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Hi, I have a doubt. When an image in commons is decided not to be deleted after the deletion nomination has been closed, will that image removed from the Category:Deletion requests or will it remain in that category? -- Harideepan ( talk) 06:07, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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Alex Shih ( talk) 18:12, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you asked at the Teahouse about places where the documentation needs to be updated. There is a place where there is still a SAVE button. When reviewing a pending revision, then editing, and selecting "accept this version - include pending changes" - you are presented with the old SAVE button. I presume this is unintentional and an issue for WMF. I'm never reported anything to WWF before, so just letting someone know who seems to be involved in some way in the issue. MB 15:12, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
I still see the SAVE button:
Hope this helps. MB 03:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick. Can you look at my sandbox for this article and comment? Also, need guidance on where to look for open source maps. Wiki Commons doesn't track them. Thanks. Bruce BrucePL ( talk) 16:59, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
"I'm assuming that you pulled the maps from the PGC website? If so, then they can be used in the public domain. We have a whole set of "restricted" maps that are searchable, but not downloadable. For metadata, you could cite the PGC as "Map copyright [Authoring Organization], Accessed from Polar Geospatial Center. [URL]" How does this apporach sound? Bruce BrucePL ( talk) 00:00, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Brad Checked with my supervising editor. If copyright is claimed WP won’t use it. No copyrighted content allowed. A bit confusing if maps are public domain then no problem for WP. Maps and images that are put into WP Commons are free use with attributes given of course. I’d have to claim this to upload any maps to WP. What do you think?
Brad Herried 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) to me Bruce, it's fine if you don't include the copyright. Just replace it with "courtesy" or something like that. Please check with me, though, if you plan use any of our non-US maps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrucePL ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick, Sections across plant and animal genera are not required to be unique. I started creating the section pages without reference to Hypericum (e.g. "Adenosepalum (Section)") because that is how the links were set up at Hypericum. But, I noticed that some other plants format it with reference to the genus, e.g. Carex sect. Spirostachyae. Since I haven't researched what the preference is for WP, I just stopped before making too many more changes. Chickenflicker ( talk) 13:11, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hey Nick,
I happened to read your discussion with Thegooduser on the Teahouse, and in it you mentioned you're interested in getting templates approved for Twinkle. Since it seems to be kinda off-topic there, and as I happen to know something about it, I thought I'd respond to you here.
The Twinkle source is hosted on Github, and the available welcome templates are defined in modules/friendlywelcome.js. You could make the change yourself and open a pull request, or if you're not confident enough in your Javascript skills, I'd be more than happy to do it. However, you might want to ask first on WT:TW if the changes you want are desirable. Another option is to add custom Welcome templates to your own preferences. This is a lot easier, but it'd mean they're only added for you, not for everyone. You can do this on WP:TW/P, under "Welcome user", setting "Custom welcome templates to display". Let me know if you have any questions! rchard2scout ( talk) 12:57, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Could I ask a massive favor and ask if you could take a look at my sandbox and let me know if you would change anything layout wise before I populate it with results? Many thanks in advance. LampGenie01 ( talk) 14:51, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to martifleming ( talk · contribs). I edit very sporadically now and would hate for a new user not to get a timely response to my message. -- Rifleman 82 ( talk) 21:33, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for the page review! I've done as you suggested on my talk page, though I can't say for sure if Pseudocolaspis is exclusively African or not (I've not had much to work with for writing that genus's article so far). Also did the same to a bunch of other articles for genera in Eumolpinae I made recently. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 20:10, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. I'll look around for the references again that showed E. griseus = E. ovum... I know I found something showing that last night, but I ignored it because I was working on Holopneustes at the time. And I couldn't find it again, conveniently enough! I swear finding proof of these things is like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes. (GBIF, ITIS, EOL etc are usually no good as they're incomplete or not up to date)
I did re-find another journal article showing the type of Amblypneutes to be A. ovum (aka E. ovum) though at least, so maybe there's hope. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 16:44, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
WAIT I JUST I FOUND IT: [24] (I'll add this to the article now) Monster Iestyn ( talk) 17:15, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Nick. I have now disambiguated Salvadora . In the various subpages of Agelanthus that I created, I had not thought it necessary to refer the hemiparasitism of the plant, as the general page comments that the genus is hemiparasitic. In a number of the subpages, it is clear(?) that the plants are parasitic in some sense, as there is reference to the host plants. However, I have now included the fact that each species is hemiparasitic in all the subpages I have just created. (P.S. Thanks for your extraordinarily rapid curation) MargaretRDonald ( talk) 00:22, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Your edit Special:Diff/832601066 is correct, but its description is completely wrong.
