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Haftom Zarhum

I never knew about the lynching of Zarhum until the AfD. After reviewing sources, I see this is treated as a separate event, highlighting the issue of racism. I will create an article on the incident in due time. Thanks for bringing it up at the discussion.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 21:43, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

User:TheGracefulSlick: well, as I said: There were some extremely ugly pictures surfacing (I think it was the Electronic Intifada that made a detailed analysis as to how many people beat him as he was lying on the floor, unmoving, bleeding to death.) I don't think we should have 2 articles about the event, but Beersheva bus station shooting should definitely be moved to Lynching of Haftom Zarhum (or something similar) (and then expanded). It is the deliberate lynching of an innocent man which is notable about the event, IMO, Huldra (talk) 21:58, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

In an encyclopedia where decisions were based on policies, not POV, that would be the move with the most popularity. The discussion, however, is not making me optimistic since Zarhum’s beating is being described as a “trivial” part of the shooting. We may just have to make due with another article.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 22:24, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

You are possibly correct. At least 9 passersby abused Zarhum (according to Haaretz) while he was dying, only 4 got (ridiculously lenient) "sentences". It is like the Deep South of the US, a hundred years ago, Huldra (talk) 22:32, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Terribly disturbing to watch; I even read the actual perpetrator resumed shooting at one point, and they still continued to beat him. Anyways, I will let you know when it is complete in case you want to add anything to it.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:20, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Note to self

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Happy Holidays

Best wishes for this holiday season! Thank you for your Wiki contributions in 2018. May 2019 be prosperous and joyful. --K.e.coffman (talk) 00:53, 22 December 2018 (UTC) Noël ~ καλά Χριστούγεννα ~ З Калядамі ~ Gott nytt år!

User:K.e.coffman thanks, and same to you! Huldra (talk) 21:53, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Hunin you included material moved from Margaliot. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you moved the prose rather than wrote it yourself. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying within Wikipedia in the future. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:08, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I noted it in the Margaliot article that I would move it to Hunin (link), then inadvertedly did not mention where it had been moved from in the Hunin article (link), Huldra (talk) 20:09, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

WP:ARBPIA violation

Please revert your latest edit to Lifta, which is a violation of WP:ARBPIA3. Debresser (talk) 22:30, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

As to your argument: the article is clear enough that the population was evacuated. Of course the decision to evacuate was because of the military situation. Debresser (talk) 22:31, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

User:Debresser AFAIK, there is no violation on my part. My latest edits to Lifta was more than 24 hours apart,

Also, discussion about Lifta should go on the talk page of that article, (for the benefit of other interested) Huldra (talk) 22:34, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

You might have informed me simply that WP:ARBPIA3 has been annulled here. Debresser (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, don't expect me to do your homework for you, (and I don't keep a list of where to link to) Huldra (talk) 00:06, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Huldra!

Happy New Year!

Huldra,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thanks! A Happy New Year to you, too! Huldra (talk) 22:44, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

AN discussion

Hi. I’m interested in your comment here. Could you explain which of the edits offered as evidence are not problematic, and why? In the alternative, would you be willing to mentor this user and help them avoid further trouble. You seem to be a competent editor with long experience. I appreciate your efforts to improve articles in a hotly contested area. Jehochman ^Talk 03:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

User:Jehochman, I do not know the truth about the White Helmets; perhaps they are heroes, perhaps they are villains, perhaps they are a mix of both. But I do believe that “truth” is the first casualty of virtually any war, especially in the Middle East. Therefor we should proceed with great caution, and never bombastically conclude that one side is right...before we have all the evidence.

I remember vividly listening to Nayirah testimony back in 1990 (yeah, I’m that old!!) ......not believing a single word of it, even when President Bush repeated it (ordinary nurses in the Middle East simply did not speak English that fluently back then, as anyone with any knowledge of the area knew: there had to be more to the story than what was published. Which indeed it was.)

And the Nayirah story was peanuts compared to the lies we were told during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. If you only read/listen to US news, then you will miss much. I recall after Colin Powell's presentation to the UN, some local papers in Europe said straight out that what he was saying wasn't true, while every single US paper (which I saw) were gushing over about how convincing he had been. And remember the Niger uranium forgeries? Where they used the name of a Niger minister ...who hadn't been in office for 10 years? Lol, still president Bush used it...

These last 30 years have showed us that our Western Government lie, lie, and lie again about the Middle East (link) (and before you accuse me of being Kremlin stooge, or "married to an Arab", or a "Palestinian Muslim", as other editors here have......I'm born and raised, and still live in a NATO country, coming from pure WASP background. It was because I was totally misinformed about the Middle East when I grew up (virtually nothing of what I was taught turned out to be true) ...that I now add to the history of the Middle East.)

To return to the White Helmets: we have virtually no independent coverage of areas where they operated. To quote Peter Hitchens:

"The FO is in a mess over this. It has for years been backing the Islamist rebels against the Syrian government, a policy which involves supporting exactly the sort of people we would arrest if we found them in Birmingham.

Perhaps that is why it claims the ‘White Helmets’ are ‘volunteers’ (they are often paid) and that they have ‘saved over 115,000 lives during the Syrian conflict’ and done ‘brave and selfless work’ to ‘save Syrians on all sides of the conflict.’

When I asked them to provide independent, checkable evidence for these assertions, they came up empty after three days of searching.

This is not surprising, as the ‘White Helmets’ generally operate only in areas controlled by unlovely bodies such as the Al-Nusra Front, until recently an affiliate of Al Qaeda, and the equally charming Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam), famous for putting captured Syrian Army soldiers in cages and using them as human shields.

Independent Western observers, whether they are diplomats or journalists, can’t really go to these zones, because they are quite likely to end up very dead and probably headless." (in Are we saving Syrian 'heroes'... or just importing more fanatics?, 29 July 2018),

So frankly, I don't find Kiwicherryblossom inserting "alleged" into, say Douma chemical attack inappropriate...when the OPCW has not yet finally concluded that there ever was a chemical attack (all the other sources used are of the same quality that "proved" to the world that Saddam Hussein had WMD in 2003...).

Frankly, I think the Syrian War articles are the worst shit-hole on Wikipedia (to use Trumph's language). Articles like Eva Bartlett, White Helmets, all the "chemical attacks" articles (where there is no independent confirmation that it ever even was a chemical attacks) are all totally one sided....anyone who has tried to better the situation over the last year or two have gotten topic banned. There is a varied group of people (I recognise some from the old Eastern European Mailing List affair...no love lost for the Russians there) who have had iron control over these articles for years. IOW: I think the wrong person got topic banned (yet again). I try not to get involved (Would you like to dive into a shit-hole? Nah, me neither), Huldra (talk) 22:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

My earliest political memories are Watergate and Vietnam. I’ve been around long enough to witness all kinds of official lying. They say news is the rough draft of history. We’re always going to have difficulty covering contentious current events. One strategy is to push for good or featured article status. That can bring in some neutral, quality conscious editors. Jehochman ^Talk 00:19, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Well, my first demo (when I was about 18, or 19) was against the Vietnam war ("USA out of Vietnam!"); I first got interested in the Middle East politics in the 1980s.

The problem with the Syrian articles, as I said, are an assorted group who "owns" them. They have been very, very good at getting topic banned any editor who doesn't agree with them. I tried to get Robert Fisk into an article (see Talk:Douma_chemical_attack/Archive_4)...but since editors who close RfC do look at numbers, Fisk was excluded(!). (My RL friends lost the last bit of respect for WP over that one, when I told them.) Pushing for good or featured article status under such circumstances is totally futile, IMO. (If you want to "survive" in hotly contested areas on wp, you need to know which "edit wars" to walk away from.)

I don't know why it is like this, if it is plain stupidity ("Our government is right!"), or other more nefarious reasons. (But we do know that, say, the British have spend a lot of money on so-called info wars)

Kiwicherryblossom (KCB) is a case in point, they makes a robust defence for using "alleged" here...if anything, those who reverted KCB should have been topic banned. Until that happens, these article will remain the "shit-hole of Wikipedia", Huldra (talk) 22:59, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Numerous articles in RS talk about the douma chemical attack [1]. The introduction says there is an interim report, and one waits. There are other reports, such as the look at the 'incident' in the New York Times, so it isn't like nothing can be written until the OPCW speak again. The introduction is not , censored, misleads not at all. You see a shit hole but perhaps thats in the eye of the beholder. Dan the Plumber (talk) 23:44, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

The "Numerous articles in RS" typically come from the very same sources who produced "Numerous articles in RS" "proving" that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, tried to buy uranium from Niger, etc, etc.

Been there, seen that. Huldra (talk) 23:50, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

If you've been there , seen that, you must be wary of propaganda, in the widest sense then. Great. WMD , yes, and Katyn Massacre, yes , that too. Propagandists everywhere. Dan the Plumber (talk) 23:55, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know a thing about the Katyn Massacre (never said I did), (or much about Eastern Europe, in general). (But yeah, I have been to Syria,) Huldra (talk) 00:01, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

OPCW have been to Syria too. They found sarin with regime signature. To just scream 'But IRAQ Iraq WMD WMd' every time the Assad-Putin regime are caught using CW seems pretty hopeless. You are really on a fringe that wants to implicate the OPCW, and the vast mass of evidence against the Assad regime as all part of a huge conspiracy or something. Its hopeless arguing with true believers though. You support your side whatever. I get itDan the Plumber (talk) 16:52, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Huh???? It is precisely because I am not a "true believer" about just about anything, that I would want articles to keeps possibilities open. You don't. I get it.

There is also evidence supporting Assads claims, but all such evidence (say, Robert Fisk) has conveniently been found not WP:RS.

And OPCW never found sarin, at least not at the Douma chemical attack. They found various chlorinate chemicals, (which they would also have found beneath my kitchen sink). Huldra (talk) 22:06, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

The regime however has been found to have used sarin. Which you wouldn't find beneath your kitchen sink. So what you find at your house , and what the Assad regime uses against civilians, are not the same thing whatever your sarcastic rhetoric is meant to convey. I know they found sarin was not used at Douma. The article says that. If Fisk has hard evidence that supports Assad regime narrative at Douma , well you should certainly fight for the inclusion of that information at the article. I really doubt Fisk had any such thing, but fight for that in the article. If he has hard evidence that supports Assad regime denials of their doing anything nefarious at Douma that should be in the article. After the regime is in control of Douma Fisk says 'my earnest questions about gas were met with what seemed genuine perplexity.' Huh????( I think he is a fucking cretin. He doesn't think maybe they are afraid to talk? If his story about the doctor saying they all died of hypoxia isn't anywhere in the article thats maybe an omission. His story is part of the story of the way the attack was reported at least. I think his reflex is always to absolve the regime , I believe he knee jerk decided they didn't use sarin at Ghouta etc? He's obviously got his admirers, including your anonymous journalistic mate one gathers. Well, there we are. (Says he talked to a doctor with a story about how they died who by 'his own admission wasn't an eyewitness'. Seems legit. Fight for this essential information to be included. (You'd mock an article that presented this level of 'evidence' if it were presented by a journalist to push a story that implicate the regime. Be fair, you'd take a story like to the fucking cleaners if the wrong side presented such a story. Instead you call it massively important. Huh??? I'll leave your talk page alone now. We just very different sorts of editors and humans. ) Dan the Plumber (talk) 23:08, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

• Please link to where it has been proven that the Syrian regime has used Sarin. (That might be true, I frankly do not know). However, what remains is that OPCW did not find any traces of Sarin at the Douma chemical attack site. What also remains is that US officials used the use of "chemical attack" as an excuse for the 2018 missile strikes against Syria....even though (so far) no proof of any such chemical attack exist.
• As for censorship: an unemployed ex–finance guy named Eliot Higgins is found to be a WP:RS everywhere on wp...while Robert Fisk is not. LOL! And I did fight to include Fisk's visit to Douma (See Talk:Douma_chemical_attack/Archive_4) ..and lost. Fisk talked to about 20 people (including 1 doctor), without "minders', while Seth Doane spoke to far fewer (AFAIK), still Seth Doane (and Eliot Higgins) are considered RS for the Douma chemical attack article, while Fisk is not. This is censorship, pure and simple, and one reason why this article (and virtually all the rest of the Syrian war articles) really, truly are the "shit-hole of Wikipedia." Huldra (talk) 23:48, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

i don't know but , if you're right about this, how it regards Higgins work as against Fisk, it makes me feel like maybe wikipedia isn't so bad. Dan the Plumber (talk) 23:51, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Sigh, "You can lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink", Huldra (talk) 23:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

OPCW on evidence found at Khan Sheikhoun, you know material evidence, (not some vile hack talking to 20 people in a regime controlled area where saying the wrong thing can lead to torture and death [2] etc like Fisk does)

OPCW FFM : “The samples from Khan Shaykhun contain the three types of marker chemicals described above: PF6 [HFP], isopropyl phosphates and isopropyl phosphorofluoridates. Their presence is a strong indicator that the sarin disseminated in Khan Shaykhun was produced from DF from the Syrian Arab Republic stockpile.” Sigh , you're a true believer and you'll just keep denigrating people like Higgins, who look at evidence, and whose work has proven itself over time to be consistent with OPCW findings, and you'll venerate Fisk who conducts interviews with citizens in regime hands having been escorted into the area by his masters. Same at Ghouta, OPCW found the sarin came from the Syrian regime stockpile. You are a conspiracist. The shithole is in your eyes. Dan the Plumber (talk) 16:03, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

I haven't editing the Khan Shaykhun article, but LOL: do you honestly think people had freedom under Jaysh al-Islam???? (They were the ones who were in control over Douma, at the time of the Douma chemical attack). If I had lived in one of their controlled areas, I would probably have ended up one head shorter. Literally. (Being female, and a feminist.)

As to your assertion that Fisk only talked to people under government control.....well, so did Seth Doane, so why is one considered RS, while the other not? It is this double standard which makes the article a shit−hole. (And I would be grateful if you stopped personalising the discussion all the time), Huldra (talk) 23:36, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

i thought the point at issue was whether the OPCW had implicated the regime in chemical weapons attacks , and then you write 'do you think people had freedom under Jaysh al islam'. What the fuck has that to do with whether the regime carried out sarin attacks and the OPCW found evidence, you know hard , chemistry, physics, type evidence, that the regime carried out the attacks. Typical 'divert, dismay, distract' response. Pointless discussing anything with true believers. If you're a feminist the fate of the woman here should concern you.[3] 'Rehab Allawi... The girl from the city Mouhassan in the Deir ez-Zor countryside, was arrested on January 16, 2013. She was a civil activist working in relief, and was a third year civil engineering student at the University of Damascus. "They charged her a fabricated charge of kidnapping an officer, in addition to the financing of terrorist groups. She was transferred to a court martial. On her last day in the cell, Rehab dreamt of wearing a white bridal dress; which increased her hope of obtaining freedom. However, she was called at midnight; which is strange for a woman to be called for interrogation at such a time inside [Security] Branch 215."

Rehab Mohammed Alawi... Killed by the Syrian regime under torture in its prisons.'

It isn't only Jaish al islam who murder women and children. You know the regime and Russia and Iran have killed far , far, far more civilians than Nusra , IS, etc. Two wrongs don't make a right, but if killing women is your measure, Assadists win by a fucking country mile. Dan the Plumber (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Two things:

• first, the OPCW has found no evidence of a chemical attack at Douma..and wp uses a double standard evaluating sources, accepting those sources which support the "official" Western perspective (like Seth Doane), while dismissing those who dont (like Robert Fisk), even when the information was collected under the same circumstances.
• secondly, I have no illusions about the Assad regime (read, say, Aref Dalila), but there is a HUGE difference between the Assad regime and Jaysh al-Islam: the Assad regime would target you for what you have done (or what they think you have done), Jaysh al-Islam would target you for who you are.

...And I have lived under Assad! Lol, just for a month, and as a tourist some 15−20 years ago, but I felt perfectly safe...visiting Palmyra, Krak des Chevaliers, Apamea, etc, etc. ....But I would not survive a single day under Jaysh al-Islam (A secular, non−Muslim female, who refuse to cover her hair? No way.) ...I have followed various blogs, and twitter users for this last 15−20 years in the Middle East, and what amazes me is the strong support Assad (and Hizbollah!) have gotten these last 5−10 years from the Christians in the area. Read what Nassim Nicholas Taleb (a Christian from Lebanon) writes here: "The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict" Or read this: Meeting Middle East Christians is where Western stereotypes go to die...where local Christians claim that 100percent of the Syrian Christians would vote for Assad, if there were free and fair elections in Syria.

That Christian in the Middle East support Assad is one thing which simply isn't reported in the West at all. ('Support' is perhaps a bit strong, but like Taleb: they much prefer Assad to the alternative). Doesn't that make you think? Huldra (talk) 23:57, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

This is all travelling a long way out from the fact that you refuse to accept evidence that Assad regime used sarin against civilians as they slept at Ghouta, and have been found to have used it at Khan Sheikhoun and CW multiple times. Douma , there is an interim report, and anyone reading the wp article will not be made to think there was a sarin attack there. It just fucking does not say that. meanwhile multiple RS talk of a chemical attack. You might think your cuddly secular ever so tolerant to bourgeois tourist would never use CW, but RS and much evidence, says otherwise. Taleb is a notorious propagandist for Assad and from what Ive seen of him on twitter an out and out crank. Whether Christians ( and their putative founder was into loving ones enemy, turning the other cheek etc , so you know, how 'Christian ' are the Christians), feel happy to turn blind eyes about CW is for them to decide. You are demonising a whole section of Syrian citizenry as 'head choppers' and exonerating amass murderer , whose regimes rule has been enforced by the ever so tolerant Iranian IRGC, ( you think as a woman you'd have an easy time in Iran), and the Putin regime. Millions are in exile. Millions. They are all head choppers and have had the wrong thoughts? At this moment 'Syria’s football team is currently playing Australia’s in the #AsianCup2019. Missing from the pitch are 15 footballers the Assad regime has murdered for defying it and seven players it is holding in detention.' You and I will have to agree to differ. If you and your 'ideas' and your pov take control of all Syria related articles then indeed, imho, it would be a shithole of all shitholes. Dan the Plumber (talk) 18:34, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

The fact remains that the US bombed Syria, after claiming that Douma chemical attack was a chemical attack, something for which they had exactly 0 proof.

As for Nassim Nicholas Taleb not being representative: I am not so sure. I have followed Middle East sources (blogs, twitter) for 15−20 years now, and what absolutely amazes me, is the increase in support these last 5−10 years for Assad and Hizbollah among Christians. (Take a look at youtube for some of the live performances of Julia Boutros: some have English subtitles for her praise of Hizbollah). Especially after they retook Maaloula (FYI: Maaloula has a very special place in Christianity in the Middle East, with monasteries dating back 1500 years. They were NOT well treated, when they were under rebel command.) But the Christian support for Assad/Hizbollah is something which simply isn't reported in the West. (Did you read this article, at all?)

Personally, I don't think we are dealing with one white, and one black side in this war. More like various degrees of blackness. But I refuse to support a side which would gladly cut of my head. And I suspect yours, too. I suspect that if we two would live under, say Jaysh al-Islam, we would end up as Raed Fares, Samira Khalil, Razan Zaitouneh, and many, many others: all dead or missing (presumes dead), from Western backed rebel territory, Huldra (talk) 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Is there overwhelming evidence that the Assad regime has repeatedly used CW? Is there overwhelming evidence OPCW verified, that the regime sarin gassed children as they slept. Yes, or no? Zaitouneh and Fares, who represent[ed] every kind of intellectual honesty and courage were enemies of the kind of moral and intellectual abdication that Assadism and its supporters represent I would think. Dan the Plumber (talk) 22:46, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

To your first question: frankly, I have no idea, I have not studied all the attacks, I have only looked into the Douma chemical attack. As for Fares and Zaitouneh representing the opposition to Assad: most definitely. That was why they were in "rebel" territory. Alas, they were still killed.

Btw, you are, so, so wrong when you think only "out and out cranks" among the Christians in the area support Hizbollah/Assad. Here is Julia Boutros in 2016, singing 'Ahibaii' to an extatic audience in Dbayeh (in the Christian heartland of Lebanon) ('Ahibaii' is the letter Hassan Nasrallah sent his Hizbollah fighters in 2006; put into music by Boutros. Still popular. Here is a 2013 performance, with English subtitles (Starts at 3:40)) Not many hijabs among the audience, still they all seem to know the text by heart. Perhaps, because they have learned that the alternative is ending up like Fares and Zaitouneh. (Btw, AFAIK, there were no Christian services while Maaloula was under rebel command, And this: girls and boys dancing dabke together at the feast of Saint Thecla, autumn 2018; would most surely have cost you your life when Maaloula was under rebel command.) Huldra (talk) 23:33, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

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Community settlements

Please stop removing Category:Community settlements (Israel) from Israeli settlement articles. It is not an "in Israel" category, it simply has "Israel" in the title as it matches Community settlement (Israel), a specific type of village like a kibbutz or a moshav. The category was moved from its original title of Category:Community settlements in Israel as a result of this discussion specifically to avoid the "in Israel" claim. The category text also explicitly says that it contains villages in both Israel and the West Bank. Thanks, Number 57 10:49, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but that title is misleading, as is Community settlement (Israel). It should be moved, either to Community settlement, or to Community settlement (Israel and the occupied territories). What do you suggest? Huldra (talk) 20:26, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

I completely disagree that it's misleading; a community settlement is an Israeli concept and that's what the "(Israel)" represents. Adding "and the occupied territories" would just be a point-scoring exercise.

Nevertheless, I have always favoured the article being at "Community settlement" as it's the primary topic and the redirect goes to the Israel article. Start an WP:RM with that suggestion and I will support it. If the RM closes in favour, the category can be moved as well via the speedy process. Number 57 20:42, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Obviously it is misleading, as I was mislead! However, I agree with you about the name, not because your argument, but because Community settlement is a heck of lot easier name to remember than Community settlement (Israel and the occupied territories). I will start a WP:RM, Huldra (talk) 20:47, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Tel Yokneam (i.e. Tel Qamun)

I've been working more on the Tel Yokneam article (which was created out of the Qamun article, that other part of Qira and Qamun). Since my understanding of this place changed several times after finding new and better sources, I may have removed a few sources from the 19th century. Could you run a small check in your sources to see if there are more sources about this site? Currently there are two sources, one by Robinson and one by Van de Velde. On another note, let me know if you are working on something interesting you might need some Hebrew sources for.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 14:25, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Sigh, this is when I really miss Tiamut: she is much, much better than me on this "seriously old stuff". I'll add the bits and pieces I can find, Huldra (talk) 22:07, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

@Bolter21: There is also Guerin, Samarie II, 241–244 (pardon my French). And Le Strange, p473 (Kaimun). That article is looking very nice, a definite FA prospect. Zero^talk 03:20, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Can you link?--Bolter21 (talk to me) 07:48, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

User talk:Bolter21 There are some sources at jstor [4] and google scholar[5] did you check them all? --Shrike (talk) 08:22, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Have something about Tel Qashish? Probably Tell Qasis in your sources.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

User:Bolter21: Not much. It looks as if it is "Tell el Kussis" on SWP map 5, that is SWP I, p. 352, Palmer, 1881, p. 117: "the mound of the (Christian) priest", Huldra (talk) 20:24, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

See also:

• Zuckerman, S. 1996. The Pottery of Tel Kasis and Jezreel Valley in the Early Bronze Age. (M.A. Thesis, Hebrew University). Jerusalem. (Hebrew with English Summary).
• Wilson, Charles Williams, ed. (c. 1881). Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help) (pp. 93 107)

HHmm, that's unfortunate. Thanks anyways.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:27, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

To editor Bolter21: I have the final excavation report: Amnon Ben-Tor, Ruhama Bonfil, Sharon Zuckerman. Qedem Reports, Vol. 5, TEL QASHISH: A VILLAGE IN THE JEZREEL VALLEY—Final Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978–1987) (2003), pp. I-XLIV, 1-451. It will overlap with what you have but if you want it and can't easily get it, send me mail. Zero^[[User_talk

Zero0000|talk]] 01:58, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

I also have it through JSTOR. Thanks anyways.Bolter21 (talk to me) 15:10, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Bassel al-Araj

Please note that on Talk:Bassel al-Araj there is a template warning editors to apply a maximum of one revert per 24 hour period. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antiallesaktion (talk • contribs) 03:06, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Yes, User:Antiallesaktion, but 1RR doesn't count when we revert those who shouldn't have edited the article at all. Such as yourself, Huldra (talk) 20:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Mamluk Jerusalem

• NB: all need the Arab script for their names:
• User:Huldra/Mamluk Jerusalem, with
• 5 User:Huldra/Ribat al-Mansuri

الرباط المنصوري

• 8 User:Huldra/Madrasa al-Dawadariyya

المدرسة الدوادارية

• 18 User:Huldra/Al-Tankiziyya (has article in he.wp and ar.wp)

التنكزية

• 25 User:Huldra/Al-Sallamiyya

السلامية

• 28 User:Huldra/Turkan Khatun

تركان خاتون

• 29 User:Huldra/Al-Kilaniyya

الكيلانية

• 31 User:Huldra/Al-Khatuniyya

الخاتونية

• 32 User:Huldra/Al-Arghuniyya

الأرغونية

• 35 User:Huldra/Al-Manjakiyya

• 48 User:Huldra/Tunshuk Palace

دار الست طنشق

• 57 User:Huldra/Al-'Uthmaniyya

• 61 User:Huldra/Ribat al−Zamani

unclear

• 62 User:Huldra/Al-Muzhiriyya

المزهيرية

• 63 User:Huldra/Madrasah al-Ashrafiyya

المدرسة الأشرفية

User:Makeandtoss shukran! Huldra (talk) 20:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Re the effing

Sorry, Huldra, but I will make no such undertaking, on principle. Because to do so would be to subscribe to a mistaken interpretation of the terms contested. There are deeper reasons. The 'eff' word was first used in my upbringing by my mother, and it had absolutely nothing to do with sexual intercourse or defamation of her sex. To the contrary she was extremely careful to use proper language, and on the occasion she first used it, it fitted the circumstances to a tee:'Oh fuck!' when missing the slops bucket with some greasy dinner residue. Realizing we were present and had laughed out loud in surprise, she turned and threw us a broad beaming smile. A religious person once asked me not to use the remonstrative 'For Chrissake!', esp. since one could relieve one's exasperation with a term lacking any blasphemous connotation, i.e. 'for eff's sake'. Any suggestion that one legislate on language use, or internalize monitors to act as semantic sentinels for any infraction of 'politically correct' or 'proper usage' gets my hackles to rise. For 'eff's sake' has no more sexual innuendo than does 'Uh, cazzo!' (Oh, cock(up)! damn it) occasionally used by my otherwise linguistically purist wife, or putain (prostitute) you'll hear any French person of either sex utter when we might say 'oh,crap'. You'll hear women say 'je m'en fous' (I don't give a fuck) without any awareness that sexual sensitivities are at stake.

I know the netscape's chockablock with foul-mouthed morons with a limited vocabulary, mostly expletive. I also know Wikipedia's prim code, though intended to combat personal invective, actually functions as a tripwire to get rid of editors, on the flimsiest grounds, whom one dislikes. In childhood, if an oversensitive kid weeps or whinges at being hurt by some attitude, pedagogically a teacher's best practice is to feign taking his or her complaint seriously, and then slowly talk them through it, so the child can slowly be reasoned out of what might otherwise strike a teacher as a wimpish tendency leading to a sense of victimhood if flatteringly endorsed. The funny thing about Wikipedia is that it is an adult world which imitates this praxis: one must show sympathy for the apparently aggrieved person's outrage at being the ostensible object of an attack, rather than reason, as adults should, by saying, if the grievance appears to be pretextual, that the claim is ungrounded, and ungrounded claims about other people are frowned on, that Wikipedia is not a place for gaming the odds by continually pettifogging whining in the hope someone you dislike will be 'disappeared'. Everyone knows this, but one can't call a spade a spade. Fine, that's how bureaucracies work. Sometimes, a stern 'pull your finger out' or 'stop wasting time on trivial pursuits', however, would save us massive quires/choirs of endless nagging disputatiousness at forums, esp. when the overarching evidence is that the disputants don't spend much time actually reading encyclopedic matter, editing it in, and building articles. They tweak, revert, and waste swathes of time using talk pages as a social forum to get people onside POV-wise or kill time because they don't have a serious life off-line.

Lastly, for a short period, I tried to imitate the favoured neutered style which is one of the primrose paths to a distinguished wiki life, with disastrous effects on my natural turn of mind. To save my feel for language, I had to chuck the mimicry ('fuck it' in short). I've used that expression perhaps a half a dozen times over 13 years, at times as a personal safety valve to express exasperation, not to 'bully', and will continue, I expect, if I stay in here, to allow myself the liberty to use it. If that is not acceptable, well, 'stiff shit', sorry 'stiff cheddar', or as a Swiss lad once whispered to me, when I asked him to teach me some solid German expletives, Das ist Käse! the strongest term in his vocabulary for expressing the idea of being 'pissed off'. I felt sorry for him. Now, back to Aristophanes. His delightfully inventive foulmouthedness targeted Socrates, who wasn't offended. Plato paints a wonderful picture of their friendship in the Symposium. I need literature to remind me of how grown-ups were once before the gamesmanship of grievance trumpeting took over the world. Best regards Nishidani (talk) 10:29, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

@Nishidani: I am not particularly offended by foul language and there are certain contexts where I will use it; nonetheless, situations where I will use it on Wikipedia are extremely rare [1] because we are supposed to work collegialy and I really struggle to think of a situation where swearing at someone will help to make the atmosphere more collegial and not less. If you are getting to the point where you need to express your frustration in that way, then either that person is editing tendentiously or you have too low a trigger for frustration with people you disagree with. In the latter case, you have some maturing to do. In the former, it will be much easier for you to get admin action against tendentious editing if you're not seen to be inflaming the situation with your language.

