Talk:Tova Friedman

Feedback from New Page Review process
I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for the article!.

&maltese; SunDawn &maltese;    (contact)   12:02, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Tova Friedman finally published
I am happy that the profile of Tova Friedman that I had created on September 3, 2022 and had been immediately moved to draft without discussion has been published and promoted on DYK with an enormous number of accesses last month, more than 16.000. Administrators should be more careful before deleting new articles!

MSacerdoti (talk) 21:12, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @MSacerdoti and thanks for starting this entry. Please know it was never deleted but instead moved to draft space for further development. Especially when an entry might affect a living person, it’s best to bring it up to standard in draft or userspace and then move it to mainspace, so the reviewer was not wrong here. That said, I see you went to work improving it right away, which is also acceptable in most cases, and next time you could use Template:In use or Template:Under construction to let reviewers know more is coming right away; they will generally give you some time to bring the initial draft up to par. I hope that helps for next time—I am looking forward to reading your next creation. Happy editing, Innisfree987 (talk) 07:07, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

ESN-TV video interview, 2016
Today I watched most of her interview on YouTube (twice). She stated her birth date; she didn't talk about a "suburb"; there had been some anti-Semitism when she tried school in Poland (she had been called a dirty Jew and had rocks thrown at her, after which she didn't want to return to school); they escaped from Poland via the American sector of Berlin. There may be points in the interview that are not published elsewhere and could be added to the article. Very moving video. Robin Patterson (talk) 10:46, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Correct the expression „Nazi”.
As a Polish citizen who knows who is blamed for Holocaust, whose grandfather had experienced personally a stay in one of concentation camps (do not know in which one he had been sent to). I would like you to correct each expression where only „Nazi” word appears, into German-Nazi. By writing „Nazi” nobody knows in which country this movement was born. It seems like Nazis didn’t have any citizenship, but yes they did have! They were Germans! So stop being politically correct, affraiding of insulting German Nation. Only this nation should bare the resposibility for exterminating Jews and Poles and other nations. Too many times was published that these concentrations camps were Polish, misleading global opinion about „thanks to” whom these camps were established and the II World War started. It should be reminded every time.

Artur Balczyński 88.156.136.63 (talk) 22:01, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Artur and thank you for your message. I’m sorry to learn about your grandfather. As for the terminology used, English Wikipedia editors do not decide based on our own opinions how to characterize something. Instead we follow the usage in reliable secondary sources. If it were the case that reliable sources in English usually specified German Nazi, we would do so as well. But they don’t. If you think they should, you should address these concerns to historians and journalists, whose publications we rely on. I hope this clarifies a bit how English Wikipedia is built. Innisfree987 (talk) 22:33, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree with Innisfree987. It is only in recent years that the word "Nazi" has been applied to people other than its German originators. It's a German-language abbreviation. The Fifth Edition of the Concise English Dictionary says: "Nazi ... n. & a. (Member) of the German National Socialist party; (loosely) German." Robin Patterson (talk) 00:36, 31 December 2022 (UTC)