebrew terms have to be mentioned AND explained. Nothing revolutionary. Whereas the opposite--yes, that does break the rules of any encyclopaedia.
What's with you and Perestroika? I loved Gorbachev for it, but it has nothing to do with this discussion: it's like champagne or Renaissance -- it only covers the entire meaning if you use the original word. In this case it's a Russian, but by now international, word. For tefillin you have phylacteries; for Perestroika you don't have any English word. Comes from the fact that Christian Europe has been dealing with Jews and their religion ever since... forever; the USSR and Japanese food are, in comparison, fast-passing trends. Cheers,
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is not appropriate. nableezy - 23:13, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello Arminden, I was scrolling at my talk page history and found your message. I remember now that I had removed it without reading. I do apologize for doing so. I know its been a few years already, but it just now dawned at me. I should've replied. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:16, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, it seems that Nadav Na'aman, one of the most important Israeli archaeologists, doesn't have an article. Could it be? [7] [8] Might you be the one to create it? Hint, hint. Zero talk 19:48, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Arminden, thanks for calling my attention to the fact that someone ought to write an article describing the import of the Latin term Plene scriptum. Well, there is now such an article. Thanks for nudging me in this direction. Davidbena ( talk) 23:40, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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Arminden, shalom. Please see my response to your constructive edit on the Tarichaea article, which you can see here. Davidbena ( talk) 00:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that silly error on the Lovers of Cluj-Napoca article. Can't believe I didn't catch that. - TrynaMakeADollar ( talk) 06:53, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry, I had some 3 reversals lately. Please don't assume, be more specific. Arminden ( talk) 21:56, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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@ Nishidani and Zero0000: I see Jerm won't accept a civilised discussion. Please do take a look at the edits [9] and decide. Thank you very much. Arminden ( talk) 07:54, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Jerm ( talk) 16:47, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
You just walked into a hornets nest, changing AD to CE. I learned that here: I thought it would be "a cakewalk" to change Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD) to Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE): hah! ...was I ever wrong. If I recall correctly, the WP:ERA rules came out of some of the very first arbcom cases, 10-15+ years ago: that is why they are so cumbersome, (see eg WP:Requests for arbitration/Sortan; WP:Requests for arbitration/jguk 2) Huldra ( talk) 23:37, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
After your revert of my removal of a self-reference on Herodium and your explanation in the edit summary, I had another look at WP:SELFREFERENCE, and decided to open a talkpage discussion. I'd be grateful for your input at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Self-references_to_avoid#Referring_to_other_sections_in_article. Debresser ( talk) 10:18, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
I would like to apologize for my reaction at Alexander J. When I saw that you were the one who reverted me, all I was thinking was the previous edit war we had at/near Christmas, but you started the discussion this time, and I all I did was contradict WP:CIVIL in hopes that the discussion would end ASAP. Jerm ( talk) 01:09, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
[10] and User talk:Khruner#Land of Punt. Doug Weller talk 14:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, You can ask me to send you articles from Haaretz but you will get into trouble if you post them here. I suggest you remove it asap. Zero talk 05:41, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: hi! I haven't heard of you in a while. I've probably pinged you a few times to often, too. I hope you're OK and using the Corona break the best way possible. All the best, and take care! Arminden ( talk) 20:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Thank you and stay well! Arminden ( talk) 13:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
If you want a copy of the book, I'll have one soon in pdf, you can email me. Doug Weller talk 12:13, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you remove the type "Jewish" from the infobox in this edit? On a sidenote, it would be helpful for other editors if you'd use edit summaries. Debresser ( talk) 18:23, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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historical, cultural, patriotic, ethnic | LightSalmon |
pagan | DarkKhaki |
commercial | Yellow |
hindu, hinduism | Orange |
shinto, shintoism | Light red |
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Debresser ( talk) 23:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. If you really think "Observed by: Jews. Type: Jewish" makes sense, go ahead. I don't. Arminden ( talk) 13:44, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
The edit summary of this edit is not neutral. Historians also talk about "rule". I don't mind the edit itself, since they are basically synonymous, but the edit summary shows hidden intens that are not purely academic. Debresser ( talk) 17:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Debresser: So, sorry if it upset you. It seems evident that both Jewish-Zionist and Arab-Palestinian nationalists have their favourite historical periods and those they hate, which sometimes even coincide (see Crusader period). "Era" is a grand term, "rule" is suggestive ("it's not their place, but they rule it by force"); "period" is neutral. Zionist historiography used to talk about "Canaanite period" and "Israelite period", terms abandoned in favour of Bronze and Iron Age. The Muslim conquest, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid (sub)periods together form the Early Muslim period, sorry for those allergic to periods in the history of Jerusalem that include "Muslim" in their name. The Crusader period is not much loved by either side. The Mamluk and Ottoman periods are distinct from each other, unless one sees all Muslims as the same old... something. Wherever there still are territories without a universally recognised status, Wiki editors can go by preference or minimal consensus, i.e. try their luck with Jordanian/Israeli rule or period, 'cause neither will make everybody happy. Anyway, historiography is a highly ideological field, and the terminology reflects that. That's what I meant. So yes, sometimes I'm more diplomatic and sometimes less, I apologise if it upset you, and I'll try to hold back a bit more. But what I wrote is pretty much fact - and obvious to anyone. There is a fluid line between hypocrisy and diplomacy. And civility towards intentional reality twisters is sometimes a difficult proposal :) Have a great spring day! Arminden ( talk) 13:53, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not asking for meatpuppetry! But if you need a strong source for kibbutz Shavuot this is it Shalom Lilker, Kibbutz Judaism: A New Tradition in the Making, Associated University Presses, 1982 ISBN 978-0-845-34740-9 pp.192ff. By all means use it as you see fit, or ignore it.
Being me, I couldn't just source the kibbutz section but would adjust defects in the article itself, which has no historical sense (and be reverted immediately of course!)- with not enough given to what we know of the probable earliest form of the festival before rabbinical usage transformed it into a giving of the Torah focus (Tannaitic sages, perhaps simply because Jews no longer had extensive farming communities. downgraded the agrarian motifs-it is the only festival, is it not, which has no tractate devoted to it in the Mishnah). Ironically, the kibbutz adaptation refurbished, imaginatively, a structure closer to the eartiest agricultural version. Best regards Nishidani ( talk) 06:28, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Ehav. Thank you for your great work. You have contributed a photo of Yemenite Torah scrolls (Sfarim Torah) on gevil from "my Beth Knesset", but without explicitly indicating what synagogue that is. Several pages are using the picture, most writing that it's from "Rambam Synagogue in Jerusalem". There is no such synagogue in Jerusalem (Rambam = Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides), only a quite famous Ramban Synagogue (Ramban = Moshe ben Nachman, Nachmanides). I assumed that one is meant, and have modified the caption to Ramban Synagogue, but I need to have your explicit confirmation, otherwise I need to remove this part of the caption altogether. In your place, I would modify the file name to the specific name of the synagogue, so there's no doubt about it anymore. The better and more precise the caption, the more a picture can be used. Thank you! Arminden ( talk) 11:45, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I have learned from a fellow editor, Davidbena, that there is indeed a Yemenite Rambam Synagogue in Jerusalem - in Nahalat Ahim. I am sure that is the one you are going to. Can you please add "Nahalat Ahim" to the caption please? Thank you! The fact is, LOTS of people simply mistake Ramban for Rambam or mistype it, and your synagogue is not very well known, so it can be confusing.
Do you maybe have some details about the age of the scrolls? "200 years old" sounds a bit generic. Thank you!
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Ehav, thanks a lot! Arminden ( talk) 07:58, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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Wait, I think I found something - right underneath the wizard link. I'll try. If it is indeed what I'm looking for, I think it should say explicitly: "for creating a new article without the need for a review". Let's see. Thanks,
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This book by Zvi Shilony has a large amount of detail regarding the Kinneret-Degania area. I have it on paper but I don't know of an electronic access better than snippets. Currently I have urgent work to do that doesn't allow me to review all the relevant articles. Zero talk 02:01, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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There's no polemic whatsoever. Allowing myself a joke or two. If not your type of humour, I'll stop. Promise. See, I didn't even ping you this time. Let's stay serious, the world is far too funny a place as it is, let's restore the balance. Arminden ( talk) 16:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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@ Eyer: hi. Go and try to pull the same trick on the Grand Wizard page. Change the formers to lower-case. Good luck. I'm generally against overcapitalisation, but a) I'm not a one-trick dog, and b) I'll always try to help people distinguish between regular common nouns (with or w/o attached adjectives) on one hand, and unusual titles on the other. Your favourite WP rule works well with kings and presidents, but not so much with Grand Wizards. It's too specific, and it consists of a noun and an adjective that can too easily be taken at face value. German has the Duden, French the Academy rules (or laws rather), but English has none of those god-like institutions and guides itself by a certain amount of logic. Not by blindly obeying this or that specific set of more or less arbitrary rules. Bye. Arminden ( talk) 23:26, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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I noticed that you were one of the editors adding links to biblical verses, like at Amorites ( Special:Diff/953658303). While these can be helpful, they are primary sources for Wikipedia, where secondary sources should be used for any interpretation or commentary. If you know scholarly secondary sources that could be cited there, those would be most helpful. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 05:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
@ PaleoNeonate: hi. I think you got me wrong. I'm only adding wikilinks to verses already quoted, or move them from footnotes (which are wrong; I've been told it's an outdated practice used many years ago), to inline links. So basically exactly in line with what you are saying. Have a nice Sunday! Arminden ( talk) 07:28, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/974494694, you put that the publisher of Ramla is both "Carta for the Israel Exploration Society" and "Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA)". Which of these is correct? Currently, only the latter is showing up in the article. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
When you see "Supreme Deliciousness" - f...f...f...f...f...f...f oh, no, no Tourette's again, please... - run! Don't try reason, logic, arguments, reference to IQ (I-What?!), common sense, real life... Run! Don't curse, don't exhaust your knowledge of expletives, don't bother to fix the world... run. And don't ever forget again. Arminden ( talk) 15:42, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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For your trenchantly erudite toponymic tolutiloquence over Silwan/ Siloam, making some stillwan greymatter light up with much needed hyperthermic illumination Nishidani ( talk) 08:11, 25 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Hi Arminden, I have removed the references from Nahala because WP:DABREF clearly states that references are not used on DAB pages, and now that there is an article for Nahalat Binyamin, the references can go there. Leschnei ( talk) 23:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC) @ Leschnei: hi, and thanks! I had parked all these references here while preparing to write the article, and then I forgot about it. Good you saw it. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 02:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the Bikur Cholim Hospital buildings now have huge lettering identifying them as branches of Shaare Zedek Medical Center. We cannot call the former German Hospital building part of today's Bikur Cholim Hospital. Perhaps this caption can be worded: Nighttime exterior of the former German Hospital, today a branch of
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
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User:Arminden Since you were the first to notice the article and offered some objections before , now there is a serious Talk about the article , you can join if you are interested to /info/en/?search=Talk:Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies , Thank You AleviQizilbash ( talk) 11:08, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
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Look what I found: A famous Maltese sculptor, and it's of course about our friend Pietro Paolo Azzopardo (1791-1875). Full of superlatives and pride. With 400k inhabitants and a diaspora of something over 300k people, I bet they're having a hard time producing sufficient Wiki editors as to write all the articles they consider worthwhile publishing. Arminden ( talk) 15:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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@ Zero0000: sorry, I think I found the official page. Have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 14:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
I know that you were trying to have fun while reverting a pathetic hate-filled person, but don't you think that your edit summary might have been a little excessive, especially when viewed out of context? It's a feature of Wikimedia software that many things can be edited, but the summaries of past edits cannot be, so you'll have to live with them indefinitely... AnonMoos ( talk) 12:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
I've never known my friend Arminden to 'loose the thread'. He's a highly focused guy. So, this seams like needling. I'm sure things can be patched up. Someone needs to make amends. Nishidani ( talk) 21:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Could you add sources to this content? I'm sure there are plenty of books dealing with this, but I'm not familiar with the topic.-- 80.246.140.72 ( talk) 13:20, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, just to let you know that, although I've reverted your recent edits under the WP:BRD rule, I've reinstated most of them in good faith as they weren't linked to the title issue and I actually agree that they improve the article. Bermicourt ( talk) 14:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
I declined the speedy deletion of Yarmuk River to make way for the move because both forms are frequently used in English-language sources and so the move is not uncontroversial. Please use WP:RM instead. Fences& Windows 23:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
We generally don't disambiguate things unless we need to. There is no other target for Khan al-Ahmar so it should not be disambiguated with (village). nableezy - 04:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion on Talk:Revelry of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai which I think you may be interested in seeing. Davidbena ( talk) 12:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Armiden, I appreciate all of the hard work that you have put into understanding the etymology and usage of Rabat (and related words), but the fact remains that DAB pages are simply navigation pages for existing information, Like the index of a book, DAB pages shouldn't contain content that isn't first presented in an article. If you're too busy to write articles, you could edit the Rabat/rabat Wiktionary pages and direct readers there until an article is written. In the meantime, I've added a link to Arabat Fortress which includes the word origin. Leschnei ( talk) 12:21, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Note to myself: see here for my view on this topic. Arminden ( talk) 09:31, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
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I agree with many things you write. They bring up strong empathies and sympathies in my mind. I just wanted to say that I completely agreed with you when you wrote "I hated "Schindler's List" because of its shallowness...," and the remainder of your paragraph there. It was all a good read for me. Thanks, warshy (¥¥) 18:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Kfar Ahim#RfC: Arab vs. Palestinian?, and undo this; thanks, Huldra ( talk) 23:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Huldra:, I've written quite clearly: you can do as you like, I'm out of there, it's all yours. I've removed the star from that article, not getting any more notice when it's being changed. Arminden ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
this, Huldra ( talk) 23:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, it took me a while to get started, but there is now an article on the Syrian Arc. It's still very much work in progress as I get my head around the large number of papers on the subject.
