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You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round.

 Joe  I 16:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Psalms

I see what you've done with the pages on individual Psalms, with the "Psalms" tag on the front. Does this create the banner on the side? Does every page with that tag go on the banner on each page? Bernard S. Jansen 00:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you answered my question exactly. Bernard S. Jansen 10:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your Raptors Pictures

Hi, I notice you have contributed several pictures to the Air Canada Centre article. I have used one of them for the Toronto Raptors article. If by any chance, you have an opportunity to ever take pictures at a Raptors game, do add it to the Raptors article too. Some of us are in the midst of raising the quality of the article, and pictures help big time. I understand you already have a couple of shots of the Raptors in game, but they are a little blur when blown up. I myself had a torrid time taking pictures at the ACC, so it's a tough job I know. Chensiyuan 12:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fish and Chicken

Hi Epson291. I don't think the link to fish (food) should be added to the top of the fish article. There's already fish (disambiguation) where one can find fish(food). In addition, fish(food) is also listed in the "see also" part of the article. The same goes to the chicken article where chicken (food) is included in Chicken (disambiguation). Cheers. --Melanochromis 08:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. I think I see your point. Let's say I'm neutral at this point. But how about proposing this in the article discussion pages first? Fish has several regular editors. I'm sure Chicken has some too. If they agree with this, then it should be added to the articles. Cheers. --Melanochromis 14:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Horseshoe Falls (Canada) redirect

Hey! I hope I wasn't messing around with your page when you were in the middle of something. Basically when going to Horseshoe Falls and clicking on Horseshoe Falls (Canada), it just redirects you back to Horseshoe Falls. I 'fixed' that. Again, hopefully I didn't get in the way of something else you were trying to do. If I did, I apologize - just trying to fix what looks like a mistake. Chupper 03:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Everything Bagels

I think there is a sort of humour in the way "everything" bagels do not contain everything. This is not "POV" or opinion, but rather, a documentable fact that people have recognized and appreciated this strange irony. I had originally added a link to a website referencing this, but the link was automatically removed by an anti-spam bot. Perhaps "everything bagel" doesn't deserve its own paragraph, but I think that it's worth mentioning that an "everything" bagel does not contain everything--it may be self-evident from experience of eating a number of bagels from a number of different places; it is not self-evident from the name. I remember as a child being puzzled to find that an "everything bagel" didn't come close to containing everything offered by the bagel stand selling it. Cazort 14:24, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jews

Hi! I don't think it would be necessary to write Russian, French, German etc. because that is only a minority of Jews worldwide. It does not say what ethnic language or the such. Jews today, who are more correctly a nation rather than an ethnic group, are unlike Russians, Germans, Pashtuns, Armenians etc. since most of them do not speak their ancestral languages. If this were perhaps 60 or 70 years ago, Yiddish would probably be written first, since it was then the language shared by most Jews. The language shared by most Jews today is overwhelmingly English and it is the prime language of the community, whether or not it has to do with immigration is irrelevant. (Another factor to consider is the large portion of Israeli and European Jews who speak English.) I will post a discussion on the talk page. --Shamir1 23:25, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but speaking English is incidental to their being Jewish. It is a logical accident. Anyways, Epson, I am outta here! I just totally disagree with Mr. Shamir1 Oemb1905 18:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dollar sign

Hi,

while I don't disagree your edit on $ in principle, please consider interwiki while changing an article to a redirect. You might want to merge the interwiki links. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:16, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chai (symbol)

Just wanted to let you know that I had volunteered to mediate this case, but I wanted to find out first if there is still an issue that requires resolution, since the case is kind of old. Cheers - RJASE1 ^Talk 01:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now that both parties have agreed to mediation, I've started the discussion here, at least for now. Cheers - RJASE1 ^Talk 16:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Einsteins tallk page