What the anonymous user 49.48.240.152 added is not a 'Category in Thai language' but a pretty correct (although old-fashioned) interlanguage link to the relevant article in Thai-language Wikipedia.
What they did wrong is adding a plain interlanguage link to en-wiki, which results in just a single, one way junction between the two articles. What they should have done is adding appropriate th-wiki link to relevant Wikidata records, which would have linked the th-wiki page to articles in all languages Wikipedias. -- CiaPan ( talk) 10:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
The format the IP-user used was in common usage in those old days when the WikiData didn't exist yet. You can find it in a history of old articles. See for example four corresponding pages in different languages as they were back in 2004 (Caution! All links open ancient versions of pages in EDIT mode. Scroll to the end of the edit window to see the interlanguage links but do not Save those versions!):
Each page in any language had to contain direct links to appropriate pages in other languages. That was causing many problems with one-way linking (en:A linking to fr:A, but fr:A not linking to en:A), incomplete linking (en:B linking to es:B and to ru:B and back, but es:B and ru:B not linking to one another), mismatched linking (en:Q linking to de:Q but de:Q linking to en:R) and many combinations of those.
You may be amused to see a sample of work it caused – go to my contributions in enwiki and choose to see oldest... :)
Wikidata helped to cure most of those problems, also automatic tracking of pages renaming or removal, but certainly not all. Such problem is some topics are covered with a single article in one language, but are split into several articles in other language. This, however, can't be automatically handled neither in the old (plain-linking) system nor in the current (wikidata) system. --
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More details, consent form link, and venue info in email. Let me know in reply or on my talkpage if that day and time work for you? Thanks! Jmorgan (WMF) ( talk) 21:01, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion, you were quite right — I hadn't made it very clear. I've fixed it now. Jellyman ( talk) 15:52, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for your response regarding the Wikipedia article I'm writing about the artist from Palestine.
I have verifiable online proof much of her past and verifiable sources of all the colleges she attended as well as all the books, articles, etc. she has published. The weak spot is her childhood.
Are you able to take a look at what I have so far and tell me what you think? I have only part of the article written and am writing it in Google Docs so I will copy/paste it here. Everything you see in the article is verifiable through online sources — I've been working forever on this! I'm not done yet and have tons left to do and have not proofed and edited this yet, but do you think this content will fly if I can back it all up with verifiable online sources?
Thanks! George
Judith Elinor Weinshall Liberman (born March 4, 1929), is an Israeli-American author, playwright, and visual artist.
Background Liberman is the author of more than one hundred books and plays and the creator of over one thousand paintings and other works of visual art, many of which have been exhibited in museums, temples, public institutions and galleries throughout the United States and Israel. citation needed Much of Liberman’s work conveys the plight of Jews during World War II, and she is recognized for her series of “large-scale Holocaust wall hangings created with paint, print, applique, embroidery, beading, stencilling, and drawing.” citation needed Now when? legally blind, Liberman continues to write and publish children’s books.