One question, I've mentioned that it runs through Israel/Palestine, but only linked Israel. Is there a link for Palestine that I could use without leading to potential conflict? Thanks, Mikenorton ( talk) 14:56, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Mike, hi and thanks for letting me know. Yes, you're so right! A can of worms. I'm trying to get Wiki-"clean" lately, not least because of this. Try "West Bank" (I guess Gaza/the coast is too far west to be much affected), or [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. Somebody will always change it to "State of Palestine" (I wish there were one, but it ain't, so it's wishful thinking and factually wrong), others will change it back and so on. But don't let it bother you, concentrate on the geology. Maybe they won't find the page, except maybe because of our dialogue here :) Good luck and thanks again, I'm hurrying now to read your article. Arminden ( talk) 16:26, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Done. See if you agree (region = actually both, Pal. Territories + Isr., but OK...). Arminden ( talk) 16:29, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
A) Listen to Nishi, he knows his business. B) Quite the contrary, thank _you_! Arminden ( talk) 11:51, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your post from last year about the 55th week of the year and the discrepancy between weeks and available sedrot. With this year being a leap year, it puzzled me. The answer is that because of Jewish holidays and Chol Hamoed falling on Shabbat, there will always be enough sedrot available to complete the year's cycle without the need to add an extra one. Have a look at Yom Tov Torah readings. EhsanQ (talk) 11:27, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
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Arminden, I have noted your positive contributions in Wikipedia articles, and you have even tried to improve the article City of David. Have you seen that article lately? See, for example, Talk:City of David#Recent editing. Do you think that the article is being accurately portrayed historically? How would you suggest that we improve the article? Davidbena ( talk) 11:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Davidbena: hi David. Honestly, I've lost interest and I hope not to change my mind in the future. This is a working place, and an unpaid one. Even one on which your whole livelyhood depends, you tend to leave if it becomes unbearable. Here it's toxic, through and through. It's a nasty battlefield, and not of the minds. The article, as it is, is hardly deserving to be left online. Hacked, messy, like Waterloo after the battle: a participant knows every explosion crater and torn tree in the area he's been in, but a visitor only gets the impression of a pockmarked landscape. What does a user need? Who comes here? This should be the only motivational questions an editor should keep in mind - this, and the BIG PICTURE. Instead it's war on all levels, small-minded and on tiny units. One could have a separation: a list of things you can see there, with a glossary for the terms used (SE hill = CoD, Tyropoeon = Central Valley, etc.); a mainstream way of interpreting the lot; other particular interpretations; and clearly, a presentation of the ideological & political powers at work, which influence (and complicate) everything a lot. But not constantly and repetitively and small-mindedly and aggressively and idiotically intertwined to the point where it all becomes useless to any presumed user. As it is now. Not a battle I want to be in anymore. Sorry. Arminden ( talk) 16:26, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
There have been screaming matches at conferences and now, in the academic equivalent of pistols at dawn, volleys of arguments are being exchanged in scholarly journals, with the latest article by Ben-Yosef being published earlier in July (Ariel David King David a Nomad? New Theory Sparks Storm Among Israeli Archaeologists Haaretz 26 July 2021)
@ 37.142.172.72: hi, no problem. I've replied on the History of Palestine talk-page. Hope you see this. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 15:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
FYI Sarabnas is a her not a him. Onceinawhile ( talk) 19:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Good for you ;) Arminden ( talk) 00:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, A. I'm guessing that what is transcribed as 'keida' is Calicotome villosa/spiny broom, and even glossing that looks like WP:OR. Still devilish details like that leave me sleepless. Can you provide me with a soporific illumination without you too losing any sleep? Thanks. Nishidani ( talk) 13:05, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Nishidani: Hey back, and thanks for your trust, but I'm not good at anything relating to plants or Hebrew. If you're asking if spiny broom is 'keida' in Hebrew: wildflowers.co.il has קידה שעירה, "hairy bow" (says Google), and Steven Morse offers KIDH SHAIRH, KIDH SAIRH. So 'keida[h]' might come close. I've googled for 'קידה' (images), and it almost only comes up together with 'שעירה', and all pictures are then of the thorny broom in full bloom. Sorry, I wish I could be of more help every now or then. Arminden ( talk) 01:00, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Arminden, shalom. I see that you have reverted the Category:Palestinologists from the article Gustaf Dalman. I do not know why you insist on deleting this category from his page, since I can think of no other person who best suits the description of a "Palestinologist." Gustaf Dalman worked many long years in Palestine, and served as the chief editor of the academic journal Palästina-Jahrbuch. He has also written extensively about Palestine in other prominent works, besides having authored a seven-volume book entitled "Work and Customs in Palestine," which you are able to Google for more details. He also wrote on the historical, geographical, cultural and agricultural aspects of the country Palestine. Are you saying that geographical reasearch on Palestine does not belong here? For your information, this is how "Palestinologist" is defined in Wiki (see here). Also on the Category:Palestinologists itself, we find the term defined, as you can see here. Therefore, I am at a loss as to your insistence to continually remove the category. Am I missing something? If you'd like, you can put up a RfC (Request for Comment) to get the broader feedback from the community. As it is, I will restore the current category, unless you can show me otherwise that it does not belong in that particular article. Davidbena ( talk) 13:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
@ David:, hi. Did you read anything I have written here? Arminden ( talk) 22:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden. I am not allowed to edit page /info/en/?search=Palestinians, but there is a rather silly typo that needs correcting: in chapter DNA and genetic studies, third paragraph, "According to a study published in June 2017 by Ranajit Das, Paul Wexler, Mehdi Pirooznia, and Eran Elhaik in Frontiers in Genetics, "in a principle component analysis (PCA)..." should be corrected to principal... Can you correct this or otherwise explain to me how to do it / whom to contact? Regards. PaoloDM ( talk) 16:21, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi - you wrote most of the unsourced material (or rather material using only primary sources} here. I was thinking of removing it until I used "Who wrote this" and saw it was you. Any chance you could fix it? Thanks. Doug Weller talk 12:58, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
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The above doesn't contribute anything to the discussion @In ictu oculi: hi. Sorry, but did you read anything on this page? Or is "Why are we even having this RM?" your only argument? Because "in a Greek book" can only be a joke. Was it Asterix at the Olympic Games in Greek? Joke aside: did you look up any other Greek book, say, the Septuagint? Or any Greek Orthodox source? I guess not. Start the easy way: look up this article, "Dorcas" for now, at Greek Wiki. You end up here: Αγία Ταβιθά. Αγία Ταβιθά is Saint Tabitha. No Dorkas (with a k in Greek) anywhere in sight in the title, not even in brackets. Dorkas only comes up after the Aramaic, טביתא. Or, as easy: go to orthodoxwiki.org. Search for "Dorcas". Nothing. Surprised? Then "Tabitha". 3 hits! Vestments and Church Supplies with a Tabitha of Joppa Vestments, Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem with "the tomb of St. Tabitha" (in a monastery in Jaffa), and Baptismal names for Orthodox Christians, with - no, no Dorcas/Dorkas, just "Tabitha (f) - St. Tabitha (October 25 - Saint)". Me, as a good Romanian, went to look up www.crestinortodox.ro too. 3 articles mentioning "Tabita" ('Tabita din Iope' in full), and none for Dorcas. You said Greek, not Greek Orthodox in other languages, sorry. So let's Google around for Orthodox sites in Greek: "Ταβιθά" "Ιόππη", and "Ταβιθα" "Ιόππη" (the accent on the α seems to be optional). Ταβιθά or Ταβιθα is the name of the saint everywhere on websites with understandable names like orthodoxoiorizontes.gr ("Agia Tabitha"), orthodoxia.info ("I Tabitha..."), orthodoxianewsagency.gr ("i Agia Tavitha"), or even iellada.gr ("Agia Tavitha"). Try "Δορκάς" "Ιόππη". You get lots of Tabitha, with Dorkas as an explanation following behind it. Why add Joppa? Because I don't want to get hits on gazelles. I guess in Greek there is indeed no need even starting the slightest discussion. But this is English Wiki, and you haven't said a word about the use in English. Arminden (talk) 02:06, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
I don't assume anything. I don't know anything about you beyond what you wrote, and I answered directly to that. Arminden ( talk) 07:32, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
The algorithm that Google Books uses to decide what pages to show is a mystery and it is not deterministic. What one person can see, another cannot. What you can't see today, tomorrow perhaps you can. I suspect (without proof) that it knows how much of a book you looked at in the past and uses that to decide how much to show you now. All of this means that there is no point in mentioning the visibility of a page in a citation. Zero talk 04:38, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Zero0000 hi. Thanks. I get the impression that it is quite constant and that it is the same everywhere, judging by what people do quote or not. If there's "no preview" or "snippet preview", this must be the decision of the (c) holder and is world-wide. Where you can tweak it, is either to scroll down through the book (you often get pages refused by the search system), or change the country ending in the URL: they programme in differences. I get to see certain pages under either .de, .co.uk, .fr, whatever, which are off limits under most of the other. I have my files with copied material, and if I got stuck on p. 316 in 2014 and again now, I conclude that 317 is simply off limits permanently. But yes, I also notice changes, but I guess that's either because I figured out a new trick (if +), or because some (c) holders have fully withdrawn their permission (if -). Or so I think. Arminden ( talk) 09:32, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Huldra, Zero0000, thanks to you both. I meant to exchange information; I have no way of knowing for sure. Changing the country ending (.co.il, .de, etc.) definitely often changes the pages one can access, but who knows how many variables they programmed into their algorithms.