First , I wish to ask for your e-mail as i have a long story to tell you ( I can put it here but it will take alot of space).Secondly , I think that refring to Einstein as an ethnic German is at least very unclear (and so its not a matter of a poll to decide wheter he would considered as an ethnic German since there will never a strong agreement in favor of this idea even if it will win the poll) and it seems offensive for many Jewish peopole ( I admit that it offense me) -and as there is a storng objrction from some users , in many different ways, to make the Jewishness of many great Jews clear - i think that regarding the Einstein article and regarding to the history of this article the infobox status quo should remain as it is now (i.e only Jewish) .I guess that you can agree with me about this that an ethnic origin of one is not something that should be decide by using a poll (but it can be debate even if its clear).Best wishes.--Gilisa 20:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

שלחתי לך עוד אי-מייל , ראית?--Gilisa 08:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity poll

I am confused by your statement: “I am (and at the same time not) surprised on this artcle the number of people who don't want to reconize his Jewishness, and for another user to drag this to a poll once again (see the archives).” I have never heard of anyone anywhere who didn’t recognize Einstein’s Jewishness. And I am unaware of any previous poll on the subject. Please enlighten me.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have included “Jewish” in the poll; the answer is a no-brainer. I included it out of (imagined?) fairness someone who might think neither should be included (i.e. no Ethnicity field).

Happy Passover to you. --teb728 23:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mediation

Just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten the Chai (symbol) case. Just have been a little busy. I will get the RfC drafted on Saturday or Sunday. RJASE1 ^Talk 03:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Making charts

Unfortunately, no, I'm not an expert with charts. However, you might want to take a look at the "month names" chart in the Iranian calendar article, which I tweaked the other day. This chart might be particularly helpful for your current situation, since it includes right-to-left text. Richwales 16:04, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'm willing to at least try, if you can send me what you already have. Richwales 16:34, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I finished creating a chart (table) for the "Honorifics in Judaism" article, in place of the graphic image. Hopefully you'll find it OK, and I hope I didn't make any mistakes. Richwales 02:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great Work!

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your great work on the Jewish Music page! Between the organization and the new navbar on the side, it looks a million times better! I'd have given you a barnstar, but I couldn't find one with a Jewish theme! Great work! -- Chabuk ^{[ T • C ]} 22:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move of Matzo to Matzah

The article has been put up on WP:RM and a new discussion has been started on the Talk:Matzo page. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 21:29, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese braille

I see you are near the top of the history list on that article. Is there a way to put in the actual Braille dots? All I get are question marks in the table. Also, I fixed a link from bopomofo to this Braille article. It was dead because the article itself has a lower-case "braille" instead of "Braille". Jeffmatt 06:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Epson

I had a discussion with Stephan Schulz on his tallk page -and after I ask him to get to an agreement with me he had his suggestion-please look on it and share me with your opinion. Best--Gilisa 10:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-)תודה רבה על העזרה עם התמונה. --Gilisa 12:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ألصَّديق وَقْت الضِّيق--Gilisa 12:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

new articles

Your article creations are welcomed. Please add them to WP:Israel/New and WP:JEW/New. Thanks.--Shuki 18:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JM Template

Epson, I feel like the images at the top of the template are just adding unnecessary extra width to the panel. They don't really serve a purpose besides decoration, but take up a significant amount of room on the page. Also, when you reverted me edits you re-added redundant links that were already listed... -- Chabuk ^{[ T • C ]} 16:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Liviu Librescu

Hi, I see you have the same concern. Can you help find the exact info, please. We need to find more sourses, more exact. I remember his son Joe repeating in interview that Liviu Livrescu did not want to talk about that, perhaps it was a very unpleasant experience, and him being such altruist... It would be a shame if someone later would try to exploit the fact that in the first days the information might turn out to be somewhat incorrect. My personal opinion is that even if it turns out that he was not in a Nazi camp, only the fact that he survived a deportation and danger of death is sufficient to be called a full-right Holocaust survivor. :Dc76 20:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I had to check myself to make sure Yom HaShoah wasn't celebrated for two days in the Diasporah, after seeing the news article. But some Orthodox congregations don't even recognize it as a holiday. See [1] What an irony. I live only 35 miles from Tech and have so many friends on the faculty and in graduate school. We're all in shock.--Beth Wellington 20:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the wishes and the links. I'm wondering if we we should be talking about when Yom HaShoah was observed in the US, as the incident happened in Blacksburg? I've called my Rabbi and left a message and am expecting a call back. Since it's not an othodox holiday and some orthodox Jews don't celebrate it at all, the question becomes, since there was no conflict with the Shabbat in the U.S., whether the date was moved to coincide with observation in Israel. (See discussion with Pharos.)

