User talk:Tewfik

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Thank you for the answer but..[edit]

I still haven't got any apology from him at all. You can only see his warning regarding possible edit wars in future on my talk page. He said if we are conflicting again on the same article, he will revert my edit based on his "OWN" rule and do to rebuke me. I was so disappointed at such the comments. I made a very long report and was not helpful to get many attentions from sysops. Actually I'm making shorten it, but according to your answer, he won't get any punishment or warning. That is very regretful. Can you at least give him a warning on his disruptive behaviors? He has been abusive at not only me but also Koreans into Korean-Japan related articles. I don't get why he has so hatred sentiment against Korea. He said he is a foreigner residing in Japan. I hope there would not any trouble with him, but he should carefully listen to other people's talk. I think you can do that to prevent further troubles. Thanks. --Appletrees 01:04, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to be cool off from the report, but according to his very recent comment on my talk page User talk:Appletrees User talk:Appletrees/Archive_1#civility, I think the case is not done yet. He denies my proposal for pacification. He's still making a mockery of my report and there is no hope. So I repost his case again in the incident page. [1] Please see his comments on my talk page and the incident page, and reconsider him to get at least warning from any sysop in an official way. Thanks--Appletrees 15:57, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arab Jews[edit]

Yes, a lot of that language was sloppy editorializing, and I agree with your cleanup generally. I think one would need a Benny Morris to write the story in all of its complexity, and dislike simple generalizations on vast historical processes. Regards Nishidani 09:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Communal cities, towns and villages in Israel[edit]

Don't know if you missed this as you archived it before replying, but would you support a name change to Category:Communal Israeli cities, towns and villages in line with Category:Religious Israeli communities, as it appears that a significant number of the ones in there are now settlements and not "in Israel", and I can't see the point in dividing this into Category:Communal Israeli settlements as was done with the religion thing. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 16:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, when I eventually take it to WP:CfD, I was planning to offer two options; either rename the category, or create a seperate (not sub-) category for Communal Israeli settlements, but with a strong preference for the former - as I said, unlike religion, which is an issue for some settlements, I don't think "communal" status matters at all. If you agree, I will drop the offer of creating a seperate category and just suggest a rename (and if someone later creates a seperate category, I will support its deletion). пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 09:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Basically it is the "in Israel" issue again - the category contains many settlements which are not, and hence a WP:NPOV violation. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 08:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

F-16 users[edit]

And our first contestant has [arrived. - BillCJ 01:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PIJ emblem.png[edit]

Thanks for taking care of all the fair-use claim details... AnonMoos 09:56, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gilo[edit]

I noticed you removed all references to Gilo as a 'settlement' and put it back as a 'neighborhood,' and said that the references did not call it a settlement, when in fact they did. You also removed many other useful contributions made by myself, and other contributors which did not fall under the 'settlement/neighborhood' debate. What's going on? You know Gilo is not a neighborhood, neighborhoods allow anyone to live there, not just certain religious or ethnic groups. Colourinthemeaning 12:06, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You Removed Copious Citations and then put in "Citation Needed" Notes[edit]

Looking back at several pages of talk, it seems you have a habit of deleting large blocks of text, including lots of sourcing, with rationales that others contested. First time going through other's talk pages have seen so much of that.

You just did the same to the Samson Option article, leaving merely:

Section - Samson Option controversies The Israeli Samson Option is controversial because Israeli leaders have stated or implied that if Israel was destroyed it would retaliate with nuclear weapons against the cities of Arab and other enemy nations which did not directly attack it.^{[citation needed]} Speculation from prominent Israeli supporters, Jewish and Christian, on how Israel might wreak revenge continue to fuel this controversy.^{[citation needed]}

Anyone who goes back to here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samson_Option&oldid=168995281 will see all the evidence that was deleted.

I do get your point about "quote farm" and can narrow it down to fewer and more on target evidence with sourcing. I hope you agree that relevant sourced information should NOT be deleted for capricious, unexplained reasons. For example, why is giving solid evidence of a known military and diplomatic fact POV?? But that just makes it necessary to get more facts, since there are plenty out there.

Carol Moore 18:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)User:Carolmooredc User talk:Carolmooredc

The Balady of Palestine[edit]

you changed it to Balady citron, which is not correct, because the Yemenite citron could also be called Balady because it is the native to Yemen.

The Palestinian Balady Citron needs still importantly the name to distinguish between it and the Greek citron which is today the leading cultivar in Isreal.