Do you think it goes that far as varying on the basic level of access? G.B. marks each title or edition with "limited preview", "snippet view" or "no preview". I guess that's the same everywhere, dictated by the (c) holder. Arminden ( talk) 21:00, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
I think to remember that there was a GB change of access policy after publishers sued them, and the access rate dropped at once. Do you remember that too? Arminden ( talk) 21:05, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
In the Good Old Days® Google's algorithm for page views varied much more between national versions, and from day to day seemingly at random. Some enterprising soul created a web site where you could order books. The site visited all the Google Books sites several times a day checking for what was available and gradually compiling the complete book page by page. Usually it took 1-2 weeks for it to collect everything but a handful of pages. Unsurprisingly, Google had it shut down and soon changed its algorithm to make such harvesting impractical. The current algorithm is presumably a trade secret. Zero talk 00:48, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Wow, that is the answer to the "did it change" question! Thanks Zero0000. Now what the "new" algorithm actually does, whether my presumptions are correct or wrong - that's either known to people who've done a thorough study over X countries, or it's not, and I won't make it my life's mission to start one. Mainly: do I see, when I use for instance the ending .it, exactly what anyone searching from Italy would? And does the fact that, over time, I'm repeatedly getting some specific pages and some I never do, mean that that's the case always and everywhere? Rhetorical questions, because I won't start looking for forums discussing it (20 participants from 20 countries, or even 10 well chosen ones, staying on the target for 2-3 years, would deliver the answer; and Google would listen in and change the algorithm if it wished to). But I'll still have my thoughts and draw conclusions from what I notice. Arminden ( talk) 08:59, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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I did finally get a copy of Crusader Landscapes, papers dedicated to Denys Pringle, and it is well worth the $85. Very much related to some of the stuff I'm working on now and, of course, Crusader castles. And erenow.net is now working on my computer! No more going to the library to look up a web address (I have the encyclopedia in pdf). Dr. Grampinator ( talk) 19:54, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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Several editors have fixed most of the links broken by the recent move of Furnace, but another 169 articles still need to be repaired. Please can you help? Thanks, Certes ( talk) 17:58, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Moved to the talk-page of the article, so others can read and contribute. Arminden ( talk) 20:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
it's as weird as the incongruous Hungarian accent of the off-voice speaking the Latin text
Steady on, Jeezus anno domini abracadabra Kerrist! I mean, apart from a Latin-fluent Hungarian friend, despite his Stalinism, who tried to smash my head in with a full beer can when I reminded him, during a bout of serious early morning drinking, of Lenin's last words about his Georgian hero, and adding salt to the wound by suggesting Trotsky would have been a better leader! (He later apologized, after a bite of the dog that bit him the morning after, by giving me the bullet he was shot with in 1956), it's quite appropriate to have an Hungarian accent with Latin, certainly as legitimate as the Italian accent used in the Vatican. The Hungarians, unless I am mistaken, were the last European people to use it when discussing issues of high moment, in places like their parliament. Nishidani ( talk) 23:00, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
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@ Steel1943: thanks, I had no idea it can do that. It certainly sounds like an excellent idea and I'll look into it. Thanks! Arminden ( talk) 21:49, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saved the redirect. Unfortunately I am tired to make a stub, the way I did with " Ghoraniyeh". It takes lots of searching efforts for such minute subjects. Loew Galitz ( talk) 04:36, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Seriously, Armiden; edits like this, with exactly 0 sources is no good. I don't doubt the veracity of it, but WP:NOR exists for a reason... Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 21:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm very happy, from an egoistic point of view, that you've joined the work here. Not sure I can be happy for you, but that you must know. It can easily become OC. If you do have a good grip on it, then I'm happy for you too! I see we're sharing quite a few common interests, so I'm sure we'll cross ways more than once. Please excuse my temper, sometimes I sound harsher than I mean to. Have a great time around here! Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 22:06, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Ok, so why are you removing links to the ARIJ-site? Huldra ( talk) 23:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Arminden, shalom. There are actually two, if not three places known as Khirbet ed-Deir. The article that you recently touched upon speaks specifically about the Khirbet ed-Deir to the immediate south of Surif, within about one or two miles. Huldra and I have already discussed the other Khirbet ed-Deir. It is important not to be confused between the two or three sites, all going by the same name. Davidbena ( talk) 02:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi David. Thank you, I am now well aware of that, see the talk-page there. I was sure w/o knowing any figures, just based on the very generic nature of the name, that there must be even more, Zero has found 13 in the SWP lists, and I found out that there's one even on the same sheet (21) of the SWP map, SW of Hebron. If RL doesn't stop me, I intend to finish tomorrow a decent stub on the ruined monastery in Nahal Arugot/Wadi Ghar east of the village. Have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 03:08, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
In my phoneyillogical crack, I was of course ironically alluding to the jüdische Geschwätzigkeit spouted by the usual myrmidon suspects, but, as a collector of books on national stereotypes, a life-long reading in the genre impresses me with the insight that any negative or positive adjective/substantive can be used of virtually any people. To seize on just that word illustratively. The Germans themselves or generally Nordic stock were thought garrulous, for example, as opposed to say the French or the Italians, who were thought garrulous in a different manner. Even my forebears, the Irish were not immune to put-downs of this particular kind. Even the Japanese, who entertain a major self-image as taciturn, struck several Meiji foreigners as garrulous, an impression one might be tempted to endorse if you watch too many of their TV shows (as anywhere, for that matter/mutter/Muttersprache). The point of this Shandyean digression being that prejudice by outsiders works on a very sorry stock of simplifying terms of approval and disapprobation that only tell us something about those who use them. 'Jewish' before any noun, if used by an outsider, naturally alerts one to possible prejudice in the shady wings of conversation, but cognitively, among Jews, the same set of terms is often greeted with a knowing nod (as if it were true, in that context) Nonetheless, one does well to put one's self in another ethnic boots, or on another set of stilts, and see how this works with 'German', 'English','Chinese', 'Russian' (and any other ethnos). The results are surprisingly similar, though none of the others wear the particular burden of having the antennae fine-tuned to the kind of ethnophobic niggling that, in the longue durée, has afflicted prophylactically an awareness of being 'Jewish'. Many studies of anti-Semitism lack this comparativist dimension, producing a sense that, in every instance, being singled out for stereotyping is singular, or unique to Jews. Cheers Nishidani ( talk) 14:29, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Age kills off so much of anyone's Heimat. How much more can one allow himself to lose? I will probably never know what needs to happen for me to go to war for it, but that's my conflict; others sit more comfortably within themselves. People with stricter and shorter self-definitions, maybe. Or even complex ones, but with a closed end. We all need a Heimat, be it just one person. Whatever has that kind of stringency is far above fiction. Hell is not just the others, hell is not having a Heimat. Which might be the same, as it throws you totally among the others, but it has its distinctly own shape. Arminden ( talk) 13:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
"Leave hate & knee-jerk at the door & you'll live longer". Seriously? Ordinarily I ignore fools and am not normally given to invective but I might make an exception. Next time, take the trouble to visit the prior discussions before prating. Selfstudier ( talk) 22:26, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Arminden, my name is Gideon, nice to meet you. I'm hoping to improve the Mobileye article, and, being an employee of the company myself, am only able to suggest changes. I've started a discussion at Talk:Mobileye and have posted a pretty extensive draft at User:Gideon at Mobileye/Mobileye suggestions, and am hoping to engage some quality editors. I noticed that you are quite active and thorough, and seem to have an interest in Israeli topics, so thought you might be interested in checking this out. Looking forward to discussing with you! Gideon at Mobileye ( talk) 11:53, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Wadi Ara, Haifa, cheers, Huldra ( talk) 21:05, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Might you weigh in on the issue of a balanced view of modern scholarship regarding the Shapira Scrolls? An editor has been repeatedly undoing sourced contributions to the article. See Talk:Shapira_Scroll#Vandalism 2A0D:6FC2:43D0:9200:E937:E791:388B:D1B ( talk) 12:26, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, I nominated Levantine Article for FAC. As you contributed to Levant in the past, I thought you could be interested in reviewing this nomination. Thanks for any help you can provide. A455bcd9 ( talk) 08:14, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Arminden. Your question to me concerning the article City of David (historic) and the source that says it is a "holy city unto Jews, Muslims and Christians" is taken from the book, Hurvitz, Gila; Shiloh, Yigal (1999). The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 6. OCLC 610542128.. I will need to review my old notes on this subject and when I find the exact quote I can post it here for you to see, as I am currently prohibited to comment on articles with the Arab-Israeli tag, until further notice. Be well. Davidbena ( talk) 14:09, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
2 years ago you edited Tishbe amplifying material written by another editor that mentions Todd Bolen and Upper Gilead Bolen is a creationist teaching at a Creationist university, and that's his website. I've deleted the material sourced to him. It's so easy to miss this sort of thing, and he and his site look to be used quite a bit. I'm wasting precious time fixing it. Doug Weller talk 16:18, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hey, A. Sorry to bother you, but could you spare a drop from your in loco erudition to look at this (and the related Elkana page), together with the linked page in Benvenisti. Don't bother to get dragged back into the moil. Is there anywhere in Israel or I/Pland generally a nahal elkana? Best regards, whatever your results Nishidani ( talk) 21:38, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing that up, it's one of those bits of terminology that has slipped through without effective linking and I think that I'm the guilty party in most if not all cases. I aim to rework strike-slip tectonics to include a section on stepovers that I can then link to. Cheers, Mikenorton ( talk) 19:49, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
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I see you reinstated the "one day per 128 years" even though the discussion at talk:Julian calendar#Describing the divergence from Gregorian† casts serious doubt on that figure. You did not participate in that discussion. Would you please review it and explain why your edit should stand?
† ignore the misnomer, the question is divergence from solar. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 11:39, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi JMF. Sorry if I reinstated smth. that has been proven to be mathematically wrong, I thought you only offered a different angle of the same figure, and I consider it to be easier to grasp if we say how many years it takes to lose/gain 1 day, than how many full days are lost in 300 years (or was it 400?). For me, as a practically-minded person by nature and trade, as many users might also be, a simple formula is what I need most.
If the figure is not wrong, but only slightly off, I suggest you add circa/about/close to, if you don't mind, but leave it there as a useful approximation. Thanks, Arminden ( talk) 11:52, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Arminden: I had to revert your edit on Marta Husemann. Nobody who is an actress use the word actress to describe their trade. They refer to themselves as actors and that has been standard for about a decade. On the Libertas Schulze-Boysen its a a fairly heavy copyedit and lot of it is knackered. Your changing section heading which are never done by a copyeditor, when somebody else is writing the article. Your putting your own sections headings in without reading the sources and they don't accurately follow it properly. You never change sections. In this sentence "The unit had been tracking Red Orchestra radio transmissions since June 1941 and found Wenzel's house in Brussels was found to contain a large number of coded messages." which is grammer mistake by me, is now "The unit had been tracking Red Orchestra radio transmissions since June 1941 and Wenzel's house in Brussels was found to contain a large number of coded messages" The first and last part of the sentences are not linked. It should be something like " radio transmissions since June 1941 and had located Wenzel's house in Brussels. When search it was found to ". Lastly, Stolpersteine's are not honours, they are memorial. I spoke to the guy involved in this directly about 6 years ago. I didn't get the impression at any time that they were honours. They are set as memorials in those sections all over wikipedia. And you left spelling mistakes. If you plan to copyedit article I write, please don't change the section name, you've not read the sources and be more careful please. I plan to revert it. You put "Marital and career problems" which is completely inaccurate, taking out the "Landesverrat" section which is critical to the whole life of that women. You have a section which is completely inaccurate and damaged the article. scope_creep Talk 23:36, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry, but I'm not interested - and hardly managing to hold back an outburst. See here if you wish. Bye, Arminden ( talk) 19:15, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
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Why are you adding Palestinian terrorism as a link to pages when that is a redirect and the page is Palestinian political violence, and why are you adding Death and eulogy of Ro'i Rothberg when you've agreed to its retitling? (as well as when it's, frankly, being only indirectly related, and a rather poor see also link for most of the pages involved) Iskandar323 ( talk) 16:51, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't reply to your request on my talk page before it was archived. I agree that those edits are problematic, especially considering the lack of edit summary and lack of involvement on the talk page, but not problematic on their own to merit a block. They have been informed that the Balkans is a contentious topic. If their long-term conduct is problematic, you could make a case at WP:AE by presenting diffs and briefly explaining the problem. Uninvolved admins will then evaluate the complaint. Unless they violate a bright-line rule, that's probably your best option. Our options at AE range from a warning to a complete topic ban from anything related to the Balkans/Eastern Europe and everything in between. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:23, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
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Arminden, you wrote "Sarsour fell into a well-known antisemitic "they're everywhere" rhetoric" about a living person in wikivoice. That's a ban-worthy violation of WP:BLP right there. If you feel too strongly about an issue to edit within the rules, you should take a break. Zero talk 00:14, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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I have been tracking your edits. You reek of Zionism. I can smell it virtually. This is the reason why I tell students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. It is full of one-sided perspectives and promoted by extremists such as yourself who want to establish a New World Order under Zionism ideals. SaucyLasagne ( talk) 10:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I got one too with the same wording as yours. Does that mean you have been cheating on me? Zero talk 11:43, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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Could you nominate Horon (disambiguation) for deletion under WP:G7? Aintabli's move of Horon to Horon (dance) was reverted, causing Horon (disambiguation) to become an invalid DAB page per WP:ONEOTHER. Relevant information is located at User talk:Aintabli. Or would G7 not work because the page history lists Aintabli as the page creator? AllTheUsernamesAreInUse ( talk) 05:11, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not good with technical stuff, but is there any misunderstanding possible here? If it is, mea culpa. Arminden ( talk) 13:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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Just removed a lot of Creationist nonsense from this and looked at the talk page. I see you said you didn't know how to use the Chrome extension. Sorry I didn't reply but that was a terrible year, doing chemo and at that point anticipating another surgery - liver - which removed a lot and left a tiny bit sadly. Anyway if you still want advice happy to give it. Article may still need work. I left a few citation needs. Doug Weller talk 13:44, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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See Dan Bahat, feel free to join in.. Zero talk 02:03, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
If the category was "Archaeological museums run by Israel" or "Archaeological museums featuring Israeli history", you might have a point. But it isn't, so you don't. "In Israel" has a specific meaning that is only true here according to a minority political viewpoint. We'd like to stay away from political viewpoints altogether, but when that isn't possible we go with the mainstream. Zero talk 06:55, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Incidentally, you are a good editor so I hope you continue. Zero talk 06:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Z. Still, I've been working for travel guide publishers for so many years and know to appreciate complete info. Check Buq'ata, Mas'ada etc. for a very practicable compromise for Golan issues. There are no categories "Archaeological museums run by Israel" or "Archaeological museums featuring Israeli history" and it makes no sense to create them. Btw, this museum has a large focus on prehistory, another one on Byzantine period synagogues plus a bit on Roman-period Gamla, and I think nothing more recent than that, so nothing on Israel as such. Israel is "de facto" where, once you're on the ground, everything around you is Israeli - laws, currency, access (visa, entry points), language, people (yes, Jews aside, all Golan Druze have Israeli permanent residency and ID cards and some even adopted IL citizenship, all speak at least some Hebrew, use the Israeli health system, job market etc., etc.), so what the international law says is utterly irrelevant on the ground. Not what the Druze feel and think, but that's a different topic altogether and is more differentiated than one might think. There are (a few) tourists who refuse to visit the Golan along with all occupied territories, and that's why indicating the int'l legal status is for sure of some significance, but for smb. who's planning his trip or researching the topic and using the categories, the 2/3 of the Golan now controlled by Israel are in Israel for all intents and purposes. Belfast is in the UK, contested or not, I hate the fact that Putin got Crimea, but I won't try to visit it via Kiev, similarly with Abkhasia and Georgia, or the territories Romania lost to the Soviets through the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty and never got back from the Ukraine even if the treaty has been declared nil and void, etc, etc, etc. I see WP as a source of practical info, not a manual of political correctness. The UN actually very much acknowledges de facto realities, while fighting for correct resolution of conflicts. I wouldn't be surprised or object if a Syrian Golan refugee would make it his goal to "fix" this issue, but you don't strike me as being Ahmad az-Zero Saif ad-Din al-Golani. Ma'assalama habibi and have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 10:50, 16 February 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Hi, because I edit in the Israel-Palestine area of Wikipedia, I'm only allowed to use my administrator powers there in the most no-brain cases. Such as squashing vandals, which is not a description fitting this case. Blocking the recent IPs won't make a difference either, as whoever it is will just return with different IPs. The only way to slow down disruption is semi-protection, which again I am not allowed to impose myself. You should make a case for semi-protection at WP:RFP. Zero talk 14:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll try! Arminden ( talk) 14:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Hi there. I've been monitoring (not stalking!) your edits to the Middle East on and off since your constructive edits on the Acre article. You're clearly knowledgable in Middle East geography and affairs and I was prepared to swoop in and back you up if you made any constructive edits to articles that upset the pushy nationalist-political types that dominate parts of that topic area.