Family and Education
Judith Weinshall Liberman was born Judith Esther Weinshall in Haifa, Palestine (now Israel). She is the second child of Dr. Abraham ( ) Weinshall (birth and death), and Zina ( ) Weinshall (née ... ) (birth and death), and the younger sister of Saul () Weinshall (birth and death). Liberman’s father, Dr. Abraham Weinshall owned a law practice in Haifa and was a founding member of the Zionist Revisionist Organization where he worked as a secretary for the Revisionist Zionist Leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Her mother, Zina () Weinshall, was a poet, actress, and playwright, and was a founding member the theatrical group Theatron Eretz Israel (TEI), under the directorship of Menakhem Gnessin of Habimah. Saul Weinshall, Liberman’s older brother, left Haifa in 1947 to study law at Lincoln’s Inn in London but returned home in 1948 to fight for the emerging State of Israel. He died while defending his country in the Arab-Jewish War.
Education While in Haifa, Liberman attended the Reali School and learned to read and write in French and Arabic, and under the tutelage of Professor Yehezkel Kaufmann, studied the history of the Jewish people through daily readings of Old Testament scripture. Liberman graduated with honors from the Reali School in 1946. In August of 1947, at the age of eighteen, she left Haifa to further her education and set sail for America on the Marine Carp, a French-built ocean liner that had been used for military transport during World War II. In the fall of that year, Liberman studied journalism at Syracuse University, and in the latter part of 1947, she moved to North Hollywood and continued her studies at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA). In the spring of 1949, Liberman transferred to the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), where she took a class on international law taught by European legal and political philosopher, Hans Kelsen.
In 1950, upon obtaining her B.A. in Political Science from the UC Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in Political Science) and at the advice of Kelsen, Liberman transferred to the University of Chicago (U of C), earned an M.A. in Law and moved on the University of Chicago Law School, where on June 11, 1954, she graduated Order of the Coif, first in her class, with a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree. In 1955, Liberman studied at the University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law), where she was given the American Law Book Prize and graduated with a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in 1956.
Art Studies Liberman has studied various forms of art at the Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA (drawing and painting), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (painting), Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA (art direction, fiber arts), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, (various mediums), and the DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA (drawing, painting, graphics, sculpture).
Career — Preceding unsigned comment added by George David NH ( talk • contribs) 19:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
I would much rather see the above short page than all that unnecessary stuff about what ship she sailed on and how it served in WWII, although I fear what you've shown still doesn't meet our notability criteria. I need you to demonstrate why she is more notable than my mother who was also an artist and a book illustrator, and my shelves at home are filled with her work, but she will never get an article about her as she doesn't meet our notability criteria, WP:NARTIST. (That said, as her heir, I must one day upload one of her art school pictures of a nearly nude Quentin Crisp to Commons!) The better and more in-depth your sources, and the more you can hone in on how her achievements have been reported by others, the more chance the page has of being accepted at Articles for Creation. Only then need you worry about which additional bits of relative trivia to add in. I'm sorry to be blunt in my reply, but am I making sense? Nick Moyes ( talk) 20:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Nick.
That information is incredibly helpful. Thank you. Obviously, I'm new to this but I want to get it right (I don't understand, however, why Wikipedia users wouldn't care about Weinshall's neighbor's dog? :)). Weinshall is well-known throughout the American Jewish art community, and her works are highly regarded, so as I create this page, I will banish everything that's even vaguely irrelevant to that and include only information that verifies and supports her notability in the American and Israeli art world.
I mean it when I say that your help has been invaluable to me, and I appreciate you taking the time to respond and advise. If you were my student, you'd get an A+.