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Abasans[edit]

Good, so Abasan should be deleted. I already made an article on the small Abasan. As for the municipality thing, I'm not sure about the town a, town b or village statuses. Its already integrated into the infobox. I judge according to population. --Al Ameer son 21:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

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Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Orchard[edit]

Thanks for adding the satellite photos to Operation Orchard. Your fair use rational has got to be the most utterly exhaustive one I've ever seen! Joshdboz 18:36, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK[edit]

On 12 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Atarot, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing edit summary[edit]

What are you talking about in the summary of this edit.Bless sins 20:31, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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B'Tselem[edit]

Hi, I've made a comment on the article talk page. No more bongos 22:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Have briefly replied there again. Will work on something more detailed tomorrow. No more bongos 23:05, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1920 Palestine riots[edit]

Hi Tewfik,
I don't have the feeling that the military administration was replaced by a civil one due to these events. After all, San Remo had to take place only a few days after and it sounds logical after confirmation of the mandate a civil administration replace a military one...
Such as for British Mandate of Mesopotamia while still in rebellion !
I know Segev write p.142 the events lead to this transfer but Morris doens't refer to this in Victims.
I think he made a mistake. What do you think about that ? Alithien 22:36, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Zionist political violence[edit]

I am trying to get the original research out of the article, and in the future, I'd appreciate it if you could revert to the version which doesn't restore any of the original research as well. Yahel Guhan 04:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Massacre in Jenin 2002[edit]

Before you re-insert "Amnesty International's report did not contain accusations that a massacre had occurred" at Operation Defensive Shield, please note that the report describes an incident most people would consider a massacre. It's a mass-shooting of unarmed and non-threatening people in an alleyway:

"We did not have anything in our hands. When they told us to raise our shirts, we did. I heard Gaby say in Hebrew ‘Kill them, kill them’, then the other soldier took his gun and sprayed us with bullets. He shot from left to right, so ‘Abd al-Karim was hit first and then Wadah. I don’t know how I wasn’t shot except that when I heard the shots, I fell to the ground. My son’s body was resting on mine. I could feel something wet underneath and I could see it was blood. I could see that my son was shot. I kept very quiet and pretended to be dead". The report continues: "According to Fathi Shalabi, the soldiers remained there for over one hour. They checked the bodies from time to time and one had shone a light near his eyes. He tried to remain still."

Amnesty tell us that Israel has confirmed this incident, so there's not even any dispute about it happening. The reason they don't use the word "massacre" is because, as they say, they don't like it. Even so, they describe exactly why people might wish to use it: "foreign journalists and others outside the camp saw hundreds of missiles being fired into the houses of the camp ... in these circumstances ... stories of a "massacre" spread". It is plainly misleading of AI's intention to quote them as if they deny that a massacre occured, they clearly do not. PR^talk 16:54, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandal[edit]

You're the first editor I thought off-hand who could help me, so here's the deal: there's some vandal at User:85.207.232.200 who keeps adding 'illegal settlement' to the Efrat page. I have given him 3 warnings, and after this he should be blocked (report at WP:AIV). The problem is that I'll be away for at least 3 days in the army and won't be able to report or revert his vandalism. Can you please look out for the article and the person? Thanks, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 20:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kiryat Arba[edit]

The Accadian term is something I've known about for several years, but I am no expert on Semtic languages (b/y variation seems problematical). I have never seen any academic treatment of it, and so cannot source the suggestion. Where I to put what I know on that Hebron page it would, as things stand, amount to OR, and thus I have refrained, as with much else. I just thought in the interests of the page that I should drop you a quick note. If you do know or can contact Israeli specialists, who in turn might clarify the matter, the resulting information would improve the page. Just something to keep one's eyes out for, in reading, desultory conversation etc., as the present entry looks inadequate. Regards Nishidani (talk) 10:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Asian capitals[edit]

Tewfik, it looks like the spurious protection of the page should probably be taken to WP:AN or WP:RFPP. I'm going to be a bit indisposed the next couple of days, so you would like to escalate it? Newtman (talk) 02:28, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely POV and I'm pretty sure pointless article[edit]

I was searching Eilabun but accidentally spelled it. I got this article, Eilaboun. The article seems plagiarized, clearly incites POV, and has virtually no links. I don't know whether to propose deletion or a merger. Perhaps create an article entitled Eilabun massacre? What do you think? --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:16, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no it was the right link, it was deleted today I guess. I thought you deleted it. On a second note, I wanted to ask you if I would be able to upload some Israeli local council logos from the FOTW site and use the fair-use rationale you used for the Maghar logo. I'm pretty sure it will be allowed, correct? --Al Ameer son (talk) 02:47, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. I don't whats going on I clearly remember an Eilaboun article. As for the logo or flag, i was looking for one to add to the Shaghur article but none was found but I am thinking about adding one to Eilabun.[2] --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Here is the former article[3];look at the deletion log at bottom central. I'll redirect it shortly. --Al Ameer son (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haganah[edit]

Thanks for restoring that article.