[1] I realise that one of these was only a few days ago, though I was quoting another editor. GoldenRing (talk) 10:42, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps the worst example of the mechanism/bureaucracy that our old friend expounds above is the fake and contrived attempt to paint Corbyn as anti-Semitic. I know from personal experience how peace activists operate, so I can be 100% certain that there isn't an anti-Semitic bone in Corbyn's body; that knowledge is strengthened by Corbyn's exemplary record over decades of activism against racism, including anti-Semitism. He's about as far as you can possibly get from real, horrifying anti-Semitism. which is a hatred of Jews merely because they are Jews, a hatred so intense that it can lead, in the extreme case, to genocide. --NSH001 (talk) 12:10, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I can't let this comment stand without responding. It's apparent you have a bias. Your page makes it clear that you think Fisk and Finkelstein are worthy of opinions to share, but this is going too far. When 85% of British Jews and when the British Chief Rabbi makes a speech in the House of Lords, perhaps it's time to stop ignoring the situation. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 12:41, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

and not even a week later and this is leaked: [6] Sir Joseph ^(talk) 23:18, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

GoldenRing. I would question whether the exclamative 'for fuck's sake' is 'foul language.' I'm known, even by those who militate to get me off Wikipedia, to be extremely particular about fine language distinctions. I never swore at the editor in question. Please note:-

• (a) Come on, for fuck's sake. Logic please. By no stretch can that be taken as swearing at a person. The exclamative or remonstrative idiom is reflexive, expressing the state of mind or frustration by the person who uses it.'Google books clearly shows that. Expressing frustration is not forbidden by the rules, attacking people is. I'm not telling Debresser to get 'fucked' or 'fuck off'. I am telling him the lack of logic in his edit is frustrating and to try and edit logically.

What Debresser was pleading for is a ban on my use of fuck in any form. Admins can't be expected to have a memory for all the detailed history of interactions and edits. But those who work in this area do. He asked that I be 'outcasted' from Wikipedia for this usage.

What's his own practice? To say 'fuck' when it suits him as with his recent dispute with Huldra, and, after it was pointed out that what he finds unacceptable in myself is something he himself arrogates as a right he replies that in his unique case he was being humorous.

I.e. in this peculiar logic, I should be permabanned for using a word the plaintiff allows himself to use remonstratively with another editor. The Talmud covers everything, even this. At Kiddushin 70, we have the phrase: kol haposel bemumo hu posel), usually translated as a case of the pot calling the kettle black, (alternatively see Reuven Agushevits, Principles of Philosophy,' KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2008 p.52

As to your point about collegiality, I’d be the first to underwrite it as both principle and practice. In this area a large number of editors hold it in contempt but watch their p’s and q’s. They challenge far too many edits by seeing who did them, revert without carefully sieving the source to check it has been correctly reported, use false edit summaries that fail all verification for what is done, and spend undue time trying to get AE opportunities to ban people whose editing they dislike, taking as disruptive any picayune expression of protest. That Debresser's edits were not only tendentious, but were done while he failed to even take a cursory glance at the source I introduced and used to document my text, can be proven objectively. But sloppy, insouciant editing is not a problem administratively. You can't be punished for that. But if someone is frustrated by it, perhaps he needs a permaban. Go figure.Nishidani (talk) 16:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

In general, if you can't get your point across without a wall of text, or using the "f" word, then you need to re-read Strunk and White. And the issue with you, is that you use the word far too often, I don't think I've seen Debresser use it more than once or twice. That's the point. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 16:20, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I read 100-200 pages a day, and the strength of my content additions comes from that, and close source control for everything I add to this encyclopedia. I.e. if someone copies and pastes from one wikipage to another pseudo-information like this, to cite one example, I spend a half an hour at least to verify whether my suspicion it is questionable is correct or not, and if found to be misleading, I alert editors like you and Debresser, who don't want me to edit there, that it needs fixing. Rather than follow people around to make pointy comments, why not consider fixing the problem? I'll give you a clue: the majority of historic Yemeni Jews were not obliged to dress in blue or dark garb and generally dressed as their Arab neighbours did. If you haven't time to fix it, don't waste time niggling around talk pages. We are here to build articles, not niggle, nag, make cheap cracks or rush to defend friends. As it stands, the failure to correct that error means either (a) no one looked into the topic, even while reverting people who have or (b) editors are too lazy to trouble themselves, except on talk pages. Thank you.Nishidani (talk) 16:36, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

since you brought up following people around, how did you get to that article in the first place? That seems like a weird place for you to pop in. As for me, I didn't follow anyone, I have this page on my watchlist, please don't make aspersions.Sir Joseph ^(talk) 17:01, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Well, I'll close this by documenting scientifically why collegial editing is what does not exist here. The practice is one of reverting without even looking at the consequences of one's revert. This has happened to me scores of times in this company. How did I get there you ask?

Esther (bookmarked) discussion led to Debresser's page. I didn't comment, though I thanked StevenJ for a compromise he offered. Keeping track I noticed that article mentioned below. I read it and noted several problems.

My edit

2.sniping response over trivia

3. Remove superfluous sentence

(a) Debresser broke my paragraph up into sentences. Acceptable. But this meant that the first sentence was detached from its source. Rather than check the source, (obligatory in my view if you meddle with a sourced text) he added a request. Absurd. The source is there, on the page.

(b) The superfluous sentence removed was

The first of the other Abrahamic religions to impose a distinctive mode of dress on Jews was Islam, beginning with decrees set forth by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil obliging non-Muslims (dhimmis) to wear distinctive marks, -buttons on their caps, patches on their sleeves, and generally honey-coloured garbs,- on their clothing in order to mark them off from members of the Muslim communities.

Content dispute of course, but the ‘superfluous sentence’ cannot be this, which establishes the historical kernal, the origin of external imposition on Jews of discriminatory clothing. What was left in could be superfluous, in that it elaborates by an instance the principle cited. When Davidbena added (by copying and pasting from the Yemenite Jews page, without checking the sources, a WP:Undue addition to the superfluous sentence, silence. The key sentence is eliminated, two superfluous illustrations, one displaying ignorance of the topic, are permitted to remain. Sheer incompetence.

4. I restored this, indicating the error Debresser made. He had called for a citation when the citation already existed on the page because, I must assume, he didn't check or read the source given.

5. Debresser ignores my point that what he wanted sourced is already sourced, and reverts me again.

WP:IDONTHEARTHAT. He won't believe what I stated, which is however obvious. Technically this would be reportable as reverting without examining the source, and repeating the revert even after one had been notified. But I don't report people on principle.

I.e. twice Debresser created a problem, demanded I fix it, which I did fix it, he reverted that as well. Content dispute? No. Provocative carelessness? No. the problem is that I must not get frustrated at shockingly careless editing, and persist in being collegial.

The page still reads that a sourced piece of information is unsourced. Neither you nor Debresser want me on that page, and neither you nor Debresser for some days, have taken note that Debresser's double revert created a problem that didn't exist. So, fix it or tell someone on that page to do so.Nishidani (talk) 18:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe if you 1) weren't so antagonistic, and 2) didn't paste such walls of text, people might listen more. It's just the way things go here. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:13, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Apropos, when things were more civil,a and I wasn't endlessly accused of anti-Semitism or being antagonistic. I was raised, as every serious orthodox Jew is raised, to think nothing of daily reading dozens of pages of difficult texts. So I don't take seriously anyone who complains that a few paragraphs is a strain on one's attention span. You should feel obliged to fix it because (a) you asked me not to contribute on Jewish topics some years ago, rather outrageously (b) do not want me on this page (c) have been informed that the page has two errors, one gross, and provided with the information to fix both. If you don't fix it, or alert editors that false information is on that page required adjustment, why are you editing here?Nishidani (talk) 19:25, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

a) I don't recall me asking you not to edit Jewish topics. b) It's not my page to tell you to stay or go. c) I'm not in charge of any page or its errors and I haven't interacted with you at all on that page about that edit so don't bring me into it. d)And again, there you go again with your antagonism. I edit here because I choose to. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 19:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

If the two of you have something to talk about, or talk past each other about, I am sure there are better places than Huldra's user talk page. Nishidani, I myself would say if somebody does not want to read a "wall of text" then editing an encyclopedia is probably not the best use of their time. But then again, what this has to do with Huldra or her talk page is not something I fully understand. nableezy - 19:47, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

• User:Nishidani, with all respect: there are two reasons why I dislike swearwords, especially in public discourse.
• 1. I was brought up in a pretty religious household (though not as religious as my mothers siblings, where they all prayed together before dinner); if anyone had used a swearword half the household would have dropped dead of shock.
• 2. (Most importantly): I am concerned about the signal vs. noice ratio....I try my very best to have a high "signal rate", ie. get info into WP. I try my best to avoid the "dramah" boards, and other "time thieves". And using the f word (or c word)....that is pure "noice".
• Notes A: (Off course people have double standard: a quick search found Debresser using the f word several times. Pot.Kettle.Black. Alas, you didn't really expect anything else, did you?)
• Notes B: There have been rules about clothing since at least Roman times, when only certain people could use purple. In the town where I live there were lots of rules in the Middle Ages about "loose women" not being allowed to use colourful dresses, while, as I recall, the Kings in the 1500s were desperately (and mostly fruitlessly) forbidding the nobility to wear more than 3 gold necklaces (if I recall correctly), lots of laws about that.. Fascinating subject, and certainly not only something concerning Jews.Huldra (talk) 20:53, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree. We should avoid at all costs the use of offensive language. I have never forgotten that when I was a small child and had said a bad word to my older sister, I was immediately rushed by mother into the bathroom where she washed out my mouth with soap.Davidbena (talk) 22:00, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Huldra, you know I like you. And when I know people dislike certain language Ill try, not without fail, to mind my own. But the world is a big place, and people dont all have the same feelings on what is or is not "offensive". You and I grew up in very different times and places, and my experiences shape me just as yours shape you. I dont personally think a casual use of the f word is not offensive. Or the s word, or hell the c word (if we are talking about the same one). Really, outside of a very limited set of words (like the n-word and maybe one or two other ethnic slurs), I dont think it is reasonable to expect people on the internet to follow somebody's personal standards in language use. I say things to my closest friends that my mother would possibly murder me over. And I dont think those things are offensive at all (well some of them are, but still). What is "civil" depends entirely on the community in question, and in this community, on the internet, I dont think the use of a swear word can rightfully be called "uncivil". nableezy - 22:17, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Nableezy, as I said; it isn't my personal feeling that is most important, it was my second point, namely the "noice" level it creates. And Wikipedia isn't just any internet site, like reddit, or imgur etc....we are (supposedly!) here to "build an encyclopaedia" etc, etc. I prefer to look upon this place as a (mini) UN, where people of completely different view points try to work out, eh, something. Telling people they are idiots (especially if they are!), or telling them their edits stinks is never helpful. And especially in "our field", (ie the I/P area), where a dozen editors watch your every edit, and some have a very short threshold for going to the "dramah" boards in order to "take out" "one of the enemy".

Look at it as a purely practical matter: using such language here, in the I/P area, inevitably brings on a lots and lots of "noice". (Just all the text written today about it proves that!) Is it worth it? I think not. Huldra (talk) 22:42, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

(a)SJ.

'I don't recall me asking you not to edit Jewish topics.'

1 March 2017 And you shouldn't get too emotional about things, if you do, perhaps try to stay away from those areas that get you worked up. Focus away from Jews and switch to Australia

(b) To sum up, an attempt, one of several, made over the last years, to catch at a warning by Sandstein to get me permabanned simply because I, like the plaintiff, dropped the eff word at tendentiously obstructive edit-warring. It failed. Our admin raised legitimately the point that it is not best practice, not conducive to the collegial atmosphere required. The fundamental point about collegiality is using commonsense. The gravamen of everything is this. I wrote:

The Torah set forth rules for dress that set Jews apart from the communities in which they lived, . . .

Twice Debresser removed the source which warranted that generalization, and twice he tagged it with a citation needed notice. Even after strenuous collegial efforts to get Sir Joseph or Debresser to fix the blunder the latter made, it remains tagged.

The Torah set forth rules for dress that set Jews apart from the communities in which they lived,

Days trying to get Debresser or Sir Joseph to fix this have failed. What the Italians call an impuntatura, stubbornly digging one’s heels in and refusing to fix per request an obvious error. Why. There is only one explanation. Nishidani wants that done, so even if he is right, don't fix it to do him a favour even if this means the article remains tainted with an improper tag. That, Dear GoldenRing is the collegial atmosphere in which people like myself are asked to work in here. Simple problems easily resolved with intelligence and good will develop into futilely humongous threads of ridiculous attitudinizing and second –guessing suspected motives (for eff’s sake:)). Nishidani (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Since you're still talking... I never asked you to stay away, as your comment points out, I suggested that if you get emotional, it might be better for you to step away, I never told you to. Secondly, you keep saying that you told me to fix errors on that page. As I keep pointing out, I was not involved, so stop bringing me up. That you are involved in an edit dispute with Debresser doesn't mean you are in an edit dispute with me. I have nothing to do with this. Secondly, I don't own that page. I know that's a foreign concept to you but people don't own pages and we don't have to edit if we don't want to. Notice how I got my point across in a couple of sentence? That's how it should be. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 13:27, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

That you are involved in an edit dispute with Debresser doesn't mean you are in an edit dispute with me. I have nothing to do with this.

The first Latin dictum I memorized wsas:Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. Debresser, like Davidbena, is of course watching this page. You edit that page. I've notified all three editors of an error. Silence. Collegality, yeah.

I rarely get 'emotional', except when listening to, say, the last bar of songs like this, reciting a poem or delivering a funeral oration. Just things like that. I grew up in far too tough a neighbourhood where the art of sledging one-upmanship was a craft practiced wittily by real masters of hurtful chiakking, and where serious fighting a regular feature, to take this intense world of petty bickering as anything more than a sad index of frailty. To suggest I get 'emotional' about 'Jews' is a deeply offensive insinuation that I am antisemitic.

The second point was that your remark suggesting I was being 'emotional' about Jewish topics looks projective, in so far as you later added:

people get worked up over lots of areas. I stopped following many pages when I couldn't help getting worked up

I certainly am aware that my demanding manner of getting things right, sources checked, and the exercise of logical judgement translates into coming over to many as a kind of second-hand rerun of the sniffish Kingsfield. But that can't be helped. I'm not here for social distraction, but to ensure strict quality control of articles and collegial hard work by fellow editors.

I was raised in the Judeo-Christian world, and therefore regard Jewish heritage to be an ineludible part of my life, that if it can be quantified half of my sense of modernity is informed by what I have learned from thinkers, writers and poets who happen to be Jewish. Being 'Jewish' to me is synonymous with an acute sense of being an outsider, never quite at home in any world yet comfortable with its diversity, and sensitive to discrimination. something I admire and hope to have absorbed, consolidating what has been a recognized part of my character since early childhood. Of course, there are as many kinds of 'Jew' as there are Jews, a formulation true of any ethnicity. So yes, I have an abiding attachment to understanding that, as I do the several other cultures I have studied in depth.

What is remarkable about much editing on Jewish topics on Wikipedia is that the quality of the articles is (a) poverty-stricken (b)dominated by a we against them suspiciousness (c)where editor-awareness of Jewish history is remarkably thin, surprisingly uninterested in the scholarship in the field (d) blinded by some confusion over a nation-state and Jews, as if they were interchangeable (e) as, as a consequence, tending to edit towards a collectivist vision of Jews in a way mirroring the collectivist identity impetus of any young nation (f) so the narrative of the past must emphasise anything conducive to a vision of the unity of a suffering minority against the murderousness of the goy majority until the redemption of normalcy emerging in the acquisition of one's own state solved the historical tragedy of righting the wrong performed in 70/135 CE. No one owns their ethnic culture, has proprietorial rights or can get away with the idea birthright means comprehensive insight. Joseph Conrad knew more about English prose and culture than 99% of solidly ethnic Englishmen.

All those ingredients are problematical, together they are a sure recipe for banality, at least to this cultural historian. In any case, you said in the first diff your belief is that editing in this area is frustrating because it's 'a numbers game and your side has the numbers which is why most IP articles are heavily biased, those are the rules.' If I believed that, I would never work talk pages so hard to try and get fellow editors to see past our POV residues into the heart of a topic. So I can't edit there, in this perspective, and even a polite note to fix a flaw will fall on deaf ears, for the numbers, here negative in my regard, decide what can and cannot be said, and in this case, that means the errors I spot, will not be corrected. Fine. Sorry for the extended thread here, Huldra. I have abused your hospitality.Nishidani (talk) 16:27, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

colors

Look at Al-Muharraqa. Maybe "Village" is less important than the color? Zero^talk 11:43, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Zero0000, definitely! Thanks, then that could be a solution. Huldra (talk) 20:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Speaking of colors, I wonder if it is time to tone down the color of the navbox. Please compare Template:Palestinian_Arab_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus side-by-side with User:Zero0000/sandbox/Template:Palestinian_Arab_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus. Is the new version better? Zero^talk 12:54, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Zero0000 the new colour looks fine, IMO, Huldra (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Israeli government maps

I fixed the URLs in the "govmap" line of the Israel pane, which didn't work for months. Zero^talk 12:04, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

DS Alert

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in the Arab–Israeli conflict. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

Yeah, well, I last got one of them from Icewhiz on 13 November 2018, I thought once a year was enough? Huldra (talk) 23:50, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

You're right that one DS alert is sent per year. I just now saw that.Davidbena (talk) 23:54, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

AE (April 2019)

For good or bad, better or worse, I am submitting an Arbitration Enforcement (AE) against you, because of your POV edits (namely here) with respect to an article that remotely involves the Arab-Israeli conflict. The AE report has been filed here. Although I am not sure that the action that I am taking on AE is the proper venue (perhaps not), but at least I am confident that some action must be taken against you.Davidbena (talk) 00:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

I raised a clarification request earlier this year[7] concerning an American Muslim Congresswoman where the dispute was a part of her article. The decision basically was that there's a distinction between "reasonably construed" and "broadly construed" and that articles such as the one I was concern with and the one you are concerned with are "broadly" hence 1RR doeen't apply. Doug Weller talk 15:34, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Doug Weller, I don't understand one bit of this, except that an editor who made an obvious violation walked off scot free on a technicality: not very reassuring. And the issue of Solomon is very central to the Israeli settler movement on the West Bank: straight in the middle of the I/P conflict. That an editor who just come off a topic ban from the I/P area are not familiar with ARBPIA 1RR is not credible, to say the least. I have now added {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} to the talk page: does that mean 1 RR is now in place? Huldra (talk) 20:22, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Nope. A pagenotice goes on the edit page when you click edit, and only an admin can add it, and it has to be logged properly. I am not sure that the page itself is under ARBPIA though regardless. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 20:29, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank for telling me about {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}}, I didn't know. I have added an {{ARBPIA}} instead. See my above note on Solomon, Huldra (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

"Innocent me." Huldra, my advice to you is to stop trying to Game the system.Davidbena (talk) 20:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

You can't add that either, since per the last ruling, as your AE action stated, in order for the article to be under AE, an admin has to log the page, so the template will do nothing but confuse everyone. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 20:49, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

If that is correct, then that is a huge new change. Than would mean that say, edits like this, by Shrike also would have to go, right? User:GoldenRing, User:Sandstein, is Sir Joseph correct? Huldra (talk) 21:00, 18 April 2019 (UTC) Pinging User:BU Rob13, too, Huldra (talk) 21:09, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

No idea. Why don't you look it up? ArbCom decisions are made in writing. Sandstein 08:12, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

I removed it. This is it's best for only an admin to place it. Without proper logging, it's not enforceable. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 21:18, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

If this is the new rule, then it is absurd. I would guess that up to now more than 90% of {{ARBPIA}} notices have been placed by non−admins. Do admins suffer from a lack of work? Huldra (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

I opposed this at ARCA. I do not think you are prevented from placing ARBPIA talk page banners (they are merely informative) and you can request the 1RR thing be placed at RfPP. However, I think I see eye to eye with you on the downsides of the new edit notice required rule. The page does not need to be DS logged - it just needs the ddit notice for this to be enforceable (1rr still apploes topic wide, but editors are considered uninformed absent an edit notice).Icewhiz (talk) 14:53, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Davidbena, you are very quickly reverting back to the behavior that saw you topic-banned. I would have hoped that would not happen so quickly. nableezy - 05:57, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel_articles is an "authoritative compilation" of ARBPIA rulings. I don't see anything about logging page editnotices. It does say that 1RR cannot be enforced on pages without a {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} (which goes on the article, not the talk page). However, my reading is that the 300/50 restriction does not need the editnotice. I don't know if only admins have the power to add editnotices; hit the full-page (not top section) edit link and see if a link "page notice" appears at the top right. If you can't do it, you can tell me what pages you think it is needed on. Zero^talk 18:23, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Admins and template-editors can create or edit those page editnotices. nableezy - 18:28, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

It looks to me that arb.com have introduced rules which contradicts each other. Look at the wording of Template:ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice (that is, {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}}), it says (under "Template documentation"): "Note that a lack of this template is not an indication that the article is not subject to the restriction."

Alas, here, on 14 March 2019 they add "This remedy may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice."

To me, this looks absurd, Huldra (talk) 20:39, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

[8]. Zero^talk 04:54, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Huldrra, User:Zero0000, I wasn't happy when I was told that 1RR only applies to articles that are clearly "reasonably construed" and not to articles where the dispute is not the main subject. I think that's wrong and in any case we should replace "reasonably construed" with something clearer. The long and short of it is that someone for instance changes locations within an article that in itself is irrelevant to the dispute we can do nothing about it. Even those where there is a section on the dispute cannot be put under ECP. This isn't like a topic ban which would cover such instances but I think it should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs) 07:49, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

@Icewhiz, Sir Joseph, Davidbena, and Johnuniq:- Per the committee's recent motion, all of ARBPIA (reasonably construed) is under 1RR by dint of the committee's remedy, but it is only enforceable if the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} is in place. Note that this is quite different to other topics where discretionary sanctions are authorised, where an administrator might place a 1RR restriction on a particular page as a discretionary sanction. The effect of the editnotice is not to place a page under 1RR, but to make a 1RR that is already in place enforceable. An enforcing administrator can't just rely on the presence of the editnotice to determine that 1RR is in effect; they have to actually consider whether the page falls into the ARBPIA scope, reasonably construed.
The result of this is that any editor may place the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} template; again, this is different to other topics where only administrators can place a page under 1RR as a discretionary sanction.
I hope this is reasonably clear but I realise it's complicated. It's the result of trying many different variations on this remedy and I doubt that a perfect solution is possible. I don't expect to be online much between now and Tuesday, but please do follow up with any questions you have and I'll try to look in and answer them. GoldenRing (talk) 08:23, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, but there is still an issue regarding my question at your talk which mentions that the Arbcom motion included a statement suggesting that anyone could place the template (although someone who is not an admin and not a template editor would have to put the template on article talk as they could not put it in the article's WP:Editnotice). The problem is that the ARBPIA Index omits that statement from the motion. I believe the Index should be updated. Johnuniq (talk) 09:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for your reply, User:GoldenRing. I have made some comment on Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests. Like Johnuniq, I am concerned about the lack of clarity about who can put what on talk pages. I was reverted after placing {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}}, and I was reverted after placing a {{ARBPIA}} on an article, both because I am not an admin,

I am also very concerned about the "upping" the level of bureaucracy, as simple violation of 1RR no longer can be handled on AE in the great majority of cases, but instead has to be taken to ARCA. More about that on Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests. Huldra (talk) 20:53, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

The Modern Kefar Hananya

User:Huldra, this is for your information: The modern moshav of Kfar Hananya, built one kilometer to the south of the Old Kefar Hanania (now Kafr 'Inan) is, obviously, not the same site as the older, although it bears the same name. We find this all over the country: The new Beitar Illit, named after the old Betar (now Bittir) are two different sites.Davidbena (talk) 22:19, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

David you are missing the point. The Hebrew for Kfar Hananya belongs in the article Kfar Hananya. It does not belong wherever Kfar Hananya is mentioned. nableezy - 22:22, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Davidbena They are both spelled the same way, no? Huldra (talk) 22:23, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Two identical spellings, but two different sites. The new name takes its name from the older name.Davidbena (talk) 22:40, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

So? As Nableezy said, we dont add the Arabic name for Hebron each time we link to Hebron. Huldra (talk) 22:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Kafr 'Inan happens to be an older Jewish site. What's the problem, Huldra? You don't like ancient Jewish sites?Davidbena (talk) 22:48, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Are you really making an accusation of racism for following the manual of style? User:Doug Weller, David seems to trust you. Is this sort of conduct acceptable? nableezy - 22:49, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Davidbena: I have a dislike for information which is "out of place": if someone had added a link to "Hebron (Arabic: الْخَلِيل)", I would have removed the Arabic. Huldra (talk) 22:52, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on WP:DR

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Trying to make amends

Huldra, I wanted you to know that while we often disagree with each other on our edits, I am hopeful that one day we will learn to see eye-to-eye. Have you seen this video One Step Closer to Peace Among Israel & Palestine. Davidbena (talk) 02:56, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Two men, one Muslim and one Jew....well, not being male, not being a Muslim and not being a Jew: I am afraid I got bored after less than 30 seconds, Huldra (talk) 20:59, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

This [9] may not be your type of humor, but it is something people of different faiths have sometimes agreed on. It's covered on WP:[10]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 09:19, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Tunshuk palace article

Hey, I saw you've started to work on the Tunshuk palace article and found some great sources about it. Do you want to publish it any time soon? Alaexis_¿question? 20:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi User:Alaexis, I plan to start an article on all the places mentioned in User:Huldra/Mamluk Jerusalem, that is, all the places mentioned in Burgoyne (if they don't have an article already) ...but the work progress slowly, as I have concentrated on finding pictures on commons, and for that, I need to "know" all the different buildings. (Typically, people have just taken pictures of a place, and then uploaded it to commons, without knowing the name of the building.) Please feel free to add anything to any of my [[User:Huldra/something]] article stubs! Including, of course, User:Huldra/Tunshuk Palace (I would love to have some help....) Huldra (talk) 20:35, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Just wanted to say that some of them already provide a lot of value and so would benefit from being published with people seeing them and trying to fill the blanks. Alaexis_¿question? 15:16, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Alaexis, I had hoped some of them (or many of them?) could be DYKs, they should be uncontroversial and interesting enough. Help to sorting the many pictures at commons would be greatly appreciated (or any other help, for that matter!), cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Dafna

Hi, I just spent a couple of hours trying to sort out Dafna. Khirbet Dufnah is marked on the SWP map where Al-Shawka al-Tahta was later, about 1km to the north of where the village of Dafna was later. So I need to change some of what you added. Zero^talk 04:37, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

I off course bow to your knowledge of maps! I see that on SWP 2 map the Kh. Dafnah was a bit further north than the Sanbaruyeh place, but I though it was a SWP 2 inaccuracy, Huldra (talk) 20:22, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Everything else in that region on both PEF and British maps lines up very nicely, and Khirbet Dufnah sits right on top of Al-Shawka al-Tahta. I've ordered an archaeological report that will hopefully provide more information. Zero^talk 03:08, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Well, I've added Palmer to Al-Shawka al-Tahta, I'm not quite sure if it should still be in Dafna? Huldra (talk) 22:19, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Precious

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Thank you for quality articles such as Emily Ruete (2005), Khan al-Tujjar (Mount Tabor) (2009), Sha'ab, Israel (2011), for adding images and direct links, for hundreds of redirects, for "Thank you for your actions!" and "this user enjoys reading almost anything", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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User:Gerda Arendt, thanks, Huldra (talk) 22:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 2227 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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Troll/sock on bellingcat discussion

Hi Huldra The IP attacking you on RSN is a sock of Sayerslle so I have removed the content. I didn't remove your response because it was written by you and you're an editor etc. I'm letting you know in case you want to remove it as the attack it was a repsonse to is deleted. Cambial Yellowing(❧) 21:49, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Hmm, never heard of him/her. Also User:Cambial Yellowing: In cases where socks have already been answered too, it is possibly better to strike the comment? Like this, Huldra (talk) 21:54, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Fair, duly noted. Cambial Yellowing(❧) 22:10, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Suggestion

Probably best to ping other CUs to your talk page instead of Bbb23’s. —Floquenbeam (talk) 22:43, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, ok @Doug Weller:, @PhilKnight:, @Zzuuzz: @Reaper Eternal: please, could any one of you make a second opinion on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gilabrand‎? I was pretty sure that is was a sock, I could send you further diffs if needed, Huldra (talk) 22:53, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm being pretty useless, real life and other distractions keep getting in the way. I think this one is a bit beyond me. --Doug Weller talk 15:42, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

