User talk:RK

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Contents 1 Old stuff 2 New discussions 3 Source for Jimbo quote 4 Criticism of Haredi Judaism 5 AfD 6 Blocked 7 Merges, moves 8 What the Bleep Do We Know!? 9 hey 10 the Good Book 11 Judaism and Christianity 12 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can 13 Your Trolling 14 Re.:Greenpeace 15 User:RobertKaiser vs User:RK 16 Stop pretending to be me 17 Could you review these articles? 18 List of pubs 19 Serious discussions about using the names Reform vs. Progressive Judaism 20 An interesting AfD 21 Question for RK 22 Binding of Isaac article name change 23 Proposed deletion of User:RK/A Liberal Defense of Zionism

[edit] Old stuff

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[edit] New discussions

[edit] Source for Jimbo quote

CH, you recently wroye in the General Relativity Talk page:

While as of June 2006 there are still some Wikipedians knowledgeable about gtr, given what I view as the failure of WP as a source reliable information (see recent comments by our founder, Jimbo Wales),

Could you give me a reference for this quote? Also, have you discussed the possibility of creating a Physics wiki, one that has a measure of formal peer review, disallows all edits by anonymoys users, and requires registered users to give a valid e-mail? If Jimbo weren't so insistent on anarchy (literally) Wikipedia could have had a chance to be useful. As it turns out, however, it has sunk into a morass that can never be redeemed. RK 12:42, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Robert. RK 12:42, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm looking for it myself. I missed the NY Times article, unfortunately, but I've seen several [articles] which mention a St. Petersburg Times interview in which their most famous netizen allegedly said that Wikipedia cannot now or ever be used as a reference (e.g. for schoolwork), which to my mind is inconsistent with the reason I came here: to create an encyclopedia. I am still searching Google and places in WP for a working link to the text of this interview. ---CH 21:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Haredi Judaism

Hello RK! I had mentioned in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism that until recently Modern Orthodox Judaism was the only major denomination with a criticism section. I notice in particular that Haredi Judaism doesn't have a criticism section. Perhaps you might be interested in created a section explaining the difficulties people to the left of Haredi Judaism have with it(properly sourced of course). Best wishes. And perhaps the way their leaders talk about other denominations might be one of the issues of concern. --Shirahadasha 22:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Hello again RK! It's great to see you're still active on Wikipedia. Just thought I'd let you know - if you have time, your expertise will be helpful on this page. [1] Regards. 172 | Talk 05:03, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked

RK, you have been blocked for 1 week following your violation of the No personal attacks aspect of your arbitration case. Details can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement#RK_2 --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 03:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merges, moves

_ _ Hi, didn't notice your return until just now; welcome back.
_ _ While i haven't looked to see whether you at least preserved the former text, your conversion into a Dab of Avodah Zarah amounts to either a cut-&-paste move or a bootleg deletion. The previous revisions belong as part of the page-history of Idolatry in Judaism, even if the text is redundant. Don't do that.
--Jerzy•t 06:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Hello, I'm writing you to determine if there is concensus amoung recent editors of What the Bleep Do We Know!? to remove it's NPOV tag. Please weigh in with your opinion on the talk page Talk:What_the_Bleep_Do_We_Know!?. Thanks!! Adelord 19:25, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hey

If you have five minutes, go here [2] and read talk topics 13-15. If you think it is important, then consider commenting, Slrubenstein | Talk 06:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the Good Book

Hag Sameach!