I'll briefly explain why I have effectively reverted your changes on the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article. It's important that the prose of the article flow well, and the statements in brackets disrupted that flow. There is also no need to use prose to negate any dubious statement or apologise for anything. If a statement is wrong or irrelevant, feel free to be WP:BOLD and just remove it, as I have done! AnotherNewAccount ( talk) 13:33, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi back, ANA. I'm really happy that you found some gain in following my WP editing. It sometimes seems to me that editors are the only ones who read what other editors contribute :) and it's usually with scorn, while the common users couldn't care less - so every good encounter is encouraging. For your backing I really do feel grateful and I thank you very much for your kind words about my efforts, knowledgeable or otherwise as thy might be.
I see you did anything but undo my edit, you actually removed the older bit I felt urged to set right. Thanks! I fear though that smb. might put it back in. If that happens, I'll happily leave it up to you to find a better-flowing sentence as a means of countering the wrong impression left on the cursory reader by that non-statement. Cheeres, Arminden ( talk) 13:52, 30 April 2015 (UTC)Arminden
When you change the spelling of a word from "Ava" to "Ave" on Wikipedia and in the comment section, instead of writing "correct spelling," you write "that's Ava Gardner you meant; this on the other hand, is Latin or something like that, pre-Jahiliya in any case and infidels stuff)" it demonstrates rude and bigoted behavior. Not that you didn't already know that.. VanEman ( talk) 23:01, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Wow, it worked better than I could have hoped for! You really did guess it's meant for you! I'm honoured. You did indeed go through all of my dozens of edits of yesterday till you found my "message in a bottle". You're a thorough man, Van. Put it to good use. Arminden ( talk) 05:05, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Arminden
PS: Yes, I am hostile to people with more stubbornness than knowledge. No, bigoted I'm not, I'm very open to well-founded opinions different from mine. I hold knowledge to be important, comprehension even more so, and consider true intellectuals to have a heavier word to say than others. I don't count myself to be a scholar or an intellectual other than in attitude and striving. Political correctness is a substitute for civility and politeness which disregards the authority conferred by knowledge. Big words, simple truths. [Arminden]
I can't believe I never noticed it said Jerusalem instead Holy Land. Nicely done. I can't believe I missed that. MontChevalier ( talk) 21:29, 12 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.74.82.26 ( talk)
Thank you for the flowers, i.e. merci mon chevalier! :) Don't get too wound up, neither did Guy notice the trap at Hattin, and that was more serious. Deus lo vult. Arminden ( talk) 03:03, 13 May 2015 (UTC)Arminden
If you mean HaZor'im, it was established by olim from Germany and the Netherlands from the Union of Religious Pioneers (ברית חלוצים דתיים), Ezra and the Mizrahi Youth. — Ynhockey ( Talk) 14:00, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at User:Makedonija. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Macedonia ( talk) 10:54, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
don't know who you are, don't know what you're talking about, and seemingly you don't either. ignored. ps: i'm pretty much out of this wp BS altogether, so don't bother anymore with threatening, blocking, cursing in polit. correct ways, etc. [Arminden]
http://www.jta.org/1976/03/11/archive/davidovich-suffers-heart-attack
so here's an article with a Jewish Russian with the same name as Boris's father you're telling me he's not Jewish too ?
Whats your obsession with going around covering up Jewish people's names ? You some sort of Zionist history revisionist ?
Go to vodka detox, them read again, then talk. [Arminden]
Hello Arminden,
A while ago you made an expansion to the article Barid (caliphate). In regards to this statement:
"The etymology of the Arabic word "barid" is considered by P. K. Hitti in his History of the Arabs to be "unclear". He takes issue with two of the proposed origins, writing that "Babylonian buridu is just as unsatisfactory as Latin veredus.""
This had no direct citation, and when I went to go and find the quote I was unable to do so within Hitti's work. Instead, Hitti's explanation of the etymology of the word barid reads as follows (p. 322, n. 5): "Ar barid is probably a Semitic word, not related to Latin veredus, Pers birdan, a swift horse, Ar birdhawn, horse of burden." I did however find the quote, not in Hitti's book, but in a review of the book written by Richard N. Frye ( here, page 585), in which he makes the quoted statement as an addendum to Hitti's p. 322 footnote. Would it therefore be more appropriate to change the citation from Hitti to Frye? Thanks, Ro4444 ( talk) 18:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Ro4444, hi. On the contrary, I must thank you. Please do go ahead and correct my mistake. I remember that I tried to figure out the etymology, was unsatisfied with the WP article as it was, and drowned in all kind of books and papers, one older than the other, which I found online. Please excuse me for leaving it up to you to fix the issue. Keep up the good work, Arminden ( talk) 21:27, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Great, glad to get that solved. I made the change and added a citation, so we should be good there. As for the etymology, most of the recent sources I used believed in either the Latin or the Persian origin; the Babylonian/Semitic theory doesn't seem to have been popular since the early 20th century (though my view may be colored by using predominantly English-language texts only). Even still, it was a good expansion for the article, for elaborating on the development of modern theories for the origin of the word. Thanks again for your help on this. Ro4444 ( talk) 21:46, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Arminden. I noticed that you are very sure of yourself and the truth of your edits. Nevertheless, there are certain community established conventions and editing rules on Wikipedia, of which you might not always be aware. I would urge you to take any potentially controversial edit to the talkpage for discussion and consensus establishing prior to making such edits.
Relevant policies and guidelines: WP:CONSENSUS, WP:TRUTH, WP:BRD and many others regarding specific issues. Debresser ( talk) 08:57, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Debresser:. Thanks for your message. Honestly, WP is more of a "bad habit" of mine, I have no intention of spending any more time on doing additional studies of WP lingo and insider procedures beyond what accords with the real world, major encyclopedias and lexicons (Britannica, Larousse, Duden, etc.), common sense, and WP's usefulness for the common user.
The habit of using transliterated Hebrew terms as part of articles written in English is specific to religious Jewish circles. Not outside them. Check in the real world, google for terms, whatever. I will not fight anyone who has the time and hobby to deny reality on WP, of which there are many and who enjoy slugging it out on "talk pages" full of endless monologues. This is my own monologue :-) and all I have to say. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 10:31, 21 September 2015 (UTC)Arminden
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Heya, so just letting you know, there are actually two similar publications run by BAS, one is Biblical Archaeology Review, which is their lovely print publication, and the other is their online Bible History Daily publication which I occasionally write for—although I was on the cover of BAR two years back. Easy mistake to make when citing, of course. I made the correction in the mikvah article footnote. Thank you though, it sure is nice to see my name cited on Wikipedia! Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 9 Tevet 5776 21:13, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Sir William - or shall I say Sir Henry? -, I'm most honoured. I do get the daily newsletter,but didn't quite realise that it's fully independent of the print publication. Nice place to meet. Only in the field could be nicer. Keep up the good work! Happy holidays, Arminden ( talk) 21:23, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 21:23, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
I don't think it makes sense to include a list of all desert castles as a "see also" in each desert castle article:
Thanks, -- Macrakis ( talk) 21:43, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Macrakis:. I am sure you are right, and I think with time most of these "See also" links will be deleted. But please, not yet though. The term "desert castles" has been wrongly limited to the Jordanian ones. My point is to inform people about the wider CONTEXT. The Middle East is a horribly tribal place, helping people see the wider picture, in whatever area, is a gain. Thank you and happy holidays! Arminden ( talk) 22:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 22:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC) @ Macrakis: PS: I think NONE of the pages relating to non-Jordanian desert castles did link to the term, and I'm not sure even the Jord. ones all did. Or used the term "qasr" as universally accepted terminology. The topic got far too little exposure, and it shows in the WP articles. Besides, it was me, today, who added the examples from Syria, Israel and Palestine to the list on the Desert castles page, so I went on to connect a bit farther, as part of the same "widening of the horizons". The term is extremely vague as it is, giving it at least geographically a clearer shape can only help. Arminden ( talk) 22:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 22:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi @
Zero0000: Would you consider starting a page on spring-flow tunnels? I'm still not capable of that feat.
Zvi Y. D. Ron is/was THE specialist, he published apparently mainly between 1967-1992, but TAU still has him on its website
[1]. There is even a mention of a Zvi Ron publishing on the topic in 2013
[2].
There is a lot on this at
[3].
It's a technology DIFFERENT from the better known
qanat (see below), it has apparently first been developed in the time of Herod the Great (didn't see enough proof to fully accept that), the Judean Mountains have the most examples. At Abu Ghosh and Battir Roman inscriptions were found at apparently pre-existing spring-flow tunnels, with the names of the
10th Legion Fretensis and
5th Macedonian Legion, the first from the time of the first revolt, the second connected with the Bar Kochba revolt. So the systems were there in the 60s CE/130s CE. I am not sure if I understood it correctly, that there is no proper aquiclude in the Judean Mountains, just some type of aquitard (marl or similar), which lets some of the water through, in any case, for catching more water, the idea was of digging tunnels until they reached - where? the wettest spot?-, building there a collection pool which gathered the entire flow from the exposed ceiling, and taking the water out via channels in the tunnel floor, to be then distributed to terraces. But this is what I gathered from less than academical sources. Ron has a publication which might contain his main results, Zvi Y. D. Ron, Agricultural terraces in the Judean Mountains, appeared in: Israel Exploration Journal 16 (1966) 33-49, 111-122, but I didn't find it online. There is only one useful quote I could find:
Qanat vs. spring-flow tunnel: Although there are similarities in the construction techniques (both are excavated tunnels designed to extract water by gravity flow), there are crucial differences between the two. Firstly, the origin of the qanat was a well that was turned into an artificial spring. In contrast, the origin of the spring flow tunnel was the development of a ‘real’ spring to renew or increase flow, following an episode of the water table receding. Secondly shafts, which are essential to qanats, are not essential to spring flow tunnels.
That's about it. Interested? Cheers,
Arminden (
talk) 01:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)Arminden
Arminden (
talk) 01:13, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Hi Zero. I hope I'm not pinging you too often? Please tell me if I am. Now I stumbled upon this typical potayto-potahto double, Yavne and Yibna. I worked on the history part so as to help somebody access the info quickly and efficiently: all Muslim periods under Yibna, the rest under Yavne, with "main" tags and repetitions on both pages if interest overlaps. I think it's in every WP reader's interest to keep things simple & logical, but by now I know what will follow. Problem is that I only noticed afterwards that there's been a merger attempt, closed by a very IT-minded arbiter with a negative decision. Negative is OK, but his logic I cannot fully follow. I will NOT go into stuff like this, but I see you have, so - isn't there some logical guideline saying, for instance, that a defunct village gets its own history, while the still existing town that took its place gets all the rest? Especially parts which it claims a connection to? Or any other rational principle. Ideally such which are, look & smell neutral. My main issue is: you got bits of info here, bits there, some overlapped, some were in the wrong place (more on Yibna aspects at Yavne & viceversa). Endless mess. Doesn't serve anyone. Except that people don't act according to ration, robots do, I know. Suggestions? Thanks & cheers, Arminden ( talk) 19:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:16, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
@
Zero0000: Hi. You're giving me too much credit, I don't have much of anything in terms of non-archaeological data. But I know a bit about history and settlement, Zionist or otherwise. The tell has not been even excavated although it is located very conveniently because it has a lot of Ottoman village remains and Crusader walls at the top, and getting to what the Israeli archaeologists are most interested in, post-70 Yavne and maybe Israelite & Philistine Yavne, would mean destroying that first (see quoted book by Raz Kletter
[4]). The mukhtar's house looked very much inhabited some 10 years ago, and the mausoleum of Abu Huraira is surrounded by city fabric. 1 km is nothing, sometimes the same population moves by even more after a major event. The name was preserved, and the location of a settlement is decided and defined by its convenient position on major trade roads, other site-specific sources of livelihood, source of water, important landmarks (mausoleum!), and in the past yes, defensive features (hill, tell) - so the latter one is the only unchecked box, but it is quite anachronistic. Nobody argued with topography against the merger. Plus self-definition is quite important, and they did call it Yavne. Kvutzat Yavne and Gan Yavne took those names rather than simply Yavne because they knew they're not *at* Yavne. Building next to, and not on top of former Arab villages, occurred in other places too. As a possible indicator to how "availavble" the tell and its surroundings was in 1948: the mosque/Crusader church was blown up only in 1950 (see Kletter), maybe together with other houses, maybe not - Kletter doesn't specify and Yeivin who protested with the IDF was always just interested in archaeology, not in modern residential buildings.
Another argument: if continuity comes up, which is ridiculous but likely to happen, the favissa was Philistine, Israelites and post-Exilic Jews didn't hold the coast for long periods. Byzantine Iamnia was much larger, they had a "large Samaritan population" (Negev & Gibson), so people came when times were good and left when they turned bad. There is no population continuity here any more than in any eastern Mediterranean town. An adversary of the merger made what I consider to be the best (if not fully accurate) point in the discussion: there was an Arab Yibna from C7 till 1948, and a Jewish Israeli town after that. Right. Except, who were the inhabitants in the first century or two after the Muslim conquest? I didn't find data on that, normally people stayed put for a while and either left later on, or converted, with or w/o new Arab settlers moving in right away - some Arabs came with Umar, some with Saladin, some with Baibars etc. Btw, Abu Huraira is buried in Medina, I would guess the mausoleum is probably Mamluk rather than 12th c. as the article claims, and the Mamluks had this policy of "inventing" holy tombs along the postal roads which were their only interest in Palestine (link betw. Cairo and Damascus), building makams there, and maybe attracting some settlers along with the pilgrims (see
Sidna Ali,
Nabi Musa). Also ironic: Abu Huraira was a Yemenite, so not much of a Palestinian/Philistine.
