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Revision as of 15:19, 21 June 2006

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Hello, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) will produce your name and the current date. You should always sign talk pages, but not articles. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Ann Heneghan 17:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Ann, Noon 17:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Warning!

Do not remove text without a discussion. This might be considered as a vandalism. --Haham hanuka 15:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Hamaham hanuka, having such a "wonderful" record at Misplaced Pages with respect to almost all its rules, I would not warn other users about vandalism. You are indefintely banned from using Misplaced Pages in your mother tongue and also here are as frequently allowed to contribute as not. gidonb 16:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

Noon, welcome to the English language Misplaced Pages by the way. ברוך הבא! gidonb 10:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Gidonb, and ברוכים הנמצאים.

I'd prefer not to respond at all to HH message. In any case he got what he deserved as he was blocked. Noon 17:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Noon. You are right that Hama hanuka is not worth the trouble, but I think you are. I responded because it seems sad that a user page should start with such nonsense. For those who do not know him such messages may have an impact. For example, in the recent past a rather aggressive administrator abused Haham hanuka's actions for a personal yet unfounded attack on me. As Hamam hanuka does so much damage and so little good for en.wikipedia, I think we would do good to follow suit with the Hebrew Misplaced Pages and lay him off. Enough is enough. gidonb 19:02, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Gidon. I of course agree with you. We should check very carefully each and every so called HH's "contribution". Noon 20:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Jew/Jews

Do you have a source in German for that Hitler quote? I've seen it both "Jew" and "Jews", of course. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 21:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

No, but I've checked the sites where "jews" is quoted and most of them are mirrors or quotes from WP article, whereas the sites where "jew" is quoted look historically more accurate. Noon 21:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm. Do we have any sources for the quote? I'm surprised that I didn't find anything relevant at Nizkor.org. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 22:03, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Please refrain from making personal attacks on other users.

Please do not make personal attacks on other people. Misplaced Pages has a policy against personal attacks. In some cases, users who engage in personal attacks may be blocked from editing by admins or banned by the arbitration committee. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Please resolve disputes appropriately. Thank you. (calling all editors that vote differently than you on an AfD nomination "meatpuppets" or "sockpuppets" is a clear ad hominem personal attack). --Col. Hauler 10:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Please refer to Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sock_puppets/Israelbeach; at least four of the "keep" voters are included in this list. I'd expect that you'll restore my comment in the AfD, or delete the above list of suspected sockpuppets. Thanks, Noon 10:42, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

That page has very little validity, as it was set up by the guy he was arguing with, Woggly (talk · contribs), mainly it seems out of a desire for revenge. See http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Suspected_sock_puppets/Israelbeach?action=history - Most have no or very little evidence that they are "sockpuppets". As I said there, it's pretty damn bad form to say that new users are automatically sockpuppets just because you don't agree with their views or their vote.

Please bear in mind WP:AGF, Misplaced Pages:Please don't bite the newcomers and innocent until proven guilty (which seems to be the basis of WP:AGF).--Col. Hauler 13:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

To attribute false "personal attack" to another contributor is by itself a personal attack. Most users in the Misplaced Pages:Suspected_sock_puppets/Israelbeach page were indefinitely blocked as they were identified as puppets of Israelbeach. Are you suggesting that the blocking admins should be blocked as well for personal attack? You've shown a very bad conduct by editing my vote in the AfD page. Please don't do that again. Noon 14:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

"Last Warning"

Stop vandalising articles, I consider what you are doing trolling, if you don't want to be banned stop it now. --Haham hanuka 18:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

The article Tiffany Holiday has been created by the "Warner" and speedied by others for nn already more than once in the past. Noon pointed out that these deletions have been challenged by the above "Warner" and have been specifically endorsed by the Misplaced Pages community ? Next he just creates it again and above all has the cheek to issue a "last warning" to the person addressing the trolling! How much more can one ridicule one's community? The "Warner" has undone several other Misplaced Pages community decisions in a similar manner. Noon deserves recognition for his alertness in implementing our community decisions, definitely not a warning. gidonb 21:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

שניכם משתפים פעולה באופן מאוד מחשיד, אתם עוקבים אחר התרומות שלי והורסים אותן. אני מקווה שתפסיקו עם זה. בנוגע ליגאל עמיר העברתי את זה לויקיציטוט ואתם מתבקשים לא להכניס לשם את דעותיכם האישיות. --Haham hanuka 10:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I've written this not in order to offence someone. I'm sorry if you missunderstood me. --Haham hanuka 14:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yitzhak Katzenelson

Thanks so much for performing the name change I suggested in the article's discussion (talk) page (and here I was tardy in citing Yiddish language sources for this version; I even scrutinized his signature in a facsimile text edition of "Dos lid..." but without much success, though the GFH Press spells his name this way in a Yiddish edition of his works. Anyway, as I remain totally daunted by the Rename/Move instructions, you've done us a service here. א שיינעם דאנק, -- Deborahjay 22:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Deborah, thanks. All you have to do in order to change the name of an article is - clicking the "move" tab, write the new name and press the "move page" button to execute the move. Its good also to check the links to the previous name and correct them to avoid redundant redirections. -- Noon 14:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

If you say so... what scared me off was my confusion with what I'd read about the difference between Rename and Move in a case like this where the article's already undergone at least one name change. I also still have to read about Redirect and already have cases in which to apply this. Thanks for the advice! -- Deborahjay 15:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

If you think the new name is the correct one - simply do the "move"... thats the philosophy of Misplaced Pages. If you're wrong, there will always be someone to correct (or reverse) you. So Be Bold in your edits... it pays :-) -- Noon 14:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, dear -- after 23+ expat years, I'm still such a timid Anglosaxonne :-o
No, really, it has to do with my being a cautious, scrupulous writer on Holocaust material for the Web readership, and the Misplaced Pages milieu is still quite new and somewhat strange to me. But I'm making progress; encouragement such as yours really does help :-) -- Deborahjay 15:19, 21 June 2006 (UTC)