Telaviv1 (talk) 14:20, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where Are You?[edit]

Where have you been, I haven't seen your edits for a while now. Have you left Wiki or just on vacation. Hopefully its the latter, looking forward to some more contibs by you. Cheers! --Al Ameer son (talk) 15:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I see, for a minute there I thought you left. Thanks for your compliment. On a second note, I finally created an article for Municipality (Palestinian Authority). All the info is from the ref I think you provided in the PalMuni template. I can't find that many cites to elaborate on the article more. I think its because theres not really an official government or at least an official local government setup. If you have anything, please add. --Al Ameer son (talk) 22:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thats what it was in 2006 according to the PCBS. Of course its an estimate and not from a census. Heres the Jericho Governorate chart. Its the fourth locality listed.[4] --Al Ameer son (talk) 18:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Atarot[edit]

Hello,

Regarding your phrasing, the reason I changed it back was that 'Atarot is home to Atarot Airport' isn't saying much. To be really consistent, you could also say it is 'home to Atarot industrial park' instead of 'Jerusalem's largest industrial park'. However, the airport, like the park, is significant because of the city that it served, and in whose municipal boundaries it is located. Tewfik^Talk 10:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And? Tewfik^Talk 18:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And what? There did not appear to be a question to which you wanted me to respond. -- tariqabjotu 00:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dov Lior[edit]

Would you be able to give the common era dates, as most of us non-Jews find the hebrew year dates rather confusing, and they are non-standard in wikipedia.--File Éireann 18:10, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Input with Saudi Arabian Jewish history[edit]

Hi Tewfik, hope all goes well. Maybe you can help improve the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article. It links to smaller articles about Jewish tribes in the areas of present-day Saudi Arabia, such as Banu Awf, Banu Harith, Banu Jusham, Banu Najjar, Banu Sa'ida, Banu Shutayba and they all cited sources. Now User:Bless sins is requesting "sources" for the same information about the tribes in the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article, as well as making other requests for sources and whatnot. (If you like, and have a minute or two, see the discussions that have been taking place at Category talk:Jewish Saudi Arabian history.) Please help out in the History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia article. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 14:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1920 Palestine riots[edit]

I think your mind would be welcome here.
Regards, Ceedjee (talk) 19:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Palestine-Israel conflict[edit]

Please see the above link as I have requested arbitration for a dispute that you are involved in. Feel free to contribute there. Regards, Ryan Postlethwaite 20:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Mount Hebron[edit]

You should take a look at that article ... it's something wrong with the text. --EivindJohnsen (talk) 10:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Second Intifada RfC[edit]

Hi, can you respond to this RfC for me, please? Thanks. ← Michael Safyan^(talk) 23:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Little triangle[edit]

Hi. I'm french, and a i search informations about the transfert of the little triangle from Tranjordan to Israel, in june 1949 (for this article), beacause of the transjordan-Israeli cease-fire of marche 1948. I see you wrote a part of the article about this subject in en:WP.

My questions :

I would want to have the confirmation that Umm el Famm was still conquier by israelis before this transfert.
The article Triangle (Israel) give a list of 20 towns and village of the present triangle. Do you know what cities where under israeli controlled territories before the cease-fire agreement ?
Is it exist other villages, or these 20 towns and villages are the complete list of the arabs localities of the present triangle ?
Do you know (on the net) a map of the triangle ?

If you can help me, you can give me the answer here. Best regards. Christophe Cagé.