At a dinner party last night in Roanoke, a friend who works at Tech with the wife of one of the professors shot and drove up from Montgomery County told me Dr. Granata was in his office on the third floor when he heard shots. He locked the students in his office and went down to investigate and never returned. I just looked it up and his story in the Washington Post is here: [2]. Another friend at dinner told me that her friend who works in a local hospital said someone in the building in the aftermath said that one of the eeriest things was the sound of thirty cell phones on the floor repeatedly ringing. --Beth Wellington 22:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken about the use of the word celebrate as to connotation, although the denotation is "to observe." And one can celebrate the lives, as well as mourn the deaths of those who perished in the Holocaust. But while you call it silly, many U.S. Jews observed Yom HaShoah April 15, including the congregation in Blacksburg [3] and Roanoke [4], the Orthodox Union [5], the U.S. Holocaust Museum [6]. I've already mentioned the Conservative movement. A sampling of others Midwest Center for Holocaust Education [7], Temple Israel of Minneapolis (http://www.templeisrael.com/holidayslong.html], Office of the Governor New Jersey Commission on Holocaust, Henry Ricklis Holocaust Memorial Committee and Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County [8], Sinai Temple of Los Angeles [9], American Jewish Congress of Nova Scotia [10], Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston [11]. --Beth Wellington 04:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's often easy to overlook one's assumptions. I think you've come up with an elegant fix. Now here's my next question. Dr. Lebrescu is listed in the article as having dual citizenship; is that accurate? I know that he had been in the U.S. for 20 years, but failed, in a cursory search, to find an account of U.S. citizenship. --Beth Wellington 07:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

echad mi yodea

cool--you did a much better job than i think i could have. thanks. :)

shalom, Adam — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aasmith (talk • contribs) 21:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prophets of the Tanakh template

Hi, now that you have created this template, are you going to add it to the rest of the articles that are linked within it? - Fayenatic london (talk) 21:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've centred the last line simply by leaving more of the initial columns blank. There's probably another way, but that works! I also added Daniel (my hero), who was inexplicably missing, by extending the line above. There are a few whom I can't place; is Mehseiah the same as Meshach/Mishael? I suggest you add entries for the missing ones in List of minor Biblical figures, then link the template straight to that heading using e.g. List_of_minor_Biblical_figures#Hanani. - Fayenatic london (talk) 18:43, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I forgot to answer your questions. I'm not aware of any fixed list of people recognised as Tanakh prophets in Christian tradition, so I suggest you keep Hebrew in the title. "Is Saul also among the prophets?" (1 Samuel 10:11. You don't have to answer that!) I suggest you change the heading to "Prophets of the Hebrew Bible", as "scriptures" seems to have a wider meaning e.g. here.

I agree that Michaiah (son of Imlah) and Micah are both prophets. At the moment they share an article, so it is fine to have two entries in the template pointing to the same article.

Thanks for the interesting explanation about Daniel. I think it would be useful to keep him in the template, otherwise Christian editors might keep trying to put him in. Can he go at one corner marked "See also: Daniel"? We could document the position on him both in the Daniel article, and with inline text (i.e. visible only when editing) in the template.

Again, I'm not aware of a definitive list of New Testament prophets, although you could refer to the work already done at List of Biblical prophets and Category:Christian_prophets. The gift of prophecy was widespread, but not everyone who prophesies necessarily bears the title of prophet. - I see you have just written the same about Tanakh times. I'm going to stop editing this reply and save it now!