Do you think it is controversial to claim that Jews call their Tanakh "the Bible?" I don't. Do you think it is controversial to claim that "the Bible" refers only to the combined "Old Testament" and "New Testament," i.e. is a term that refers to the sacred scriptures of Christians (but not Jews)? I do, but this is precisely the claim Home Computer is making on the Bible talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bible#Current_layout

Feel free to weigh in. And please watch out for Home Computer's attempts to change the article. Slrubenstein | Talk 10:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Please disregard, this wikipedian is stirring trouble, see his talk page. --Home Computer 15:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Judaism and Christianity

You may care to comment here: [3] Slrubenstein | Talk 13:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Your Trolling

Stop trolling or I will need to block you. RobertKaiser 03:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re.:Greenpeace

You asked who considers Greenpeace terrorists. All of the civilized world does. When France initiated some nuclear testing, Greenpeace tried to interfere, and got one of their boats shot all to hell, it sank. In the US, the FBI, other law enforcement considers them terrorists. See Operation Backfire (FBI) for more and/or go to this link: www.fbi.gov/page2/jan06/elf012006.htm which is the last known info on this law enforcement operation, status of which is Active/Ongoing. All of the known "Eco-Terrorists orgs and those not mentioned here are being infiltrated, to take them down. IF you're in one of these orgs, its best to GET OUT and wait for the heat to die down. 65.163.112.128 (talk) 17:08, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I did not mean to be hard on you, just stating that when these people are caught, they either end up in jail and/or in a mental hospital. 65.163.112.128 (talk) 17:10, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:RobertKaiser vs User:RK

Hi: Who is User:RobertKaiser and who is User:RK? Are you one and the same or different users or both? IZAK 09:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

This user is not Robert Kaiser. He is a troll, pretending to be me.

If you have evidence of tolling, suggest you report this on WP:AN. If the primary issue is the name suggest WP:RFCN. Shabbat Shalom, --Shirahadasha 20:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop pretending to be me

Stop pretending to me, it is considered to be trolling and I will block you for it. RobertKaiser 21:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Back off RobertKaiser. You are being disruptive. Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 02:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could you review these articles?

Could you have a look at these articles and their talk?

• Jewish reactions to intelligent design
• Jewish opposition to evolution

I feel the articles are extremely well sourced and balanced. I'd like somebody else to remove the tags. Please look at my last versions, because I have run up against somebody from the evolution/creation universe who wants to pick a fight. --Metzenberg 03:10, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of pubs

As someone who has contributed to the talk page discussion on List of publications in philosophy and/or that article's previous deletion debate, I thought you might be interested in participating in its new nomination for deletion which can be found here. Thanks. - KSchutte 17:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Serious discussions about using the names Reform vs. Progressive Judaism

Hi RK: Please see the present discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks#WikiProject Judaism needs help - geographical bias concerns. Your input would be greatly appreciated. (They are the result of discussions that unfolded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Concern about duplicating Reform and Progressive labels.) Thanks so much, IZAK 08:55, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An interesting AfD

Hello. You may be interested in commenting on this Afd and contributing to it's associated discussion.Ghanadar galpa (talk) 22:36, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question for RK

I am interested in some information you wrote in the "Semicha" article. You wrote "A minority of Jewish writers maintain that a form of the original semicha continued to be practiced in small numbers as late as the eleventh century CE"( Posted by RK, 21:33, 24 August 2004).

This comment has recently been removed for lack of citation.

I am very interested in the source of this information or anything else at all you may be able to share with me about it.

You may answer on the Talk Page or feel free to contact me at the following email address: CWatchman2@gmail.com

Thank you very much,

CWatchman (talk) 03:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Binding of Isaac article name change

Thanks for your comments and contributions at Binding of Isaac. About 3 weeks ago, I proposed to change the name of the article to "Sacrifice of Isaac" at Talk:Binding of Isaac#Name of this article, but so far haven't seen any response. I plan to go ahead and rename the article on March 20, 2008 unless there are objections. I invite you to visit the article and submit any comments you have on the matter. Thanks! --Bryan H Bell (talk) 17:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Five editors have responded to the proposal described above. Four oppose and one is neutral. The consensus is opposed to the name change. I'll therfore leave the article as currently named ("Binding of Isaac") and consider the matter closed. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 03:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of User:RK/A Liberal Defense of Zionism

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