I see zero reason why Philistine, Israelite, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Yavne/Iamnia should be one topic, Yibna another, and Israeli Yavne a third, or some other combination leaving us with the HISTORY being split on two pages. There was no perfect continuity between any of those periods, and nobody normally asks for that. We can have 3 pages - History on one, with all periods, Yibna and Yavne each separate with their own period plus a "main" tag to the rest -, or 2 pages, giving primary focus to one of the two places who still do have "advocates" (unlike the long-gone ones), which is a matter of decision from above :-)
Going to eat, cheers
Arminden (
talk) 11:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Armiden
Arminden (
talk) 11:57, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
PS: Somebody made a farfetched comparison to Constantinople vs. Istanbul. By far closer to the topic: City of David and Jerusalem. Nobody would argue that the C.o.D. belongs on the Silwan page rather than the Jerusalem one, although the CoD lay outside the city confines for endless centuries (70 - ?4th c.?, 1033-19th/20th c.). Why? Because the city moved, but kept some of its identity BEYOND its physical existence. This very much also applies to Yavne. (It's also true that Silwan did not extend onto the CoD ridge until the 19th c. No comparison is perfect.)
Arminden (
talk) 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Arminden
Arminden (
talk) 15:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, the latest discussion on Talk:Chalcolithic might benefit from your attention. Zero talk 08:31, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000:: Hi Zero. Did some restructuring, nothing much in terms of content, but now I hope it starts making more sense once the reader understands the different approaches from region to region. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:08, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Mormon University is on the Mount of Olives !!!. 5.29.119.219 ( talk) 05:13, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone KNOW if the boundary Olivet-Scopus is defined as "along the Tzurim Valley" or not? Thanks, Arminden Arminden ( talk) 09:57, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
TZURIM VALLEY is the border between Mount Scopus and Mount of Olives. 5.29.119.219 ( talk) 11:49, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
About the revert in Ghassulian, both the text and the map say it is in modern Jordan. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:15, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Sounds good to me! As long as we keep them apart, I am happy for the added info. Thanks! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 08:59, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Regarding this edit summary, [5] I am not German, even though I know the language. Debresser ( talk) 23:05, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
I know the temptation of falling back on regulations and set rules & habits. And I know the risk of stopping to think and relying strictly on those. If WP serves any purpose, it's of offering the user/reader easy access to good information. That is the raison d'etre or "fundamental law" of WP. Period. All the WP rules are made to serve that purpose. When rules and logic come into conflict with each other, it's like a law being contested in front of the constitutional court. There, as here, the question asked is: does it serve the purpose, as stated by the "fundamental law"? The spirit of the law takes precedence over the letter of the law. So, when something helps the user/reader without harming the page, it's good and it should stay. Robotically removing good info based on some WP regulation, which is anyhow subject to constant improvement, is not constructive, meaning: harms the value of WP to the reader. Please consider this. Thank you. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 07:25, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
Click on the image, follow the "more information" link to Commons, and there you will see the information provided by the uploader. In this case, the book the map is from. Zero talk 02:29, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Hi, and thanks. I have, of course, but I am aware of no such book ("Palestine", 1889) by Conder. If you have it, or inf. about it, would you please upload it onto Conder's page? Thanks! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 02:42, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
See here. It is one of many books derived from Conder's more extensive scientific books. Zero talk 03:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Thank you! Arminden Arminden ( talk) 04:33, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Do not insult people in your edit summaries WP:Portal isn't some obscure guideline. It is THE guideline that covers portals. It's also found in other MOS pages, such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout. I also gave other template that are usually used in sections. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:05, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
For anyone who's wasting their & my time on WP: please read Wikipedia:Ignore all rules first, before insisting on endless going-by-the-letter reverts, mono- or dialogues and the like. Thanks. Arminden Arminden ( talk) 19:57, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
In British maps of the mandate period, the site is called "Kh. Umm Jūna". I don't know a source calling it that while it was still a living village. Zero talk 00:36, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Arminden, I noticed you have a running threat with Yerevantsi on Armenian Quarter. I wondered if I could help but I had a bit of trouble following the discussion. What was the original problem? You can respond on my talk page if you want. Thanks. Foreignshore ( talk) 16:47, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
@ Foreignshore: Hi, and thanks! Yereveantsi seemed to be the "representative" of all things Armenian in Jerusalem, but maybe it's only the name that made me think that. I tried to figure out what actually IS the Armenian Quarter (AQ), since when is it there and how did the boundaries vary in time, how is it defined etc. I have formulated it as briefly and well as I could on the talk page under " Boundaries...?". If you want, please take a look. I always try to define the topic as precisely as possible before starting to deal with it, and the AQ is not so well defined, the "ideal" map is a perfect rectangle, but some bits in the east are now counted as part of the Jewish Quarter, which brings in the propagandists who spoil every discussion concerning Israel/Palestine. So facts first :-) That brings us to the next talk page topic: " Encroachment of Jewish Qtr: demography & history, or political pressure?". The maps differ, by choosing one over another one takes position in a dispute.
Then I tried to research smth. online, with little success. Is Thoros an Armenian version of Theodore? Is there a saint by that name? I'll copy here my question from the AQ talk page: St. T(h)oros Church is puzzling me. Hethum I built it in memory of his son killed in battle by the Mamluks, but Prince T(h)oros was not a saint, so the St. T(h)oros Church must have been dedicated to/named for a Saint T(h)oros. Who would that be? If you can find out, please add him, even as a "red link", to the respective disambiguation page ( Thoros, Toros, Theodore?), and please link the name on the St. Toros Church page to that saint.
That's that. Thank you for offering to help out, no matter if you do or don't have any answers. Cheers, Arminden Arminden ( talk) 20:37, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
Please read my latest post at Talk:Kadesh_(Israel)#Propose_deletion_:-.29_.2F_RENAMING. Please also review WP:SHOUT. Debresser ( talk) 11:17, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm preparing an article: see here. I'm not sure about the title, since there is a similarly named modern body that shouldn't be confused with it. If you know of any good sources or have suggestions for improvement, please let me know. Something missing is the way in which it interacted with the archaeological bodies like ASOR, PEF, FrenchOne, etc.. Zero talk 04:33, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
PS: links or cross-reference I can think of
Arminden ( talk) 07:43, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, and congratulations! Arminden ( talk) 13:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000:"The Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage has conducted work in the West Bank since 1994."- what about the Gaza Strip? 48-67: the Egyptians? Arminden ( talk) 16:10, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Now the main article is Wadi al-Hasa. Both Wadi Hasa and Wadi Zered are redirects to it. In the process I lost your talk page comment. I hope it is ok now. Zero talk 10:37, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: I truly apologise. I had no idea. First I renamed it very easily to "Wadi Hasa", which is used quite frequently in English, but then I wanted to add the article al- and the simple option was somehow gone from the menu. I guessed the "Wikipedia" option would do the trick, but it didn't. Two steps of mine, hundred of yours to fix it... Sorry again. There's a Romanian saying, one half-wit throws a stone into the well and hundred smart people work hard to pull it out again. Arminden ( talk) 11:22, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi. How did you know that i am a doctor?.i studied medical ethics very well and I am the 8th most editing user at medical context. What i do is according to wp:category it stated that: Names of topic categories should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of a Wikipedia article. Examples: "Law", "France", "George W. Bush". And i think this rule apply here. So i just apply the conventional naming rule. Israel is a occupational entity and palestanian just defence to free their country. Palestine is for palestenian and if someone occupy thier houses they have the right to use any mean to restore their homes and country-- مصعب ( talk) 14:54, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, CAMERA is an organization that exists entirely for propaganda purposes. It cannot under any circumstances be used as a source of fact as it is far below the required reliability. Zero talk 11:42, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Please note that any change to the lead of Jerusalem needs to be done with a consensus, you can't just make changes to the article's lead. Sir Joseph (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
Me and pro-something? Joking, right? Arminden ( talk) 20:09, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
Arminden, you are making a mess of the two articles Ancient synagogues in Israel and in Palestine. Please refrain from crossing from one to the other. You are practically enforcing some idea of yours about what the scope of these two respective articles should be without any prior discussion. You simply can't do that. Especially on articles where 1. there is prior discussion about this subject 2. WP:ARBPIA might be involved. Debresser ( talk) 16:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
"Archaeologists have uncovered many remains of synagogues from over two thousand years ago" - not true. In the Land of Israel there are at the most 4: Umm el-Umdan at Modi'in, Tulul Abu el-Alayik (very uncertain), Gamla (contested by some), Modi'in Illit (little published). Not over 2000 years old, but still 2TP (so pre-70 CE) are a maximum of 7 more: Wadi Hamam (Nahal Arbel), City of David ("Theodotus synagogue"), Magdala, Masada, Herodium, posibly Capernaum, and Tel Rechesh in Nahal Tabor. Basta. Qumran, Jacob Ory's second, ghost synagogue at Chorazin, and Alexander Onn's at Shuafat only deserve a mention if one wants to be over-inclusive.
"Synagogues securely dated to before the destruction of the Temple" do NOT include Capernaum and Qumran. Capernaum (the black structure underneath the "white synagogue" of C4 has not been excavated except for some minor areas, it's no more than conjunction on the base of the principle "once holy, always holy" - plausible YES; "securely dated" - certainly not. Qumran: there is no proof whatsoever that any of the excavated rooms served as a synagogue; there are 2 large rooms which MIGHT have served this purpose, so weak conjecture, nothing else.
Dabura leads to a silly comics figure. The "Golan" addition might wake sleeping dogs (Israel, heh?), but that's not an argument for a wrong wikilink.
Please refrain from reverting en masse, unless you have GOOD arguments for each single element. I do in this case. Arminden ( talk) 17:34, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Calm down. One (1, like in uno - eins - un) revert is never a "war". Get the facts right, then get back to work. Arminden ( talk) 18:10, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello
I see you added “Dubious-discuss” tags a while ago to a couple of statements here, but hadn't put anything on the talk page (per
the relevant guideline) to explain what the problem is. Perhaps you could remedy that, as otherwise there is no obvious reason to keep them. Thanks,
Moonraker12 (
talk) 16:07, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi. Your edit summary here seemed a bit rude. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 06:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre 13:46, 26 January 2018
quotation from article: "removal of the "I mmovable Ladder","
Geographyinitiative ( talk) 13:53, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
Now I see. EdJohnston, thank you! I thought the angry Geo guy made the typo when he started this nonsense here. Sorry for the typo. There is no way in the world it can be misconstrued as intentional - just follow the logic of my chain of edits. Enough of it, let's go on with our lives. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 17:49, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
quote from page: "of the " Immovable Ladder,""
after the change to Church of the Holy Sepulchre at 13:46, 26 January 2018 Arminden, the page was as follows:
quote from page: "of the "I mmovable Ladder","
It is an example of 'changing internal or external links on a page to inappropriate targets'. link vandalism. Geographyinitiative ( talk) 01:24, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
You violated 1rr on ARBPIA with this edit, kindly self revert. Icewhiz ( talk) 20:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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I'm amazed you've done that. It's your job to source material that you want to add. You know about our verifiablity policy I'm sure. Doug Weller talk 10:03, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
I liked your edit at Tel Megiddo. If you don't have other sources ready try this one: Early_Iron_Age_Epigraphy_and_Chronological_Revision_a_summary_article_in_P._James_and_P._van_der_Veen_eds._Solomon_and_Shishak_ trespassers william ( talk) 12:27, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There is not a single sourced statement in the paragraph I edited, so it is fair game for deletion. Instead of deleting, I edited it for poor English and repetition. So much for trying to improve the article...Once you are reverting, by the way, you are welcome to re-add the ugly tag at top citing lack of references.-- Geewhiz ( talk) 07:51, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Arminden. Your recent edit [6] to Zimri (prince) restored unsourced material in violation of Wikipedia policy. Here's the relevant policy page: WP:V. And here's a relevant quote:
If other sections are also in violation of WP:V, then they should be fixed, but the existence of unsourced material in the "Islam" section is not carte blanche to restore unsourced material elsewhere in the article, especially unsourced material that accuses living persons of belonging to a terrorist group. See WP:BLP. Alephb ( talk) 10:58, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Alephb. We have a misunderstanding. First, I did quote a valid source. Second, I don't think there were any names mentioned there, so no specific person can be affected; and apart from that, the four initial "Priests" have been legally convicted, which eliminates the issue of hearsay/POV or whatever. Cheers,
Good work but section headings should not be posed as questions, see MOS:HEADINGS. Doug Weller talk 12:04, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
Question marks: shortest way to indicate controversy. Otherwise risk of overly long headings for 2nd- or 3rd-grade paras.
Research: Doug, sorry, no time. Too much spent here as is. About to be killed for it :)
Your changes were unexplained, and they violated, WP:LANGVAR, MOS:DATEFORMAT and other things. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 06:26, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi @ Walter Görlitz:. If you prefer, we can communicate in German. You reversed wholesale w/o properly looking through the edits.
"Orthodox" requires a capital O, no discussions there.