~~You might also want to look at Category:Prophets_of_the_Hebrew_Bible which currently includes at least one not on your list, Ahijah HaShiloni.~~ - Fayenatic london (talk) 19:34, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ezra was in that category too, but I have changed that to Category:Major Tanakh figures.

I recommend "Hebrew scriptures" or "Hebrew Bible" rather than "Tanakh" in the heading, as most gentiles wouldn't know the word Tanakh. Fayenatic london (talk) 19:51, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The second format is best, I think. It's a Hebrew Bible template, so give priority to Jewish recognition rather than gender. Also: (i) move Ezekiel down to the next line, and (ii) take out the Category from the template. All the articles apart from Daniel should be manually added into Category:Prophets_of_the_Hebrew_Bible, which is a sub-category of Jewish prophets; then, the template should not double-up with a second category. Fayenatic london (talk) 20:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I still prefer the second layout, for the reason stated above, and because the left column looks better. Ah - you've removed it now. That's fine, too, unless any feminists object.

I'm pretty sure Daniel is the only "missing" Christian prophet. There are some in the list that we wouldn't get very excited about, e.g. Neriah, but if the Talmud has determined a list of who's a prophet, then stick with that. Fayenatic london (talk) 21:28, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When replaceing redirect templates with {{Prophets of the Tanakh}} it would be helpful if you included a edit summary per Wikipedia policy

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thank you.

Specific reference is made to Moses where two redirect templates were replaced with the single actual template. I added a note inside the article code explaining the change to avoid someone reverting it. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, but no need for apologies, I had to be reminded about the importance of edit summaries myself by PaladinWhite which I will quote here for your bennefit as well:

As a side note, it's good to sign all your posts, including those on your own talk page, with four tildes (~~~~). I didn't the first few posts I made to my own talk page, but another editor pointed out to me that it was just as useful to someone reading your posts there as it would be anywhere else. Cheers! PaladinWhite 00:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks again for fixing the problem with the duplicate templates. Dbiel ^(Talk) 22:22, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As regards your reply on my talk page, yes I would be interested in taking a look into the list of prophets. I want to do a bit of research first, but generally speaking the Jewish and Christian (pre-Christ) prophets are the same.

They are generally cateorized as Major or Minor prophets (but keeping in mind that this often simply refers to the list of the Books of the Bible). There are other classifications as well such as Judges, Kings and other persons of importantance. It may take me a bit of time, but I will post what I come up with at Template_talk:Prophets_of_the_Tanakh. Thank you for asking. Dbiel ^(Talk) 11:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Independence Hall

Just an FYI, when you moved the Independence Hall page to Independence Hall (United States), you left approx 200+ links that are now going to the disambiguation page. Also there was a peer-review done in August 2006 that had to be re-linked. It would have been easier to have left the original page as it was, rename the Israel independence hall, and place a disambiguation link at the top of the original US oriented page. Now it will be necessary to relink all the other pages that now go into the disambiguation page to the new US page you made. Next time for something with this much work to fix, please discuss.-- Marcsin |^Talk 20:07, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. -- Marcsin |^Talk 00:05, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your "welcome" graphic

I really like it, except that I think the Chinese (it is supposed to be Chinese, right?) is incorrect or at least highly uncommon. I read 歡迊 huānzá, when I think what you mean is 歡迎 huānyíng (cf. http://cdict.giga.net.tw/?q=welcome). It is possible that the former is a greeting, though I've never heard it. The graphic is great otherwise! 209.98.138.38 21:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ewwww

No offense, but that meatball picture on the Sephardi cuisine page looks gross.--Gilabrand 15:44, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unicode roman numerals

These characters have been deprecated from day one in unicode itself, and using them adds nothing visually to the table. Why did you re-add them? --Random832 02:43, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, you reverted two edits from before I'd removed them, and one edit from afterward. Please be more careful in the future. --Random832 03:23, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The issue is that these were never "accepted" unicode characters, they're only there to enable round-trip conversion to east asian encodings that have them so you can put each roman numeral for 1-12 in a single character block. The 'proper' unicode versions of the roman numerals are in the U+0020-U+007F block, the others are compatibility characters only.

