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This is my talk page (hence User talk:Itai). Comments are always welcome, cash transfers equally so (comments accompanied by cash transfers are likely to be answered sooner). Comments should go at the bottom, money to my Swiss bank account. I may reply either here or in your talk pages; if you prefer one over the other, say so. — Itai (talk) 18:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Israeli Wikipedians 2 Crazy changes by Gilgamesh 3 Hebrew naming conventions 4 Category:Places in Cuba 5 Byzantine origins of the veil 6 Castaways 7 Re: Shinkolobwe 8 Re: John von Neumann 9 de:Regierungserklärung 10 Eras of the Halakha 11 P2Pedia 12 Komemeiut 13 Image copyright problem with Image:Jean-Jacques Dony.jpg 14 Sinking of RMS Leinster 15 What Itai Doesn't Want People To Know 16 ToDo and HACTRN 17 papal bull article 18 What to do... 19 International English grammar 20 User:Itai 21 Wikipedia:Translation 22 A request for assistance 23 CIO 24 T'would be best if you did this 25 Parkman 26 Parkman-Webster murder case FAC 27 Image:Realms_of_the_Dwarves_of_Middle-earth.svg listed for deletion 28 Albigensian Crusade 29 No content in Category:Oysterband 30 Translation Interzonal Traffic 31 Alt.sex 32 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Robots text screenshot.png 33 Speedy deletion of Template:Battle of Vicksburg 34 victor w coules 35 User page

[edit] Israeli Wikipedians

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[edit] Crazy changes by Gilgamesh

Unfortunately, User:Gilgamesh is now imposing his own views by changing the transliterated Hebrew names of articles with redirects to unreadable Hebrew names and fonts, as if his criteria are the only ones to reckon with, when there are in fact several. My computer, as I am sure many others' as well, does not pick up his type of fonts, and thus he is messing up articles such as Safed, Hadera, Holon, Afula, Arad, Israel and many others defacing them and making them unreadable on the web. He is going to DESTROY the normal usage of Wikipedia's Hebrew transliterations to satisfy his own needs without there being any consensus. Common usages are being thrown out in favor of obscure and pedantic academic usages familiar to only a handful of unkown academics. He should be called upon to stop BEFORE he rushes to do further damage without any consensus being reached. All his changes should therefore be reverted. See all his recent contributions via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Gilgamesh I thank you for your interest, and urge all readers here to act. IZAK 04:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hebrew naming conventions

At the present time there is a serious discussion taking place, aiming at some consensus that will result in "official" Wikipedia guidelines about how Hebrew should be used and written in Wikipedia articles. Because of your past or ongoing interest in these type of articles with Hebrew words in them, your attention is called to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [1] TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN AND TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION BEFORE THE "DOORS ARE SHUT" PLEASE SEE THE RELATED DISCUSSION PAGE AT Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [2] Thank you! IZAK 04:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Places in Cuba

Is about to be voted for deletion. Just for you to know.--Jondel 04:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Byzantine origins of the veil

Hi, I have no idea if this is acceptable usage of this space or not, if it isn't I'm terribly sorry. Would you be able to give me the source for the idea that the veil in Islamic culture came from Byzantium? Thanks. You can email me at bridget.whittle@utoronto.ca

[edit] Castaways

Hi Itai. I see you read the Straight Dope article about castaways (you listed two of them on your TODO page). Just thought I'd give you a heads-up about the work I've done at castaway. violet/riga (t) 18:48, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Shinkolobwe

Hey, Itai. You are very welcome; I thought that the French article was significant too, and am glad if I helped. --It's-is-not-a-genitive 00:28, 8 January 2006 (UTC)]]

[edit] Re: John von Neumann

Itai, how can you justify removing from the John von Neumann article the cellular automata category reference, when it is von Neumann who invented the concept? William R. Buckley 07:39, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