George — Preceding unsigned comment added by George David NH ( talk • contribs) 21:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Again, very helpful information. Thanks. At your advice, I've contacted WP:WOMRED and informed them of the page I'm working on. Also, I'm going to write up a few sentences about myself on my Userpage. George George David NH ( talk) 02:30, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
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my little brother made a nonconstructive edit (logged out, thankfully) I reverted it, but I would like to tell you that if he figures out my password, I want you to notify me immediately please (if there is a random letters and numbers edit its probably him). I know that "my little brother" is a common excuse, but I am telling the truth. Firestar9990 ( talk) 03:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Ok. I get it. I actually was just doing that for fun, not meaning to publish it. I think it has too many details and it's a bit biased. Thanks for letting me know, though. Dani Hart (Talk) 13:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I know you're a busy editor but wanted to check how're you doing ^_^. Time has passed and you're like my inspiration and a look-up editor (I mean an editor to look up to) ^_^. I am proud of myself today, I mediated between two users successfully. And that's great because I am, and I recognise it fully, a coward, because I back off easily when confronted or challenged. I have never stood up for myself and I'm I'm easy to back off ^_^. However, as I said I'm proud of myself today (in the internet world), I am proud of other things in the real world of course, lol. Well, just expanded the text to tell you how I am doing. Hope not to have bothered you at all, :) ^_^. I cherish you ^_^ (with all due respect of course, I don't know if that's a used phrase in English) ^_^. Cheers!. CoryGlee ( talk) 21:16, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Nick. I was gratified to read your response to my comment at AIV. I had been surprised at your original comment, as it did not fit in with my experience of you, and your further comment seemed more in character. However, I was somewhat taken aback by seeing that very soon after an incident where you seemed to be insisting on more warnings before blocking than I thought necessary, you then blocked an editor who had received no warnings at all. (IP 2001:569:73F2:DA00:41D1:FF7C:3180:425F) JBW ( talk) 21:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Just one more comment. I've now looked at your RfA. 180:3 - pretty impressive! Puts me to shame: I got both far fewer supports and more opposes. JBW ( talk) 23:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I just wanted to let you know how impressed I was with your recent video, File:Easy Referencing for Beginners.webm. It's clear and couldn't be simpler. I know you added it on WP:ERB but I think you should replace the current video at Help:Referencing for beginners#RefToolbar and WP:INTREF3 with your video. The old one is bad quality and complicated - yours would be a much needed update. Hillelfrei talk 04:56, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I have a doubt. When an image in commons is decided not to be deleted after the deletion nomination has been closed, will that image removed from the Category:Deletion requests or will it remain in that category? -- Harideepan ( talk) 06:07, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
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Hi, you asked at the Teahouse about places where the documentation needs to be updated. There is a place where there is still a SAVE button. When reviewing a pending revision, then editing, and selecting "accept this version - include pending changes" - you are presented with the old SAVE button. I presume this is unintentional and an issue for WMF. I'm never reported anything to WWF before, so just letting someone know who seems to be involved in some way in the issue. MB 15:12, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
I still see the SAVE button:
Hope this helps. MB 03:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick. Can you look at my sandbox for this article and comment? Also, need guidance on where to look for open source maps. Wiki Commons doesn't track them. Thanks. Bruce BrucePL ( talk) 16:59, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
"I'm assuming that you pulled the maps from the PGC website? If so, then they can be used in the public domain. We have a whole set of "restricted" maps that are searchable, but not downloadable. For metadata, you could cite the PGC as "Map copyright [Authoring Organization], Accessed from Polar Geospatial Center. [URL]" How does this apporach sound? Bruce BrucePL ( talk) 00:00, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Brad Checked with my supervising editor. If copyright is claimed WP won’t use it. No copyrighted content allowed. A bit confusing if maps are public domain then no problem for WP. Maps and images that are put into WP Commons are free use with attributes given of course. I’d have to claim this to upload any maps to WP. What do you think?
Brad Herried 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) to me Bruce, it's fine if you don't include the copyright. Just replace it with "courtesy" or something like that. Please check with me, though, if you plan use any of our non-US maps. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrucePL ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Nick, Sections across plant and animal genera are not required to be unique. I started creating the section pages without reference to Hypericum (e.g. "Adenosepalum (Section)") because that is how the links were set up at Hypericum. But, I noticed that some other plants format it with reference to the genus, e.g. Carex sect. Spirostachyae. Since I haven't researched what the preference is for WP, I just stopped before making too many more changes. Chickenflicker ( talk) 13:11, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey Nick,
I happened to read your discussion with Thegooduser on the Teahouse, and in it you mentioned you're interested in getting templates approved for Twinkle. Since it seems to be kinda off-topic there, and as I happen to know something about it, I thought I'd respond to you here.