User:Doug Weller: Understood, (we are all volunteers...;P ) Huldra (talk) 20:19, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Rough Guide

I think that Rough Guides, and all other travel guides not written by professional historians/archaeologists, are not reliable for history and should be removed. Thanks for removing that one. Zero^talk 07:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

User:Zero0000, well, with Mar Elias Monastery it was pretty obvious: the earliest person Pringle mentions in connection with it, is Manuel I Komnenos. And "Bible walks" (who are mostly quite accurate on historical facts) doesn't mention it, either. I don't know the Rough Guides well enough to pass judgement generally; there might also have been a mixup by a Wikipedia editor. (Did the RG actually say that, about the Mar Elias Monastery, or about some other place? I have no idea.) Huldra (talk) 21:10, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

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Fourteen years of editing

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Thanks! Huldra (talk) 20:27, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Al Ma'in?

re Nirim, Nir Oz, Magen and Ein Hashloshla. What does Al-Main village refer to? Is this eye-witness report useful to any Palestinian village there?Nishidani (talk) 20:17, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

@Nishidani: Khirbet el Ma'in was at 0931/0821, 1 km SE of Nirim. But is there an article? I'm an Earth's diameter away from my Khalidi. Zero^talk 21:11, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

@Nishidani: @Zero0000: It is not in Khalidi, Khalidi is generally lacking wrt the Beersheba Subdistrict: only Al-Imara, al-Jammama and Al-Khalasa are mentioned. Auja al-Hafir is not mentioned in Khalidi, neither is Khirbet el Ma'in/Harabat Abu Sitta. It is to the west of Wadi Gaza on SWP map 23 (only called "Arab et Terabin"), and that part is not covered by SWP. In the 1931 census, under "Tarabin" in the Beersheva section (p. 7), "Ghawali Abu Sitta" has 606 Muslim inhabitants. Salman Abu Sitta has written about his home before, perhaps it is time we start an article about Khirbet el Ma'in? Huldra (talk) 21:51, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Abu Sitta is an interested party, but apparently there is some coverage of the village in the links (Hebrew and Spanish) at de Colonizer. I certainly think it deserves an article, but this note is intended only to put down a marker for it, so that one can keep an eye out for more substantial texts. There is much to be clarified khirbet/village (the RAF 1945 photo is nsaid to, legitimately or not, mark out something like the latter. Nishidani (talk) 12:28, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

The I-P conflict

I'm hoping a new case will bring a sensible resolution so we can deal with editors at articles which aren't mainly about the conflict, but as I learned to my regret, at the moment we can't. It's a shame that ArbCom is so small now, not just because of the delay before the new case but few opinions. Doug Weller talk 11:15, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

User:Doug Weller: Well, I haven't really thought much about the Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 4...but in my experience, "common sense" does NOT work in the IP area. What is needed is very clear, hard rules. I could imagine, however, that the protection only worked for a part of the article. That would have to come with a new feature: that you can only "watch" a part of an article. An example: I "watch" Heredia, Costa Rica, because some jokers like to do edits like the one I am undoing here. Of course I have to "watch" the whole article, even though 95-99% of it is of absolutely no interest to me. It would be lovely if I could "watch" only the "Sister cities" paragraph, and that the same paragraph had some protection. But no: it is all or none. Huldra (talk) 21:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

I am not an ambassador of Israel

So please stop seeing my edits as though they are part of Israel's official foreign policy. Not all citizens of Israel share Israel's official views, and anyway, as an Israeli, I really have no idea what exactly "Israeli view" means since our foreign policy is so vague. With that said, I do feel a bit entitled to say that the State of Palestine article is mostly bullshit and I use my feet, standing on the State of Palestine and my eyes observing it, as a primary source. I've been in Palestine for 2 years now and I've yet to actually see it. Yes there are some signs popping out saying "State of Palestine" or "دولة فلسطين", but when speaking with Palestinians, they mostly refer to the سلطة, i.e the PA. Their I.D.s also say "Palestinian Authority". It is not the same situation as with the Arab states who refuse to recognize Israel, because they still know Israel exists. Here in the West Bank, the idea of a "State of Palestine" is not acknowledged by anyone. They know that they are the شعب الفلسطيني and that they live in فلسطين, but فلسطين doesn't refer to any state within the Palestinian territories, but to the whole former territory of the British Mandate. The "State of Palestine" is an abstract term, used by Palestinians mostly in foreign policy. It is a shame that Wikipedia mislead so many readers on that issue. If those who created this article cannot come up with a less vague article, which contradicts other articles and it self and is not really backed by any sources, full of SYNTH and OR, maybe the "Israel's view" guy should do it, and I don't edit without any sources.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:24, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Hmmm, so you are basically saying that "I, as soldier in the Israeli army, serving on the West Bank, have yet to actually see the State of Palestine." Sorry for being formalistic here, but besides the OR, I hardly think you count as a WP:RS (at least not presently! One day, maybe...)

Anyway: this discussion belongs 100% on Talk:State of Palestine, and NOT here: see you there, Huldra (talk) 22:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

You are right. If it was the article's talk page I would have been more professional. But this was an emotional personal comment, as I don't think I have any interest in re-approach this article again any time soon. Seems like even if I tried to make my edits look less aggressive, they would have been reverted all the same and dragged to a talk discussion that will last unil 2025 when one of us will retire from Wikipedia. Take care.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:39, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

2025? You are far, far too optimistic: that is only 6 years away (and I have already been here 14 years): I have exactly 0% belief that the issues will have been resolved in 6 years time. (Actually, I have long since lost any hope that the issues will be resolved in my life time: I read one interview with a settler spokesperson in Haaretz: she was settling in for 500 years. (Hmmm, will the US continue to pay billions of $$ (or ~20% of the Israeli budget) to Israel for the next 500 years? Every year? That settler spokesperson seem to think so! Ah well, in 500 year we will both be "permanently retired", that's for sure!) Huldra (talk) 23:42, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

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Inquiry

Why did you remove the settlement type "Village" in this edit? And, additionally, why didn't you mention that in the edit summary? Debresser (talk) 22:25, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

As I usually do many things during one edit, I cannot mention them all in the edit summary (I could of course say "ce", ..but "some" editors don't like that..) Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:29, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

That I can understand. And what about my first question? Debresser (talk) 18:12, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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al-Tira, Haifa

Dear Huldra, I hesitate to reverse your removal of the Palestine Exploration map of al-Tira without explanation. I am certain that it should stay. It is not labelled but the line on the left marks the sea. Kh. el Kiniseh & El ‘Arak appear on the 1:20,000 map as Maradel Kneise & Farsh(?) el ‘Iraq. Also the older map has W el Ain & you can just make out W el Ein on the other. As you may have noticed I do like maps. Padres Hana (talk) 17:27, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

User:Padres Hana: you are absolutely right, and I have undone my removal. I was fooled by the category "taken from SWP map 11"...it is actually taken from SWP map 5, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:46, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Need your help for Guérin

In a Hebrew book, it cites Guérin but I can't find the original source. The site is called in Hebrew Horvat Kur but Guérin probably called it Khirbet Kuk or Khirbet Kok. The name of the source is in Hebrew and it is translated to "Description of Palestine 6, p. 151". I believed it was just one of the Galilee volumes but I didn't find it there. If you need another reference, the cite appears in the Mandate's maps west of Capernahum as "Kh. al-Kur" and I believe it is 199/254 on the grid.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 11:30, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

@Bolter21: Kharbet Kefr Kouk, Gal I, p.223. Verified by comparing with pef map. Zero^talk 12:39, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

The French text referred to by Zero is this, Stav, just to save you time searching for it.

A cinq heures trente minutes, je parviens sur un plateau fertile. A cinq heures quarante-cinq minutes, une montée continue, mais qui devient de plus en plus douce, me conduit è des ruines qui me sont désignées sous le nom de Kharbet Kefr Kouk. Les arasements de nombreuses petites maisons sont reconnaissables. Au milieu des dèbris confus de ces habitations démolies, à travers lesquelles la charrue a souvent passé, j’aperçois deux fûts mutilés de colonnes de basalte: ils proviennent probablement d’un édifice tourné de l’ouest à l’est, dont il subsiste près de là de faibles vestiges, et qui, à cause de son orientation, me paraît avoir été une ancienne église chrétienne. Des cisternes creusées dans le roc sont éparses sur beaucoup de points. Un birkeh, au fond duquel divers arbres, entre autres plusiers figuiers, ont pris racine, a dût être dans le principe une carrière, transformée plus tard en un réservoir d’eau.

Cheers,Nishidani (talk) 13:34, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

As the other here has said: "Kharbet Kefr Kouk"; 1880, p. 223. I have added it to User:Huldra/Guerin#1880_Galilee_1. Is it a place that there will be an article about? (If so, I need to link it in my Guerin page,) Huldra (talk) 20:14, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

It is "Horbat Kur" in IAA (search in http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/search_eng.aspx)

Kh. el Kûr (Sh. 6, Pf), I, p. 403.

Palmer Kh. el Kûr, the ruin of the forge (Sh. 6, Qg), p. 129. Huldra (talk) 21:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Hey Hudlra. Might you have access to the book "Géographie de La Palestine" by Félix-Marie Abel?--Bolter21 (talk to me) 10:09, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bolter21: I have Vol 2, which is a list of localities. I can copy-paste what it has on a particular place if you like. It is rather dated. Zero^talk 10:51, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Bolter21, sorry, I don't have access to any of Félix-Marie Abel's books (except those which are at archive.org, off course). If any have any access to them: feel free to email me ;), Huldra (talk) 20:06, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Philip King (historian)-day of death

Hi-I saw your comment on the Philip King (historian) talk page. The funeral home that Father Philip King was buried from had the day of his death as being December 7, 2019. You may want to look at the article's talk page and read the obituary from the funeral home. I am hot sure what changes should be made concerning the day of death. The December 7, 2019 day of death is probably the correct day of his death since the funeral home published the obituary. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 13:59, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, I will answer on Talk:Philip King (historian), Huldra (talk) 21:17, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

"expropriation" vs. "confiscation"

first off, if this is the wrong place to post, I apologize. I am not much into computers and coding, the only reason I am able to part of the wikipedia community is because of the visual editor.

secondly, i would like to reply to your post on page regarding the differences between the terms expropriation and confiscation.

according to google "confiscate" means the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure. "a court ordered the confiscation of her property" "expropriation" means the action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit. "the decree provided for the expropriation of church land and buildings"

by using "confiscation" instead on "expropriation" is a bias that denies Israel its legitimacy as a state

Also you quoted quora.com in your post on my page. quora.com is just people who respond to question online; the problem with quora is the same problem that exist with wikipedia: there are no qualifications necessary to reply to a question.

the definition I found online did not mention anything regarding what the quora page mentioned notably no mention of "Expropriation can be done with the owner’s consent and/or with compensation paid. Confiscation usually implies without the owner’s consent and without compensation."

Thank you, and I look forward to continuing to helping the wikipedia community create fair and balanced articles.

Also, I just realized that the wikipedia page reads "land expropriation in the West Bank"; in the interests of keeping wikipedia accurately self-referential, it seems to me that we should keep using the same terminology.

Well, first, User:Zarcademan123456, please signs your posts using ~~~~

Secondly thank you for this, (when you again changed confiscated -->expropriated at Beit Ummar) with the edit-line:

"according to google "confiscate" means the action of taking or seizing someone's property with authority; seizure. "a court ordered the confiscation of her property" "expropriation" means the action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit. "the decree provided for the expropriation of church land and buildings" by using "confiscation" instead on "expropriation" is a bias that denies Israel its legitimacy as a state."

I agree about the problems about using quora, or google for that matter, but the crux of the matter is that the source use "confiscated". (I hope we both agree that the source (ARIJ) use the word "confiscated"??