Spaces: I edit quite a bit on my phone. In citation notes, long words like "accessdate" create awkward blanks; using a (WP allowed) hyphen solves the problem. Similarly, adding spaces between categories has the same result. Try and you'll see. Nobody has ever had an issue with it until now.
Spaces in and under headings: fully unneeded, not required - in ENGLISH Wikipedia, unlike other languages. However, separating picture files from the text by a space helps editors find what they're looking for.
I hope this clarifies my intentions. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 07:48, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
How generous. You broke it,you fix it. Had enough of stiff, self-righteous WP patrolmen. Arminden ( talk) 16:38, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, just wanted to let you know that I altered your edits to Belmont. Belmont is already quite long and there is a disambiguation page for Belmonte, so I don't think we need to make Belmont even longer by adding 'Belmonte' items. And if we do decide to add Belmonte, we should add them all. Leschnei ( talk) 14:04, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
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@ Zero0000 and Mannanan51: Hi, sorry to bother, I still lack some basic editing skills. Could you please create a page for "Theoctistus of Palestine", using what's already there on the Euthymius page and the disambiguation page? Thank you as always! Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 07:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
@ Zero0000 and Mannanan51: "It is created" - the words of a true demiurge! Many thanks, truly grateful. Arminden ( talk) 13:36, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
Arminden, I wanted to thank you for your very good and pertinent edits on Mosaic of Rehob. Keep-up the good work! Davidbena ( talk) 00:42, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Arminden, shalom. As you questioned whether or not there was a synagogue named "Rambam" in Jerusalem, the following link is to allay all doubts: Enjoy! Click here. --- Davidbena ( talk) 11:27, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Arminden, shalom. I noticed where you were taken aback by the way some of our Wikipedia pages are written in such a way as to place a transliterated foreign word before its actual English meaning. My humble view on this matter is that it depends on what the article actually treats about. In Sefer Torah it seems relatively alright to place the English meaning before its Hebrew transliteration, but I must say that this is not always the case. Take, for example, other foreign words used now in English: Hamantash, or Shofar, or Za'atar, or Genmaicha, or Onsen, or Wampum, or Sushi, or Minyan, or Glasnost, or Perestroika, among an endless host of other foreign loan-words whose names are known as such by most English speakers. The article Tallit, it would seem, falls into this last category, since it is well-known by such name. I see no rule that requires of us to put the English meaning first. Of course, an explanation is almost always given in ordinary English which explains the meanings of these foreign words. Davidbena ( talk) 11:59, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
David, I am exposed to many hundreds if not thousands of non-Jews of various origins annually, and I think I know from first-hand experience how well they are accustomed to Jewish terminology when confronted with it: not. Let's not forget the difference between the bunch of people active here as editors, or our friends from a chosen environment, and the vast majority of people who do look up WP every now and then, but aren't studying the topics in depth. As about secular Jews... you'd be surprised. Traditional education isn't what it used to be :) About many Jews using Wikipedia: so what, and then it's fair to leave the rest outside? I won't even start reminding you who's been using that argument against Jews. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 14:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
User:Davidbena, David, did you look at my actual edits? I always left the Hebrew term in place AT LEAST once on the page, in the lead or in another prominent place, but replaced it with the well-established English word (where there is one) in the rest of the text. Where the term is very specific and has no popular English equivalent, I added an explanation next to it, because constant clicking is a big nuisance; the user will thank me :) All in all, I am sure no rule needs to be changed: ENGLISH must have priority, and specific Hebrew terms have to be mentioned AND explained. Nothing revolutionary. Whereas the opposite--yes, that does break the rules of any encyclopaedia.
What's with you and Perestroika? I loved Gorbachev for it, but it has nothing to do with this discussion: it's like champagne or Renaissance -- it only covers the entire meaning if you use the original word. In this case it's a Russian, but by now international, word. For tefillin you have phylacteries; for Perestroika you don't have any English word. Comes from the fact that Christian Europe has been dealing with Jews and their religion ever since... forever; the USSR and Japanese food are, in comparison, fast-passing trends. Cheers,
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is not appropriate. nableezy - 23:13, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Hello Arminden, I was scrolling at my talk page history and found your message. I remember now that I had removed it without reading. I do apologize for doing so. I know its been a few years already, but it just now dawned at me. I should've replied. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:16, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi, it seems that Nadav Na'aman, one of the most important Israeli archaeologists, doesn't have an article. Could it be? [7] [8] Might you be the one to create it? Hint, hint. Zero talk 19:48, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Arminden, thanks for calling my attention to the fact that someone ought to write an article describing the import of the Latin term Plene scriptum. Well, there is now such an article. Thanks for nudging me in this direction. Davidbena ( talk) 23:40, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
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Arminden, shalom. Please see my response to your constructive edit on the Tarichaea article, which you can see here. Davidbena ( talk) 00:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that silly error on the Lovers of Cluj-Napoca article. Can't believe I didn't catch that. - TrynaMakeADollar ( talk) 06:53, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry, I had some 3 reversals lately. Please don't assume, be more specific. Arminden ( talk) 21:56, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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@ Nishidani and Zero0000: I see Jerm won't accept a civilised discussion. Please do take a look at the edits [9] and decide. Thank you very much. Arminden ( talk) 07:54, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Jerm ( talk) 16:47, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
You just walked into a hornets nest, changing AD to CE. I learned that here: I thought it would be "a cakewalk" to change Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD) to Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE): hah! ...was I ever wrong. If I recall correctly, the WP:ERA rules came out of some of the very first arbcom cases, 10-15+ years ago: that is why they are so cumbersome, (see eg WP:Requests for arbitration/Sortan; WP:Requests for arbitration/jguk 2) Huldra ( talk) 23:37, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
After your revert of my removal of a self-reference on Herodium and your explanation in the edit summary, I had another look at WP:SELFREFERENCE, and decided to open a talkpage discussion. I'd be grateful for your input at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Self-references_to_avoid#Referring_to_other_sections_in_article. Debresser ( talk) 10:18, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
I would like to apologize for my reaction at Alexander J. When I saw that you were the one who reverted me, all I was thinking was the previous edit war we had at/near Christmas, but you started the discussion this time, and I all I did was contradict WP:CIVIL in hopes that the discussion would end ASAP. Jerm ( talk) 01:09, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
[10] and User talk:Khruner#Land of Punt. Doug Weller talk 14:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, You can ask me to send you articles from Haaretz but you will get into trouble if you post them here. I suggest you remove it asap. Zero talk 05:41, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: hi! I haven't heard of you in a while. I've probably pinged you a few times to often, too. I hope you're OK and using the Corona break the best way possible. All the best, and take care! Arminden ( talk) 20:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
@ Zero0000: Thank you and stay well! Arminden ( talk) 13:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
If you want a copy of the book, I'll have one soon in pdf, you can email me. Doug Weller talk 12:13, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. Why did you remove the type "Jewish" from the infobox in this edit? On a sidenote, it would be helpful for other editors if you'd use edit summaries. Debresser ( talk) 18:23, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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pagan | DarkKhaki |
commercial | Yellow |
hindu, hinduism | Orange |
shinto, shintoism | Light red |
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Debresser ( talk) 23:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. If you really think "Observed by: Jews. Type: Jewish" makes sense, go ahead. I don't. Arminden ( talk) 13:44, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
The edit summary of this edit is not neutral. Historians also talk about "rule". I don't mind the edit itself, since they are basically synonymous, but the edit summary shows hidden intens that are not purely academic. Debresser ( talk) 17:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Debresser: So, sorry if it upset you. It seems evident that both Jewish-Zionist and Arab-Palestinian nationalists have their favourite historical periods and those they hate, which sometimes even coincide (see Crusader period). "Era" is a grand term, "rule" is suggestive ("it's not their place, but they rule it by force"); "period" is neutral. Zionist historiography used to talk about "Canaanite period" and "Israelite period", terms abandoned in favour of Bronze and Iron Age. The Muslim conquest, Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid (sub)periods together form the Early Muslim period, sorry for those allergic to periods in the history of Jerusalem that include "Muslim" in their name. The Crusader period is not much loved by either side. The Mamluk and Ottoman periods are distinct from each other, unless one sees all Muslims as the same old... something. Wherever there still are territories without a universally recognised status, Wiki editors can go by preference or minimal consensus, i.e. try their luck with Jordanian/Israeli rule or period, 'cause neither will make everybody happy. Anyway, historiography is a highly ideological field, and the terminology reflects that. That's what I meant. So yes, sometimes I'm more diplomatic and sometimes less, I apologise if it upset you, and I'll try to hold back a bit more. But what I wrote is pretty much fact - and obvious to anyone. There is a fluid line between hypocrisy and diplomacy. And civility towards intentional reality twisters is sometimes a difficult proposal :) Have a great spring day! Arminden ( talk) 13:53, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
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Not asking for meatpuppetry! But if you need a strong source for kibbutz Shavuot this is it Shalom Lilker, Kibbutz Judaism: A New Tradition in the Making, Associated University Presses, 1982 ISBN 978-0-845-34740-9 pp.192ff. By all means use it as you see fit, or ignore it.
Being me, I couldn't just source the kibbutz section but would adjust defects in the article itself, which has no historical sense (and be reverted immediately of course!)- with not enough given to what we know of the probable earliest form of the festival before rabbinical usage transformed it into a giving of the Torah focus (Tannaitic sages, perhaps simply because Jews no longer had extensive farming communities. downgraded the agrarian motifs-it is the only festival, is it not, which has no tractate devoted to it in the Mishnah). Ironically, the kibbutz adaptation refurbished, imaginatively, a structure closer to the eartiest agricultural version. Best regards Nishidani ( talk) 06:28, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I need your email-address in order to give you info about the Burgoyne-book, cheers, Huldra ( talk) 20:26, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Ehav. Thank you for your great work. You have contributed a photo of Yemenite Torah scrolls (Sfarim Torah) on gevil from "my Beth Knesset", but without explicitly indicating what synagogue that is. Several pages are using the picture, most writing that it's from "Rambam Synagogue in Jerusalem". There is no such synagogue in Jerusalem (Rambam = Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides), only a quite famous Ramban Synagogue (Ramban = Moshe ben Nachman, Nachmanides). I assumed that one is meant, and have modified the caption to Ramban Synagogue, but I need to have your explicit confirmation, otherwise I need to remove this part of the caption altogether. In your place, I would modify the file name to the specific name of the synagogue, so there's no doubt about it anymore. The better and more precise the caption, the more a picture can be used. Thank you! Arminden ( talk) 11:45, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. I have learned from a fellow editor, Davidbena, that there is indeed a Yemenite Rambam Synagogue in Jerusalem - in Nahalat Ahim. I am sure that is the one you are going to. Can you please add "Nahalat Ahim" to the caption please? Thank you! The fact is, LOTS of people simply mistake Ramban for Rambam or mistype it, and your synagogue is not very well known, so it can be confusing.
Do you maybe have some details about the age of the scrolls? "200 years old" sounds a bit generic. Thank you!