How about a compromise - expand the paragraph about these characters to include a listing of all of them, but take them out of the main table. --Random832 16:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OldCityMap.PNG

Since the Lions are plural ("Gate of the Lions") in the Hebrew, the proper English spelling is Lions' Gate, as borne out by the article on same (Lions' Gate). I can't make the correction, but I'm sure you must have a way to correct the mispunctuated version accompanying this graphic linked to Old City. BTW, thanks for your many informative, entertaining & diverse contributions to Wiki. Very best, Hertz1888 17:01, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks to epson

Glad you like my photos - I appreciate that. I put up the Kubbeh picture and did some major work on the Sephardi cuisine page. Have you seen it?--Gilabrand 12:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Liz Claiborne

I noticed you moved the Liz Claiborne Inc. page to Liz Claiborne and the Liz Claiborne page to Liz Claiborne (fashion designer). I don't see why this was necessary. I think it would help in the future if you discussed the issue on either talk page before moving any pages. Did you object to the title of Liz Claiborne Inc. for that article? I see there are people confused by the current title, and are adding information about the woman, not the company. And you added lizclaiborne.com as the hompeage in the infobox, but that's not the homepage of the company. You assume someone searching for "Liz Claiborne" on Wikipedia wants to know about the company and not the person? There are many Wikipedia articles with "Inc." in the title, such as Nike, Inc., Turbine, Inc., Gateway, Inc., Amiga, Inc., etc. You can read WP:RM for more about moving pages. WP:NAME says the legal status of a company (Inc. in this case) is not normally included in the title, but when disambiguation is needed (like in this case), legal status can be used to disambiguate, like on Nike, Inc.. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) says that there should be no comma before the legal status unless specified in company literature. Liz Claiborne Inc. is the title on lizclaiborneinc.com and I think that title was just fine for the page and I feel your edits were made in haste. --Pixelface 05:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose we don't need a disambiguation page, and I see your point that the brand is probably more notable now. But I noticed the edit history on Liz Claiborne is missing my edits on Liz Claiborne Inc.. It looks like Liz Claiborne was moved correctly to Liz Claiborne (fashion designer) but Liz Claiborne Inc. was copy pasted to Liz Claiborne and the edit history was lost.

At Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen I've requested an admin merge in my edit histories.

WP:MOVE has some helpful information about the topic.

I also noticed that over 78 pages link to Liz Claiborne and I think most of those wikilinks now need to be changed to Liz Claiborne (fashion designer). In the future I would appreciate a discussion of any potential page moves on an article's talk page. Thank you for your message. --Pixelface 12:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I take that back. It looks like only 12 pages link to the person. I'll change those wikilinks. I think it was a good move afterall. Remember to use the Move tool though :) --Pixelface 12:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rambamfan

If you have a chance, could you take a look at the recent edits by Rambamfan in Nevi'im and Books of Kings the following link http://www.tanakhpersonalities.org/showappendix.php?num=4 does not seem to be to belong in the English version of Wikipedia and I did delete a similar one from the See also section of Aaron It is in a more fitting section in the other two articles but with all name being written only in Hebrew, the link has no value for most English speaking readers. I respect your contributions to the Jewish related articles and feel that you can be more objective on the subject than I can. Thank you. Dbiel ^(Talk) 09:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply on my talk page. The items that you pointed out, all names in Hebrew and the fact the only edits by this user were to include links to this one Hebrew/English web site were the key reason for asking for your assistance. I like your idea of taging the link with the "(Hebrew/English)". I just was not confortable deleting the links if others might find them helpful. But on the other hand, it was starting to look like an attempt to advertise a particular web site. Thank you again for your reply. Dbiel ^(Talk) 19:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]