Needless to say, I will take you to WP:AE unless you undo your last edit at Beit Ummar, and/or continue to change confiscated -->expropriated, without any source for the word "expropriated". Huldra (talk) 21:37, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

~~~~ ok, i will go back and change the page, i will include a source that uses expropriated, but it will be more clunky i am afraid. Also, a better source than a Palestinian NGO [ARIJ] is needed. ALthough i do concede the difficulty of finding unbiased reporting on the situation.

Also, I just realized that the wikipedia page reads "land expropriation in the West Bank"; in the interests of keeping wikipedia accurately self-referential, it seems to me that we should keep using the same terminology. lol, again sorry for probably not replying in the right place or anything, i am just trying to keep the terminology accurate

User:Zarcademan123456 ....please sign your posts with only the 4 "~" ...and not with the whole <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>

Also, if you want to use "expropriated" at say, Beit Ummar, you must find a source which mention Beit Ummar, Huldra (talk) 22:10, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2020 (UTC)like this?

also, i dont understand how u said that the source did not "mention" beit ummar.Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

figured out how to "sign my post, thankyou!!Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:17, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Zarcademan123456 great, now the next thing to learn is how to intend your posts....either using a ":" or a "*"

I am not sure what you don't understand: to repeat: if you want to say, eg in the Beit Ummar article, that Israel has expropriated land from Beit Ummar...then you must find a source which says so, ie which explicitly mention Beit Ummar. (Yeah: the rules are strict in the I/P area..but they are the same for all of us!) Huldra (talk) 22:36, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

PS: Using wikipedia as a reference is not allowed!! Ie, edits like this counts for nothing.... Huldra (talk) 22:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

using wikipedia as a source counts for nothing!! but it is supposed to be self-referential!!Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:49, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

To editor Zarcademan123456: Following the source is more important on Wikipedia than being consistent. One of the strange things about Wikipedia is that we have to be inconsistent sometimes because sources are inconsistent. As an aside (though this is not an argument for Wikipedia usage), the Hague Convention of 1907, which Israel claims to follow in the West Bank, uses "confiscated" (Article 46). Zero^talk 01:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

For wikilinking so many articles to PEF Survey of Palestine. I just took the liberty of replicating the same change across another c.500 similar articles using WP:JWB. Onceinawhile (talk) 11:03, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Onceinawhile: Whaw! Good job! I should learn to use those tools (one day..), but I am afraid I would get in "finger-trouble". I have managed to mess up the WP:TW a few times, already...Huldra (talk) 22:29, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Onceinawhile: searching for "Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine" I got 265 hits, mostly in Lebanon etc, but also quite a few in Israel/Palestine. Feel like using your fabulous WP:JWB -tool a bit more? Huldra (talk) 23:02, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I managed to find and fix 70 of them just now. The JWB tool works by choosing articles within specific categories; the skill is in finding the right categories to work through. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Found another 12. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:29, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Onceinawhile: Ok, great, but I think we can shorten Palestine Exploration Fund to PEF? Huldra (talk) 23:31, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

You are a hard task master :-)

I have fixed this. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

The are still about 100 unfixed; unfortunately the JWB tool doesn’t pick them up in the various searches I have done. Onceinawhile (talk) 11:44, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Onceinawhile: Yeah, I know: I'm picky... :-). Anyway: thanks for the formidable job you did...I'll try to take the few remaining by-and-by, Huldra (talk) 20:39, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

About SWEDHR

Dear Hudra, if I may. Short version: I am a Swe doctor and relatively new in WP. While creating the article “Swedish Medical Association” I found the SWEDHR article. I got a shock! Almost all statements in the article are plain falsehood or deceiving. Most sources cited as references do NOT support the statement in the article, etcetera. Seriously, the article merits as an excellent example of what a WP should not be (Not neutral point of view, no verifiability). I have tried to do some repair work, but my correcting edits end permanently reverted WITHOUT discussion by two users. I saw in the edit-history that you were long time ago trying to correct things too, and perhaps you can advise me if there is any way for me to continue this. Or if any effort would be futile. In that case I would devote my WP time to other issues. What is in the article now blunt contradicts the respect that that organization has earned in Sweden and in our medical community. BTW, the Swedhr professors had an article published today in the largest Swe newspaper (Aftonbladet), and last week in The Lancet, about the Assange case. If you could spare some five minutes please take a glance to this more detailed version with the rationale the essential corrections needed, here [11], and here [12]. Many thanks in case you reply, and if not, forgive me for taking your time. My user name is Toverster and I have a Talk page. Toverster (talk) 16:38, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Toverster: Yeah, I was involved in the previous SWEDHR (and the Marcello Ferrada de Noli-article), but then took them off my "watch-list".

The thing is, both articles touches on what I have called the "the worst shit-hole on Wikipedia" (see above, under User_talk:Huldra#AN_discussion), namely the Syrian war. Lets be clear: massive amounts of money have been poured into "on line information" (read: "online lies") by Western government (eg. link, or see Institute for Statecraft.)

One has to be extremely naive to think that none of those resources have been put into Wikipedia editing.

I basically gave up on the area after editors voted Robert Fisk not to be WP:RS for the Douma chemical attack, (see here), while at the very same time finding Seth Doane (who went to Douma at the same time as Fisk) to be WP:RS(!). This is such an outrageous double standard that I gave up the articles. (ie, stopped "watching" them)

But recall: in 2003, around the time the US invaded Iraq, about 70% of the US population believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 (link). IMO; that was (mostly) the result of a massive disinformation campaign from the Bush government: no-one in that administration ever mentioned 9/11 without immediately mentioning Saddam Hussein. This, while Saddam Hussein was about as involved with 9/11 as you, or I, or Queen Elizabeth II.

How many of those 70% will even admit today that they ever thought that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11? No many, I suspect. Nobody likes to find out they have been fools.

We are extremely naive if we believe that not similar dis-informaton (or rather: mis-informaton) campaigns have been going on wrt Syria,...or Julian Assange.

I became involved with the SWEDHR and de Noli articles as I understand Swedish (yeah, you can write in Swedish to me, if you like).

Please do work on the articles, adding WP:RS is the best you can do. I'll "watch" them again: but be warned: it will take a lot more than 5 minutes to get (or keep them) in a "neutral" way... Huldra (talk) 22:25, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

PS: I haven't followed the Assange case closely, but I recall how he was totally ridiculed in MSM as "paranoid" for not going to Sweden, saying they would use that to extradite him to the US....Hmm, looks as if that wasn't paranoia at all...

Tack så mycket, Huldra, för dina åsikter, samt ditt råd. Toverster (talk) 08:22, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Huldra, I totally agree with your post and announced course of action you wrote in the Talk page of the SWEDHR article. I just posted a convergent suggestion at [13]. I will be back tomorrow. Then I plan to do a sequence of short posts in the article Talk page, each one containing the core arguments for each of the edits I am suggesting. It would be great if you give me your opinion on those. As I said, not ready until perhaps tomorrow afternoon. I wish you a pleasant Saturday evening. Toverster (talk) 17:05, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Huldra: As I suggested, in view of your experience in WP editing, I think it is preferably that you do the edit of the necessary changes. Any how, I have shortened drastically my previous edit on the Organisation section. In case you find the time to review it (and maybe post it if you think it is appropriate). I put it in the Talk page (Break; the "Organization" part) "Organisation"_part.

When I check the WP article Marcello Ferrada de Noli to link it in the swedhr Organisation section, I saw some same ppl (?) participating in the discussion at the Admin board, that are now changing things in that article. So, apparently the 2017 circus is now recycling. Then, as they could not rebut the SWEDHR investigation's conclusions on the White Helmets, Gamester et al went to discredit the investigative organisation as such, via the horrible edits in the Swedhr article in WP. Now in 2020, when thy could not rebut the criticism of the falsehoods in that article, they turn to the WP article about the Swedhr's founder. I saw in that talk page also a ban asking for the deletion ok that article in 2017, in conjunction to the attack on Swedhr. And this now: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=943113930#Marcello_Ferrada_de_Noli

@Huldra: Toverster (talk) 20:03, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Well, User:Toverster, I am not unduly concerned about the Marcello Ferrada de Noli-article being "trimmed" (it was rather excessively detailed, IMO.) However, we should note that self-published sources is allowed, when used about the person in question. See WP:BLPSPS, where this is clearly stated. So info published by Marcello Ferrada de Noli about himself can be used in the Marcello Ferrada de Noli-article, Huldra (talk) 22:56, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Huldra, I share your opinion about that article.

Regarding the Swedhr corrections, I have now posted in Talk page one suggestion for edit (about one topic). But there are other positions by SWEDHR (before and after the '2017 edition') published in WP:RS. I'll try to get back to it soon. Otherwise I have been doing diversified editing in the Swe WP. Great fun. My time is thou limited. But I hang on.

P.S. I read this afternoon that the position of some in the SWEDHR to disagree with the RUS veto in the Sec Council might have been on behalf of neutralising Turkey of attacking Syria and thus deepening the war (based on the risk of a Turkey invasion deeper in Syria to engage gov forces. Which is what is apparently happening). But I have to search more about that Swedhr position. @Huldra: Toverster (talk) 18:32, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

@Huldra: Hi again, Huldra. I posted a suggestion for the "Positions taken by SWEDHR". I tried to follow the friendly (and awesome) advice from the journalist you mentioned. Well, I guess is not enough. Then, I added (for background info) what I found in my searching for Swedhr references in WP:RS. I am aware that is a bunch of text and perhaps its extension will irritate one or another user. So, please just remove it if you think is not really contributing. Thanks Huldra.

@Huldra: Hi, I have now managed to shorten and clean up the first version of my proposal. I had in mind both the magic advice (to never forget) and the WP pages on style, NPV etc., which I checked it up. For the next section (currently labelled "Accusations..."), may I anticipate my suggestion for tittle: simply, "Controversies". Thanks again. Toverster (talk) 09:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

@Toverster:, sorry, but I have been distracted by other wp-business... I'll try to take look at it. And I definitely agree: "Controversies" is a better headline (and the most "common" headline; I cannot recall any other article with a "Accusations..." headline), Huldra (talk) 20:28, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

@Huldra:, Fine, thanks. I have commented your (right) observation in "Positions taken by SWEDHR, subsection 1". In the meantime I will start working now with a proposal for the Controversies section. Toverster (talk) 10:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Huldra, I understood you are very occupied with other issues, as you said. I know how it is. No problem. I wonder if you just would be able to have a glance to my argument in "Positions_taken_by_SWEDHR",_moving_to_article and perhaps OK the moving? My point being that the info there is only a listing of the positions as reported by the sources. The controversy about that (if any) should be treated in the new section "Controversies", together with the statements regarded as controversial by the old article's version. I added new WP:RS (four) and also I had to delete the ref to You Tube containing the Swedhr video on the shooting incident. Thanks again. Toverster (talk) 14:09, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

@Huldra:,

Hi @Huldra:, I posted a brief text in [14] as suggestion for section "Criticism". I also made a break down of the current edits [15] at the section. all authored by Gamemasterg9. Thanks.

Toverster (talk) 22:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Toverster: working on it!
A couple of "technical" notes: you don't have to "ping" me when you write here on my talk-page (I automatically get a message). Also, when we refer to the same reference multiple times: we once give that reference a name, say <ref name =DN.02.04.2018>, and afterwards we can refer to the same reference by using <ref name =DN.02.04.2018/> (note the backslash). The name can be anything, but preferably something that makes some sense. Also, twitter and Youtube are not the best of sources, (to put it diplomatically), please read Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#User-generated_content, Huldra (talk) 23:47, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Huldra. Important development. I saw that Swedhr had ceased the organization’s activities since January this year (an extension of one month “for the ending of representation activities of the chairman and vice-chairman”). It’s all in the homepage [Swedhr.org] in a statement signed Dr Lena Oske. It is said the Swedish doctors are now integrating the ranks of “Doctors For Assange” (international group started in London). I first saw it through a link in The Indicter but it has also been on Twitter. Also, another update necessary in the article is that the publication became independent from Swedhr in 2017 (as stated in The Indicter editorial page describing the publication’s history [16]). Difficult these days the editing even in the Swedish WP because work overload. But I'll make it to post an ‘updated’ version by only rephrasing into past tense, without changing anything of the texts agreed (with the exception of the update ref. The Indicter). I will now do the edit of the new proposal, opening a new section in Talk. I know you are also busy but if I may ask, as last thing, to consider publishing the updated version, and also to keep watching the article in case of the possibility of renewal of disrupting editing. On the other hand who would have interest in disrupt a defuncted organization. Thanks again, and for the editing advices!

Toverster (talk) 21:04, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi again, I started now to work in the updated complete version, and I realise it is a lot of work. I mean it would be a lot of work for you if you would have to re-edit to make it in publishing format for both the "Criticism" section (with posting of 17 references, or so) and the new updated total version. So, I will publish the updates myself, and then you may please check that all is all right or/and change it. Thank you.

Toverster (talk) 21:35, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Toverster, please hold off an hour or so; I'm working on it ;) Huldra (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Toverster: Ok, I have finished; please make the updates you feel needed, Huldra (talk) 21:43, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Oh my, I can't manage with that of not repeating the same reference in full. E.g. the last reference in "Criticism" section. Sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toverster (talk • contribs) 21:45, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Toverster: heh, don't worry about it: it took me ages before I got the hang of it! Huldra (talk) 21:47, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Wonderful! I saw it. Thanks a lot, Huldra! I'll now edit the updates. Toverster (talk) 21:54, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Done :) [17]. When possible in days of this week, I'll do the changes in the Swedish page. Toverster (talk) 22:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Israel “occupation” vs “rule” of east Jerusalem and the Golan

One of the reasons I was told why the annexation and subsequent “rule” of the West Bank is not characterized as an “occupation” was because full legal rights were extending to the citizens under Jordanian rule. Seeing as full legal rights are extended to those in the Golan and East Jerusalem, can you help me understand why differing terminology is used? Also, Both countries annexations were similarly granted limited recognition. Does it have something to do with the consent of the governed? If there’s another forum for me to posit this question, please let me know thank you. I reached out to you because you seem knowledgeable on the topic of Israel and the conflicts. Thank you Zarcademan123456 (talk) 08:31, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Zarcademan123456: There is a huge difference between the Jordanian/Syrian and the Israeli rule/occupation, as I am sure you know. (AFAIK; no Jordanian leader ever said that the ultimate goal of Jordanian rule of the West Bank/Jerusalem was to get every Palestinian there to leave, or if they stayed: it was to serve their "Jordanian masters". I can find (far too many) such statements from Israeli leaders/rabbis.)

Having said that: I am far more familiar with the pre-1948 history, than the post-1948 history. There are other editors here, who are far, far more knowledgable than be me about these "newer" issues.

I would suggest you raise the matter at Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration: big issues (in the IP section on wp) can never be determined by one or two people: we need community discussions for that, Huldra (talk) 20:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Also, User:Zarcademan123456: will you please stop making the same changes to a lot of articles, without discussing them first? They will only be reversed. It is really a waste of everyones time, and it is extremely disruptive. Huldra (talk) 23:07, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback and directing me where to go. Also, I can’t tell you how refreshing your humility is (“ far, far more knowledgable than [m]e”)...that is something I just feel I don’t often see. Zarcademan123456 (talk) 08:19, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Zarcademan123456: "Humility" has nothing to do with it; it is just stating the plain facts. Another plain fact: you are being extremely disruptive, when you after being told to stop, still go around doing edit like this, without any discussion. You are wasting everyone's time, Huldra (talk) 23:05, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Jordanian “occupation” then “rule”

Would it be incorrect to characterize the Jordanian rule over the West Bank before formal annexation in 1950 as an “occupation”, seeing as, similar to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, sovereignty had yet to be applied? Just trying to understand, so as to harmonize the terms characterizing the Jordan and Israeli governances during this seemingly similar time. Zarcademan123456 (talk) 15:16, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

See Deir Abu Da’im, for example Zarcademan123456 (talk) 15:34, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Deir Abu Da’if my apologies Zarcademan123456 (talk) 15:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

I assume you read the article Jordanian annexation of the West Bank where you are proposing a page move? The first line of the lead reads "The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank was the occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) by Jordan (formerly Transjordan) following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and its subsequent annexation." Selfstudier (talk) 18:00, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

The Jordanian governance prior to annexation is characterized as an occupation. Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:37, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

As I said on Talk:Jordanian annexation of the West Bank: it was 2 years of formally occupying, and then 17 years of formally annexing...and you want the 2 years to "trumph" the 17 years?

Secondly, I could cherry-pick anything out of Israeli occupation of the West Bank (say Israel's " "flagrant violation of international law", etc)...and then put that into each and every article which has a link to Israeli occupation of the West Bank: more than 500.

I haven't done so, and I will not do so.

You, by unilaterally cheery-picking parts of the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, and putting it into hundreds of other articles are doing exactly that. It is extremely disruptive, and a waste of everybody's time,

The way to avoid endless edit-warring is to put what is contested into one article (where possible), and link to that. Anything relating to the 1948-1967 Jordanian occupation/annexation should go into this article, and nowhere else. Huldra (talk) 22:53, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Zionist political violence

I don't have the Wiki-authority to edit Zionist political violence, would you help me? As I've noted and you've kindly amended, the article incorrectly only deals with Zionist violence up to the year of 1948.

I would like to add some examples from that point up to the present day, for example: Kach and Kahane Chai considered a terrorist organisation by Israel, Canada the European Union, Japan and the United States.

• Jewish Defense League, classified as "a right wing terrorist group" by the FBI in 2001.
• Sicarii (1989)
• Baruch Goldstein
• Meir Kahane this guy truly was something.

Obviously, this is just a tl;dr, lacking all context and sources.(I hope I'm not oversteping any boundaries by writing here, if so, I do sincerely apologise.)Kuiet (talk) 22:03, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Well, the problem is to distinguish between between Zionist political violence, and Jewish religious terrorism. (Indeed, they can sometime overlap, me thinks). All the above probably more belong in the religious category (and all are mentioned in the Jewish religious terrorism-article, which is linked in the "see also" section.) We might possibly have a sub-section about mainly religious terrorism (linking to the Jewish religious terrorism-article: presently that article "drowns" in the other links there, Huldra (talk) 23:46, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

That is indeed the problem. Made no easier by

A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return of Jews to Israel as a means for Jews to be a majority nation in their own state.
— Zionism

Nonetheless, since Jewish religious terrorism is defined as "motivated by religious rather than ethnic or nationalistic beliefs." I find it a fairly safe to conclude that the first three aforementioned examples fit under "Zionist political" better than under "Jewish religious":

• The group's founder, Meir Kahane, "preached a radical form of Jewish nationalism which reflected racism, violence and political extremism,"
• Sicarii's goal was to send a message to Israeli politicians that there would be opposition to any process of rapprochement with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a "degenerate murderer", "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism". (from Cave of the Patriarchs massacre)

While Meir Kahane is, indeed, too hard for me to distinguish. But, you know, I don't much care either way. I listed the examples to make clear my case that the article is in need of inspection and amelioration and ask for assistance; the specifics hardly matter at this point. And please know that I do apologise for being so late in replying.Kuiet (talk) 02:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

RFC; “were taken”

Please see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dura_al-Qar%27

Since I can’t figure out the exact mechanism for an RFC, can you tell me exactly what language you would be in favor of seeing regarding the expanding of articles? I just want to expand the articles to include legal status of lands over past 100 years.

Also, regarding “were taken” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/947536442) given how it previously mentioned Israel’s confiscation of land above, in a pursuit of conciseness, why is deleting “were taken” not appropriate?

Also as an aside, stay safe from corona :) Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:27, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Please see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beitar_Illit#Were_taken Zarcademan123456 (talk) 22:48, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Jerusalem Annex

Hi, it's probably staring me in the face but do you have a list of those WB villages that got swept up in the annex, like Shuafat and Kafr 'Aqab? Selfstudier (talk) 15:13, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Selfstudier: I assume it is on a map somewhere, User:Zero0000: do you know? Huldra (talk) 21:20, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Selfstudier: I'm not sure what the question is. The villages included in the post-1967 municipal boundary are here: File:EastJerusalemMap.jpg ? Note that some places were cut by the boundary. In terms of expropriation, there are lists in the book "Land Expropriation in Israel" by Holzman-Gazit, and "Separate and Unequal" by Cheshin. There is also a Btselem report and more recent statisics. Zero^talk 02:35, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@Zero0000: That's it, perfect, thanks very much.Selfstudier (talk) 10:19, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Reason I asked was because after a bit of kerfuffle on the Kafr 'Aqab page, I ended up making some changes there but when I look at some other inside the Jerusalem border the presentation (lead/infobox(if there is one)/short description)is a bit different. To take the 2 extremes Beit Hanina and say, Shuafat and cf where I ended up at Kafr 'Aqab. Any thoughts on which ought to be the general approach? Selfstudier (talk) 14:17, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

You repeat a reverted edit

I reverted your edit from March 20 with a clear explanation.[18] Why did you repeat it again today, ignoring my revert and its reasons? Please understand, that that is not collegiality, and especially in the already loaded WP:ARBPIA area. Debresser (talk) 09:55, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

@Debresser: Um, there is a bit more going on here than just this. I have already issued a warning to Zarc (the originator of this edit) on his talk page about this (he is acquiring a fair old list of warnings by now, I did ask you to try and help him with requesting changes in a centralized way rather than making many (dozens, hundreds?) of separate edits of little value that seem to me to be more about making a point than anything constructive). The net new information being added there is "in 1950" and that is anyway in the original wikilink.Selfstudier (talk) 11:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

The net information is a lot more than just the year; it is the differentiation between "rule" and "annexation", which are two different things and took place in different years, as I explained already on the talkpage of the article as well. Whatever Zarc did or should have done, I am not aware of, since all I address is the edit itself, and IMHO it has great value. Debresser (talk) 13:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

As I said , there is more going on here, Zarc opened an RFC (I helped him do it) at the wikilinked annexation article, propsing it be changed to occupation. The rule part is not an innacurate description of the wikilinked annexation article. The point remains that he is attempting this (and other troublesome edits) en masse (which strikes me as a rather odd thing to be doing, I assume he is working through some kind of list). As things stand, it remains for Zarc to justify (and to the extent that he is cherrypicking from a wikilinked article, then it needs independent sourcing) his editing, you and he would like it in (even if he would like it in in many many places and you only in one) and Huldra and I (I think some others also reverted him elsewhere for the same edit) would like it out ie return to the stable version of many years. If it really is such a big issue (and I do not think it is, it is barely even a minor issue) then we ought to set up an RFC at the central point to resolve it (we have in fact asked him to do this on many occasions and he claims an inability to do so).Selfstudier (talk) 15:44, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Debresser: the annexation part was first introduced by User:Zarcademan12345 on March 4, 2020 ...he has been putting similar phrases into literally hundreds and hundreds of West Bank places.

I have asked him countless of times to start a RfC or equivalent, before he goes on a rampage of editing ...but it has been like talking to a stone. The worst case of WP:IDIDN'THEARTHAT that I have come across on wp for at least a decade.

My objection to it, is that he is WP:CHERRYPICKING info out of the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank article. I could of course cherrypick info out of, say the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, but I think we agree: (I hope we agree!) ..that controversial info should be in as few articles as possible (where all the info regarding any controversy can be presented)...and then we can link to those articles.

Of course, if Zarc got a the approval of a RfC, I would off course follow that. But what he is doing now: just forcing HIS view on wp with tons of edits.....that is not a good way to proceed in the IP area, to put it very diplomatically, Huldra (talk) 21:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I understand that the way he went about this might not be okay, but I think that in this specific case the edit is a good one, and I frankly have not yet heard one argument from anybody why the edit is not good. Debresser (talk) 22:11, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Debresser: Cherrypicking?? Huldra (talk) 22:14, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

The edit shows the consecutive phases: first rule, then annexation. I think it adds important information. Why do you call this cherrypicking? Especially since cherrypicking has a negative connotation, and I see nothing negative about this edit. Debresser (talk) 22:21, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

This discussion should probably go under Talk:Battir, but as I have said before: the view of the Jordanian era (1948-67) are...many, and some controversial. If we link to the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, everything should be there. (Again, I could pick something out of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and put that in each and every West Bank village..alas, that is a recipe for edit-wars). Again, since this is relevant for hundreds of articles: please start a RfC if you find it important, Huldra (talk) 22:29, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

I agree, the point of a wikilink is so as to avoid the need for for cherry picking. Otherwise every cherrypicked datum needs to be re-sourced. In any case, the general issue needs an RFC, even if it were resolved for one page, that does not mean automatic application to every other. I notice these edits are still being made, I think we are being forced to dispute resolution (again).Selfstudier (talk) 09:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I made an RFC on Zarcademan behalf since he says that he is unable to do it himself. HereSelfstudier (talk) 10:36, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

"Came under the rule of" implies something totally different than "annexation." The former suggests the possibility of consent or agreement, the latter clearly does not. The sources describe an annexation almost universally. Z's edits are much more faithful to the sources than yours, yet you accuse Z of trying to "prove a point" and use that as a justification for edit-warring across dozens of articles? Why shouldn't I report you at AE for this? Wikieditor19920 (talk) 17:45, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't know if this is addressed to me or to Huldra. In any case I have pointed you to the relevant RFC, go there if you have something to add.Selfstudier (talk) 17:52, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Selfstudier: You seem to be a participant in this dispute as well. I am addressing my comment to Huldra, who has reverted Zarcademan across dozens of articles despite the fact that his additions properly reflect language universally used in reliable sources. You have opened an RfC that suggests there is a problem with using this language, and your and Huldra's edits add language that is more ambiguous and suggests something not supported by the sources. Using legitimate Wiki processes to create the appearance of a legitimate content dispute where the sources are unambiguous and the proposed addition clearly conforms with the source is disruptive. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Please don't start pinging me again, I have told you about this before. The only editor with disruptive warnings up to now is Zarcademan, look at his talk page. The RFC is a solution to the edit warring, not an excuse for you to "get involved".Selfstudier (talk) 17:59, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I see a bunch of warnings from you, Nableezy, and Huldra, all centered on content disputes, and an AE filing with no action taken. And here, Zarcadeaman123456 has the better of the argument because his language is explicitly supported by sources. You should not be misusing template warnings to the extent that you are to bully editors you disagree with, and edit-warring across these articles over language that is clearly WP:V, and replacing it with suggestive language non-compliant with NPOV, is a serious problem. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 18:04, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

You forgot the warning from Zero. I am sure Zarcademan will be pleased to have you as his public defender. We done now?Selfstudier (talk) 18:10, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

@Selfstudier: We've been done. I'd like to hear from Huldra why they are edit-warring across multiple articles. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

That's up to her, meanwhile you have once again pinged me after I have requested you to cease doing so. I can see that you and civility are merely casual acquaintances. Why don't you go back to doing bios, you seem to know what you are doing there?Selfstudier (talk) 18:17, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

I've made clear to the user above that any further personal attacks or battleground behavior will result in my requesting an interaction ban. In the meantime, my question to Huldra about why edit-warring across over a dozen articles, over content that appears to be verifiably supported in the sources, is appropriate still stands. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 17:28, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Infobox

Is there a standard infobox for Israeli settlements? I noticed that for Barkan (it's still a settlement, just the type is industrial (IZ)) is a dog's breakfast (West Bank, Israel). I changed the short desc, that was showing Israel as well, but the infobox is all wrong.Selfstudier (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Help with an athlete?

Hi! I'm not sure if you could help or not, but I'm working to get the Kenyan athlete Augustus Kavutu added to Wikipedia. I saw you were a part of Africa-related projects. A student of mine drafted the article, but it has been proposed for deletion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Augustus_Mbusya_KavutuComm260 ncu (talk) 01:42, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Do you have the book "The Lord's Land" by Henry B. Ridgaway?

"The Lord's Land: A Narrative of Travels in Sinai, Arabia, Petraea, and Palestine, from the Red Sea to the Entering in of Hamath", New York 1876.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 13:22, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

To editor Bolter21: Here it is. Zero^talk 13:34, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Much thanks.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 13:47, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

And Huldra if I am overflowing your talkpages with requests for 19th century sources please say.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 13:48, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Bolter21: not at all, (I am just rather busy at the moment, and may be late in answering, though), cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Violations of Wikipedia policy

Please cease and desist using “segregation” as you did at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaba%27,_Jerusalem

It violates Wikipedia NPOV.

Also, “were taken”...? Again, as I said at beitar Illit, what does adding these two words add to comprehension of article? as “were taken” obv implied by “confiscate” Zarcademan123456 (talk) 05:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Also you edited with false edit summary is not merely a "ce" but extensive POV changes --Shrike (talk) 07:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Shrike and Zarcademan123456: as I told Sir Joseph, the source actually calls it a segregation wall. Since the source says segregation wall we need to use the term. The NPOV solution is to use both as at Israeli West Bank barrier. Huldra, please use edit summaries more accurately. Doug Weller talk 10:06, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug Weller, What about when source use Samaria instead West Bank? Also the source is clearly partisan shouldn't we use neutral terms per WP:NPOV? --Shrike (talk) 10:48, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug Weller, It was already advised by AE admins[19] now to use such terms she was not sanctioned because it was not discussed with her now it is. Shrike (talk) 10:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Folks, a title for the wall has already been chosen for Wikipedia. It is: Israeli West Bank barrier. Use WP:RM, if you wish to change that. Using a redirect to accommodate this or that source seems unusual. Sure, there can be secondary names in that article, and there are, but different articles ought to reflect the consensus title. Consistency with the title is preferred. Quotes may be piped, but otherwise, avoid redirect. El_C 11:06, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, The problem you and Doug Weller give a contradictory remarks(and btw its fence at least 90% of it) Shrike (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

On further thought, if local components of the wall (or fence, or whatever) are titled uniquely, piping may also be okay. At its heart, that would make it a content dispute on how to assign due weight to what. I don't see how misrepresentation of sources come into effect for that (again, not a quote) passage, and by extension any DS enforcement pertaining to this dispute in its present form. El_C 11:13, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Shrike, that's mostly too terse to be useful. El_C 11:15, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, So you suggestion is not clear most WP:NPOV way is to use our name especially if the source use partisan terms --Shrike (talk) 11:20, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, Do you propose to use quotes when quoting not neutral terms? Shrike (talk) 11:16, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I support building consensus on Wikipedia that ends up reflecting the consensus in academia and the mainstream. An effort toward that end is encouraged. Deciding when to quote and when to use original prose is part of the process. Deciding what are "neutral terms" is also part of that process. El_C 11:21, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, Such consensus was already was built when we decided the article name Shrike (talk) 11:26, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Doug Weller There is nothing in Wikipedia policy that says we must use the precise terms of our sources. Rather the other way around, we are encouraged to paraphrase and use our own words when writing articles. Debresser (talk) 11:14, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

(edit conflict) My point was that if a source says one thing we shouldn't say the opposite, so to speak. The source used the term in a section heading and the first sentence is that section is "The Israeli Segregation Wall Plan has had a negative and destructive impact on Jaba' village."@Shrike: how is the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem clearly partisan? That same link shows that it's widely used. As I said, we should use both, as both terms are disputed by the other side. Choosing to use only a term not used in the source, that seems pretty pov. User:El C, it's not a quote but still... and there's nothing suggesting that the term is a local one, or at least nothing I could find. Debresser, I agree we paraphrase, but that doesn't avoid the pov issue, unless you are actually arguing that one term is pov, the other not? Doug Weller talk 11:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug Weller, Its a pro-Palestinian NGO with clear agenda its not some independent university its not clear on what they base the data and how much its reliable --Shrike (talk) 11:25, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