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Ehav, thanks a lot! Arminden ( talk) 07:58, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
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Wait, I think I found something - right underneath the wizard link. I'll try. If it is indeed what I'm looking for, I think it should say explicitly: "for creating a new article without the need for a review". Let's see. Thanks,
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This book by Zvi Shilony has a large amount of detail regarding the Kinneret-Degania area. I have it on paper but I don't know of an electronic access better than snippets. Currently I have urgent work to do that doesn't allow me to review all the relevant articles. Zero talk 02:01, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
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There's no polemic whatsoever. Allowing myself a joke or two. If not your type of humour, I'll stop. Promise. See, I didn't even ping you this time. Let's stay serious, the world is far too funny a place as it is, let's restore the balance. Arminden ( talk) 16:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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@ Eyer: hi. Go and try to pull the same trick on the Grand Wizard page. Change the formers to lower-case. Good luck. I'm generally against overcapitalisation, but a) I'm not a one-trick dog, and b) I'll always try to help people distinguish between regular common nouns (with or w/o attached adjectives) on one hand, and unusual titles on the other. Your favourite WP rule works well with kings and presidents, but not so much with Grand Wizards. It's too specific, and it consists of a noun and an adjective that can too easily be taken at face value. German has the Duden, French the Academy rules (or laws rather), but English has none of those god-like institutions and guides itself by a certain amount of logic. Not by blindly obeying this or that specific set of more or less arbitrary rules. Bye. Arminden ( talk) 23:26, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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I noticed that you were one of the editors adding links to biblical verses, like at Amorites ( Special:Diff/953658303). While these can be helpful, they are primary sources for Wikipedia, where secondary sources should be used for any interpretation or commentary. If you know scholarly secondary sources that could be cited there, those would be most helpful. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 05:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
@ PaleoNeonate: hi. I think you got me wrong. I'm only adding wikilinks to verses already quoted, or move them from footnotes (which are wrong; I've been told it's an outdated practice used many years ago), to inline links. So basically exactly in line with what you are saying. Have a nice Sunday! Arminden ( talk) 07:28, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/974494694, you put that the publisher of Ramla is both "Carta for the Israel Exploration Society" and "Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA)". Which of these is correct? Currently, only the latter is showing up in the article. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 17:19, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
When you see "Supreme Deliciousness" - f...f...f...f...f...f...f oh, no, no Tourette's again, please... - run! Don't try reason, logic, arguments, reference to IQ (I-What?!), common sense, real life... Run! Don't curse, don't exhaust your knowledge of expletives, don't bother to fix the world... run. And don't ever forget again. Arminden ( talk) 15:42, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Arminden, I have removed the references from Nahala because WP:DABREF clearly states that references are not used on DAB pages, and now that there is an article for Nahalat Binyamin, the references can go there. Leschnei ( talk) 23:39, 3 October 2020 (UTC) @ Leschnei: hi, and thanks! I had parked all these references here while preparing to write the article, and then I forgot about it. Good you saw it. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 02:55, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the Bikur Cholim Hospital buildings now have huge lettering identifying them as branches of Shaare Zedek Medical Center. We cannot call the former German Hospital building part of today's Bikur Cholim Hospital. Perhaps this caption can be worded: Nighttime exterior of the former German Hospital, today a branch of
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
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User:Arminden Since you were the first to notice the article and offered some objections before , now there is a serious Talk about the article , you can join if you are interested to /info/en/?search=Talk:Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies , Thank You AleviQizilbash ( talk) 11:08, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
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Look what I found: A famous Maltese sculptor, and it's of course about our friend Pietro Paolo Azzopardo (1791-1875). Full of superlatives and pride. With 400k inhabitants and a diaspora of something over 300k people, I bet they're having a hard time producing sufficient Wiki editors as to write all the articles they consider worthwhile publishing. Arminden ( talk) 15:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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@ Zero0000: sorry, I think I found the official page. Have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 14:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
I know that you were trying to have fun while reverting a pathetic hate-filled person, but don't you think that your edit summary might have been a little excessive, especially when viewed out of context? It's a feature of Wikimedia software that many things can be edited, but the summaries of past edits cannot be, so you'll have to live with them indefinitely... AnonMoos ( talk) 12:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
I've never known my friend Arminden to 'loose the thread'. He's a highly focused guy. So, this seams like needling. I'm sure things can be patched up. Someone needs to make amends. Nishidani ( talk) 21:27, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
Could you add sources to this content? I'm sure there are plenty of books dealing with this, but I'm not familiar with the topic.-- 80.246.140.72 ( talk) 13:20, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, just to let you know that, although I've reverted your recent edits under the WP:BRD rule, I've reinstated most of them in good faith as they weren't linked to the title issue and I actually agree that they improve the article. Bermicourt ( talk) 14:00, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
I declined the speedy deletion of Yarmuk River to make way for the move because both forms are frequently used in English-language sources and so the move is not uncontroversial. Please use WP:RM instead. Fences& Windows 23:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
We generally don't disambiguate things unless we need to. There is no other target for Khan al-Ahmar so it should not be disambiguated with (village). nableezy - 04:02, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
There is a discussion on Talk:Revelry of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai which I think you may be interested in seeing. Davidbena ( talk) 12:11, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Armiden, I appreciate all of the hard work that you have put into understanding the etymology and usage of Rabat (and related words), but the fact remains that DAB pages are simply navigation pages for existing information, Like the index of a book, DAB pages shouldn't contain content that isn't first presented in an article. If you're too busy to write articles, you could edit the Rabat/rabat Wiktionary pages and direct readers there until an article is written. In the meantime, I've added a link to Arabat Fortress which includes the word origin. Leschnei ( talk) 12:21, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Note to myself: see here for my view on this topic. Arminden ( talk) 09:31, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
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I agree with many things you write. They bring up strong empathies and sympathies in my mind. I just wanted to say that I completely agreed with you when you wrote "I hated "Schindler's List" because of its shallowness...," and the remainder of your paragraph there. It was all a good read for me. Thanks, warshy (¥¥) 18:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Regrets for not answering sooner - a few distractions in play the past while. However, in general you can (usually) get some documentation for a template by looking at its template page (usually Template: followed by the template name)- Thus {{ COI}} (or Template:COI) includes the description on the purpose and usage of the Conflict of Interest banner. Same goes with other templates you may be interested in e.g. {{ No footnotes}}. Some are visible banners, often requests for cleanup or action; others are ongoing markers rather than cleanup, such as {{ EngvarB}}. Hope this leads to the info you are interested in. Dl2000 ( talk) 20:45, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Kfar Ahim#RfC: Arab vs. Palestinian?, and undo this; thanks, Huldra ( talk) 23:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Huldra:, I've written quite clearly: you can do as you like, I'm out of there, it's all yours. I've removed the star from that article, not getting any more notice when it's being changed. Arminden ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
this, Huldra ( talk) 23:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, it took me a while to get started, but there is now an article on the Syrian Arc. It's still very much work in progress as I get my head around the large number of papers on the subject.
One question, I've mentioned that it runs through Israel/Palestine, but only linked Israel. Is there a link for Palestine that I could use without leading to potential conflict? Thanks, Mikenorton ( talk) 14:56, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Mike, hi and thanks for letting me know. Yes, you're so right! A can of worms. I'm trying to get Wiki-"clean" lately, not least because of this. Try "West Bank" (I guess Gaza/the coast is too far west to be much affected), or [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. Somebody will always change it to "State of Palestine" (I wish there were one, but it ain't, so it's wishful thinking and factually wrong), others will change it back and so on. But don't let it bother you, concentrate on the geology. Maybe they won't find the page, except maybe because of our dialogue here :) Good luck and thanks again, I'm hurrying now to read your article. Arminden ( talk) 16:26, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
Done. See if you agree (region = actually both, Pal. Territories + Isr., but OK...). Arminden ( talk) 16:29, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
A) Listen to Nishi, he knows his business. B) Quite the contrary, thank _you_! Arminden ( talk) 11:51, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your post from last year about the 55th week of the year and the discrepancy between weeks and available sedrot. With this year being a leap year, it puzzled me. The answer is that because of Jewish holidays and Chol Hamoed falling on Shabbat, there will always be enough sedrot available to complete the year's cycle without the need to add an extra one. Have a look at Yom Tov Torah readings. EhsanQ (talk) 11:27, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
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Arminden, I have noted your positive contributions in Wikipedia articles, and you have even tried to improve the article City of David. Have you seen that article lately? See, for example, Talk:City of David#Recent editing. Do you think that the article is being accurately portrayed historically? How would you suggest that we improve the article? Davidbena ( talk) 11:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
@ Davidbena: hi David. Honestly, I've lost interest and I hope not to change my mind in the future. This is a working place, and an unpaid one. Even one on which your whole livelyhood depends, you tend to leave if it becomes unbearable. Here it's toxic, through and through. It's a nasty battlefield, and not of the minds. The article, as it is, is hardly deserving to be left online. Hacked, messy, like Waterloo after the battle: a participant knows every explosion crater and torn tree in the area he's been in, but a visitor only gets the impression of a pockmarked landscape. What does a user need? Who comes here? This should be the only motivational questions an editor should keep in mind - this, and the BIG PICTURE. Instead it's war on all levels, small-minded and on tiny units. One could have a separation: a list of things you can see there, with a glossary for the terms used (SE hill = CoD, Tyropoeon = Central Valley, etc.); a mainstream way of interpreting the lot; other particular interpretations; and clearly, a presentation of the ideological & political powers at work, which influence (and complicate) everything a lot. But not constantly and repetitively and small-mindedly and aggressively and idiotically intertwined to the point where it all becomes useless to any presumed user. As it is now. Not a battle I want to be in anymore. Sorry. Arminden ( talk) 16:26, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
There have been screaming matches at conferences and now, in the academic equivalent of pistols at dawn, volleys of arguments are being exchanged in scholarly journals, with the latest article by Ben-Yosef being published earlier in July (Ariel David King David a Nomad? New Theory Sparks Storm Among Israeli Archaeologists Haaretz 26 July 2021)
@ 37.142.172.72: hi, no problem. I've replied on the History of Palestine talk-page. Hope you see this. Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 15:52, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
FYI Sarabnas is a her not a him. Onceinawhile ( talk) 19:12, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Good for you ;) Arminden ( talk) 00:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, A. I'm guessing that what is transcribed as 'keida' is Calicotome villosa/spiny broom, and even glossing that looks like WP:OR. Still devilish details like that leave me sleepless. Can you provide me with a soporific illumination without you too losing any sleep? Thanks. Nishidani ( talk) 13:05, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
@ Nishidani: Hey back, and thanks for your trust, but I'm not good at anything relating to plants or Hebrew. If you're asking if spiny broom is 'keida' in Hebrew: wildflowers.co.il has קידה שעירה, "hairy bow" (says Google), and Steven Morse offers KIDH SHAIRH, KIDH SAIRH. So 'keida[h]' might come close. I've googled for 'קידה' (images), and it almost only comes up together with 'שעירה', and all pictures are then of the thorny broom in full bloom. Sorry, I wish I could be of more help every now or then. Arminden ( talk) 01:00, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Arminden, shalom. I see that you have reverted the Category:Palestinologists from the article Gustaf Dalman. I do not know why you insist on deleting this category from his page, since I can think of no other person who best suits the description of a "Palestinologist." Gustaf Dalman worked many long years in Palestine, and served as the chief editor of the academic journal Palästina-Jahrbuch. He has also written extensively about Palestine in other prominent works, besides having authored a seven-volume book entitled "Work and Customs in Palestine," which you are able to Google for more details. He also wrote on the historical, geographical, cultural and agricultural aspects of the country Palestine. Are you saying that geographical reasearch on Palestine does not belong here? For your information, this is how "Palestinologist" is defined in Wiki (see here). Also on the Category:Palestinologists itself, we find the term defined, as you can see here. Therefore, I am at a loss as to your insistence to continually remove the category. Am I missing something? If you'd like, you can put up a RfC (Request for Comment) to get the broader feedback from the community. As it is, I will restore the current category, unless you can show me otherwise that it does not belong in that particular article. Davidbena ( talk) 13:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
@ David:, hi. Did you read anything I have written here? Arminden ( talk) 22:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Arminden. I am not allowed to edit page /info/en/?search=Palestinians, but there is a rather silly typo that needs correcting: in chapter DNA and genetic studies, third paragraph, "According to a study published in June 2017 by Ranajit Das, Paul Wexler, Mehdi Pirooznia, and Eran Elhaik in Frontiers in Genetics, "in a principle component analysis (PCA)..." should be corrected to principal... Can you correct this or otherwise explain to me how to do it / whom to contact? Regards. PaoloDM ( talk) 16:21, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi - you wrote most of the unsourced material (or rather material using only primary sources} here. I was thinking of removing it until I used "Who wrote this" and saw it was you. Any chance you could fix it? Thanks. Doug Weller talk 12:58, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
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The above doesn't contribute anything to the discussion @In ictu oculi: hi. Sorry, but did you read anything on this page? Or is "Why are we even having this RM?" your only argument? Because "in a Greek book" can only be a joke. Was it Asterix at the Olympic Games in Greek? Joke aside: did you look up any other Greek book, say, the Septuagint? Or any Greek Orthodox source? I guess not. Start the easy way: look up this article, "Dorcas" for now, at Greek Wiki. You end up here: Αγία Ταβιθά. Αγία Ταβιθά is Saint Tabitha. No Dorkas (with a k in Greek) anywhere in sight in the title, not even in brackets. Dorkas only comes up after the Aramaic, טביתא. Or, as easy: go to orthodoxwiki.org. Search for "Dorcas". Nothing. Surprised? Then "Tabitha". 3 hits! Vestments and Church Supplies with a Tabitha of Joppa Vestments, Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem with "the tomb of St. Tabitha" (in a monastery in Jaffa), and Baptismal names for Orthodox Christians, with - no, no Dorcas/Dorkas, just "Tabitha (f) - St. Tabitha (October 25 - Saint)". Me, as a good Romanian, went to look up www.crestinortodox.ro too. 3 articles mentioning "Tabita" ('Tabita din Iope' in full), and none for Dorcas. You said Greek, not Greek Orthodox in other languages, sorry. So let's Google around for Orthodox sites in Greek: "Ταβιθά" "Ιόππη", and "Ταβιθα" "Ιόππη" (the accent on the α seems to be optional). Ταβιθά or Ταβιθα is the name of the saint everywhere on websites with understandable names like orthodoxoiorizontes.gr ("Agia Tabitha"), orthodoxia.info ("I Tabitha..."), orthodoxianewsagency.gr ("i Agia Tavitha"), or even iellada.gr ("Agia Tavitha"). Try "Δορκάς" "Ιόππη". You get lots of Tabitha, with Dorkas as an explanation following behind it. Why add Joppa? Because I don't want to get hits on gazelles. I guess in Greek there is indeed no need even starting the slightest discussion. But this is English Wiki, and you haven't said a word about the use in English. Arminden (talk) 02:06, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
I don't assume anything. I don't know anything about you beyond what you wrote, and I answered directly to that. Arminden ( talk) 07:32, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
The algorithm that Google Books uses to decide what pages to show is a mystery and it is not deterministic. What one person can see, another cannot. What you can't see today, tomorrow perhaps you can. I suspect (without proof) that it knows how much of a book you looked at in the past and uses that to decide how much to show you now. All of this means that there is no point in mentioning the visibility of a page in a citation. Zero talk 04:38, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Zero0000 hi. Thanks. I get the impression that it is quite constant and that it is the same everywhere, judging by what people do quote or not. If there's "no preview" or "snippet preview", this must be the decision of the (c) holder and is world-wide. Where you can tweak it, is either to scroll down through the book (you often get pages refused by the search system), or change the country ending in the URL: they programme in differences. I get to see certain pages under either .de, .co.uk, .fr, whatever, which are off limits under most of the other. I have my files with copied material, and if I got stuck on p. 316 in 2014 and again now, I conclude that 317 is simply off limits permanently. But yes, I also notice changes, but I guess that's either because I figured out a new trick (if +), or because some (c) holders have fully withdrawn their permission (if -). Or so I think. Arminden ( talk) 09:32, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Huldra, Zero0000, thanks to you both. I meant to exchange information; I have no way of knowing for sure. Changing the country ending (.co.il, .de, etc.) definitely often changes the pages one can access, but who knows how many variables they programmed into their algorithms.