- Itai, your suggestion is not too bad, actually. I would want to include some kind of reference within the article proper, however. Of course, the text of this comment comes without an in-depth analysis of your reasoning, so perhaps I am missing some detail of your reasoning. What I find most palatable is the notion of working together, and in this respect, you will find no complaint from me. So, give me a little more time to review the justification you gave on my user talk page. Once I am sure of your intent, I will make a starting effort at the change you suggest, and notify you of my start on your talk page. That will facilitate synchronisation of our efforts. By the way, send me email at the address given on my talk page. I would like to know the identity of those with whom I correspond, etc. William R. Buckley 06:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de:Regierungserklärung

I have translated this at Government policy statement. --Malthusian (talk) 12:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eras of the Halakha

Nice job. I was thinking about doing that myself but I never got around to it. Jon513 21:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P2Pedia

I'm interested in creating a concept for a P2Pedia mentioned by you at Meta-Wiki. I have the technical knowledge in implementation and I want to ask if their are allready a project running cause P2Pedia was first mentioned 2004. Maybe you know some more about the discussions after 2004? --BertLE

Wow. That was some time ago. I've completely forgotten about P2Pedia. I am aware of no project running, nor of further discussions. I'm glad you find the concept interesting. If you're really interested, I'd be happy to collaborate with you in starting such a project. — Itai (talk) 21:05, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad of that. I will put my thoughts into some(many) headwords, or something like this. I allready started a little text today, but there is a lot to do. I will put all to the p2p-page at meta wiki[3] maybe tomorrow. Later I also want to contact the developer communities of some p2p-clients, but this after writing the first draft of P2Pedia. --BertLE

[edit] Komemeiut

Komemeiut is not "standing straight" but "to rise of the ashes" Zeq 17:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Jean-Jacques Dony.jpg

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Itai,

[edit] Sinking of RMS Leinster

There seems to be a conflict of information regarding the U-123 (or is it the UB-123?) and the sinking of the RMS Leinster (see my Wikipedia article 'RMS Leinster').

You claim that the U-123 under the command of Karl Thouret sank the Leinster and ended her days being run aground on the east coast of Britain in 1921.

All sources regarding the sinking of the Leinster say that she was sunk by the U (or UB?) -123 under the command of Robert Ramm and that this u-boat did not manage to survive for long after doing so but fell foul of the North Sea barrage and sunk before the war ended when returning to her base at Zeebrugge.

What is the source, etc., that you have on the boat that sunk the Leinster and what is your view of this contradiction. Can you respond to this query on my talk page, if possible.

Looking forward to your response,

Oz MH 22:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What Itai Doesn't Want People To Know

The adjacent box reveals what Itai doesn't want people to know about himself. Incidentally, we have actually edited at least one article in common. I edited the Usenet article (anonymously) twice on 8 March 2006 which you had edited once on 7 February that same year.

(As I said in email, you are most welcome to visit my userpage any time you wish. Zerrakhi 13:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC))

I made a slightly cheeky edit recently. I changed the template that says, "This Australian government-related article is a stub" so that it now features a picture of a galah - a bird culturally associated with stupidity. In so doing I vastly improved upon the previous picture, which nobody could possibly tell what it was without clicking on it. Zerrakhi 15:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

...and it took a total of 51 hours 20 minutes before someone changed it back! Ah, that was fun while it lasted. Zerrakhi 12:58, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ToDo and HACTRN

Hope you don't mind my poaching, but I took the liberty of redirecting the [[HACTRN]] article to DDT, which my reading of the notes to Steele's The HACTRN indicates HACTRN was a special case of. (I noticed it was on your TODO list). -- Gwern (contribs) 03:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] papal bull article

I don't mind at all. You should probably re-direct though, and I'll put that down on the page: the article I made is pretty much just word for word from Nuttall, as I worked sporadically on that project. --KharBevNor 17:04, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What to do...