@Shrike: it doesn't say that in its title, nor was that agreed in the RSN discussion.[20] - you need to go back to RSN, otherwise it's just your opinion - which may be correct, but I don't see sources stating that. Doug Weller talk 11:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug Weller, It was also not agreed that its reliable the only no regular of WP:ARBPIA that commented was very sceptical of this source.The WP:ONUS are on those who want to add it Shrike (talk) 11:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug, both sounds like a good compromise, if you're able to elegantly accomplish that in the prose. El_C 11:38, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Doug Weller, And the Israeli term is Anti-Terrorist fence[21] does it ok to use it? Shrike (talk) 11:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

That's not גדר ההפרדה. El_C 11:48, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, The source is clearly says otherwise anyhow Israeli West Bank barrier is not Israel term like Doug said .Its was a NPOV compromise Shrike (talk) 11:53, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

The Israeli term is "the separation fence" (גדר ההפרדה). Yes, the Israeli West Bank barrier is the title chosen on Wikipedia. El_C 11:58, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, So for example this source use anti-terrorist fence does it OK to use it or no? Shrike (talk) 12:01, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, I reread your first response its not for local components the source never use some other term. Shrike (talk) 12:02, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Usage is to be determined by discussion. I don't see how it's practical to use three terms, but I suppose it is in the realm of possibilities. El_C 12:08, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Fence, lol. Tell Banksy not to write on the fence.Selfstudier (talk) 12:12, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, So to summarize this discussion what you as uninvolved admin propose? Shrike (talk) 12:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I propose you discuss usage of the term/s on the article talk page, keeping in mind that the primary title on the English Wikipedia is Israeli West Bank barrier. El_C 12:19, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, so we now have to use a term because a pro-Palestinian source uses it, even though it's not neutral and violates Wikipedia article policy and consensus? I just want to make sure we have the new policy you and Doug just made up. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 12:25, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

You don't have to use either a pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli terms. You could use neither, or both. That's what article talk page discussion is for. Again, the primary title on the English Wikipedia is Israeli West Bank barrier. El_C 12:29, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

El C, right, Huldra was the one who redirected to segregation wall, and I got a notice by Doug for reverting that. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 12:44, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I disagree with Doug in this instance (which doesn't happen often) about the notice and I invite all participants to advance their arguments on the article talk page. Yes, two uninvolved admins can disagree. It happens. El_C 12:48, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

If I am allowed my 2 cents, I would always use the WP article term unless a Rsource is using something else which should be quoted and probably attributed as well.Selfstudier (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Selfstudier, We need a consistent policy one way or another --Shrike (talk) 12:31, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Well how would you deal with this?Selfstudier (talk) 12:35, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

There is no policy that addresses this that I am aware of. Local consensus should decide usage. If you want a wider policy discussion, you can use Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). El_C 12:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

If its WP:DUE to explain Zegler views we of course should use the term "Apartheid fence" or any other term but in this case it was not used to explain ARIJ views like I say the policy should be consistent either we use terms used by source someone view or we should use wiki article titles when we when we not explain someone view and in this case no pipe links --Shrike (talk) 12:39, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

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For the benefit of Huldra's talk page, please continue the discussion on the article talk page. Thank you in advance, everyone. El_C 12:45, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

• Good Lord, what a storm in a teacup.
• Some points: the RS/N was from 2017, in 2018 we had a RfC, see Talk:Jabel_Mukaber#External_links, and note what closing admin llywrch says about ARIJ
• Out of laziness (I admit!) I often use the exact phrase used in a source, and then make a redir (if it doesn't already exists). Typically it is for names (as names originally in Arabic/Hebrew can be written in English in so many, many ways). (Of my 50 last edits, I see that 5 of them are redirs: I have made thousands). Of course, if anyone change the redir to the "Official name", I do not re-introduce the redir. So if anyone change segregation wall into Israeli West Bank barrier; fine. Just like I wouldn't undo anyone editing Hamza Abdouh changing Raed Awisat to Rad Aweisat (just to mention a redir just did.)
• Ahem, I have seen that when I have changed Israel War of Independence to the "official name", namely 1947–1949 Palestine war, then that has often been undone. There are presently 24 links to Israel War of Independence.
• As for my edit of Jaba', Jerusalem: why I edited it was to change After -> Since. (First word in the "Post-1967" section). Then I saw that Zarcademan123456 had edited, introducing spelling errors ("Israeli seperation wall" (my bolding)), in addition to removing the word "confiscated" (which is the word ARIJ and numerous other sources use, but Zarcademan123456 does not like). So yes, I undid it (and yeah: I should have used a more instructive edit-line than "ce")
• Also, Zarcademan123456 was cautioned at AE in March this year: "Zarcademan123456 is cautioned against making mass changes when these involve contested edits. Similar problems are likely to be met with sanctions next time."
• However, that is exactly what he continues to do: make hundreds of similar edits all over the West Bank villages, without getting the consensus first. Apparently admins are unable to stop this disruptive behaviour, (looking at his talk-page I get the impression of the worst case of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT that I have seen in years), Huldra (talk) 21:44, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Important source

I never see used. Félix-Marie Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, 2 vols. I downloaded one of his massive studies on Jerusalem finding it effortlessly, but couldn't find in it what I was looking for. But in any case, do you know if the above study has been made available for internet access? It probably has material, for one, on wadi qana. Cheers Nishidani (talk) 17:42, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Nishidani: when Shrike started the Félix-Marie Abel article 2 years ago, I did quite extensive search for (publicly) available works. Géographie de la Palestine was not available then, and I cannot find (publicly available) today, either. "Gallica" would have been my first bet, but it only have his works on Hebron and Emmaus: link,

Hard-copies are actually available at the local library for me (both the 1930s and the 1967 editions), but the libraries are all covid-19 closed  :/ Huldra (talk) 21:09, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

No. Even if they are there, I wouldn't get anyone to do my 'dirty' work of drudgery. In any case, had I not a million other things to do, I could certainly read them in any number of Roman libraries, through one contact or another, were this covid business not afoot. I didn't look into the history, but it is very commendable that Shrike prompted the wiki bio. His books are detailed and voluminous to gather from the Jerusalem one I downloaded. Thanks and, keep safe.Nishidani (talk) 22:19, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

To editor Nishidani: I have vol 1 in closed-19 library. Vol 2 is a catalogue of locations and you might like to watch your mailboxes. Zero^talk 01:57, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks maestro (di color che sanno). I began examining vol.2 on rising at sparrow fart, and finding the emailed copy. As they say in Aussie pubs on such occasions,'nuf ta givva a boffin yobbo the horn', which however, wouldn't be quite appropriate on mother's day (apologies to Ms.H for my congenital vulgarity - especially in the disgusting Franco-Latin Joycean pun in 'con-genital, now that I think of it).Nishidani (talk) 04:19, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Jisr el-Majami

On 17 May 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jisr el-Majami, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Italy helped to renovate a bridge between Israel and Jordan? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jisr el-Majami), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

West Bank editing

Since West Bank is not available for editing because of vandalising, and you've edited it several times lately, I said maybe you're the right person to refer to. I'd aprecciate if if you check out the talk page at West Bank, specifically "Replacing or adding new imagery where needed?", and tell me.what you think, It'd be awesome. And you'd also be helping some of my work get through. I'll be contacting some other editors of the article also for a broader opinion. SoWhAt249 (talk) 21:48, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

User:SoWhAt249  Done, Huldra (talk) 23:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I hope this won't be causing any problems for you. I can't express how happy I am right now. It took me long to finish the map and now I can finally see it put to good use. I hope to touch up on it when I get a new computer, and start mapping other regions. Again, thank you. SoWhAt249 (talk) 20:46, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for your very kind help with my edit suggestion regarding the Palestinian localities destroyed in 1948!

Bustan1498 (talk) 23:53, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I want to update you with some issues. It has been a long time since my last edit suggestion. There are few reasons why. One is that I was really busy too (I'm a student).

The second reason is the absord situation in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Most of the editors there simply refuse to write that these villages are Palestinian, and rather simply define them as Arab! Of course some of them are not fond of the use of Khalidi. This absord situation reached its peak yesterday, when somebody translated the Village files article and earased (!) all references to Pappé's works. His explanation was that he doesn't approve Pappé's anti-Zionist views.

Thank you so much for your help again. You can always ask me for some help if you need (I can help you translate from Hebrew, for example). Bustan1498 (talk) 00:05, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: ah, kittens! I love cats, thank you!

Also, don't think everything is "straight sailing" on en.wp, either. We eg had to have a WP:RfC for this: Talk:Kfar Ahim#RfC: Arab vs. Palestinian?. My only advice for he.wp: take it to a WP:RfC: hopefully(?) editors will listen to good arguments.

One thing you could do, if you edit he.wp, is to translate their history from en.wp to he.wp. When the articles for the Palestinian-Aranb places in Israel were started, they were often copied straight from he.wp, and their history was typically that they were "founded by the Bedouin in the 1920s". It turned out some of them had a 1000 year documented history.. So if you (or someone) could translate the history of say, Rumana, Israel, Tamra, Jezreel Valley, Taibe, Galilee etc to he.wp: it would be great! (And remove all those unsourced theories of places connected with the Bible, etc)

Also: lots of present Israel cities have a long pre-Yishuv history, which I believe is mostly ignored on he.wp. If someone could add the pre-Yishuv history to the he.wp versions of say, Kiryat Ata, Afula, Merhavia (kibbutz), Petah Tikva, Beit HaShita -it would be great!

Again, thank you for your work! Huldra (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

[User:Huldra]] thanks for all your suggestions.

I read the discussion in Talk:Kfar Ahim#RfC: Arab vs. Palestinian? and found some good arguments there. At the same time, I'm afraid some editors in Hebrew Wikipedia couldn't care less and just won't change their mind, no matter how your argument is good. See, I can feel how they feel uncomfortable with even mentioning those destroyed localities, and therefore try to find excuses to harm this mentioning. Lately, one that was against Khalidi, offered that we should write in articles about modern Israeli settelments only about Palestinian (or 'Arab' as he wrote) villages that was exactly on the modern settelment's site, and there is a use of its structures. This is how bad, absord and pathetic the situation is.

Nevertheless, I really like your translation suggestions, and plan to make them when I have some times. Indeed, this part of history simply does not appear in Hebrew Wikipedia in too mant cases. Take for example Kiryat Ata - there is no reference to the long history of the site, and the article just mentioned Kiryat Ata was founded in 1925 on land of Kufritta bought from the "Effendi" (It's worth mentioning that one thing I have noticed is that in Hebrew Wikipedia, many editors really like to mention lands that were bought, but resent any mentioning of the many localities depopulated in 1948 and afterwards...).

Thanks again for your kind help and suggestions! Bustan1498 (talk) 07:28, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: I have been here on en.wp nearly 15 years now, and it has been long, slooooooow work. But I recall that during my first years here, eg someone arguing that Suba, Jerusalem was empty after the Crusaders until 1948 (apparently that was what the Israeli guide-books said). I don't think anyone here would state that today(?) And the Peki'in-article existed for years, 100% about its Jewish history, 0% about the non-Jewish history, and some though that was perfectly fine, (see Talk:Peki'in). And until a year ago Petah Tikva looked like this: ie absolutely nothing between the Crusader era and the Jewish settlement.

Also; the I/P area here on en.wp has been plagued by people with an agenda, and lots of recruiting by pro-Israeli groups (including by the Yesha Council) i.o.t edit Wikipedia. I recall one such group, CAMERA, being advised that "whenever you see something negative about an Arab: start an article about them!" See Category talk:Palestinian people (I have never heard of any such recruiting from the Palestinian side).

As for buying land pre-1948; that was (mostly) from absentee landlords, typically Kiryat Ata from the Sursock family.

The only thing one can do is to "fight" with facts, and good sources (see WP:RS). Walid Khalidi is a professor and historian; I don't see that anyone can deny using him as a source.

If you translate some of the history of the above-mentioned places to the he.wp: then you would be doing a great job, indeed.

Also: if a place is mentioned in the 1596 census: then that history should definitely be in the article (see User:Huldra/HA for the list)

Also: if you translate the Template:Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus to he.wp: then you would be doing a great job: Lots of the "48-articles" (= Palestinian villages which became depopulated in the 1948 war) have articles on he.wp, but that template is not translated. (You can see which languages have a corresponding article by looking at the left hand side; eg Bayt Mahsir has an article in ar.wp. he.wp, Polish wp. and Urdu.wp), Anyway, good luck with whatever you do! Huldra (talk) 21:53, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions! I looked at your amazing work in Wikipedia, and I just want to deeply thank you for it. The examples you mentioned here are very impressive indeed, for example, and give some hope.

Right now, the situation in Hebrew Wikipedia is horrible. There is an anti Khalidi lobby there, claiming he is not objective and not a credible source (but using researches done by researchers from the Hagana archive and by other Zionist researchers is objective, of course...). Some use the cricism of Moshe Brawer without really understanding it and the simple facts about this important book. Other just want to delete all edits based on Khalidi, which means earasing (again) the Palestinian history.

Hopefully things would be better. I do want to make your great edit suggestions in Hebrew.

Thanks a lot and good luck, Bustan1498 (talk) 22:15, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: One Brawer-quote about Khalidi has been extensively discussed at Talk:Walid_Khalidi#Dr_Brawer_quote; in short: Brawer mis-quoted... Also, I have literally checked hundreds of the sources that Khalidi has used: he is rarely wrong (but see User:Huldra/Khalidi &Petersen): in general: he is not wrong more often than, say, Benny Morris, Huldra (talk) 22:31, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Huldra Thank you so much!!! Amazing works! I don't know how to say how impressed I am... Keep doing the well-researched work that makes Wikipedia much more rich and reliable :) Bustan1498 (talk) 22:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

BTW Is it OK / do you want me to quote what you said and add those link in the Hebrew Wikipedia discussion? Bustan1498 (talk) 22:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: off course you can use them (Btw, this page is "watched" by 148 editors: anything I (or anyone else(!) writes here is hardly a secret ) Huldra (talk) 22:56, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Great, and thank you so much again! Bustan1498 (talk) 23:14, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498 Btw: I see a huge difference between the mistakes that Khalidi (or Morris) have made vs the mistake that Brawer did: I have never seen Khalidi make a deliberate mistake, (eg using the 1596 data on Kafr 'Ana from p.119, instead of using the correct data on p. 156, or mixing up the SWP-info (see Talk:Hadatha): it makes no sense to say that those mistakes were deliberate. The same with Benny Morris (see eg s#127): again: I don't for a second believe that was a deliberate mistake from Morris). But what Brawer did ("doctoring" the quote from the 1945 statistics) must have been deliberate,  :-( Huldra (talk) 23:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! This is very severe (and sad) indeed. Bustan1498 (talk) 00:15, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi again, I saw a discussion in your talk page about al-Ma'in and the exhibition about it. Here you could find an interesting video about the exhibition (I also recommend this channel in general). Bustan1498 (talk) 01:11, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Huldra I invite you to see the hysteria your info caused among some history deniers in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Very funny and sad at the same time (you could use automatic translation by Google, and I would love to translate you anything you need - it is the last discussion in the forum): https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9F#%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93_%D7%97%27%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99_%E2%80%93_%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91_%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%94%2C_%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%93_%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%92%D7%96%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%AA_%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95 Bustan1498 (talk) 14:06, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: the thing is; you can easily spend nearly 100% of your time in the I/P area just discussing, BUT: if you do: You will not get anything done.

Having Khalidi as a source is obviously a case worth fighting for, but please don't get too distracted by "noice" (all WP:PA, etc)

As for having other sources about whose land settlements were build on: we have the list in the start of the Morris 2004 book, see User:Huldra/Morris2-list. BUT: Morris only mention which former Palestinian village was near, he doesn't look at the jurisdiction, ie, what village the land actually belonged to, For that you need Khalidi. (Often they agree; the nearest village also had the jurisdiction: those cases should be the easy ones,) Good luck! Huldra (talk) 23:12, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks User:Huldra! You are so right... People there have nothing to say, so they started an Ad hominem attack against us. It really couldn't be more pathetic. One even blamed us we are the same person because we edited Beit Zayit on the same day (both in Hebrew and English Wikipedia). XD Of course he didn't bother to check the talk page and see my requset there. Anyway, there was exactly 0% reference in their comments to the content in my message, meaning all the material you kindly gave me.

Now they are trying to raise a proposal, that we should only mention localities built exactly on the village site, and which there is a current use of facilities belonged to the depopulated village. This is how they are afraid of mentioning those depopulated villages.

Let us hope for more reasonable days. I want to deeply thank you for all your help. I really do feel that I found a friend and an ally here. In any way I plan to check all the localities in Khalidi's book, and will notify anytime I see info not mentioned in Wikipedia.

Best regards and keep doing your simply amazing work, Bustan1498 (talk) 23:34, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: anyone looking for facts (and not propaganda) has many allies on en.wp (unfortunately, those looking for propaganda also have some :-( ). Anyway, it would be very strange indeed, if he.wp does not allow Khalidi as a source: any academic in the English world dealing with these issues use him as a source. Including Benny Morris and Andrew Petersen, of course, So what academics in the English world use, is not good enough for he.wp? Huldra (talk) 23:49, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

I think some of the more serious ones in he.wp understand that he's a reliable source (but I'm not sure they are the majority...). One of the users tried to claim that "Khalidi is not a well known academic and thus his research should be overlooked" (yea, I know: WTF?). He just couldn't care less that the reality is completely different, and this caused endless discussions with no point. Bustan1498 (talk) 00:17, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for butting in. To attempt to invalidate Khalidi for his (rarely) errant documentation is, historically, rather comical. The massive effort by the Palestinian diaspora in Lebanon to compile and conserve detailed documentation on what actually happened in the nakba was systematically looted by Israel itself, when not physically destroyed in several 'operations' designed to that end. In the 1982 invasion of Lebanon alone, a large portion of the archive of the Institute for Palestine Studies -microfilms, manuscripts and some 25,000 volumes -was trucked back to Israel (as on other occasions, much of the material in Jerusalem and other cities and towns in Palestine was sacked or simply destroyed). The working conditions of people like Khalidi and several outstanding local historians (like Aref al-Aref) remind me of that scene in Clear and Present Danger where Harrison Ford locks into Ritter's computer and has to race against evaporative time when, while printing out the damning evidence there, he sees it all disappearing as Ritter in the next room in the White House presses the 'delete all' button. An enormous amount of the truth on the ground is, therefore, in Israeli archives, under a 'not accessible' for several decades ban. Complaints should be laid there, not on the Khalidis of this world. In any case, if only there were time, one could write quite a substantial wiki article on the systematic looting or destruction of Palestinian documentation.

Back to work. I am the worst offender here in letting my time for actually factual editing be eroded by talk page necessities or distractions. As Huldra says, alluding to the old dictum, der Teufel steckt im Detail, one should just focus on the patient accumulation of empirical details, a practice of which she is perhaps the most outstanding exponent in Wikipedia.Nishidani (talk) 08:44, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi User:Nishidani and thank you very much for your comment! I 100% agree with you. The all discussion about Khalidi, an excellent historian and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences which defines him as "one of the most prominent and influential Palestinian intellectuals of the modern era" (see here) could not be more pathetic (you should have read the discussion. Long story short, when there are no more arguments, harsh and ugly ad hominem accusations arise). Regarding what you said about Lebanon, I highly recommend watching the film Looted and Hidden - Palestinian Archives in Israel by Rona Sela (she also wrote a very interesting book about this issue, but unfortuntely it's only in Hebrew. But anyway you could find some interesting materials in her website). In this link you could find two links to the movie, one with English captions (the film is in English anyway), and other with Hebrew and Arabic captions. And finally, the advice given by Huldra is always the best. One cannot deny the simple facts.

Thanks a lot and best regards, Bustan1498 (talk) 20:58, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: Yeah, I have seen some good work from Rona Sela.

And a lot could be said about the reliability of certain "scholarship" in the I/P area (see eg note#38 in Tell es-Safi: Avraham Ayalon is still apparently WP:RS on wikipedia)

I have been less than impressed with some editors on he.wp before. I once logged in, getting several alerts from Talk:Khirba. Apparently someone over at he.wp had mentioned that I had written the article Khirba, immediately several editors parroted that on Talk:Khirba, without even checking that I had ever edited the article(!) (I hadn't). Lol!

BUT, in order to have some progress on he.wp: I would advice you to collect all the (Israeli and other) scholars who used/reference Khalidi's 1992 work. (You can eg search books.google.com for "Khalidi" "all that remains", or use https://scholar.google.com (4,430 hits for Walid Khalidi). If you have a list of scholars who use his work: I don't see how he.wp could deny using him (Unless they wilfully want to remain ignorant.) Huldra (talk) 23:41, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Huldra Haha I have already seen this ridiculous talk in Talk:Khirba (someone mentioned it there), it was a lot of entertainment! Excuse me, but this is just a pure example of idiocy. Just to let you know how insane the situation in he.wp is, right now there is a vote there wether the Kahanist party of Otzma Yehudit should be defined as radical/extreme right-wing party, or just as a right-wing party, which is as it is defined now.

Regarding Google Scholar, I tried but nobody listens. One (the most persistent one - it turns out that even the praises of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which Khalidi is one of its fellows, are not enough for him! Even when somebody quoted Israeli historian Yoav Gelber who wrote in one of his book that Khalidi is an important researcher, he prefered to ignore him) even tried to use it against Khalidi, claiming he has no profile there and thus is a no-one (you see what kind of arguments I have to deal with?). He also claimed that Khalidi is not a professor (as far as I know he was professor of Political Studies at the American university of Beirut) and thus no-one (and also, what kind of stupid argument it is? Khalidi worked in the world's most prestigious univesites, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!). It's worth mentioning that this guy has no problem to use articles done by researchers from the Hagana archive whose academic background is completely unclear.

To sum up to this point my experience with he.wp and overall with the Israeli society, I can tell you clearly that the vast majority of people prefer to be ignorant regarding those depopulated localities - and do anything so people will not even know they existed (see Israel's Nakba law for example). Very sad and pathetic indeed.

Wish you all the best, Bustan1498 (talk) 00:38, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry about arguing with obtusity. It is pointless. Unfortunately, most things on Wikipedia are 'resolved' through a numbers game, not, as policy would prefer, through the strength of arguments based on high quality academic sources. At some point one musty grasp that and, rather than allow one's passion for facts to suffer the attrition of talking to people who feign to be deaf (we say here fare orecchie da mercante (behave with a trader's ear) or fare l'indiano(act like an Indian). It is actually a studied technique, to get the serious editor to waste so much time in useless attempts at logical persuasion, that despair or abandoning the encyclopedia will be a result. Surrender, then? No. Really good editing doesn't require one to assume a wiki-focused lifestyle, day in day out. It proves itself by the quiet collection of indubitable, impeccably sourced details over time (one gets an excellent personal education as payback) so that, months or even years down the track, one can present a key edit in such a way that reverting it blindly would be a technical breach. Zero for one has taken several years to make sure a prospective edit he has in mind is anchored so strongly it cannot be controverted. respect your own time when engaged with the project because most people, as generally in life, will not. Forgive my preaching. It's just a useful poker tip.Nishidani (talk) 06:48, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi User:Nishidani, you should not be sorry for nothing. I agree with the essence of what you said. In the end, when your arguments are well based, only a fool or a person who intentionally want to be ignorant, could deny them. We should filter all the negative users who try to harm, and focus on creating good, well researched articles. By looking on the work done by both you and Huldra, I can tell you do great job. :)

Best wishes, Bustan1498 (talk) 19:27, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan149 There is an expression: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink". If they don't accept Khalidi: that is he.wp loss, not Khalidi's. If so, you could perhaps start with the pre-Yishuv history of the places I mentioned above? Huldra (talk) 20:34, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Huldra After today's discussion, it was clearly shown that Khalidi is a great and respected researcher (your advices were very good, btw), and more users supported using Khalidi. It was also shown how hypocritical are the ones against using Khalidi but in favor of using reserachers from the Hagana archive for example, whose academic background is completely unclear. I plan to use both Khalidi and Morris in my future edits, each one whenever appropriate. Also, I definitely plan to make you excellent edit suggestions when I have more time. Best, Bustan1498 (talk) 21:54, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Bustan1498: to those editors who reject Khalidi as a source: ask them if they would accept Avraham Ayalon (1963): "The Givati Brigade Opposite the Egyptian Invader"? (It is in Hebrew). Also read Tell es-Safi and Morris, 2004, p. 436, and note#127, p. 456: Ayalon used a falsified (or as Morris puts it: "laundered") version of the expulsion order. The order said "to destroy, to kill and to expel [lehashmid, leharog, u´legaresh] refugees encamped in the area, in order to prevent enemy infiltration from the east to this important position." Ayalon (according to Morris) said only that the order said "to destroy" (ie he censored out "to kill and to expel"). I have never, ever found anything like this in Khalidi -or Morris. And I assume neither has anyone else: AFAIK both have had their work scrutinised: if there had been falsifications eh, "laundering" like that: it would have been noticed, and Khalidi or Morris would have been Hanged, drawn and quartered (metaphorically speaking) Huldra (talk) 23:01, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Huldra Once again thank you! This is a clear example of a shameful historical distortion. If there is one conclusion I have, is as following: Allways fight with facts. Once again, keep doing the great job - your contributions are invaluable. Best regards, Bustan1498 (talk) 23:19, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Random query

File:Cliff side ruins - panoramio.jpg. Any idea on the ID or location of this ruin? Looks like a maqam but the photo caption doesn’t indicate a precise location. There are a few other pictures in the Commons category of Safed that look old village ruins. —Al Ameer (talk) 02:01, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

To editor Al Ameer son: A precise location is given on the commons page, just to the SW of Safed. Go here. There is a description that I can't read:

שיח' כויס נ.צ. 761870 / 245091 גובה: 394 שיח כּוָּויֵיס Kawayes, עוברת ל"כובס". במקום קבר שיח' עם בנייה בת מאות שנים בלבד. לצד הקבר עץ ברוש גדול. מהמקום נוף יפהפה לאפיק נחל עמוד.

1942 map says tomb for "Esh Sh. Kuweiyis". Zero^talk 02:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

The translation of the Hebrew reads as follows: "Sheikh Kawayes, transitioned to Koves (in Hebrew). In the place there is the tomb of a Sheikh with a structure that is only a few hundred years old. Adjacent to the tomb there is a large cypress tree. From this place there is a beautiful view of the watercourse Wadi (Nahal) 'Amud."(END QUOTE).Davidbena (talk) 02:36, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Al Ameer son: Excellent find! It should go into the Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta-article (it is SW of the village site). See pictures at al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta, Zochrot, and Pal.rem. Incidentally, that is one articles I was "saving up" for a DYK when Tiamut returned, sigh, that might take some time (sigh, again). It is a 1596-village, should we expand it now?? Huldra (talk) 20:36, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

@Zero0000:@Davidbena:@Huldra: Thanks to all for helping identify this site. Is Sheikh Kawayes (Kuweiyis, Kuwayis) an alternative name for the village or is it the name of the person to whom the maqam was dedicated? And yes Huldra, let’s get to work on expansion. I see from your resources pages that in addition to the 16th-century Ottoman records, it’s mentioned in the SWP, but not by Guérin? Never mind I see now that you’ve already gathered an impressive list of sources in the article itself. I’ll see what else I could find. Cheers, Al Ameer (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

@Al Ameer son: I cannot see that it was an alternative name, it is noted on SWP map 4, SSW of the village site, as Sheikh el Kuweiyis, "the pretty sheikh" (Sh. 4, Pf) Palmer, 1881, p. 93. (Hey, that would make a nice DYK-"hook"!) (I'll start expanding as soon as I have cleaned up some of my Guerin-mess), Huldra (talk) 22:54, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

book of Israeli place names

To editor Onceinawhile: To editor Nishidani: This book may help to identity locations. Zero^talk 04:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, also for the help with the village yesterday. The link doesn't work for me. The objection was I was not allowed to go there. Go figure (no don't. I'm sure Once will sort it out). Nishidani (talk) 11:37, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Sending by email. Zero^talk 13:00, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Pillage of Ein Gedi

I don't remember editing that page. Weird. Anyways, yes your reversion is correct.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  17:43, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

• Addendum that edit was over a year ago, so I guess it makes sense that I don't remember. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  17:45, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Arminden

I don't think Arminden has ever had the time, to his good fortune, to immerse himself in the intricacies of sockpuppetry there. They're very much focused on the content, measured against the scholarship. Cheers ( note here because I'm banned at AE for life) Nishidani (talk) 21:38, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Nishidani: I suspect you are right, but this is the I/P area; I don't think any of us have the luxury of totally ignoring everything outside our (narrow) range of interest, (If we had: I for sure would gladly ignore, say all the editing-rules given in WP:ARBPIA4 :) ), Huldra (talk) 21:50, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

I have that 'luxury!. I've never read that page. I read the 5 pillars 15 years and haven't read a single other policy or subpage yet, except when I click on a dubious editor's citation of some wiki subsubsection to see if my leg is being pulled (can a leg be blindsided). I know this is utterly irresponsible, but it's just an infantile streak too strongly rooted in me from the year dot - if anyone told me as a child how to do something, I'd drop what I was doing till they went away, and then, when my autistic autonomy was restored by their absence, rebegin, figuring out my way of doing it. Bad, bad, but at least I learnt to read that way before going to primary school.Nishidani (talk) 06:02, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

@Nishidani: You remind me of a joke I like to tell, though if you ever owned a dog you will know that it is perfectly true: "A complete summary of dog morality is 'do the right thing if a human is watching'". Before you jump on me for comparing you to a dog, I'll mention that I love dogs. Zero^talk 06:46, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

No probs, chief. Our dog Rex 55 years ago would lower its ears, look guilty and walk to the door if, in the laxity of old age, it happened to fart. But I couldn't help being reminded of an analysis I once did of the Confucian concept of shèndú 慎獨. In the Great Learning classic, it is stated that,'the superior man must be watchful over himself when he is alone.' ('superior man' as a translation of jūnzǐ 君子, is not what it looks like in English, but no time for details except that it means someone who by long training and study can execute a public role with probity). This utterance affords a counter-example to the idea that people raised in shame cultures can't feel guilt - an inner sense of wrongdoing independent of outside eyes- since here acting properly is wholly detached from being directly observed by others. One can feel shame even if no one else has the slightest inkling of some wholly private transgression one might engage in (not only solitary vice!). What is interesting is that Judah bar Ezekiel pronounced that 'Wherever the sages have forbidden (an action) because of appearances marit ayin(i.e., how it might be perceived in pubic, it also) is forbidden even in the innermost chambers (i.e., in strictest privacy).' (Beitza 9a) cited Ronald L. Eisenberg, Essential Figures in the Talmud, Jason Aronson New York 2013 p.144. Unfortunately mishnayot in the Palestinian Talmud weren't happy with it, and rejected the teaching. Nishidani (talk) 08:29, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Actually, the Palestinian Talmud (aka Jerusalem Talmud) would agree with that teaching found in the Babylonian Talmud, viz. "Wherever the Sages have prohibited a thing because of 'appearance sake,' even behind closed doors (lit. in chambers within chambers) it is still prohibited." [Babylonian Talmud, Betza 9a] = Hebrew: כל מקום שאסרו חכמים מפני מראית העין אפילו בחדרי חדרים אסור, since this rabbinic teaching is derived from a biblical verse that states: "...and you shall be guiltless before the Lord and before Israel" (Numbers 32:22), meaning, we are not permitted to do anything that makes others suspect us of wrongdoing. "Chillul Hashem" (profaning God's name) is its antithesis. Jews are enjoined not to do anything that might be construed by onlookers as inconsistent with our renown as representatives of God's Divine law. The Jerusalem Talmud, I would think, agrees wholly with this notion. Still, even the Babylonian Talmud seems to acknowledge that there is a dispute over the matter where no wrongdong is done at all by that person, and neither is he being watched by others, that it is not necessary for that person to take such extreme measures of propriety for propriety's sake.Davidbena (talk) 15:40, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

My remark came from a secondary source, David, and I don't think you have grasped the distinction on which my observation is based implicitly. Rabbis frequently dispute(d) among themselves and still do, as to the 'correct' interpretation of scripture. After Ruth Benedict, the distinction between a shame culture and a guilt culture became a major theme of anthropology. This distinction tended to be eurocentric, but proved heuristically useful in evaluating to what degree any culture's socializing patterns conduce to internal self-regulation (guilt), and in what measure, morality remained closely bound up with social censure, fear of others (shame). You can't let a leg into classical Greece, or Rome, without grasping how important the pending menace of 'being shamed' and of 'honour codes' was to those societies. The same is true of Levantine, West Asian polities, Palestine included. Shame and honour are, in numerous cultures, linked to humiliation (2 Samuel 19:3 uses כָּלַם of people's feelings after the victory that led to Absalom's death, i.e. a public sentiment, because David himself was 'ashamed', and felt compelled to mourn.)

When Christ, as a Jew, is subject to a test to see whether he will honour the Mosaic code that compels the stoning of a women caught in adultery,he creates a dilemma for his fellow Jews by saying that only he among the crowd who is 'sinless' (ἀναμάρτητος) should 'cast the first stone.' (John 8:7) This means that, for him, we are to assume that notwithstanding the burden of the law, what determines judgment should not be a mechanical application of a received punishment careless of context, but the conscience of those who apply it. A person who has mentally whored after women, though not known publicly to fornicate, cannot lapidate a woman convicted of adultery. For to do so, someone who is externally pious, but entertains lascivious desires, is a hypocrite, and cannot therefore be said to be faithful to the Mosaic covenant. That was a key point of contention between Jewish paleo-Christians and the 'Pharisees' and one reason why that word has a pejorative meaning in modern languages. This famous scene disrupts antiquity, because it makes 'guilt' (qua inner sense of sin) take pride of place over 'shame' (qua doing what everyone does, or what is expected of one). And this point, the psychology of sin and its collateral effects on public and private manners, is precisely what another Jew some centuries afterwards, Judah bar Ezekiel, was concerned with.(Perhaps this reflects a meditation on points made by Christianizing Jews of his acquaintance, as was often the case, even though that sect might not be mentioned, as modern scholarship allows) There is no virtue in merely appearing to scrupulously observe halakha, and maintain 'face' before you co-religionists: the virtue emerges when that observance is reflexive, carried out also when absolutely no one can be aware that you, in your heart of hearts, suffer from temptations to transgress.