Thanks[edit]

Hi, I have just noticed the "welcome" message in User talk:Ronenperry. Well, I forgot my password and had to re-register... Thanks anyway, Ronen Perry (talk) 18:26, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Naming conventions (Hebrew)[edit]

Hi Tewfik! Not sure if you're still active, but you have been present at the discussions in WP:HE and I think you should know that I have proposed a final draft of the guideline which is based on now almost universally-accepted norms (on Wikipedia), with a few minor issues, which are being resolved now. If you would like to add issules, please deposit your 2 cents, your comments are always appreciated. Thanks, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

IDF bases - transliteration[edit]

Just noticed a very old edit of yours, where you changed Bsis Klita UMiyun to Basis Klita UMiyun. This is incorrect, as in Hebrew grammar almost any first letter's nikud can change to a shva if the accent of its word of phrase is moved farther away from it. Thus, base is basis, but an absorption base is bsis klita, a training base is bsis hadrakha, etc. FYI. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 16:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Disregard that, it's taken care of. <eleland/talkedits> 22:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chords Bridge[edit]

Hi Tewfik, Could you add to the discussion on the proper name for this article on the talk page? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 20:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Driven away[edit]

Tewfik I caught a suggestion (?) by Jayjg on the Jerusalem page that you had been driven away by pests. If this is true, I am disappointed to hear of it, and hope you can see your way through the problem. We no doubt view things from strongly opposed perspectives, but in my experience your rigour has been salutary. Regards Nishidani (talk) 09:36, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings from the EMS Taskforce[edit]

I have seen your edits around Wikipedia and I feel like you would be a great addition to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Emergency medicine and EMS task force. We can always use more editors to help with improvement of EMS and emergency medicine related articles!

I have seen you have taken interest in EMS related articles and we currently will be doing a GA/article improvement on Emergency medical service it will be our first project as a task force and would love your input and editing, Cheers! Medicellis (talk) 01:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Middle East Textbooks Invitation[edit]

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Voting[edit]

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Category:Biota of the West Bank[edit]

Nominated for deletion. Hesperian 01:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:NetanyaLogo.png)[edit]

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Lam Tin[edit]

Sorry for bringing this up two years late (after both of us have made many edits on top of that), but I *don't think* Lam Tin has got street markets... --Der yck C. 19:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Retrospect on editing 2006 Lebanon War[edit]

I'm researching the history of the wiki entry for the 2006 Lebanon War for a college course and wanted to know your thoughts on the history of creating the article. You are the user with the most edits for the article and looking back through your talk history, I can see that you have been awarded from other Wiki users for your neutrality AND accused of being biased with (sometimes) rather harsh words. I was wondering if you could give a little insight into the whole process:

What personal experiences, background, etc. has made you interested in editing such pages like the 2006 Lebanon War and the 1920 Palestinian riots?
Were you editing this specific pages as news was reported or did you turn to the discussion board before making direct changes?
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File source problem with File:HarHomaConstruction.jpg[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Bet El[edit]

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File:Hod_HaSharonlogo.png[edit]

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CfD nomination of Category:Biota of the West Bank[edit]

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Help! Something wierd going on![edit]

Something strange has been happening with my account. Today I found it blocked and pages and pages of months and months of warnings about vandalisations and posts that I haven't actually posted. Someone without a Username seems to have become confused with my account and so I was blocked because of him/her. I have barely posted anything on Wikipedia for months.

I wonder if you could look into what happened? I would hate to be blocked or deleted in error. Thanks! ThePeg (talk) 20:51, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Self-published book[edit]

I'm working on compiling a book containing information about almost all Non-indigenous ethnic groups living or working in Pakistan. The population of a particular ethnic group would be obtain respectively from their diplomatic missions in Pakistan including regions with significant populations, languages spoken and religious affiliations. I'm not very good with writing so it would be great, if you would like to collaborate with me.--116.71.53.25 (talk) 06:14, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use Image:Kara_ayoob.jpg[edit]

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NowCommons: File:Alon Shvut-synagogue.JPG[edit]

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Merge Dan/Tel Dan[edit]

Merge discussion for Dan (biblical city) [edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Eldad aryeh.jpg[edit]

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Your comment requested[edit]

Could I possibly intrigue you into commenting at Talk:List of airports in the Palestinian territories, as you have been a contributer to that article? Many thanks and Be Well. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 02:37, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cities in the Gaza Strip[edit]

Template:Cities in the Gaza Strip has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 07:59, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification motion[edit]

A case (Palestine-Israel articles) in which you were involved has been modified by motion which changed the wording of the discretionary sanctions section to clarify that the scope applies to pages, not just articles. For the arbitration committee --S Philbrick (Talk) 15:26, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of AIL Storm for deletion[edit]

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:27, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:Operation Orchard-Syria.jpg[edit]

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GAR Notice[edit]

Lam Tin has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:59, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for AIL Storm[edit]

AIL Storm has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Schierbecker (talk) 02:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]