The Twinkle source is hosted on Github, and the available welcome templates are defined in modules/friendlywelcome.js. You could make the change yourself and open a pull request, or if you're not confident enough in your Javascript skills, I'd be more than happy to do it. However, you might want to ask first on WT:TW if the changes you want are desirable. Another option is to add custom Welcome templates to your own preferences. This is a lot easier, but it'd mean they're only added for you, not for everyone. You can do this on WP:TW/P, under "Welcome user", setting "Custom welcome templates to display". Let me know if you have any questions! rchard2scout ( talk) 12:57, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Could I ask a massive favor and ask if you could take a look at my sandbox and let me know if you would change anything layout wise before I populate it with results? Many thanks in advance. LampGenie01 ( talk) 14:51, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to martifleming ( talk · contribs). I edit very sporadically now and would hate for a new user not to get a timely response to my message. -- Rifleman 82 ( talk) 21:33, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the page review! I've done as you suggested on my talk page, though I can't say for sure if Pseudocolaspis is exclusively African or not (I've not had much to work with for writing that genus's article so far). Also did the same to a bunch of other articles for genera in Eumolpinae I made recently. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 20:10, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi again. I'll look around for the references again that showed E. griseus = E. ovum... I know I found something showing that last night, but I ignored it because I was working on Holopneustes at the time. And I couldn't find it again, conveniently enough! I swear finding proof of these things is like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes. (GBIF, ITIS, EOL etc are usually no good as they're incomplete or not up to date)
I did re-find another journal article showing the type of Amblypneutes to be A. ovum (aka E. ovum) though at least, so maybe there's hope. Monster Iestyn ( talk) 16:44, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
WAIT I JUST I FOUND IT: [24] (I'll add this to the article now) Monster Iestyn ( talk) 17:15, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Nick. I have now disambiguated Salvadora . In the various subpages of Agelanthus that I created, I had not thought it necessary to refer the hemiparasitism of the plant, as the general page comments that the genus is hemiparasitic. In a number of the subpages, it is clear(?) that the plants are parasitic in some sense, as there is reference to the host plants. However, I have now included the fact that each species is hemiparasitic in all the subpages I have just created. (P.S. Thanks for your extraordinarily rapid curation) MargaretRDonald ( talk) 00:22, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Your edit Special:Diff/832601066 is correct, but its description is completely wrong.
What the anonymous user 49.48.240.152 added is not a 'Category in Thai language' but a pretty correct (although old-fashioned) interlanguage link to the relevant article in Thai-language Wikipedia.
What they did wrong is adding a plain interlanguage link to en-wiki, which results in just a single, one way junction between the two articles. What they should have done is adding appropriate th-wiki link to relevant Wikidata records, which would have linked the th-wiki page to articles in all languages Wikipedias. -- CiaPan ( talk) 10:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
The format the IP-user used was in common usage in those old days when the WikiData didn't exist yet. You can find it in a history of old articles. See for example four corresponding pages in different languages as they were back in 2004 (Caution! All links open ancient versions of pages in EDIT mode. Scroll to the end of the edit window to see the interlanguage links but do not Save those versions!):
Each page in any language had to contain direct links to appropriate pages in other languages. That was causing many problems with one-way linking (en:A linking to fr:A, but fr:A not linking to en:A), incomplete linking (en:B linking to es:B and to ru:B and back, but es:B and ru:B not linking to one another), mismatched linking (en:Q linking to de:Q but de:Q linking to en:R) and many combinations of those.