Citing from Numbers 32:22 doesn't help. The word you translate the original with, 'guiltless', prejudices the issue: it is 'נְקִיִּ֛ים, 'clean of, free of' (sin), before (i.e., in their sight) the Lord and the people (of the covenant of God and Israel) if you follow his command, he says, and conquer Canaan, your sentiments won't be blemished. That is, you will be perceived as 'blameless' since you honoured an oath to God and his people (God is watching you, and your fellow tribesmen are also). This reflects a shame culture, where, if a public covenant is broken, the transgressor is humiliated. What you did will be known, and this induces a sense of 'sin', a word in early cultures that does not necessarily connote 'guilt' in the post-Kantian sense.

A lay conception always looks more broadly, in handling concepts, than a religious approach tends to do. It casts the net wide to see how different cultures approach common problems, as I did in comparing the Chinese concept to that associated with one rabbi in the Talmud. A religious approach tends just to look at the internal, closed canon of traditional texts, and tries to sort out incongruencies, or differences, but reasoning towards some generic principle in a third-level synthesis. As someone raised in a religious culture, who found too many internal contradictions, and bossy authority prevailing, I found that the secular comparativist approach is far more illuminating. If I want to understand a passage in the Tanakh, I don't just examine the internal chain of tradition harnessed to it (believers and teachers of the belief system talking only among themselves, with one cultural mindset), but look at the words used, the concepts developed, over as many other cultures as I can familiarize myself with, esp. in this case, all of the evidence from similar semitic societies, to clarify what a key word like 'shame' or 'honour' or 'guilt' meant to those who actually lived in that time and its context. What people within it thought a thousand years later is interesting, but rarely historically accurate.Nishidani (talk) 17:33, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

First, I love the way that you diacritically look at things. You seem to have a natural forte for doing so, which, at many times, can help you see things more objectively, if not spot on. Yeshar koach!!! We need more people with critical demeanors, as you have, without of course being excessive in that quality. Without sounding sanctimonious, Hebrew cannot always be translated verbatim, as there are idioms used in the Hebrew language, while sometimes one word used in the Hebrew language is best explained by another word in the English language, based on its underlying meaning (e.g. והייתם נקיים), which has nothing to do with "bodily cleanliness," but a condition of non-suspicion and of being guiltless or blameless. As for the "secondary source" which you quoted, I understand you. Still, on Talk Pages, I would think, you could easily make use of a primary source without jeopardizing your standing, especially when a secondary source may have caused you to err. Look at the Jerusalem Talmud (Shekalim 3:2 [8a]), where it agrees with the Babylonian Talmud (Yoma 38a). Both speak about not doing anything that may arouse the suspicions of others, citing Numbers 32:22. Anyway, you are right to be broad minded and not to limit yourself to one, narrow source. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 09:26, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Hebrew, it was often said, was the Adamic vernacular. There is a very good book on this by George Steiner, "After Babel(1976). But, as scholars wrote down the 6,000 surviving languages, and developed comparative linguistics, the characteristics we associated with one language, or culture, as distinctive, stopped being so. There's was good joke about this that circulated in the 1920s:

‘Five men of five nations. . went elephant hunting in Africa, each of whom wrote about upon his return. The Englishman called his book ‘The elephant, his life and habits’; the Frenchman, ‘Étude sur l’éléphant et ses amours’; the American, ‘In Favor of Bigger and Better Elephants’; the German, ‘The Metaphysics and World Weariness of the elephant’; the Pole, ‘The elephant and the Polish Question’.’ Cited thus in Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, Random House, New York, 1976 p.12

Nitobe Inazō, a Japanese scholar of distinction, lecturing in the US a decade later, adapted this to make a point about Japan. A Japanese in such a group would write about:

‘

The duties and domestication of the elephant’ Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously, Athlone Press, London 1987 p.182

Uri Avnery gave a different Jewish spin on this. The version he recounted later runs:

‘That reminds me of the German, the Frenchman, the Englishman and the Jew who decided to write about elephants. The German goes to Africa, returns after ten years and composes a five-volume tome: "A Foreword to a General Introduction to the Origins of the African Elephant". The Frenchman comes back after half a year and writes a slim and elegant volume: "The Love Life of Elephants". The Englishman returns after a week and produces a booklet: "How to Hunt Elephants". The Jew stays at home and writes an essay about "the Elephant and the Jewish Question". ’ Uri Avnery, 'Obama and the Order of the Optimists’, Counterpunch November 3,2008

You see, just from this small selection, everyone is using the same story but spinning it one way or another to put forward their notion of what is distinctive about their own people compared to others. None of these stereotypes is valid, though this doesn't ruin the fun.

So to reply to your point. Yes, 'Hebrew cannot always be translated verbatim,' and neither can any other language, sacred or otherwise. Perhaps a thousands languages even had a sacred subset - a secret language only the initiated men could use among themselves, like the fish language (Damin) of the Lardil people. In any case, in philology, there are two sides to the coin, when you try to work out what another word means in an old language. One is internal inference from existing usage. The other is to examine the evidence from other languages in the same general group. The most extraordinary example I witnessed of this was when at question time, Cyrus Gordon and a Haredi rabbi spoke for 2 minutes, in an exchange that consisted solely of chapter and verse quotations in the Tanakh. 'True, prof., at Numbers ch.verse.. it means this, however, in Exodus to the contrary (chapter verse) we have a difference'.'Quite true,my friend, but Exodus c/v can't be understood except in terms of Deuternomy c/v...' In the end, Gordon, well, I wouldn't blemish my memory of that wonderfully erudite rabbi and his outstanding memory, by saying Gordon won the argument, but he did show that the word in question had reflexes in north-western Semitic, and Ugaritic, and that the reconstruction of the proto-form of the word from the recently excavated Ugaritic records threw much light on otherwise obscure uses of its reflexes in the lashon hakodesh, light which could not emerge from simply using the internal infra-Hebraic texts and commentaries. One objective reason why this method is surer is commonsensical.

The scribes who wrote down these stories were often masters of several languages, including Akkadian. Many obscure words in the Tanakh suddenly assume a new meaning if we grasp them as part of a hitherto unknown broader semitic sprachfeld (See my section on Esther's name). This is true not only of Hebrew. Many terms in classical Greek have 'etymologies' linking them to other Greek words, but we now know that they were borrowed from utterly different languages. Patrocles is Akhilles's therápōn (warrior companion). Someone eventually thought that it might be a borrowing from Hittite tarpan-. That made the sun blaze on the Iliad, for the Hittite word means 'ritual substitute', and this sense fits the fact that in that story, Patroklus is mistaken for Akhilles and 'dies in his place. Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, was resolutely linked to the Gk verb kaínūmi(to overcome) by scholars who insisted on excluding non-Indo-European languages from etymologies. Now everyone admits the obvious: his name comes from Semitic קדם and means 'the easterner'. One of Greece's quintessential founding heroes came from Phoenicia or therabouts.

In short, the 'internal reconstruction' that is perhaps favoured in yeshivas, can only go so far. Scholars in Jewish studies cast a far wider net, and have illuminated much, and many rabbis are happy to extend their learning and embrace the 'comparativist' branch for that reason. That is why I strongly advise against primary sources. You might profit from reading Benjamin J. Noonan's recent monograph Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact, Penn State Press, 2019 , which I have only browsed to the extent google allows.

Of course, all this ignores gematriya (itself one of many many words borrowed into Hebrew from Greek). There, I'm afraid, if you believe that a secret meaning exists in every text if one reads it numerically, you will lose me, and I hazard, yourself. It's true that certain prayers were formulated to bear a secret meaning: say, to cite the first that comes to mind, those minim who 'prostrate themselves before emptiness' (va-rik) must mean Christians, because va-rik has the same numerical value as 'Yeshu'/Jesus (136). That is a dead end, fascinating for the weird speculations it can on occasion generate, but fundamentally just a wordgame, more suited to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, than serious scholarship. Regards (I must run, and Huldra will be grateful for my absence. Sunday invitations to lunch are serious things here).Nishidani (talk) 11:07, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Nishidani, your citation made me laugh, but I'm afraid we're diverging from our topic on our friend's Talk-Page which we are not permitted to use as a Chat-page. That all men once spoke a common language is well-known, and which some scholars call by the name of "the Holy Tongue" (i.e. a form of antiquated Hebrew). If we may return to my initial talking-point, as is known, Jewish women who are observant will cover the hairs of their head with scarves, or with Modern hats, whenever they go out in public places. This also happens to be the rule whenever they sit within their own houses. The following question was posed unto Rabbi Yosef Qafih: "How is a wife supposed to behave in her own home with respect to her dress and head-covering?" The rabbi answered thus: "In her own house, she can walk about stark naked, but the custom of our forefathers is tantamount to a thing written in the Law of Moses (i.e. Torah), whereby it was with great difficulty that they permitted the rafters of her house to see the hairs of her head, and she becomes like a person who has been overpowered by a demon when merely changing her clothes or head-dress!" (END QUOTE)---Davidbena (talk) 14:23, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

... Well, let's close here. It's better we not get into the details about what rabbis say of female hair. One of the proofs that religions have nothing to do with a transcendental creator lies in what they reveal of male opinions about what the better half of humankind must do or be. Indeed the Talmud has Moses upbraiding (to use a hair metaphor) YHWH himself at one point (at Genesis Rabbah 8:8). Nothing in the Bible obliges women, let alone married women, to cover their hair, that is a rabbinic invention, as often, as one sees in the non-biblical fantasy of Boaz touching Ruth's hair to assure himself she was not a demon, since female demons, unlike male ones, are bald. Judaism pre-existed the rabbinate, and will survive it. Since I mentioned Boas, I thought of his name, given to one of the two columns of Solomon's temple. That itself tells one Hebrew cannot be the oldest language, since the Israelites had no Hebrew word for temple hekal and had to borrow one from Sumerian, egal, via Akkadian. Sumerian is two thousand years older, and there was no first language of mankind, since people in Australia, who speak spoke mostly highly complicated languages, arrived there 50-60,000 years before the Sumerians themselves emerged into history on the other side of the world. Yes, let us respect Huldra's page and shut up. if you want a final word drop it on my page, but I can't guarantee I will have time to reply. Important things are pressing, as they are with everyone. Nishidani (talk) 16:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

To whom it may concern: This conversation has been continued on User talk:Nishidani (here).Davidbena (talk) 21:02, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Easter-egg link

On 17 June 2020, the RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration #RFC: West Bank village articles was closed including the statement "1. It is not normal Wikipedian practice to include easter-egg links from relatively bland phrases like "Came under Jordanian rule" to our nuanced articles Jordanian annexation of the West Bank ... There is scope for editors to correct instances of this." You restored exactly that text as part of this edit on 29 June 2020. As that is contrary to the outcome of the RfC, I'm asking you to fix your mistake. --RexxS (talk) 20:22, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

User:RexxS: sorry If I misunderstood, (and the article has already been updated).

Also, you might see that the annexation part was a very small part in a revert to include the 1961 and 2014 info.

Also, the article named Jordanian annexation of the West Bank (btw: the name has recently changed (from Jordanian occupation of the West Bank), and the name of the article is continually discussed) includes two parts: the occupation phase (1948-1950) and the annexation phase (1950-67). So, even if we just link to "Jordanian annexation of the West Bank" (instead of the piped "Jordanian rule") ..it will still be a sort of "Easter Egg" (as the name does not include "occupation".)

So, the article Jordanian annexation of the West Bank may be nuanced, but the name is not.

Of course, if the name was, say, Jordanian occupation (1948-50) and annexation (1950-67) of the West Bank...it would not have been any "Easter egg"; but that name would be, IMO, extremely cumbersome and unwieldy. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:53, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

User:RexxS: Mmmm, checking again; my diff you referred to above, this edit, had me write "came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950." (As I said above: that was a very small part of my revert). So I don't understand at all: what was wrong with that? Huldra (talk) 21:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Huldra, I'm not re-litigating the RfC, and you can read my initial post here for the text of the closure. I'm asking you to fix your mistake in restoring an easter-egg link against the RfC consensus, which is still in the article. That restoration lead to another editor being taken to AE, so I'm not going to treat it as a minor matter. Are you willing to remove the easter-egg link or not? --RexxS (talk) 21:32, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

User:RexxS: I was just writing for the AE; but I will put it here instead:

My revert was mainly to reintroduce 1961 and 2014 info. In that revert I also changed:

{{main|Jordanian annexation of the West Bank}} In the wake of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], and after the [[1949 Armistice Agreements]], Aqraba came under Jordanian rule.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

to:

In the wake of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], and after the [[1949 Armistice Agreements]], Aqraba came under [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|Jordanian rule]]. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.

Actually that was a very minor part of my revert: I actually prefer the first version (!), and will restore that immediately, Huldra (talk) 21:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

pr. User:RexxS:  Done Hope this was ok? [User:Huldra|Huldra]] (talk) 21:40, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I am aware that it was a minor part of the revert, but it was what triggered Selfstudier to remove the easter-egg and the following text again. They are now facing sanctions for that second edit, which would have been unnecessary if you had not reintroduced the text they had objected to. I hope you can see my disquiet. --RexxS (talk) 22:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

User:RexxS: I absolutely do. And the stupidity of it all is that I (much prefer) the present version; (or the Selfstudier version): the reason I made my edit was that I was frankly upset that they had taken out (the wholly uncontroversial) 1961 info. In my hurry to reintroduce it, I forgot to look at the earlier "Jordanian era" phrasing: Mea culpa! Huldra (talk) 22:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Out of personal interest

Hello. Not here to accuse you of anything, just noticed that suddenly you were interested in organizations about leaving Orthodox Jewish lifestyle, like here and here. How come? Debresser (talk) 22:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Debresser: No problem; I just happened to be reading about it, and found it interesting, thats all. (I was reading about the European early nobility recently, and did quite a few edits wrt that, too..)

The thing is: for years I have been occupied here on wp by adding stuff on the pre-1948 history of Palestinian places (things that are in HA, Guerin, SWP etc, etc.): pretty boring stuff, but necessary. As you can see from my HA: I am pretty much done (well, there are some places in Jordan, & Lebanon left, but it is pretty boring to work on them alone :/ )

So now I am mostly "roaming around" on whatever I find interesting ;) Huldra (talk) 22:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, and have fun editing. Debresser (talk) 23:05, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

The "annexation" thing

Hi, sorry you ended up in the middle of all that discussion at AE. On the "annexation" (vs occupation/rule etc) you can also take a look at at these convos: [22] (this move -from occupation to rule- is being reviewed at [23] The related discussion at the actual page is still ongoing as well [24] The root problem here is the effort to relitigate the question in every conceivable forum, a pointless exercise imo but it is what is. Hope it helps.Selfstudier (talk) 11:47, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

User:Selfstudier: don't worry; just realise that I have editors following my every edit, waiting for that "got'cha!" moment. (Hey, I am not complaining about them following me around: that way they (hopefully?) will learn something about Palestinian history!) One just have to be very, very careful not to give them that "got'cha!" moment...

And I know the rule/occupation discussions are exhaustive: I have been doing them for 15 years... :/ Huldra (talk) 21:10, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

On 7 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Respectful call to desist from protracted edit warring

Please notice that your recent edit to Gush Etzion was reverted, and you have tried twice now to reimpose it, despite the fact that you are well aware that there is an ongoing discussion about this issue. Moreover, that discussion does not show consensus for your change at all. Please desist from this protracted edit warring, or I may have to report you at the appropriate venues. Debresser (talk) 00:23, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

To editor Debresser: You wrote in your last revert that the talk page "actually contains a good argument to keep this version". I honestly can't find the issue mentioned at Talk:Gush Etzion at all. Can you please point it out to me? Zero^talk 02:42, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Debresser, the term is not NPOV and goes against consensus, I have reverted and you need to obtain consensus here for it here if you insist on this.Selfstudier (talk) 08:39, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

@Zero0000 The talkpage where the discussion is taking place, User_talk:11Fox11#Your_reintroduction_of_an_redirection. I am sorry, I should have spelled that out. Huldra is taking part in that discussion and knows where it is taking place, and this is her talkpage after all, so. :)

@Selfstudier The discussion there is clear enough that your edit does not have consensus, while my "edit" is restoring the consensus version. Please read what I wrote above, which mutatis mutandis applies to you as well, and desist immediately or you too will be reported. Debresser (talk) 14:59, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Well, the first I came in contact with the "redirect"-issue, was when Shrike reported me to AE here: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive220#Huldra. As you can see, most of his objections were that I used the ARIJ term segregation wall, instead of the "official wp-name", Israeli West Bank barrier.

Also, according to Shrike: "It was already advised by AE admins[19] now to use such terms she was not sanctioned because it was not discussed with her now it is".(link)

Editors have been changeing all the segregation wall to Israeli West Bank barrier; I (of course) have not changed them back. (There are presently 0 articles which use the term/link segregation wall)

Now, I wonder: if "segregation wall" cannot be used, why on earth can we use Israeli War of Independence, (instead of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War/1947–1949 Palestine war)? What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.

(Incidentally, I could, in theory, agree with you that it would be more "natural" to use "Nakba" or "Israeli War of Independence" in specific cases. But you know as well as I do, that such an option would open up a Pandoras box of problems, with endless discussions about what name goes where. Instead of having the dicussion about the article-name one place, we could have them, literally, hundreds of places: not my idea of fun.) Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:48, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

I am grateful for your theoretical agreement. I see no problem with implementing this practically as well. More precisely, at the specific Gusg Etzion article, this was implemented, and you are trying to change that. As you are well aware, without a clear consensus, you can no do that. Debresser (talk) 22:05, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

The "segregation wall" was also long in various articles, now it is all taken out. And 2 out of 6 is hardly consensus, Huldra (talk) 22:13, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

WP:ANI

Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Pro-Palestinian_editors_editing_in_consort_to_push_POV. Debresser (talk) 22:35, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Hey, Happy 15th birthday on Wikipedia! Hope this message can make your day a little bit better. VR _talk 00:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Huldra. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 07:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

Dear Huldra,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 13:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! Time flies...Huldra (talk) 20:25, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

What are 'time flies'? Are they (a) the things Lear says are killed for the sport of gods or (b) is that a misprint for 'thyme flies' (though I don't recall flies behaving like bees). (c) or an example of metathesis, ensuing from the lapsus calami in the transpositioning of 'l' and 'i', ergo, a misprint for 'time files', which could refer to instruments adequate to the filing away by time of whatever time takes its rasp to, or the archives of work done over a period extensive enough to be rated worthy of time (like a Wikipedia article), or worser still, back issues of a defunct American magazine? Whatever, congratulations, Huldra.Nishidani (talk) 20:37, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

User:Nishidani thanks! and it is d) "tiden flyr" ;P Huldra (talk) 20:42, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Det kan jag förstå! I am watching Lambert in Lord Greystoke, and got to monkeying around during an ad break.Nishidani (talk) 21:15, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

You're a hero, Huldra (or should that be heroine?) for sticking around for so long, and making a brilliant job of it, in one of the most difficult areas of Wikipedia (Israel/Palestine). Congratulations! --NSH001 (talk) 07:18, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, you really are too kind, User talk:NSH001. I am just adding "low-hanging fruit", ie easily available sources, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:34, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Oh don't be silly, dear girl. The appropriate arborial image was provided by another woman, the untranslatable Sappho

Οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ

ἄκρον ἐπ᾽ ἀκροτάτῳ λελάθοντο δὲ μαλοδρόπηες,

οὐ μὰν ἐκλελάθοντ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἐδύναντ᾽ ἐπίκεσθαι

As the sweet applies blushes: on the top bough

At the very top of the topmost bough,

Missed by the apple-pickers -no, they didn't miss it

at all: they couldn't reach that far to cull it.

That is what you did. Harvest what so many of us couldn't get, even if we tried.Nishidani (talk) 22:13, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Nah...I leave the top of the tree to Zero, ;P Huldra (talk) 22:17, 1 September 2020 (UTC) PS: thanks for the poem!

It's no sweat for the lynx-eyed eagle, gifted with flight who just has to swoop. The toilers in the field have to climb, other than gather. I lose most fights, but not with the ramifications of analogies or images! Nishidani (talk) 06:56, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Thanks! Huldra (talk) 21:38, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Needs your help over preplanned conspircay and serial harassment against me

Three users with the same method and same mentality appeared in the same time and started to vandalize the article of Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies , deleting third party sources and citations of existing information then added tons of promotional primary sources , then engaged in edtiing warring and accused me of vandalism and warring ! here is the revision history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies&action=history However later I found out that User:Paradise Chronicle and User User:AppleBsTime turned out to be planning a conspiracy against me on Begin Sadat Center article , they pre planned an escalated dispute to grant me a block , here is the evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Paradise_Chronicle#Sheikh_Adi_Ibn_Musafir_was_a_Muslim and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wbiases , I believe that they need to be blocked and banned for life along with their IP ranges over their hateful and abusive behavior along with the three other users whom I highly suspect that they are actually the same person , their pages are :User Wbiases , User I69i197496 and User Thhings6sz along with User AppleBsTime and User Paradise Chronicle , Thank You so muchAleviQizilbash (talk) 19:08, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Ugh, User:AleviQizilbash, Firstly, I don't know if I can help on Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; I have never edited the article. My best advice is to not make large changes in one go, but to list the changes you want to make on the talk-page.

Secondly; frankly, I am put off by your attitude. Talking about "preplanned conspircay and serial harassment" is very harsh language, and I cannot see the diffs you give merit that. Please do not attack anyone, as they say: tackle the ball, not the player. Please read WP:NPA, and follow the rules! --or you will be banned/blocked: that is the way Wikipedia works.

Thirdly: looking through your contributions, finding stuff like this: I really don't like. How the heck can you expect respect for your own religion -if you don't show respect for other peoples religion? It is the Golden Rule: treat other people (=editors) as you yourself want to be treated. Huldra (talk) 21:18, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Your third point was resolved before and I desisted however at that time user Paradise chronicle kept deleting all my academic sources on a row and her excuse was ' Yazidis don't like Muslims much " that's why I called her Islamophobe and gave her harsh response but I desisted after that when "User:Black Kite" engaged with us and it was ended peacefully but since then User:Paradise Chronicle and User:AppleBsTime started to conspire against me to get me blocked , you can check the dates here 13 September (ended ) and 2 october https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Paradise_Chronicle#Sheikh_Adi_Ibn_Musafir_was_a_Muslim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wbiases And here is the whole ended issue already in the history of my User page when I clearly said that i desisted and everything went well , I didn't speak to them since then , to find out that they were conspiring against me today .https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AleviQizilbash&oldid=979011240 It's not harsh they already said that .AleviQizilbash (talk) 21:33, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Well, User:AleviQizilbash: to say that you might be heading for a block is NOT conspiring, but saying that editors is "conspiring against you" can be seen as violating WP:NPA, and that is a blockable offence. You really need to "tone down" your rhetorics, or risk being blocked; again, that is the way Wikipedia works. It doesn't matter if you are 100% in the right (and I don't know: I haven't looked into the issue): Wikipedia is very much about how you present your case. And you are not doing a very good job of presenting your case, at the moment. To repeat: you need to focus on the issue (and ignore other editors behaviour), that is the only way you will advance your case, Huldra (talk) 21:50, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Yeah , I know the toxic western culture where poor victims have to hire expensive sneaky lawyers to present their case in an artificial appealing way , but if the victims can't be sneaky or can't hire sneaky lawyers or were themselves subjected to the games of sneaky lawyers who belong to the sneaky aggressor party , then the victim to be blamed , Wikipedia seems to be just another western system too , but anyway thank you for the enlightenment session AleviQizilbash (talk) 05:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

We probably have a textbook case of Wikipedia:BOOMERANG about to unveil itself. - AppleBsTime (talk) 21:16, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Not canvassing for input, but if you are so moved: I opened a WP:AN/I about the user AleviQizilbash. - AppleBsTime (talk) 13:24, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

The Israeli Begin–Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies or BESA became a promotional work

The Article is now protected , only those with over 500 contributions are allowed to edit it so basically I'm excluded , now they have deleted all third party sources that criticze BESA or even discuss BESA's policy papers .

1. My last edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies&oldid=981492439

   The current edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies&oldid=982051316

   The toxic talk page about deleting all the anti BESA sources  : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Begin%E2%80%93Sadat_Center_for_Strategic_Studies#BESA_and_ISIS

Please check them and do whatever you sees right , I can't edit it now after protection and after the lengthy exhausting and toxic discussion with those who want to keep it promotional and cover up all criticism of BESA's lunatic policy papers , Thank You AleviQizilbash (talk) 12:07, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

AleviQizilbash pov has been rejected a long time ago. He came only to discredit and attack the page after he didn't like something regarding Alawites. Third party NPR view is already there. In addition, this user has a routine of pov push across subjects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AleviQizilbash&diff=prev&oldid=982024195 Thhings6sz (talk) 12:28, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

There is no POV push , The link you provided was about my first academic contribution to the article of Ismail_al-Jazariwhere I just cited academic sources about his ethnic background , that's all , while the triggered user deleted all the academic sources and sent me this useless warning . Here is the revision history comparison between my edit of Ismail al Jazari and the edit of the triggered user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ismail_al-Jazari&diff=982024044&oldid=982001009 , anyway Huldra can judge the original topic of Begin Sadat and see who is the one who pushes his single POV and she can change the article or keep it as it is AleviQizilbash (talk) 12:38, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Again aleviqizilbash showing pov by diatribe: "lunatic" - his word. I just checked. Anti Besa Haaretz still there, NPR view is still there. but not pro hezbollah "source". Of course he came to the page only after he added words "according to besa center" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alawites&diff=prev&oldid=975993674 . Then he came only to attack. Thhings6sz (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Jezreel and Zir'in

Will there be an objection to merging the articles of Zir'in with the article of Jezreel (city)? It is exactly the same place, and it seems the latter deals with the history of the site until the Crusader period, while the former deals with the history of the site from the Crusader period onward. I don't think this divide is necessary. The Jezreel article was created to deal with a biblical site and the Zirin article was created to deal with a depopulated Palestinian Arab village. In fact, the site is was inhabited as early as 7000 years ago. In such a technical merge, all references to "Zir'in" will remain in place but will redirect to the Jezreel article. The lead section will mention the name Zir'in as one of the names of the site and all of its Arab histories will be recorded as part of the history of the site.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 11:27, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry to intrude here, but to merge these two articles would set a very bad precedent, and it will require of us to merge Battir with Betar (fortress), and Sar'a with Zorah, and Yibna with Yavne, and Dura, Hebron with Adurim, not to mention a myriad of other articles that speak about the identical place, with relative degrees of variant historical emphases. I say (IMHO) that we should leave these two articles as they stand, independently from one another.Davidbena (talk) 11:43, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

There are already several such examples. See Ayn Jalut and Ma'ayan Harod, or Qamun and Tel Yokneam. This is not a precedent and not every two places need to be merged and there are many that shouldn't. A good example would be Israeli settlements in the West Bank, named after ancient settlements but in no way whatsoever are actually built in their location. And there are examples such as Bethsaida, where archaeologists debate whether it is located in a site known as "et-Tell" or a nearby site known as "El Araj". In that case, we should consider having three articles, one for the historical settlement mentioned in various sources, and two for each candidate. Where there is no consensus among researchers, we shouldn't make assumptions. There's the complex case of Tel Kabri, in which on the boundaries of the 2nd millenium site there were two Palestinian Arab villages before 1948, but the village named "Kabri" was located outside of the boundaries of the site. This case needs a closer inspection and I doubt that merging all four places together is the right option. Also, I think that Isdud and Ashdod should be separated, because the modern city of Ashdod and the ancient city of Ashdod, Isdud or Tel Ashdod, are located in different places. The purpose is simply to provide complete and accurate information about a place to as many people as possible. A hill was settled somewhere 7000 years ago, and on top of it, there were dozens of ancient settlements, ranging from the Israelite capital in the Iron Age to a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948. Point is, every site has its one unique history, so this is not a precedent and you shouldn't be worry. The purpose is to bring as much information to as many people in the most accurate way.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 13:42, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Some issues: if we are going to merge the two, the Jezreel (city) article needs to be seriously cleaned up. Now a large part of its history part is simply based on the Bible etc -> simply not good enough. Secondary sources is much needed! (actually, they are needed irregardless of any merger).

And is Zir'in = Jezreel (city)? Zir'in was a well-established village, with well-defined borders. Jezreel (city): not so much.

(You could argue why not merge Yizre'el into it, and then we really open a can of worms.)

So I am tending towards: nah, don't. Huldra (talk) 21:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bolter21: Yes, you're right that we do find its precedent, such as where Bethany (an independent article) was merged into Al-Eizariya. So, here it will require of us to judge each case individually, based on the article's merits. I prefer a separation of two articles that speak about the same site whenever (1) the emphasis, in one article, is on its Jewish history (biblical or otherwise). Often, the site is more readily known by its traditional English name, rather than its Arabic name. As for Zir'in, the more common name in English is Jezreel (city). But does this mean there wasn't an Arab village by the other name, with its own unique history? No. On the contrary, there was an Arab village by that name with its own unique history. And while I have no doubt that these two article's refer to the exact same site, it seems that their general scope is different. I agree with Huldra that more work needs to be done in improving the article from an academic standpoint, whether by authenticating the historicity of events, or by citing reliable secondary sources.Davidbena (talk) 22:13, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I'll reply to both of you. I didn't expect it to turn into a discussion. The reason I asked Huldra and not the talk page is because my suggestion is not immediate as there must be a lot of work on both articles before the merge will be possible. For Huldra, from Excavation reports I can assure you that the exact are occupied by Zar'in, is the mound of the excavated Jezreel. Most of Jezreel's history is archaeologic, and its mentions in the bible serve only as reference, especially sense it is a site of the northern kingdom, which gets less spotlight in the bible. I have access to pretty much all studies written about Jezreel and especially, the three excavation reports from the project from 1990 to 1996, which reveal the long history of the site beyond the biblical narratives. Therefore this isn't a precedent. A precedent to merging two articles is proper research, which hasn't been done yet. Right now, I only ask Huldra for an opinion, which I've received. And if this discussion continues feel free to move it to my talk page.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 23:32, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Bear in mind that if we were ever to merge these two articles and keep the general content of both articles, it just might make the article excessively long. That is another factor to keep in mind. Again, I prefer the separation of these two similar, but dissimilar, articles.Davidbena (talk) 11:12, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Applicability of 30/500 rule to Mishmar HaShiv'a

First, can you clarify how Mishmar HaShiv'a is related to Arab–Israeli conflict? It had been founded more than a year later than the depopulation of Bayt Dajan, and had itself never seen any conflict/hostilities.

Second, can you clarify how the transliteration of the Hebrew name "Mishmar HaShiv'a" into Arabic is relevant for the article on this settlement? The current name has no connection to the original Arab name, and hardly any Arab ever referred to it using the transliteration of the Hebrew name. --Crash48 (talk) 06:41, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

First, a moshav settled on a depopulated Palestinian village land, obviously comes under WP:ARBPIA

Second: see first.

Third: you are violating the WP:ARBPIA rules by editing controversial subjects in the area, without fulfilling the 30/500 rule. Please stop, or expect to be reported, Huldra (talk) 21:47, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Whether or not the 30/500 rule applies, you have to have a reference for the Arabic name, you cannot invent it out of thin air. WP:ANI#User:Huldra re-inserting into Ganei Tikva his OR transliteration of the Hebrew name into Arabic --Crash48 (talk) 09:11, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Huldra, it obviously doesn't come under the ARBPIA rules. Further, we also have partial ARBPIA for any articles that have some parts of the article that may be part of the conflict. What we don't need is bringing the conflict into articles that have nothing to do with the conflict, and putting Arabic names into Israeli villages is one of them, unless they are known by that name it's just disruptive. Sir Joseph ^(talk) 22:06, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

You are entitled to your opinions, that doesn't make those opinions "the rule", though, Huldra (talk) 22:13, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

PS: you don't have to "ping" me when writing on my talk-page; I'm automatically "pinged" then, cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:15, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Sulam

