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All your arguments show that you have no understanding of the image policy. We can't know when the author died if we don't know who the author is. If we don't know the exact source of the image, we don't use it. Read WP:IUP. Jay32183 (talk) 06:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On Purim you moved a section about and changed some generally accepted terminology to jargonistic Hebrew terms. The average Wikipedia reader does not know who Hashem is, while the word God means practically the same and is understood by all. By all means merge the content on masquerading if you wish, but stick to generally used terminology if you please. Kol tuv. JFW | T@lk 23:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you should be aware, your two articles about "Central park to sinai" and about Roy Neuberger" will be speedy deleted under g11 if you don't clean them up fast.

Both Roy and the book need to be notable and mentioned in a bunch of news articles verifying that. Joe407 (talk) 16:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was not intended as advertising for Roy S, the son, or Roy R, the 105 year old father.

This son of Roy R. the 105 year old (July 21 to be 106) founder of the famous brokerage firm doesn't need my plugs or advertising. I'll work on making it look less than an ad, but considering that Roy S, the son, wrote 2 more books (and the father one more) since the book came out, that would be like advertising breathing - a good idea for each of us, including the person in my mirror, to do it, but it doesn't need advertising - breathing is a best-seller.

Dad7, Sorry about that. I meant to direct you to CAT:SD and to look at reason G11 which includes spam and advertising. I haven't flagged the articles for speedy deletion because it's a real pain to revive a deleted article. See if you can fix it up soon because otherwise someone less friendly than myself will flag it and it will go up in smoke. BTW, you may also want to merge the articles in to one about Roy and have a sub section about his book. Joe407 (talk) 19:06, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Just so you should know I'm put a proposal for a merge on Neuberger,Roy S.(Salant). I explain the reason on the talk page. Please do not remove the merge template until a discussion has run its course. Joe407 (talk) 05:54, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dad7. You have new messages at Jon513's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

First, I'm not a vandal. We have naming conventions for articles, and "Neuberger,Roy S.(Salant)" was wholly unacceptable. I added (author) onto the end to distinguish one from the other. It's largely meant to be disambiguating. If you don't like it, we can explore other names. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 18:30, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Read WP:COMMONAME. Articles are named "Firstname Lastname". — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 18:32, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you maybe discuss your edits? I moved the From Central Park to Sinai article because what you put isn't the official title. If you look up the ISBN for this article - ISBN 0-8246-0431-8 - you'll see that the official name of the book. From worldcat.org, "From Central Park to Sinai : how I found my Jewish soul." On Google books, "From Central Park to Sinai." From ibookdb.net, "From Central Park to Sinai: How I Found My Jewish Soul". — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 18:46, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

it would be nice if the update status of a request (on which I received assistance re "how to" from User:Jon513) were made available.

The blocked site is ... babynology.com

Submitted 19:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC) at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist&action=submit

pseudo-Archive (28 July 2009): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dad7/babynology.hist

contains information about origins of names given to babies.

I was editing a pre-existing article that included a list of individuals. One person had two "a.k.a."s, one of which seemed to me as unlikely. A google search brought me to babynology.com and I learned that the TWO meanings in one language (which I don't know) were similar to the two meanings in another (which I know beyond simple basic-tourist level). One meaning helped explained something that prior editors of the article had overlooked.

Babynology was truly helpful, in that I had jumped to ONE of the pair(s) of meanings, while overlooking the other.

I made the edit but, to support it, had to use a "satisfice" -- i.e. not the best source. To avoid possibly copying copyright information, I wrote my own blended summary, but I think that the wikipedia English user community loses on this matter; a link to babynology would for some people be educational on this matter.

It doesn't seem too likely that a site such as THIS (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22babynology.com%22 - see self-description), which is ranked by Alexa and Quantcast would risk what it has.

Interestingly I think this was the site I was unsuccessful at linking to back in 2008, but in that case I found what I considered a good source and let it go. (The name of THAT site had BABY &/or NAME in its URL).

If there's an ADMIN willing to review this during spare CPU cycles, it would be a service.

Admin HU12 (Hu12 (talk)) responded July 21,'09 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist with some information. After checking it out, it seems that something named http://spam(dot)babynology.com and an Ad Sense Id may have been involved in 2008. There is no such name today. I thanked him and left a low-prio follow-up msg there.

I've just reverted your edit where you changed 'God' to 'G-d'. Now maybe there's good reason for this that follows our guidelines, but you didn't explain it and your edit summary definitely should have mentioned it. Could you please explain why you made the change? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 21:51, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dad7, You article "From Central Park to Sinai" has been nominated for deletion. Please weigh in on the subject at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/From Central Park to Sinai. Please do not take this personally. I gave myself a good few weeks away from this article to help me gain perspective and when I went back and re-read it I did not see sufficient notability to keep it. Thank you for understanding and for your Wikipedia contributions. Joe407 (talk) 08:38, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As hideous and heinous as this crime was, we cannot violate wikipedia policies and guidelines. Other wikimedia projects may not be used as sources. If anything, the sources supporting the statements in the other projects' articles need to be brought here. Furthermore, listing the names of people without bringing any source at all is another BLP violation. Bring sources, or leave it blank. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to have added every blog and non-reliable source you could find. The article is replete with BLP violations and NPOV violations on your part--you MUST bring reliable and verifiable sources, and you CANNOT cast people's opinions as fact. I am as horrified as you are about this—check the article's history for proof—but that does not give us an excuse to violate wikipedia's core principles. You must support statements, especially about living people, with reputable and acceptable sources, not blogs and opinions. I may have to remove 80% of the article just to bring it into compliance! -- Avi (talk) 18:11, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article Yaakov Feitman has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication this meets WP:BIO.

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Hi, thanks for writing this! Unfortunately a lot of the citations in the article are broken. What you need to do is put the text you want to quote in the "|quote=" parameter. You may find the Google Books citation generator helpful. Let me know if you need any further help. Blythwood (talk) 08:23, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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