You may be amused to see a sample of work it caused – go to my contributions in enwiki and choose to see oldest... :)
Wikidata helped to cure most of those problems, also automatic tracking of pages renaming or removal, but certainly not all. Such problem is some topics are covered with a single article in one language, but are split into several articles in other language. This, however, can't be automatically handled neither in the old (plain-linking) system nor in the current (wikidata) system. --
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More details, consent form link, and venue info in email. Let me know in reply or on my talkpage if that day and time work for you? Thanks! Jmorgan (WMF) ( talk) 21:01, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion, you were quite right — I hadn't made it very clear. I've fixed it now. Jellyman ( talk) 15:52, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for your response regarding the Wikipedia article I'm writing about the artist from Palestine.
I have verifiable online proof much of her past and verifiable sources of all the colleges she attended as well as all the books, articles, etc. she has published. The weak spot is her childhood.
Are you able to take a look at what I have so far and tell me what you think? I have only part of the article written and am writing it in Google Docs so I will copy/paste it here. Everything you see in the article is verifiable through online sources — I've been working forever on this! I'm not done yet and have tons left to do and have not proofed and edited this yet, but do you think this content will fly if I can back it all up with verifiable online sources?
Thanks! George
Judith Elinor Weinshall Liberman (born March 4, 1929), is an Israeli-American author, playwright, and visual artist.
Background Liberman is the author of more than one hundred books and plays and the creator of over one thousand paintings and other works of visual art, many of which have been exhibited in museums, temples, public institutions and galleries throughout the United States and Israel. citation needed Much of Liberman’s work conveys the plight of Jews during World War II, and she is recognized for her series of “large-scale Holocaust wall hangings created with paint, print, applique, embroidery, beading, stencilling, and drawing.” citation needed Now when? legally blind, Liberman continues to write and publish children’s books.
Family and Education
Judith Weinshall Liberman was born Judith Esther Weinshall in Haifa, Palestine (now Israel). She is the second child of Dr. Abraham ( ) Weinshall (birth and death), and Zina ( ) Weinshall (née ... ) (birth and death), and the younger sister of Saul () Weinshall (birth and death). Liberman’s father, Dr. Abraham Weinshall owned a law practice in Haifa and was a founding member of the Zionist Revisionist Organization where he worked as a secretary for the Revisionist Zionist Leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Her mother, Zina () Weinshall, was a poet, actress, and playwright, and was a founding member the theatrical group Theatron Eretz Israel (TEI), under the directorship of Menakhem Gnessin of Habimah. Saul Weinshall, Liberman’s older brother, left Haifa in 1947 to study law at Lincoln’s Inn in London but returned home in 1948 to fight for the emerging State of Israel. He died while defending his country in the Arab-Jewish War.
Education While in Haifa, Liberman attended the Reali School and learned to read and write in French and Arabic, and under the tutelage of Professor Yehezkel Kaufmann, studied the history of the Jewish people through daily readings of Old Testament scripture. Liberman graduated with honors from the Reali School in 1946. In August of 1947, at the age of eighteen, she left Haifa to further her education and set sail for America on the Marine Carp, a French-built ocean liner that had been used for military transport during World War II. In the fall of that year, Liberman studied journalism at Syracuse University, and in the latter part of 1947, she moved to North Hollywood and continued her studies at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA). In the spring of 1949, Liberman transferred to the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), where she took a class on international law taught by European legal and political philosopher, Hans Kelsen.
In 1950, upon obtaining her B.A. in Political Science from the UC Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors in Political Science) and at the advice of Kelsen, Liberman transferred to the University of Chicago (U of C), earned an M.A. in Law and moved on the University of Chicago Law School, where on June 11, 1954, she graduated Order of the Coif, first in her class, with a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) degree. In 1955, Liberman studied at the University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law), where she was given the American Law Book Prize and graduated with a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in 1956.
Art Studies Liberman has studied various forms of art at the Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA (drawing and painting), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (painting), Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA (art direction, fiber arts), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, (various mediums), and the DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA (drawing, painting, graphics, sculpture).