Hi. You should give me a bit of time to finish (I'm not even saying: a bit of credit). I wasn't about to vandalise the article, just going one step at a time. See now by yourself, I'm convinced it's better now. Combined. Those who want detailed dig reports have the links to the actual reports (report summaries, to be precise). The report summaries only add super-specific information: which square with what coordinates has been dug out, what specific type of pottery they found (glazed bowl decorated with incising, Rashaya el-Fukhar and Gaza wares, ...) and so on; the rest is still here. I created a chronological sequence of settlement periods, with written sources first and archaeological proof underneath. I'm sure that no more than a handful of people would look up the dig reports, and for those the links are there, as said. If anything, I'm afraid it's still too much. a) it's a living village, and that hardly gets a mention; b) it's not a major archaeological site; and c) we don't have a base for an archaeology paragraph. The archaeology part was totally sub-standard for lack of sources: the exploration consists of pre-2000 surveys and probably some digs, which are not online (see Tzaferis title, our only mention of everything pre-2003), and tiny trial & salvage digs between 2003-2009, which are on hadashot-esi.org.il. Those are only summaries, and not very good (see mess about "6th c." coin, which is actually 7th and not Byzantine, but Rashidun. Plus other signs of rushed work.) We also have nothing for 2010-2020. Why then have a separate Archaeology paragraph? I hope you're OK with it now. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 01:17, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Greetings to you 🙂 Mr.Karmi (talk) 14:49, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Mr.Karmi! Huldra (talk) 21:42, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

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Title of Palestine National Anthem

Diff Do you agree? At Fida'i it is the same but wikilinked to Palestinian fedayeen which I think might not really be right. http://www.nationalanthems.info/ps.htm seems more right but I am not sure. Thoughts? Selfstudier (talk) 15:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC) @Nishidani: Would you happen to know about this?Selfstudier (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Nup. I always squirm whenever my ears twitch at the resonance of any national anthem in the proximate environment, and when forced to listen to Advance Australia Fair recited rebelliously Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda to blot out the nationalistic rumour of the former. And were I Palestinian I certainly wouldn't recite Fida'i, but rather drown out its dull burr by murmuring any number of things from Mahmoud Darwish, perhaps his advice to a poet, which would fall on deaf ears for anyone passionate about 'anthems' of nationalistic self-endorsement. Sorry Nishidani (talk) 19:36, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Selfstudier; I don't read Arabic, you should perhaps ask one who does. And it is the same editor who has changed it both at State of Palestine and Fida'i. My impression was that Fida'i is not an easy translatable concept (much like Jihad) (and as http://www.nationalanthems.info/ps.htm says), so therefor we should perhaps not attempt any translation? Huldra (talk) 20:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Let me know

if there are more problems with [25]. Doug Weller talk 15:27, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

ANI

I mentioned you and a new admirer you seem to have attracted at ANI. See WP:ANI#User:Geez Mindhack. nableezy - 18:33, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

hello dears

Trying to get back to a minimal but daily contribution again, but very difficult without a computer. Just lost an edit i worked on for a good half hour when the page inexplicably refreshed without saving. Anyway, i have to find a way to make this functional. Missing you very much and so happy to see you and User:Nableezy (among many others) still here. Tiamut^talk 16:09, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Wonderful to see you again, User:Tiamut; please check your email (if you have the same as be4?), cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:49, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Yayyyyy nableezy - 17:59, 27 April 2021 (UTC) 17:59, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Whoohooo! :) Tiamut^talk 21:05, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Break

I don't know if I'm doing this right.

@Huldra you can use WP:INVOLVED to reverse Administrators @NonReproBlue and @Skllagyook when they are involved in a dispute, if you wish I think ... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eran_Elhaik&type=revision&diff=1023216318&oldid=1023185193

I have an ARBPIA violation, see ... search Benassi, at bottom. I learned a lot, it has been good working with you. I will focus on other Wikipedia projects. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:SteveBenassi_WP:NOTHERE:_edit_warring/intentionally_disruptive_edits

See ..

SteveBenassi, you can tell who an admin is via https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=1&username=Fences%20and%20windows or equivalent. Neither Nishidani nor Huldra are admins. Admins are also editors, we just have community trust to use tools like blocks, protection, and deletion. However, admins may not use their tools or close discussions when they have been involved in a dispute. See WP:INVOLVED. ...

and ...

@Fences and windows: The edit war involved 5 people over 1 edit, @Huldra and myself vs two administrators @Skllagyook and @NonReproBlue and user @Shrike, over the following edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eran_Elhaik&type=revision&diff=1023216318&oldid=1023185193 . @Huldra asked @NonReproBlue to "Please take it to a RfC if you disagree", @NonReproBlue refused and continued to edit war, shutting down the debate, which is not allowed according to your words above. @NonReproBlue and @Skllagyook object to my edit comments "Using original quote from news article. Showing Ostrer is a Zionist and biased, and that his research is suspect. See ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ostrer#Criticisms" Did I violate ARBPIA, and why am I solely blamed for this edit war? What we have here are two administrators with unknown backgrounds, objecting to a new paper, The Geography of Jewish Ethnogenesis, that goes against their POV, while also protecting Harry Ostrer who refuses to share his data with Eran Elhaik, because it endangers a major justification for Israel's right to exist in Palestine, DNA. SteveBenassi (talk) 11:50, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

SteveBenassi (talk) 01:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC) SteveBenassi (talk) 01:15, 18 May 2021 (UTC) SteveBenassi (talk) 01:17, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

To editor SteveBenassi: I can see whether someone is an admin (and also their status as extended-confirmed etc) just by hovering my mouse over their signature or linked username. Is that not true for everyone? Neither Skllagyook nor NonReproBlue are administrators. In any case, administrators can enforce policy but they don't have a greater say in ordinary content disputes. Zero^talk 02:09, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

To editor Zero0000: Thanks for the info Zero, and thanks for the help in the RS debate, I am told you are a high level administrator. Regarding the mouse hover you discuss, I get nothing.

SteveBenassi (talk) 10:49, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

To editor Zero0000: This is what you are talking about I think... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups SteveBenassi (talk) 13:46, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

User:SteveBenassi: I am sorry, but I am really occupied in RL (=Real Life) just now, I will (probably) not be back before a couple of weeks,

As for finding out who is an admin; just click at the "contribution" button (for any user), and you will see something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Huldra -click on that, and then at the bottom of the page, you will see a line with:

"Huldra: Subpages User rights Edit count Edit summary search Articles created Global: contributions log accounts(meta)".

Click on the third link, "User rights", and you will see what user rights an editor have. (Neither Skllagyook, Shrike, NonReproBlue, Nishidani or myself are admins)

And as Zero0000 said; an administrator can never, ever do an "admin act" (say, like blocking someone) in the area s/he is involved with: That would mean instant "de-adminning" (ie, loss of admin rights), (I know certain ill-informed off-wiki sites indicate something different: they are wrong, plain and simple)

See you all in a couple of weeks, I hope, Cheers for now, Huldra (talk) 20:50, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Free cookies for Wikipedians! V. E. (talk) 20:47, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

V. E. : Yummi, thanks! Huldra (talk) 20:48, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

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Huldra, please stop by the nomination; there is an issue with the QPQ submission. Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:26, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey?

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Askar

I was going to ask for your help with the Askar draft but you beat me to it! Anything you could add would be much appreciated. —Al Ameer (talk) 23:59, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Searchable Ottoman records

Hello again,

For info: I have added Wikilala to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#External_links and written to them to ask about tax records (defter) as maybe they have not yet added them

Chidgk1 (talk) 15:44, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks User:Chidgk1! One day we hopefully will have access to the original defter, then we could link every village in User:Huldra/HA to its original 1596-defter :), Alas; I would view that as a long-term project; not solved this year  :) Huldra (talk) 20:15, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Message

Hi, I wanted to point out that the more correct translation for Baqa Al-Gharbiyye is "Western Baqa". I'm a local Arab from Israel and know people from that city. They are also not "regular" Palestinians, there are big differences between them and the ones on the other side of the border, conflating them and Palestinians may be confusing to readers since the majority refer to themselves as "Arab citizens of Israel" or sometimes "Israeli Arabs". "an Arab city" is a more neutral approach that doesn't dictate people's identities, opinions vary a lot here. The same goes for pretty much most Arabs in the triangle, regarding the Triangle region edit. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your time!

ErickStern17 (talk) 22:09, 20 August 2021 (UTC)ErickStern17

User:ErickStern17; if you read the message in the template, you will see that editors need to fulfill the 30/500 criteria in order to edit Israel/Palestine subjects. That it: they must have been registred for at least 30 days and have at least 500 edits to other areas on Wikipedia; cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:14, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

AE (August 2021)

Hi Huldra, just an FYI that I've closed the AE request you filed regarding Vanlister without any action being taken. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Callanecc; thank you for informing me, Huldra (talk) 20:01, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

AE (September 2021)

[26] --Shrike (talk) 15:53, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Interesting, Shrike. All must have noted the curious dropping in on the article of a certain User:Shadybabs with in 3 years a bare 547 edits, 47 just over the qualifying 500, bursting in out of the blue(s) to cut the Gordian knot of lack of consensus by eviscerating the text to lend a hand to the minority on the talk page and their POV. Not only I observed also that, popping up out of the blue, Shadybabs intervened to restore the text which reflected your own revert on that page while everyone was discussing the pros and cons on the talk page. And we must have all remarked that this 'newbie' (not in my book) broke 1R. No one reported that - perhaps the massive headache of the extremely messy argufying on the talk page meant no one had time to. Perhaps, one is too focused on further research to have one's time wasted. Perhaps, certainly in my case, one just ignores bad form and presses on.

Well, there you go. The person who did 90% of the page's encyclopedic and historical content, reading arcane scholarly works, and, if I recall, slipped up by a mere minute in reverting back to a decent form this troubled article, is, you think, the problem, and deserves an AE sanction. The other chap, obviously helping to game the article, and clearly a low-performing usual nuisance in a POV numbers game, gets a free pass. Glad to see that you have the best interests of the encyclopedia at heart.Nishidani (talk) 17:02, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

You think User:Shadybabs shares Shrike (talk)'s and opposes Huldra's (in general, Tira, Israel edit aside)? Spend a little more time reading his contributions. This is funny. Inf-in MD (talk) 17:28, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Just imagine somebody leaving California for Maryland. nableezy - 17:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

• I've closed this AE request with a reminder to you to be cautious of the one revert rule in this topic area. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:19, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Safad El Battikh

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Military government

Do we have an article on the military government? I can only find a section at Arab citizens of Israel. Zero^talk 10:36, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

You mean the one lasting until 1966? No, we don't, and we obviously should.

Unfortunately; A: I don't have many sources of post-48 (except some elementary, like Sabri Jiryis etc), B) also: RL affairs, Huldra (talk) 23:07, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Enjoy the cupcake! AKapkin (talk) 13:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Help w sockpuppet investigation

Hi Huldra! I recently opened a sockpuppet investigation into Riyadhcafe87 and a bunch of other editors adding pr/being paid to edit on public investmend fund/saudi arabia articles. Your insights would be really valuable there if you know of any related articles which could also be affected by possible sockpuppets of riyadh or part of their network. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Talk 21:13, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi User:A._C._Santacruz: I doubt they are so stupid as to use socks out-right. These cases tend more to have WP:MEAT trouble, anyway; I'll take a look, cheers Huldra (talk) 21:36, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Moroccan Quarter

Hello Huldra

I don't have an account So I can't revert this edit [27] to how it was. 197.153.3.42 (talk) 21:38, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi, User:197.153.3.42, your revert has been undone, so I don't know what you would have me do? Any name-change should obviously be discussed on the article's talk-page, Huldra (talk) 22:16, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

You're tangentially involved in an ANI discussion

I wanted to notify you that you're tangentially involved in an issue I've raised at ANI in this discussion. Thanks! ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 19:35, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Draft for WP:ARCA

Proposal: any sanctions in place due to a report initiated by an Icewhiz sock it´s automatically rescinded.

Why: at the moment Icewhiz wins, even when he lose. His socks might be banned, but the sanctions against other editors remain in place.

Examples:

• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive278#Onceinawhile
• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive294#Iskandar323_(2)
• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive294#Result_concerning_ZScarpia
• Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RRArchive428#User:Jontel_reported_by_User:11Fox11_(Result:_Topic_banned)
• Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/3RRArchive422#User:ImTheIP_reported_by_User:11Fox11_(Result:_Both_warned)

I posted this in the discussion on the noticeboard, but I'll add it here to make sure you see it: It is not necessary to appeal straight to ArbCom in order to overturn a specific, discrete list of AE sanctions, and in fact I would strenuously urge against it. A clear consensus at either AE or AN could also overturn them. AN in particular is a better place to start - this would only affect those specific cases, but would clearly set a precedent that is better weighed by the entire community. Additionally, it is possible to continue an appeal to ArbCom if it fails at AE or AN, but once ArbCom rejects it it can no longer be taken elsewhere (I find it hard to imagine that ArbCom would actually overturn them if AN clearly declined to, but procedurally it is a point to remember.) Additionally, a clear success at AN could make it easier to convince ArbCom to change the rules of AE to make it easier to overturn sanctions stemming from cases brought by sockpuppets in the future. What I would specifically suggest is a bit more discussion to get a sense of where people stand, whether this is worth pursing at all, and what sort of proposal would work best, followed by an RFC at WP:AN clearly worded to allow people to easily either argue for overturning all, overturning none, or overturning some specific subset of them. (Note that the RFC or discussion must be held at AN, and nowhere else; per the wording here, community consensus can only overturn an AE sanction if it emerges there specifically.) --Aquillion (talk) 04:55, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

(off the above topic a bit)

@Aquillion - Only auto-confirmed users may file requests for arbitration enforcement, correct? How about making the same requirement to comment at AE? There were cases of brand new sockpuppets reporting established users - such as this one, for example-->[28] but also many appeared to comment, as we all know. - GizzyCatBella🍁 06:52, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

@Aquillion - RfC's and noticeboards are other persistent issues. Just take a glimpse at this one[29] and notice the number of brand new accounts commenting alongside blocked Astral Leap. - GizzyCatBella🍁 07:09, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Undoubtedly, but an RFC at WP:AN still feels like the most natural way to proceed to me. If sockpuppets come out of the woodwork to comment there it will be a chance to catch them; if the result is close and there's reason to suspect sockpuppetry that can be followed up on; and if all else fails going to ArbCom from there is at least notionally an option. Going straight to ArbCom without any sort of attempt to get a community consensus on something that would clearly set a major precedent seems like a losing proposition; ArbCom can make those decisions, but usually they'll want to see the if the community can resolve it first. And if an RFC runs for the full length of time and attracts large amounts of attention, there's a limit to what sockpuppetry can do - the Race and Intelligence topic area has multiple persistent sockpuppets pushing fringe views, but they weren't able to swing the recent RFC on the topic, say. And honestly, right now, when there's just been a major sweep for sockpuppets, might be the best time for such an RFC - if IceWhiz rushes to create a bunch of new accounts just for this they'll be noticed without much difficulty. --Aquillion (talk) 07:33, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Note that in the case of ARBPIA, non-500/30 editors are already forbidden from participation at AE and ANI. See para 5B.1. An option would be to extend this restriction to all areas. Zero^talk 09:36, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Don't forget Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive325#Proposal:_indefinite_block. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Which was a good block despite being instigated by an Icewhiz sock. Doug Weller talk 10:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

I sympathize with the idea of this proposal although it seems to be case specific, Icewhiz. Why would it not apply to any other sock initiated process? Maybe this idea together with the hatted material (and parts of the subsequent discussion at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard could be used to form the basis of a discussion at ANI talk page, might get more input there as well.Selfstudier (talk) 10:53, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Although AN can modify or remove any existing AE sanction, they don't have the ability to AE procedure itself; only ArbCom can do that. So if the goal is to make it easier to appeal or reverse sock-initiated AE processes in the future it will be necessary to go through ArbCom. And as far as that goes, I think it would be easier and more reasonable to start by asking AN to review these specific AE sanctions; if there's a clear consensus to reverse or reduce some or all of them, then that could be taken to ArbCom to make an argument for modifying AE procedure based on "see, the community wants this, so here's our requests for how you could make it simpler next time." --Aquillion (talk) 19:50, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, if you want ArbCom to modify the AE procedure in this manner first demonstrate support for the principal, then workshop a proposal for a specific change, demonstrate community support for the proposal (not necessarily consensus, as long as its clear there is support and there isn't a consensus against), then present this to arbcom. Personally, I support reviewing all these sanctions but I oppose automatically reversing them. Thryduulf (talk) 17:08, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry all: I am super-occupied in RL at the moment (and will be for at least a month forward), see you all in a months time, or so! Huldra (talk) 20:04, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

This may interest you

A new report was published today on the Israel Antiquities Authority's website, detailing the survey of Bureir. It contains a splendid description of the site. I may want to add the information to the Burayr article but I am afraid I won't find time for it.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 16:43, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Bolter21; the problem is that I am super-occupied in RL at the moment (and will be for at least a month forward), Anyway, I see nishidani has added stuff to Burayr‎; see you all in a months time, or so! Huldra (talk) 20:04, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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In today's Haaretz, on reading Adam Raz, Classified docs reveal massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and what Israeli leaders knew Haaretz 9 December 2021 I note this

The village of Al-Burj (today Modi’in) was also conquered in July 1948, in Operation Dani. According to a document, whose author is unknown, that was found in the Yad Yaari Archive, four elderly men remained in the village after its capture: “Hajj Ibrahim, who helped out in the military kitchen, a sick elderly woman and another elderly man and [elderly] woman.” Eight days after the village was conquered, the soldiers sent Ibrahim off to pick vegetables in order to distance him from what was about to occur. “The three others were taken to an isolated house. Afterward an antitank shell (‘Fiat’) was fired. When the shell missed the target, six hand grenades were thrown into the house. They killed an elderly man and woman, and the elderly woman was put to death with a firearm. Afterward they torched the house and burned the three bodies. When Hajj Ibrahim returned with his guard, he was told that the three others had been sent to the hospital in Ramallah. Apparently he didn’t believe the story, and a few hours later he too was put to death, with four bullets.”

There are many Burjs. Is that in the area of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut? No hurry-Nishidani (talk) 16:50, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

User:Nishidani; that can only be Al-Burj, Ramle, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:38, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Once again, thank goodness there are editors in here who know their stuff, have it at their fingertips (in your case, all ten, and perhaps one should adjust the idiom to include the toes (20), since you have a full nelson toehold on the topic as well:) Grazie mille.Nishidani (talk) 22:13, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Well done, Huldra, and an embarrassed thanks for generously if rather exaggeratedly, mentioning that I had something to do, a mere patch, with what is 99% your work. Best (also for the upcoming year) Nishidani (talk) 13:01, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Well, User:Nishidani; that article has been on my "to do"-list for years; you starting to expand it was the "kick behind" I needed :) Best (corona-free) whishes for the New Year for you, too; Huldra (talk) 20:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Help

Dear Huldra, your ever-watchful eye will have seen my current work on various Lebanon articles using Middle East International. To show the credentials of MEI as a source I started a stub which has now been moved to Draft:Middle East International. Do you have any advice? I have 20+ years of MEI on my shelves and have started with the reports from Lebanon because five years of my (happy) childhood was spent there, but if I live long enough I would like to move on to the reports from Palestine, particularly the First Intifada which I think is very poorly covered by Wikipedia. Padres Hana (talk) 09:15, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Dear User:Padres Hana; first of all: thank you for your excellent work on villages/towns in Lebanon: I find it heart-breaking that this country, with its ancient (and dramatic) history is as badly covered on en.wp as it is. Thank you for amending that! As for MEI; unfortunately I know next to nothing about this publication, perhaps User:Zero0000 can help? Huldra (talk) 21:04, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

14u

Moshe Gilad, 'This Explorer Visited Israel in the 19th Century and Found It to Be Anything but Empty,' Haaretz 22 February 2022 Selfstudier (talk) 15:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank, User:Selfstudier; having noted (some) of the places Guerin visited in User:Huldra/Guerin; I was hardly unaware that the country wasn't empty. :) Nice to have a proper English description of a few places though (my Google-translate doesn't exactly match..) Huldra (talk) 21:16, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Anniversary

Today it is 20 years since my first edit. Zero^talk 02:10, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I remember when I was young(er), lol :) Selfstudier (talk) 09:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

From the Second Intifada to the invasion of Kiev. Here's to you still being hale to plunk in a final edit as Armageddon dawns. Nishidani (talk) 09:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

User:Zero0000; Well, congrats, well done! --but something is wrong with the counter on your user-page? I see your first edit was 25 February 2002, ..but your edit-counter says "This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 11 months and 27 days"? cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:17, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, something was wrong with that calculation. My theories all went out the window when I deleted the infobox and put it back. Now it shows the right count. No idea why that made a difference. Thanks for the flowers. Zero^talk 02:40, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Ain Dardara

Hi Huldra. Any idea where Ain Dardara is? I have a report of it being a Hizbulloh training camp which was attacked on 2 June 1994 with 36 killed. Any clues? Padres Hana (talk) 13:15, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

There is a useful gazetteer of places in Lebanon here. I see Ain Dara at 33.7806N, 35.7247E but Ain Dardara isn't there I think. Can it be the same place? Zero^talk 14:15, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Ahah, look at https://vymaps.com/LB/Ain-Dardara-659297, which incidentally is a wiki-blacklisted url. Zero^talk 14:20, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

User:Padres Hana; though Ain Dardara sounds familiar; I'm afraid I cannot help you. If Zero's vymaps-links is the correct one, then Ain Dardara is just west of Kamouh el Hermel, Cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:19, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much to both of you. I have also found Ain ad Dardara (also blacklisted) https://mapcarta.com/24889572 3-4 miles east of Baalbek. I have an account of the 2 June 1994 attack which speaks of “cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs and napalm” with more than 50 people killed and over 80 wounded - most of the casualties under the age of fifteen. Even allowing the passage of almost thirty years the satellite image of the Hermel site doesn’t suggest a massive air raid took place there. I am not an expert but the area just north of the Baalbek site does suggest itself. I will keep looking for some confirmation. Padres Hana (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

You can see Ain Dardara on google; Ain Dardara is 1-1,5 km WSW of Kamouh el Hermel. It is noted as an "Amusement park"(!)(link), cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks - but does it look as if it could have been blitzed 30 years ago? I am inclined towards the Ain ad Dardara site. But I need a bit more evidence. Padres Hana (talk) 09:28, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Inappropriate use of rollback

Hello,

I wanted to bring up this rollback that you performed. The reason for reverting is unclear. Referring to when to use rollback, I'm finding it difficult to understand why you used rollback on this edit. Hey man im josh (talk) 23:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

User:Hey man im josh, well, I looked at the source, and the text did not reflect it; ie he never "apologized to the Romneys for the racist remarks", cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:48, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

@Huldra, first off, I'd like to refer you again to when to use rollback. This is a situation in which it was inappropriate to use the rollback option as my revert was not vandalism, nor was it clear why the revert was done (when the criteria for rollbacks states it must be absolutely clear).

Secondly, it's a matter of opinion and interpretation. The article you mention states that they never apologized because they did not believe it was racist. Some claim it was commentary and see nothing racist in the statements. Regardless of my personal view on the jokes, it's controversial and does not maintain a neutral point of view. Hey man im josh (talk) 00:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

User:Hey man im josh, My bad; I see now that I re-introduced the remarks I wanted to get rid of(!) <facepalm> I have undone my edit, cheers, Huldra (talk) 00:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:52, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Al-Khadr

On Spanish wiki, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khadr, can't find it on English wiki, redirect to Khidr? Selfstudier (talk) 17:21, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Duh, silly me, al-Khader :) Selfstudier (talk) 17:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Selfstudier: sorry for not seeing this question yesterday. And yes, it is al-Khader; you can always look at the bottom left-hand side of, say es:Al-Khadr, in order to see the which other languages it has an article in. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Beit Kahil

It's been almost three years since then, but I have to say this edit was a terrible, terrible misrepresentation of truth... Those people were not detained for nothing. The "two others" were detained because they murdered an 18-year-old named Dvir Sorek. This innocent teenager was stabbed to death. I kindly ask you to be more reponsible when covering similar events next time. This kind of misinformed edits has just the potential to sow more hatred and violence in this already gruesome, long-lasting conflict. Tombah (talk) 17:48, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

As you can clearly see, the source I used (from 16 Sept) about the mass arrest in Beit Kahil does not mention anything about the murder of Dvir Sorek. I apologise for not being a psychic.

And your statement that the ""two others" were detained" because their murder of Dvir Sorek is clearly wrong, as according to Jerusalem Post the two suspects had already been arrested by the 11 August.[30] [31] How could they then be arrested (again??) in the early hours of 16 Sept? I kindly ask you to read the sources before making any allegations, thank you.

And note that the mass arrest on September 16 also included people from Fawwar, from Beit Fajjar, and "four from Nablus, two from Qalqilya, two from Tulkarm, one from Salfit and two from the Ramallah district". Were all those arrested in connection with the Sorek killing the 7 Aug? I have no idea. But do you have a source for that? Otherwise you really cannot claim it.

As to your statement that Palestinian people are "not detained for nothing"; well, that is your claim. There are plenty who would testify otherwise. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:18, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Faqua (bubbles)

I can't seem to find a page for the village of Faqua, near Mt Gilboa and 14 kilometres from Jenin. Any clues? Nishidani (talk) 15:30, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Nishidani, try Faqqua, cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:17, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Oh dear, yes. What a Faquawit I am. Excuse the rude pun, but puns are one of the few things that get me through these times. Thanks, indeed.Nishidani (talk) 07:18, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Herod Archelaus

The caption for the picture you added, as indicated by https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herod_Archelaus&diff=next&oldid=1061882420, is Herod Archelau. Should Archelau be Archelaus which is in the article's title and the name above his head in the picture? Mcljlm (talk) 00:52, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Mcljlm, yeah, that was a typo, fixed it now. Thanks for telling me, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

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Palmer's P.N.

Hi, after your correction to my edit at Al-Attara, I decided to check again what P.N. means in Palmer's work. Here's [32] what Palmer says:

The letters p.n. (proper name) after a name, mean either that it is a common Arabic personal appellation, or that it is a word to which no meaning can be assigned ; the former will be at once recognized by the Arabic scholar, the latter will form interesting problems for future investigation.

From this I understand that the use of a "first name" to describe all the cases in which Palmer uses P.N. is inaccurate. Perhaps we should think of a better way to represent these cases. Any thoughts? Tombah (talk) 19:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

User:Tombah: Well, Proper name is just a redir to the Proper noun-article. What about adding a paragraph to the "Proper noun"-article; calling it "Palmer's definition", (or something like that), linking it to "Palmer, 1881, p. v". (Since the Palmer-text is no longer under any copy-right, we can use the text verbatim).

Then, whenever Palmer use p.n., we can link it to that definition; ie [[Proper noun#Palmer's definition | p.n.]] Comments? Huldra (talk) 20:47, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Gerda Arendt, 😊 Huldra (talk) 23:15, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Re: a redirect

Greetings!

In reading the article about Louis-Hugues Vincent, I noted the odd name of Joseph-Joseph Lagrange; I clicked on the name and was treated to the article on Marie-Joseph Lagrange. It would seem that your diligence in researching the matter led to the redirection of the redundant name to its supposed holder, and I thank you for this; I wonder, furthermore, how it was that you happened upon the connection! For I have searched now high and low for any attestation of the doubled Joseph and can find none. Of course, I agree with you that Fr. Lagrange was the person meant, and I have changed the name in Vincent's article to Marie-Joseph, but, if there be no source for Joseph-Joseph, would you would be terribly offended if I were to nominate the redirect page for deletion? Please let me know at your leisure. Sincerely, Twozenhauer (talk) 07:06, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Twozenhauer: Looking at the history, it seems that "Joseph-Joseph Lagrange" was in the article from the start; I just created the redir to Marie-Joseph Lagrange (and got rid of the red link). I have no idea as to if "Joseph-Joseph Lagrange" was a spelling-mistake, or "alternative" name; you have to ask User:Onceinawhile (who first inserted that name) about that. In case it was just a spelling-mistake, I would of course be fine with having it deleted, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks both. I have tried to remind myself how I wrote that five years ago, but I cannot remember. I don’t see any evidence supporting Joseph-Joseph, so it must be a typo. Sorry, and thanks for spotting it. Onceinawhile (talk) 08:26, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Onceinawhile. Well, User:Twozenhauer: I guess that means that neither Once nor me will have anything against you nominating that redirect page for deletion, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:06, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

User:Huldra & User:Onceinawhile: Thank you both very much! It has been a pleasure editing with you, and perhaps we will collaborate in the future. Sincerely, Twozenhauer (talk) 02:19, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Some good sources

Hey Huldra. I would like to share with you some of the works of a member of a project I am involved with, who specializes in the research of the Ottoman and British periods. Here are some of his English papers.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 12:32, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Bolter21; I know Marom from the Petah Tikva article, (I have a copy of A short history of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel)) (Though he missed the Socin and Harmann sources!) (I started to map Socin here)

I don't have a facebook or google-account, though, I would be grateful if someone send his other articles to me), Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:45, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

I will send all the others. Zero^talk 00:57, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

FYI, an article about El-Habs. The links you provided for Clermont-Ganneau, PEF, and Gurein were very useful, to which I send my thanks. Soon I'll finish work on Zakariya and Kelkh.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 12:27, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Bolter21. It could be interesting seeing the Clermont-Ganneau-drawing, p. 355 side-by-side with this photo? Huldra (talk) 22:33, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Planned on doing that, got a bit lazy.--Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:48, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

😀 👍 Huldra (talk) 22:52, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Happy Seventeenth First Edit Day!

Hey, Huldra. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:13, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

User:Chris troutman, 😀 thanks! Huldra (talk) 21:01, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Battir

I added the etymology of Battir to the main page out of convenience, is that OK by you? Gibby01 (talk) 23:32, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi User:Gibby01, as I see it; the material belongs in the Betar (ancient village) article; and I believe the material is already in that article(?) Cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:16, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Zhomron

Hi Huldra, there is currently a discussion of Zhomron at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Zhomron. I've seen your interactions with them previously. I'm compiling a sock puppet report, based on the notion that Zhomron is a puppet of an older master, User:BedrockPerson. Elizium23 (talk) 10:50, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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User:Moops: Oh dear, a block without any warning first? That seems pretty draconian. Anyway, hope the year progresses better! cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:35, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Huldra, since you added the file, just wanted to inform you as per comment by Jan Arkesteijn this is not the same person. I'll have to remove the file. Sorry. Lotje (talk) 15:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

User:Lotje thanks, sorry for the mistake, Huldra (talk) 23:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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User:Tollens please just delete it; I was going to tag it myself, but couldn't remember the tag. That "creation" was a total mistake -sorry! Huldra (talk) 23:10, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Not a problem! If you need it next time, it's {{db-self}} for an article you created yourself. Tollens (talk) 23:22, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

User:Tollens, ok thank! I sincerely hope I woun't need to use it (again)😊 Huldra (talk) 23:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Deir Qal'a

Hi Huldra. I saw by chance that you're working on the topic. HUJI has a dedicated page. It has a good, concise overview of all archaeological aspects. Israeli land grab, abandonment by the PA ministry, and all other such political aspects aside, this is i.m.o. what matters most now: site history and what's still there and can be seen of the ruins. C19 observations are great, but we're in C21 :)

https://dig.corps-cmhl.huji.ac.il/Monasteries/deir-qala-deir-el-qala-monastery

Best wishes, Arminden (talk) 19:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

C21 now? What?! I haven't noticed that. History goes backwards, chum, not forwards! I had the impression we were now reliving the Weimar period, but recent events suggests aspirations for the neolithic, if not earlier. And don't quip that, at my age, I'm probably in the age of the extinction of dinosaurs (only because the truth hurts). Anthropobscene! Regards Nishidani (talk) 07:22, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Dear User:Arminden, User:Nishidani: Yeah, I found the HUJI -page (from de:Deir Qalʿa), and I have the Noga Carmin (Hrsg.): Christians and Christianity II book, with the Magen and Aizik, and Di Segni-articles; just starting to read (and trying to identify!) the mosaic in the Di Segni-article.

And sigh; yeah, I have of course read about the "contemporary" issues (such as [33]); the same old thieving behaviour. But is wasn't actually that which got me started; that was all the pictures on commons (and all the "old" stuff written about it; SWP, Guerin, etc)

I am (slowly!) working up to the 21C; I am still (mostly!) in the 4th-7thC.