Do you think it goes that far as varying on the basic level of access? G.B. marks each title or edition with "limited preview", "snippet view" or "no preview". I guess that's the same everywhere, dictated by the (c) holder. Arminden ( talk) 21:00, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
I think to remember that there was a GB change of access policy after publishers sued them, and the access rate dropped at once. Do you remember that too? Arminden ( talk) 21:05, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
In the Good Old Days® Google's algorithm for page views varied much more between national versions, and from day to day seemingly at random. Some enterprising soul created a web site where you could order books. The site visited all the Google Books sites several times a day checking for what was available and gradually compiling the complete book page by page. Usually it took 1-2 weeks for it to collect everything but a handful of pages. Unsurprisingly, Google had it shut down and soon changed its algorithm to make such harvesting impractical. The current algorithm is presumably a trade secret. Zero talk 00:48, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Wow, that is the answer to the "did it change" question! Thanks Zero0000. Now what the "new" algorithm actually does, whether my presumptions are correct or wrong - that's either known to people who've done a thorough study over X countries, or it's not, and I won't make it my life's mission to start one. Mainly: do I see, when I use for instance the ending .it, exactly what anyone searching from Italy would? And does the fact that, over time, I'm repeatedly getting some specific pages and some I never do, mean that that's the case always and everywhere? Rhetorical questions, because I won't start looking for forums discussing it (20 participants from 20 countries, or even 10 well chosen ones, staying on the target for 2-3 years, would deliver the answer; and Google would listen in and change the algorithm if it wished to). But I'll still have my thoughts and draw conclusions from what I notice. Arminden ( talk) 08:59, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
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I did finally get a copy of Crusader Landscapes, papers dedicated to Denys Pringle, and it is well worth the $85. Very much related to some of the stuff I'm working on now and, of course, Crusader castles. And erenow.net is now working on my computer! No more going to the library to look up a web address (I have the encyclopedia in pdf). Dr. Grampinator ( talk) 19:54, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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Moved to the talk-page of the article, so others can read and contribute. Arminden ( talk) 20:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
it's as weird as the incongruous Hungarian accent of the off-voice speaking the Latin text
Steady on, Jeezus anno domini abracadabra Kerrist! I mean, apart from a Latin-fluent Hungarian friend, despite his Stalinism, who tried to smash my head in with a full beer can when I reminded him, during a bout of serious early morning drinking, of Lenin's last words about his Georgian hero, and adding salt to the wound by suggesting Trotsky would have been a better leader! (He later apologized, after a bite of the dog that bit him the morning after, by giving me the bullet he was shot with in 1956), it's quite appropriate to have an Hungarian accent with Latin, certainly as legitimate as the Italian accent used in the Vatican. The Hungarians, unless I am mistaken, were the last European people to use it when discussing issues of high moment, in places like their parliament. Nishidani ( talk) 23:00, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Wanted to give you a heads up that I moved your nomination of Shunet Nimrin to the next day's page (2022 January 20). When nominating a redirect on WP:RFD, please follow the instructions listed at WP:RFD#HOWTO. When you posted the nomination, you did not perform any of the steps listed at the aforementioned page, specifically: tagging the redirect (step 1), listing the redirect properly on the RFD page with the {{ Rfd2}} template (step 2), or notify the redirect's creator (step 3). Steel1943 ( talk) 03:35, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
@ Steel1943: thanks, I had no idea it can do that. It certainly sounds like an excellent idea and I'll look into it. Thanks! Arminden ( talk) 21:49, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saved the redirect. Unfortunately I am tired to make a stub, the way I did with " Ghoraniyeh". It takes lots of searching efforts for such minute subjects. Loew Galitz ( talk) 04:36, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
Seriously, Armiden; edits like this, with exactly 0 sources is no good. I don't doubt the veracity of it, but WP:NOR exists for a reason... Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 21:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm very happy, from an egoistic point of view, that you've joined the work here. Not sure I can be happy for you, but that you must know. It can easily become OC. If you do have a good grip on it, then I'm happy for you too! I see we're sharing quite a few common interests, so I'm sure we'll cross ways more than once. Please excuse my temper, sometimes I sound harsher than I mean to. Have a great time around here! Cheers, Arminden ( talk) 22:06, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Ok, so why are you removing links to the ARIJ-site? Huldra ( talk) 23:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Arminden, shalom. There are actually two, if not three places known as Khirbet ed-Deir. The article that you recently touched upon speaks specifically about the Khirbet ed-Deir to the immediate south of Surif, within about one or two miles. Huldra and I have already discussed the other Khirbet ed-Deir. It is important not to be confused between the two or three sites, all going by the same name. Davidbena ( talk) 02:16, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi David. Thank you, I am now well aware of that, see the talk-page there. I was sure w/o knowing any figures, just based on the very generic nature of the name, that there must be even more, Zero has found 13 in the SWP lists, and I found out that there's one even on the same sheet (21) of the SWP map, SW of Hebron. If RL doesn't stop me, I intend to finish tomorrow a decent stub on the ruined monastery in Nahal Arugot/Wadi Ghar east of the village. Have a great day, Arminden ( talk) 03:08, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
In my phoneyillogical crack, I was of course ironically alluding to the jüdische Geschwätzigkeit spouted by the usual myrmidon suspects, but, as a collector of books on national stereotypes, a life-long reading in the genre impresses me with the insight that any negative or positive adjective/substantive can be used of virtually any people. To seize on just that word illustratively. The Germans themselves or generally Nordic stock were thought garrulous, for example, as opposed to say the French or the Italians, who were thought garrulous in a different manner. Even my forebears, the Irish were not immune to put-downs of this particular kind. Even the Japanese, who entertain a major self-image as taciturn, struck several Meiji foreigners as garrulous, an impression one might be tempted to endorse if you watch too many of their TV shows (as anywhere, for that matter/mutter/Muttersprache). The point of this Shandyean digression being that prejudice by outsiders works on a very sorry stock of simplifying terms of approval and disapprobation that only tell us something about those who use them. 'Jewish' before any noun, if used by an outsider, naturally alerts one to possible prejudice in the shady wings of conversation, but cognitively, among Jews, the same set of terms is often greeted with a knowing nod (as if it were true, in that context) Nonetheless, one does well to put one's self in another ethnic boots, or on another set of stilts, and see how this works with 'German', 'English','Chinese', 'Russian' (and any other ethnos). The results are surprisingly similar, though none of the others wear the particular burden of having the antennae fine-tuned to the kind of ethnophobic niggling that, in the longue durée, has afflicted prophylactically an awareness of being 'Jewish'. Many studies of anti-Semitism lack this comparativist dimension, producing a sense that, in every instance, being singled out for stereotyping is singular, or unique to Jews. Cheers Nishidani ( talk) 14:29, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
Age kills off so much of anyone's Heimat. How much more can one allow himself to lose? I will probably never know what needs to happen for me to go to war for it, but that's my conflict; others sit more comfortably within themselves. People with stricter and shorter self-definitions, maybe. Or even complex ones, but with a closed end. We all need a Heimat, be it just one person. Whatever has that kind of stringency is far above fiction. Hell is not just the others, hell is not having a Heimat. Which might be the same, as it throws you totally among the others, but it has its distinctly own shape. Arminden ( talk) 13:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
"Leave hate & knee-jerk at the door & you'll live longer". Seriously? Ordinarily I ignore fools and am not normally given to invective but I might make an exception. Next time, take the trouble to visit the prior discussions before prating. Selfstudier ( talk) 22:26, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Arminden, my name is Gideon, nice to meet you. I'm hoping to improve the Mobileye article, and, being an employee of the company myself, am only able to suggest changes. I've started a discussion at Talk:Mobileye and have posted a pretty extensive draft at User:Gideon at Mobileye/Mobileye suggestions, and am hoping to engage some quality editors. I noticed that you are quite active and thorough, and seem to have an interest in Israeli topics, so thought you might be interested in checking this out. Looking forward to discussing with you! Gideon at Mobileye ( talk) 11:53, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. Might you weigh in on the issue of a balanced view of modern scholarship regarding the Shapira Scrolls? An editor has been repeatedly undoing sourced contributions to the article. See Talk:Shapira_Scroll#Vandalism 2A0D:6FC2:43D0:9200:E937:E791:388B:D1B ( talk) 12:26, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Arminden, I nominated Levantine Article for FAC. As you contributed to Levant in the past, I thought you could be interested in reviewing this nomination. Thanks for any help you can provide. A455bcd9 ( talk) 08:14, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, Arminden. Your question to me concerning the article City of David (historic) and the source that says it is a "holy city unto Jews, Muslims and Christians" is taken from the book, Hurvitz, Gila; Shiloh, Yigal (1999). The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. p. 6. OCLC 610542128.. I will need to review my old notes on this subject and when I find the exact quote I can post it here for you to see, as I am currently prohibited to comment on articles with the Arab-Israeli tag, until further notice. Be well. Davidbena ( talk) 14:09, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
2 years ago you edited Tishbe amplifying material written by another editor that mentions Todd Bolen and Upper Gilead Bolen is a creationist teaching at a Creationist university, and that's his website. I've deleted the material sourced to him. It's so easy to miss this sort of thing, and he and his site look to be used quite a bit. I'm wasting precious time fixing it. Doug Weller talk 16:18, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hey, A. Sorry to bother you, but could you spare a drop from your in loco erudition to look at this (and the related Elkana page), together with the linked page in Benvenisti. Don't bother to get dragged back into the moil. Is there anywhere in Israel or I/Pland generally a nahal elkana? Best regards, whatever your results Nishidani ( talk) 21:38, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing that up, it's one of those bits of terminology that has slipped through without effective linking and I think that I'm the guilty party in most if not all cases. I aim to rework strike-slip tectonics to include a section on stepovers that I can then link to. Cheers, Mikenorton ( talk) 19:49, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
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I see you reinstated the "one day per 128 years" even though the discussion at talk:Julian calendar#Describing the divergence from Gregorian† casts serious doubt on that figure. You did not participate in that discussion. Would you please review it and explain why your edit should stand?
† ignore the misnomer, the question is divergence from solar. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 11:39, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi JMF. Sorry if I reinstated smth. that has been proven to be mathematically wrong, I thought you only offered a different angle of the same figure, and I consider it to be easier to grasp if we say how many years it takes to lose/gain 1 day, than how many full days are lost in 300 years (or was it 400?). For me, as a practically-minded person by nature and trade, as many users might also be, a simple formula is what I need most.
If the figure is not wrong, but only slightly off, I suggest you add circa/about/close to, if you don't mind, but leave it there as a useful approximation. Thanks, Arminden ( talk) 11:52, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi @ Arminden: I had to revert your edit on Marta Husemann. Nobody who is an actress use the word actress to describe their trade. They refer to themselves as actors and that has been standard for about a decade. On the Libertas Schulze-Boysen its a a fairly heavy copyedit and lot of it is knackered. Your changing section heading which are never done by a copyeditor, when somebody else is writing the article. Your putting your own sections headings in without reading the sources and they don't accurately follow it properly. You never change sections. In this sentence "The unit had been tracking Red Orchestra radio transmissions since June 1941 and found Wenzel's house in Brussels was found to contain a large number of coded messages." which is grammer mistake by me, is now "The unit had been tracking Red Orchestra radio transmissions since June 1941 and Wenzel's house in Brussels was found to contain a large number of coded messages" The first and last part of the sentences are not linked. It should be something like " radio transmissions since June 1941 and had located Wenzel's house in Brussels. When search it was found to ". Lastly, Stolpersteine's are not honours, they are memorial. I spoke to the guy involved in this directly about 6 years ago. I didn't get the impression at any time that they were honours. They are set as memorials in those sections all over wikipedia. And you left spelling mistakes. If you plan to copyedit article I write, please don't change the section name, you've not read the sources and be more careful please. I plan to revert it. You put "Marital and career problems" which is completely inaccurate, taking out the "Landesverrat" section which is critical to the whole life of that women. You have a section which is completely inaccurate and damaged the article. scope_creep Talk 23:36, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry, but I'm not interested - and hardly managing to hold back an outburst. See here if you wish. Bye, Arminden ( talk) 19:15, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
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Why are you adding Palestinian terrorism as a link to pages when that is a redirect and the page is Palestinian political violence, and why are you adding Death and eulogy of Ro'i Rothberg when you've agreed to its retitling? (as well as when it's, frankly, being only indirectly related, and a rather poor see also link for most of the pages involved) Iskandar323 ( talk) 16:51, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
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I have been tracking your edits. You reek of Zionism. I can smell it virtually. This is the reason why I tell students that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. It is full of one-sided perspectives and promoted by extremists such as yourself who want to establish a New World Order under Zionism ideals. SaucyLasagne ( talk) 10:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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I'm not good with technical stuff, but is there any misunderstanding possible here? If it is, mea culpa. Arminden ( talk) 13:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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Just removed a lot of Creationist nonsense from this and looked at the talk page. I see you said you didn't know how to use the Chrome extension. Sorry I didn't reply but that was a terrible year, doing chemo and at that point anticipating another surgery - liver - which removed a lot and left a tiny bit sadly. Anyway if you still want advice happy to give it. Article may still need work. I left a few citation needs. Doug Weller talk 13:44, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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