Career — Preceding unsigned comment added by George David NH ( talk • contribs) 19:44, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
I would much rather see the above short page than all that unnecessary stuff about what ship she sailed on and how it served in WWII, although I fear what you've shown still doesn't meet our notability criteria. I need you to demonstrate why she is more notable than my mother who was also an artist and a book illustrator, and my shelves at home are filled with her work, but she will never get an article about her as she doesn't meet our notability criteria, WP:NARTIST. (That said, as her heir, I must one day upload one of her art school pictures of a nearly nude Quentin Crisp to Commons!) The better and more in-depth your sources, and the more you can hone in on how her achievements have been reported by others, the more chance the page has of being accepted at Articles for Creation. Only then need you worry about which additional bits of relative trivia to add in. I'm sorry to be blunt in my reply, but am I making sense? Nick Moyes ( talk) 20:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Nick.
That information is incredibly helpful. Thank you. Obviously, I'm new to this but I want to get it right (I don't understand, however, why Wikipedia users wouldn't care about Weinshall's neighbor's dog? :)). Weinshall is well-known throughout the American Jewish art community, and her works are highly regarded, so as I create this page, I will banish everything that's even vaguely irrelevant to that and include only information that verifies and supports her notability in the American and Israeli art world.
I mean it when I say that your help has been invaluable to me, and I appreciate you taking the time to respond and advise. If you were my student, you'd get an A+.
George — Preceding unsigned comment added by George David NH ( talk • contribs) 21:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Again, very helpful information. Thanks. At your advice, I've contacted WP:WOMRED and informed them of the page I'm working on. Also, I'm going to write up a few sentences about myself on my Userpage. George George David NH ( talk) 02:30, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
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my little brother made a nonconstructive edit (logged out, thankfully) I reverted it, but I would like to tell you that if he figures out my password, I want you to notify me immediately please (if there is a random letters and numbers edit its probably him). I know that "my little brother" is a common excuse, but I am telling the truth. Firestar9990 ( talk) 03:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Ok. I get it. I actually was just doing that for fun, not meaning to publish it. I think it has too many details and it's a bit biased. Thanks for letting me know, though. Dani Hart (Talk) 13:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I know you're a busy editor but wanted to check how're you doing ^_^. Time has passed and you're like my inspiration and a look-up editor (I mean an editor to look up to) ^_^. I am proud of myself today, I mediated between two users successfully. And that's great because I am, and I recognise it fully, a coward, because I back off easily when confronted or challenged. I have never stood up for myself and I'm I'm easy to back off ^_^. However, as I said I'm proud of myself today (in the internet world), I am proud of other things in the real world of course, lol. Well, just expanded the text to tell you how I am doing. Hope not to have bothered you at all, :) ^_^. I cherish you ^_^ (with all due respect of course, I don't know if that's a used phrase in English) ^_^. Cheers!. CoryGlee ( talk) 21:16, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Nick. I was gratified to read your response to my comment at AIV. I had been surprised at your original comment, as it did not fit in with my experience of you, and your further comment seemed more in character. However, I was somewhat taken aback by seeing that very soon after an incident where you seemed to be insisting on more warnings before blocking than I thought necessary, you then blocked an editor who had received no warnings at all. (IP 2001:569:73F2:DA00:41D1:FF7C:3180:425F) JBW ( talk) 21:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Just one more comment. I've now looked at your RfA. 180:3 - pretty impressive! Puts me to shame: I got both far fewer supports and more opposes. JBW ( talk) 23:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. I just wanted to let you know how impressed I was with your recent video, File:Easy Referencing for Beginners.webm. It's clear and couldn't be simpler. I know you added it on WP:ERB but I think you should replace the current video at Help:Referencing for beginners#RefToolbar and WP:INTREF3 with your video. The old one is bad quality and complicated - yours would be a much needed update. Hillelfrei talk 04:56, 21 May 2020 (UTC)