Any help will be appreciated! Cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong: in a normal world, sites of such importance would be taken care of by the state, and the land owners either compensated, or - if they can and are willing to - included in the preservation scheme. Public access, to a degree that doesn't harm the site (crowd control) would be implemented. In reality, the opposite is happening in many places in Palestine, such as Archelais, where half the site is pockmarked by looters who dig by night, and half is being covered by new houses and ugly facilities built at a mad pace as we speak. Israel is occupying by force the Palestinians and basing part of the occupation on a bunch of messianic wackos, while the Palestinians are nowhere close to understanding what else they could do with what they have. They could be turning the tables on Israel. Instead, the most amazing Umayyad mosaic, at Hisham's Palace, has been decaying at an incredibly rapid pace in the year-plus since the Palestinian authorities have been "taking care" of it. I could cry looking at what's happening. Can't understand why the Italians who preserved the mosaic can't jump in and see what's causing the destruction and help save it.

Archaeological sites, once idyllically perched on a hill, which are now half hidden between modern houses, are the lucky ones, on both sides of the Green Line. Declaring a national park on Palestinian land is a land grab, aka theft; but if the alternative is destruction, you know already what I prefer. Safe for now, and the future will decide about the rest.

The education systems are failing on both sides, each in its own way. One would expect more of Israel and wish better to the Palestinians, but it's a sorry case of hardly any light at the end of a depressing tunnel. The explorers of the 19th c., who found Deir Qala covered by a tobacco plantation, could at least hope for better and romantically enjoy their discovery. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 21:34, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Well, as you know my main computer is hospitalized, and has been for 6 weeks, and what little I'be been able to do on this minilaptop a niece gave me as a backup some years ago takes hours, even for a minor edit, since the cursor jumps all over the place, and I have to slowly reconstruct several times most things, and now for a week I lost my internet connection with a changeover to optic fibre and could only edit when I went to the pub and used its wifi. It has limited power and can't support many open pages, which it responds to by extreme slowness. I'll get back to editing and fix the translation when (if) my friend gets the time to finish fixing the main computer. He said he'd re-engineered it a week ago, but silence since, and, on principle, since he's doing me a great favour, I never ask/pester him about when I can have it back. He's hectically busy. Just hope it takes less time than the fruition of the pomegranate cutting which I made for him last year from my exuberantly fruitful tree's rootstock! Patience, as my wife would say, perhaps thinking of the weirdo she ended up marrying.(I even have to copy and paste my signature, whenever I can find a page with tildes on it)Nishidani (talk) 21:36, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Can't understand why the Italians who preserved the mosaic can't jump in and see what's causing the destruction and help save it.

Don't get me onto that. I have dozens of stories of what has happened in my own area which is one large archaeological site. Mosaics walled up in houses, the carabinieris' station built on a bulldozed site, idem a car park, idem the loca school. If wealthy people can be so crass, don't expect much enlightenment from the poor. People here are terrified of archaeological artifacts being discovered on their property because the Fine Arts ministry might, they believe, seize it or cause obstacles to their use of their land. Farmers or tombaroli or both, with the historic complicity of private collectors, the former because of their low incomes. The PA is a facade for a gang of cronies on the take, and since they do nothing for their own, no doubt close an eye or take their share because it's income that satisfies a population otherwise discontented, while also any discovery by Israeli authorities of archaeological remains, based on solid experience, will almost immediately lead to a sudden settlers' take-over. Nishidani (talk) 21:49, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Well, as the Palestinians are now "ruled" by people most Palestinians look upon as not much better than Quislings (and the "international community" wount allow a new election; fearing that Hamas will win); I expect that archaeology is very far down on their list of priorities. Add to this that any significant find one the West Bank ends up in a Israeli museum ("International law? What international law???") (take the Bull Site bronze statuette as one glaring example), and that the Israelis are not only stealing, uh, "taking over" archeological sites on the West Bank; they are also banning Palestinians to access them. If I was Palestinian, I would probably see archeology as an enemy; a ruse to take over something of mine, (Which, lets face it: often it is) Huldra (talk) 22:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:08, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

User:Gerda Arendt, 😊 Huldra (talk) 21:49, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Ein Samiya

On 15 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ein Samiya, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ein Samiya (pictured), which provides the water for Taybeh, the first beer brewed in Palestine, was depopulated in 2023 after harassment by neighboring Israeli settlers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ein Samiya. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ein Samiya), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Are you well?

Huldra, I have taken notice that you have not been editing on Wikipedia for the past three months. Is everything well with you?Davidbena (talk) 23:37, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I'm fine, just very, very occupied in RL with another project (totally unrelated to wp, or the Middle East). Hope to be back on wp in about 1/2 year, cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:15, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Okay. Good to hear that you are doing well, but very busy in other areas.Davidbena (talk) 23:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Delighted to see you pop up on Refaat Alareer. Hope you don't mind my intrusion on Yibna – that was prompted by the lovely old lady whom I recently added to my user page (Yael Kahn), who founded "Islington Friends of Yibna" (I think you'll enjoy the video about her). If you like, I'd be happy to systematically work my way through all the rest of the depopulated villages pages doing something similar. I'll be up early tomorrow morning to attend the big fortnightly protest in London against the genocide. Hope all's well with you and your project. --NSH001 (talk) 21:51, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

User:NSH001: Hush: I am really not here! Don't tell anyone!! ;) Seriously, I am drowning in work, (totally unrelated to the ME or wp) -still worthwhile(?) I haven't had time to look at Yibna, or a thousand other articles. (I'm sure your work is great!) I hope to be back on wp late next spring.

I try desperately not to follow the Gaza news, but Refaat Alareer' twitter account was one always worth reading. And the Arab twitterati outpouring has been astonishing.

My 2 cents: Sufian Tayeh' murder was probably a "heavier" loss, but Refaat Alareer murder feels ...personal. Israel are really, really going after anyone who is an intellectual (in the broadest meaning of the word) this time. Feels like after Munchen 1972, when people like Ghassan Kanafani and Wael Zwaiter were murdered (together with the odd Maroccan waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi)

Take care, good luck with your demo tomorrow! cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:19, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Huldra. When I got up on Saturday, it was very dark, pouring with rain, wet, cold and miserable weather. Definitely not the weather for venturing outside. Then I checked the web site for the train times. Disaster! There's a rail strike on so no trains to London! However it turned out I could get to London by train, I'd just have to change trains a couple of times. Thank God for that. A bit of rain is no excuse for me, compared to what is happening to everybody in Gaza. The best bit was actually being able to meet the amazing Jewish Israeli lady Yael Kahn I mentioned above.. She's even better in real life than she is in the video (link is on my user page). Was able to have a short conversation with her, and give her a big hug (or rather she hugged me). There were a few placards mentioning "Dr. Refaat Alareer" (always with the "Dr."), but nowhere near as many as for Benjamin Zephaniah, who has also recently left us. A few speakers did mention Refaat, and Maxine Peake read one of his poems from the platform. After the demo, the usual bastards decided to make thing more difficult for us by closing the entrance to Westminster tube station (that's the one next to Parliament Square rallying point). Just adds to the fun! I'm very grateful to the NHS - thanks to a big operation I had earlier this year, I can now hold my bladder like a 19-year-old, a big help on a 6-hour demo. I thought the turnout was very good considering the bad weather and the rail strike. Surprisingly, it turns out that going on a long demo is very good for one's blood pressure, down to 105/68 when I got home. Amazing! Hope you're keeping well. --NSH001 (talk) 16:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

User:NSH001: Yeah, I saw on social media that it was a huge demo. Typically; hardly anything in the MSM.

Also; that Jewish people in England/US have been at the forefront protesting against the Gaza genocide has been noticed in the Arab world, according to As'ad AbuKhalil. A single person like Yael Kahn has probably done more to combat anti-semitism than the ADL has done in all its existence.

It is my feeling that MSM and politicians have hardly ever been more out-of-step with the "average guy" than over Gaza. As if people don't see the hypocrisy? EG: the same day the White House says it is ‘concerned’ by reports Israeli forces using white phosphorus ...Washington Post reports that yeah, that white phosphorus it is supplied .....by the US.

Or: when you get a "dangerous terrorist" to surrender, do you then:
A: First; get him to strip of all his clothes,
then surrender his weapons
or:
B: first surrender his weapons.
Apparently the answer is ....A. Lol!

The stupidity of MSM/"mainstream" politicians is only matched by the unprecedented level of censorship; I saw some women facing a felony-charge/6 months in jail for wearing a picture of ...paragliders. You couldn't make this up.

I suspect this will cost Biden his POTUS-bid next year; the Arab-American overwhelmingly supported him in 2020; now that support is virtually all gone. We'll see.

Anyway; I really shouldn't be here: I will try to get a bit done between X-mas and New Year: see you then, cheers, Huldra (talk) 22:22, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

It seems as if GJ can say goodbye to the Irish-American-vote, too, Huldra (talk) 21:05, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Re the MSM, I couldn't find any mention of the demo on the BBC. However Al Jazeera did report it, and I thought its coverage was quite fair and very professional. It seems that US protestors are following Biden everywhere he goes, and not letting up. --NSH001 (talk) 00:46, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

• For anyone watching: the deadline for my other project has been postponed until October. I am unlikely to have much time for wp until then,:/ Huldra (talk) 22:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

  Aw. Keep it cool, gal. Selfstudier (talk) 23:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Tantura

Hi Hudra, I just added:

• Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, Youtube-Chanel from von Forensic Architecture, 30 May 2023; 17 minutes

to the German Tantura massacre article, would you like to add it to the English Tantura massacre article? BTW thank you for your work, I learnt a lot from you ;-) 91.54.7.40 (talk) 10:15, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

 Done, thanks!, Huldra (talk) 22:21, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Hudra. For a smile on your face: The last wedding in Tantura, 2022 (by Sliman Mansour)--91.54.26.247 (talk) 22:15, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Beautiful! Thanks; I have added it as a WP:EL to the Tantura -page, cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:53, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Hudra, its me again ;-) I just read the autobiography of Salman Abu Sitta. Could we have the picture

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Sitta-1.jpg

uploaded somehow to en:WP? Can you help me there? Cheers, --93.211.214.52 (talk) 20:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

There is a problem with that; it is uploaded to he.wp on a fair use -basis; that means it cannot be uploaded to commons. In theory, it could be uploaded to en.wp, but I suspect it would soon be deleted. Different language wikipedias have different rules, and he.wp (and ar.wp) seem to have far, far more relaxed "fair use" use than en.wp. As an example; we had a copy of one of Sliman Mansour's painting illustrating his bio under "fair use", but that was deleted. I am reasonably certain that we couldn't use the above picture to illustrate the Salman Abu Sitta-article; not unless we got the permission from Salman Abu Sitta.

But: the good new is, that it is a picture taken in 1944, ie we can upload it (without the graphics) on a {{PD-Israel}} licence. Since there is a copy of the original on p14 in the book, I have uploaded it to commons here. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

That is even better. You are wonderful. --93.211.223.245 (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Hudra, me again needing help 🙄. Just having read your reply here + the lead paragraphs still with the wrong number "The first wave of explosions occurred on 17 September, around 15:30 EEST, killing at least 12 people, including two Hezbollah members and two children" + the talk page being put down under "protection settings": you might like to note that three children under the age of 10 were killed on 18 September 2024.

• At least 14 dead and over 450 injured in new explosions of communication devices across Lebanon: Day 348 of the Gaza war, L'Orient Today, 18 September 2024. → Quote: "According to information gathered by our South Lebanon correspondent, three children — two boys and a girl — were also killed in the pager explosions." (Please, note the time: "10:28 Beirut Time", this was before the Second wave.)

• Why hasn't Iran responded to Israeli attacks and where is the Mideast conflict headed?, DW News, 18 September 2024. → Quote: - at 0:04 - "Beirut Lebanese Health officials now put the de toll for the strike at 31 including three children."

I have already tried to point out the mistake on the talk page, but was ignored or deleted. Please intervene. Tausenddank --91.54.30.108 (talk) 05:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I see the sources saying this in the immediate aftermath of the attack, but later sources say otherwise. Maybe they added one because the son of an Hizbollah MP was killed? But this son was an adult. The names/ages of the girl and the boy who were killed are known, more info on the alleged second boy killed is needed before I could argue that three children were killed -sorry, but sourcing is *EVERYTHING* on wikipedia, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:40, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

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User:Gerda Arendt, Thanks! Huldra (talk) 20:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Dear Huldra

Hello,

I saw what you have writen on my talk page and i will learn about the content you wrote.

1. Regarading the claim that i only write about Jewish history is false, i reffer you to Horvat Eleq i wrote about.

2. I understand the claim about the location of the sites i write about, i will be more accurate about it in the future.

3. I saw also the claims by @Richard Nevell, some of the articles i wrote i translated from Hebrew Wiki, today i learnt how to use the translate tag and from now on i will use it for every article i translate.

4. I saw the work you have done on Wikipedia and i hope to reach your level one day. Owenglyndur (talk) 07:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Owenglyndur, I expect you to clean up the articles you have already made, before you make more articles! I have listed some of the false edits you have made on Talk:Deir ed Darb.

And the translate tag only works for when you translate articles from another wiki-article, it obviously doesn't work for translating from an article in a journal. (And Deir ed Darb doesn't have an article in Hebrew, or in any other language).

And you still haven't said what is typically Jewish in the Deir ed Darb tomb (this is the third time I am asking) Huldra (talk) 21:49, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi,

In the article i cited: https://www.academia.edu/25782070/Raviv_D_2013_Magnificent_Tombs_from_the_Second_Temple_Period_in_Western_Samaria_New_Insights_In_the_Highlands_Depth_Ephraim_Range_and_Binyamin_Research_Studies_Vol_3_Ariel_Talmon_pp_109_142_Hebrew_

Dr. Raviv talks about several Rock-cut tombs in Sameria, all with Jewish motiffs commn for the period (rosettes) typical of Jewish art of this period and directlry derives from the tombs of the Jewish elite of Jerusalem of the late Second Temple period. Owenglyndur (talk) 11:40, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

That should be in the article! What type of rosettes are typical of Jewish art? Presently, the article just mentions types of acheological designs typical of Greek/Roman architecture, and present the conclusion: they are Jewish! That makes no sense to me.

Also: I see you have uploaded pictures to commons, labeling places in "Israel", when they are clearly not. Please fix that. Huldra (talk) 16:59, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Butting in. This is something that has always worried me: the premise that whatever is unearthed in Samaria is 'Jewish', regarding a period when there was a strong religious distinction between Samaritanism and Judaism, despite a considerable overlap in things like mikvah etc. If anyone finds sources that can throw light on this crux, I'd appreciate being notified.Nishidani (talk) 17:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I recall Al-Sinnabra (started by Tiamut), first assumed to be a synagogue, or Khirbat al-Minya, (also at one time assumed to be a synagogue). Not to mention Talk:Maon Synagogue and even the Gaza Synagogue (first identified as a church). Or the Beit She'arim necropolis, where graves with typical Roman myths (like Leda and the swan) are taken to be ...Jewish. Hmmm. Huldra (talk) 17:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

I suppose if one looks for something, one will invariably find that and ignore anything that doesn't fit the profile. Selfstudier (talk) 17:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

True that, though one could hope that Dr. Dvir Raviv ("who served as an IDF officer in the Armored Corps, grew up in Kedumim – the first Jewish town in modern-day Samaria."(link)) would be able to justify it? Huldra (talk) 18:04, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

It's amusing to read this. I haven't edited in a while, but I've been following from afar, and this claim is quite ridiculous. First of all, this text seems like a significant WP:BLP violation. Moreover, we don't base our claims solely on the ethnicity or nationality of writers. This seems like a double standard, especially after you, Huldra, edited Israeli communities in the Gaza envelope just after the October 7 attacks, after their residents were massacred and raped, claiming they were built on Palestinian areas based solely on a personal, non-scholarly memoir of a former Palestinian refugee. (Nir Oz, Ein HaShlosha, Magen). This just screams double standards. How biased can we be? For how long are we gonna keep destroying our coverage of IP?

In contrast, the identification of this site as Jewish involves several renowned authors and archaeologists, not only Dvir Raviv, but also Orit Peleg Barkat, Yitzhak Magen, and others, who have all published in leading academic journals, all agreeing this is a Jewish tomb, dating from the late Second Temple era. If you read the article, you'll find a detailed discussion on the borders of Judaea and Samaria during the Roman period, showing it's not a random claim, but a result of a scholarly discussion considering geographic and demographic evidence. I'm sick and weak, and this is the only reason I'm not opening an investigation. I hope someone sees this and takes the necessary steps forward. 916crdshn (talk) 06:48, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, regarding you question about the Rosettes and the Jewish connection, i have attached three links explaining that. The second link speaks specific about Deir ed Darb:

1. https://brill.com/display/serial/HO1 P.381
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44102543
3. https://brill.com/display/title/172 p.80

Owenglyndur (talk) 15:05, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Qarawat Bani Hassan#Deir ed-Derb Selfstudier (talk) 15:20, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

User:916crdshn: Whaw, where to start?

• allegation of WP:BLP-violation? I assume you mean what I quoted about Dr. Dvir Raviv? That was written on the face-book page of Bar-Ilan University under the heading "Meet Our Faculty: Dr. Dvir Raviv".
• as for "a former Palestinian refugee", Salman Abu Sitta, he has written "Atlas of Palestine", and knows more about the Palestinian history than most.
• I am not saying it isn't Jewish, but I want to know why it is identified as such, especially since Israel Finkelstein in his 1997 survey does not identify it as such. Finkelstein's description of Deir ed Darb is: "A large cemetery of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, apparently connected with one of the sites in the close vicinity. Rock-cut tombs with rock-cut 'courtyards' in front of them. The most elaborate tomb is called Qabr el-Malik Birdhaun, or Dejr ed-Darb. For a detailed description of the site see Conder and Kitchener 1882:313-315; Savignac 1910; Dar 1986:234-235." The Conder and Kichener is in the article, I am reading Dar 1986 now, and I can't see he mentioning anything, either.
• As for "detailed discussion on the borders of Judaea and Samaria during the Roman period"; that is irrelevant. As I am sure you know, there were different people living there in the Roman period; besides Jews, you had eg Samaritans (as Nishidani mentioned above), and off course ....Romans.
• Finally, (and what got me started) I have seen a fair number of Hellenistic/Roman tombs/buildings, and to my amateur eyes, Deir ed Darb looked decidedly Hellenistic/Roman. Now, Owenglyndur remark about "all with Jewish motiffs commn for the period (rosettes) typical of Jewish art of this period" is interesting, and I hope to hear more about that? Huldra (talk) 09:02, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

• @Huldra. Yes, this is probably a BLP violation. The claim that someone who is Israeli and served in the IDF cannot be a reliable source, despite their academic achievements, is unfounded. Most Israelis serve in the IDF by law, and this should not be an issue.
• I don't know much about Salman Abu Sitta, but his Wikipedia page shows he is involved in political activism and has praised Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Using his memoir/diary as a source to cover the history of communities in Israel, especially two weeks after their civilian population was massacred and raped, is a clear double standard. Do you really think this is a reliable source? I think it would be reasonable to remove his contributions as he is clearly biased.
• Israel Finkelstein, as far as I know, is an expert on Old Testament times, not classical antiquity. If a group of acclaimed scholars specializing in the Hellenistic and Roman periods in Palestine, including Raviv, Peleg Barkat, and Magen, all agree it is a Jewish site, I believe them. Especially since Jerusalem has tombs of almost the same style and design (see Tombs of the Kings), as well as other places associated with Jewish population.
• Of course it is relevant, because if Jews lived in this area during this period, it supports the architectural arguments. Every area in the Mediterranean under Hellenistic and Roman rule had structures similar to Hellenistic and Roman architecture, which was the leading style of the period. It has nothing to do with the actual ethnicity of those who built these structure, who could be Illyrian in Albania, Iberian in Spain, or Berbers in Algeria. I'll let Owenglyndur address the motifs and rosettes, but anyway, that does not undermine the argument, especially since the tombs carry the same characteristics as those in Jerusalem and other places in Judea from the same time, which are undoubtedly Jewish.
• I will be able to take a deeper look when I come back from the hospital. In the meantime, please avoid using double standards when evaluating others' work, especially if you choose to work with more controversial sources on more controversial subjects, such as editing villages recently massacred by Hamas. We have enough bias issues in ARBPIA, we don't need this one as well. 916crdshn (talk) 13:30, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

User:916crdshn wrote: "The claim that someone who is Israeli and served in the IDF cannot be a reliable source, despite their academic achievements, is unfounded." Who has claimed that? Where? (And best wishes for your health), Huldra (talk) 21:35, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

What you write about the article the 87 year old Salman Abu Sitta wrote concerning the 7 October events is caricature. He recalled that, [I could have been one of those who broke through the siege on October 7. On May 14, 1948, my family on our land, “Ma’in Abu Sitta,” was attacked by a Haganah force of 24 armored vehicles. The force destroyed and burnt everything. The soldiers demolished the school that my father built in 1920; they stole the motor and equipment in the flour mill and well pump; they killed anyone in sight.'] In other words, what the young militants of Gaza did in attacking kibbutzim was, to him, exactly what Haganah militants did to his own and hundreds of villages. Benny Morris counted 24 documentable cases of IDF massacres against Palestinians in 1948 (the Palestinian narrative claims 65+), and rapine and rape were not infrequent. The glaring double standard is that the latter are part of an heroic narrative of achieving Israel's independence, whereas the former is just animals penned for decades up an open air concentration camp acting like the animals major politicians and IDF people claim they are. Palestinian villages or Israeli kibbutzim, the techniques were identical, and no one can claim the moral high ground. And Salman Abu Sitta made that argument long after his distinguished career of research has ended.

The only serious question is epistemological. How does one distinguish a Samaritan site from a Jewish site in the majority Samaritan area of Samaria? (i.e. why is it that Judea and Samaria are claimed as Jewish when down to the Byzantine period, the demographically much larger Samaritans were classified by rabbinical thought and law as distinct from Jews. (My best wishes for a speedy recovery).Nishidani (talk) 14:01, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

remember

When somebody pretended like they were a neutral, disinterested closer in ARBPIA discussions? lol. nableezy - 21:20, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

User:Nableezy hmm, can't believe I was that polite; also; has he done it again? Huldra (talk) 21:39, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Nah, way too obviously involved to try something like that again. nableezy - 21:56, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi Huldra. I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:47, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry

I should have written this a long time ago. I told myself you wouldn't want to hear from me, but honestly that was just an excuse to let myself off the hook. Thank you for the barnstar, which made me realize that I can no longer hide behind such a convenient excuse. I know it's five years too late, but I'm sorry I took you to AE. I deeply regret doing that, and I've secretly regretted it for years now. I did it for all the wrong reasons: an overinflated sense of abstract justice, a misguided belief that if one person was sanctioned for something they said in an argument, then the other person should be sanctioned, too. I'm old enough to know that two wrongs don't make a right, and I hate putting form over substance, but that's exactly what I did. It was some months after the fact that I looked at your contribs out of curiosity and realized that all I had done was rob Wikipedia of a highly productive and dedicated editor for 3 months, for no good reason; no benefit came from it whatsoever. What I did was harmful to you and to Wikipedia, and I've been embarrassed about it ever since then. Most unjust of all, while you "did the time," I'm the one who learned the lesson from it. Thank you for teaching me that, and more importantly, for educating the world and ensuring that overlooked topics are no longer overlooked. I'm in awe of your work documenting villages. I'm also in awe of your ability to turn the other cheek towards me. Most of all, I'm sorry I volunteered to make your volunteer work harder and more unpleasant. Thanks, again, for teaching me and all of us. Le,vivich (talk) 01:51, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Gosh, User:Levivich, so you were the one reporting me! But you give me more credit for forgiveness than I deserve: I had genuinely forgotten that, haven't forgotten the (for me: completely incomrehensible) ban, though. The whole enchilada grew out of our different background, me thinks. I grew up in a country which was occupied by the nazis in WW II, it was *the* defining event my parents life; I grew up very much in the shadow of that war (Yes, I'm old!). My late father was one of the socalled "men of the resistance", who took up arms against them: he never wore an uniform doing so. Most of my friends parents/fathers did the same. Which is why I am so absolutely furious when Americans define every fighter without uniform as a "terrorist", "unlawful combatants", or such shit. So yeah: I am *still* advocating my right (and anyones elses right) to oppose any illegal occupation! Americans -or Swiss- will just never understand.

-and 5 years is a *lot* of water under the bridge, I was seriously impressed by your work here; you deserve that barnstar! Live an learn; live and learn, cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:45, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

And I'm sorry if I sound condecending in my "Americans -or Swiss- will just never understand." But that is my experience: unless you have experienced an illegal occupation, -or lived closely with people who have- I think it is exceptionally difficult to comprehend, Huldra (talk) 22:07, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Thank you, Huldra (talk) 20:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

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• Ok,Huldra (talk) 23:38, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 04:28, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

• Just a note, I am not accusing you of anything. The AN/I notice is that a media article has accused you of violating Wikipedia guidelines, and this media article was mentioned at AN/I. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 04:28, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

User:WeatherWriter: I don't see my name on ANI? Could you please point me to the discussion? That off-wiki a media or blogs accuse me of wrong-doing: I'm getting quite used to that, ;/ Huldra (talk) 20:22, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

User:WeatherWriter: Ah, I think I found it, it was the discussion about this article. I find it pretty insulting to be called "pro-Hamas", though, I wonder how people would react if I started referring to anyone I disagreed with on IP-issues as "pro-genocide"? I would get instantly banned from Wikipedia, that's for sure, Huldra (talk) 20:37, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Also; hopefully needless to say: I have never been a member or even read "Discord group called Tech For Palestine"; Huldra (talk) 20:48, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, it was the AN/I discussion regarding that specific article. Per AN/I guidelines, I am required to alert editors "involved", and since the discussion was specifically regarding that article being published and you were a named editor in that article, you got notified. I notified every editor who was named in the article because of the AN/I guidelines. The AN/I part was closed fairly quickly after I found out it was being discussed/investigated on ArbCom already. It looks like several others commented after the initial AN/I part [notifying the administrators about the article being published] was solved and formally closed. So, hopefully that explains why you got an AN/I notice. Since you were named, I would recommend watching that ArbCom case regarding it (which started before my AN/I notices even). The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 20:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

User:WeatherWriter: I don't know if I will bother, not on such silly "evidence" anyway. I mean: User:Icewhiz and I have edited lots of the same articles. But I would get seriously insulted if anyone suggested that I had "conspired" with Icewhiz! cheers, Huldra (talk) 21:01, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks, BilledMammal (talk) 04:09, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for helping connect the 1938 al-Bassa Massacre article to the rest of Wikipedia. I appreciate the assist in removing the orphan status—it really makes a difference! Thanks again! Imteghren (talk) 10:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

User:Imteghren: Thank you for starting the article! Huldra (talk) 22:20, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

Multiple different signatures

Is there a reason you are signing your comments here variously as Huldra and as Josef K? IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 20:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

User:IOHANNVSVERVS: I guess it should all have been Joseph K. after The Trial: "Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader." What gave rise to the word Kafkaesque, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Not very professional/appropriate I wouldn't think and a cause of confusion. You'd probably do well to revert that. You're statement speaks for itself regarding the Kafkaesqueness of the situation. Just some advice from a non-admin. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 20:55, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

User:IOHANNVSVERVS: I hope the arb.com members take the reference: this situation is really Kafkaesque to me. If it cause confusion, I will follow your advice and sign myself as Huldra (talk) 21:00, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I'd personally strongly recommend you do so. Best to take seriously and respect the time/attention of the Arbcom admins. Also my first thought was multiple people were using your account or something like that. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 21:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

User:IOHANNVSVERVS:  Done, Huldra (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

November 2024

Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Please adhere to NPOV, and don't try to manipulate policy to advance your personal POV. In particular, it's not acceptable to hold sources to different standards, as you do for Al Jazeera and Jerusalem Post in the following !votes:

Al Jazeera

Option 1, Generally reliable, largely by User:Horse Eye's Back; as they correctly remarked that this is blatant cherry-picking, I suspect I could find equal examples in most of the major Israeli newspapers, (How many of them have corrected their Oct 7th reports about "40 beheaded babies" and "cold-blooded murder of pregnant woman and her foetus"?
— User:Huldra 23:18, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Jerusalem Post

Option 4, as they still have clearly false statements on Oct 7 "decapitation babies" still online, after they have been debunked for over a year,
— User:Huldra 22:37, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

You describe these examples as equal, but for sources you agree with they result in "Generally reliable", while for sources you disagree with they result in "Deprecate". BilledMammal (talk) 03:57, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

To editor BilledMammal: This is harassment. RSN is not a Wikipedia article and editors are perfectly entitled to express their opinion there. Like you often do. Zero^talk 11:03, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

POV pushing can occur outside of mainspace. For example, Huldra’s behaviour at RSN - and if successful, with considerably more disruption, as it would affect hundreds or thousands of articles.

And just generally - is this really behaviour you want to encourage? The end result will be a more biased and less neutral encyclopaedia, and that isn’t something any of us should be seeking. BilledMammal (talk) 11:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

She didn’t describe them as equal, and they aren’t, and I’ll be discussing this tactic of misleadingly claiming some equivalency at the arbitration case. nableezy - 11:50, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

How else would you interpret I suspect I could find equal examples in most of the major Israeli newspapers, (How many of them have corrected their Oct 7th reports about "40 beheaded babies" and "cold-blooded murder of pregnant woman and her foetus"?? BilledMammal (talk) 12:08, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

That other equal examples exist, but those are a couple of extraordinary ones. nableezy - 12:13, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

I don’t think that interpretation is reasonable. At no point do they suggest that these are extraordinary examples, as opposed to the equal examples that they are discussing. BilledMammal (talk) 12:14, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

I don’t think it’s reasonable for you to be templating an editor with more than a decade of contributions on you, but I’m not going to badger you on your talk page about it either. nableezy - 12:36, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

But I’m curious, do you actually think Al Jazeera claimed that Fourteen children were killed, as well as nine women in an Israeli attack. This is false; nine children and three women died. While the figures did match the initial figures reported by al-Aqsa hospital, those figures had been corrected hours prior to the report being published - and even if the figures had been corrected after, Al Jazeera's decision to put them in their own voice would have meant that they still had a responsibility to issue a correction. is the same as falsely claiming to have verified photos that we know conclusively never existed? Do you think it is the same as claiming a dead baby was a doll and an example of Palestinian propaganda? Have you held JPost to the same standard you attempted to hold Al-Jazeera to? You previously attempted to keep CAMERA in an article, were you holding CAMERA to the same standard you claimed Al-Jazeera should be held to? nableezy - 15:58, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

User:BilledMammal: What zero000 and Nableezy said. You are comparing apples with oranges .....or mosquitos with elephants; cheers, Huldra (talk) 23:36, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

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Arbitration case request declined

Hi Huldra. The Arbitration Committee has decided not to open a public case in response to the case request Covert canvassing and proxying in the Israel-Arab conflict topic area, which has now been removed. The Committee will separately decide whether to take any action based on the private evidence that was mentioned in that case request. (In response to another request, the Committee also decided to open a Palestine-Israel articles 5 case. It is planned to be opened on November 30 so that the there is time before then for the Committee to consider that private evidence separately from that case.) For the Arbitration Committee, SilverLocust 💬 06:27, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

User:SilverLocust: may I then have a copy of the "private evidence" against me? BIladMammal said arb.com could share it whith me, I emailed them asking for it, but have heard nothing, Huldra (talk) 20:06, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Huldra. The Committee is currently working out some behind the scenes aspects of how to reveal the evidence, but I hope to have it collated and approved to send to you soon. For the sake of transparency and expectations, I don't think the decline of the public case was the last word, and I do foresee further proceedings in this matter. How exactly we achieve that is part of what we're working out. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 21:56, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you User:CaptainEek, I hope I am given a chance to defend myself. I still have absolutely no clue as to which banned editor I am supposed to have colluded with. Yes, I started an article -as there was a lot of "twitterati" twittering about him. Is that a mortal wiki-sin? Huldra (talk) 22:02, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I absolutely want to make sure everyone has a fair chance and sufficient time to provide a defense or explanation. I really want to make sure we do this right and in a humane manner. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 22:05, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Sorry,User:CaptainEek: I cannot say I feel you are succeeding splendidly, Huldra (talk) 22:08, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm aware. We're moving as fast as we can while trying not to make mistakes. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 22:11, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

I feel you are moving at 1-2 knots speed: I could swim faster (one upon a time). Anyway, in order not to distract you from your work at arb.com, I'll leave it here, Huldra (talk) 22:16, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	:) Mr.Karhi (talk) 21:37, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Mr.Karhi, As you can see, I started working on User:Huldra/Basheer K. Nijim, but got distracted. There are so many things happening at the moment. Please feel free to work on User:Huldra/Basheer K. Nijim, if you feel like it, Huldra (talk) 21:53, 20 November 2024 (UTC)