Aha! That explains it. I was wondering why the answer wasn't more Kafkaesque. :-) Cheers, FreplySpang 23:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International English grammar

About your edit in Klingon language, from (a) "Paramount Pictures owns the copyright" to (b) "Paramount Pictures own the copyright":   (a) is correct in American usage: "Paramount Pictures", though a plural formation, is the name of a singular legal entity, a corporation, and therefore takes a singular verb.   (b) is correct in British usage: collective nouns (even if singular) take plural verbs, e.g. "the public say..." rather than "the public says...".   So in effect you have edited correct American English grammar into correct British English grammar.   Another person might with equal validity make the opposite edit.   Is there a Wikipedia policy on which grammar should apply in this case?   Wikipedia's international; the Klingon language is used internationally; Paramount's products are marketed internationally; but the company itself is headquartered in the USA.   Should any of these facts be considerations, or should one grammar be "standard" across the board? -- SAJordan 16:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC) (please reply wherever convenient to you)

[edit] User:Itai

Hi Itai: You have not enabled your Wikipedia Email feature in your "my preferences" at the top of your user page. Sometimes editors overlook that when it's a useful way of staying in touch with other editors. Best wishes. IZAK 03:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Translation

[edit] A request for assistance

Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 02:50 3 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] CIO

I notice you contributed most of the content of the CIO article.

I wonder if you could confirm your sources for CIO standing for Central Intelligence Organisation. I have seen an Ian Smith quote refering to it as the Criminal Investigation Organisation, so would like to verify.

N-edits 22:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] T'would be best if you did this

Hi!

Re: Template_talk:Threeagesystem (edit talk links history) and Template:Threeagesystem (edit talk links history)

• Request you agree with this administrative nicety and move this yourself. It'd be more appropriate given it's age. Just make sure to tag the redirect with {{R from template|Newname}} and no articles will need changed since a redirect template works just fine.

• I added some appropriate cats and fixed up the format some little bit. I'm in the middle of nesting that within a three column table on one page.

• We probably ought to tack this in on the bottom of most things listed in the last link of the template. T'was a good idea! Kudos and Cheers! // FrankB 16:16, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parkman

Thank you; I appreciate it. However, the lack of inline references and other problems mean it will most likely fail to pass this time around. Biruitorul 21:45, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parkman-Webster murder case FAC

Hi, all you do to withdraw a nomination is remove it from the main page and remove the fanfare from the talk page. On the second go-around, just archive this nomination and make sure you link to it. You don't have to note that you did this in the {{ArticleHistory}} of the talk page. ALTON .ıl 21:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Realms_of_the_Dwarves_of_Middle-earth.svg listed for deletion

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[edit] Albigensian Crusade

I'm contacting you out of courtesy as you have contributed to the page and may wish to supply your own citations. If you feel this doesn't matter to you, please ignore it. This page was rated as a Good Article, but has been downgraded because nobody did the donkeywork of listing the attributions to the various statements provided, which is after all a fairly serious dereliction of duty in what's suppoed to be a historical record.

Having discussed the withdrawal of GA with LuciferMorgan, I give notice that I am sitting down with the three classic original source texts (Puylaurens, Vaux-de-Cernay and de Tudèle - the last in the Livre de Poche edition as the Martin-Chabot is long out of print) to add the missing inline citations to this page. I do not intend at this point to make any textual alterations, but if comments are made which are NOT justified, be prepared to state your sources now. Jel 20:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No content in Category:Oysterband

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[edit] Translation Interzonal Traffic

Hi Itai. You put Interzonal Traffic on the translation list and I have had a go at translating it. However, I found some specific terms a bit tricky so it really needs to be proofread. However, I just can't work out where to update the progress to proofreaders needed. Sorry to ask a stupid question but I am new and I notice that you have translated articles from Hebrew. Any chance you could let me know how to update this. Thanks Billy1968 (talk) 02:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Thanks Itai. I really appreciate you putting the links in for me. Please could you tell me how to do this (or maybe a link to a page where this is explained) so that I don't leave the job half done next time. Thanks Billy1968 (talk) 03:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alt.sex

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Battle of Vicksburg

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[edit] victor w coules

I have info on painter victor w coules

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[edit] User page

Hello Itai,

I found this phrase on your user page: "Ich hörte im Fußboden, ich fiel im Stuhl!". Can you please tell me where is this phrase taken from, and what does it mean?

Thanks, Leptons (talk) 21:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)