User:IZAK/awards given by IZAK

Statement about the awards I have given:

Awards (see Category:Wikipedia awards) and Barnstars (see Barnstars) should only be given to editors who have displayed marks of distinction above and beyond the average. The following awards and barnstars were posted on the following user's pages after great thought and as a mark of respect and honor for their contributions to Wikipedia. These awards are not meant as endorsements of the those user's views, they are only meant as marks of recognition for distinguished service and contributions to Wikipedia, nor are they meant to diminish the contributions of a great many other users who are also deserving of such and similar awards.

Thank you, IZAK (talk) 08:07, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Alphabetically:

User:Atlantictire
Awarded to User :


 * WikiDefender_Barnstar.png The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Dear Atlantictire, it was your moral outrage early on directed at the outrageously shabby and hateful "Jews & Communism" article that has been vindicated with its deletion and demise. "The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes" and you certainly have done so. Keep your passion for the truth going strong! Best wishes, IZAK (talk) 21:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Avraham
Awarded to User :


 * [[Image:WikiDefender Barnstar.png|20px]] The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Awarded to Avraham for his willingness to sacrifice of his time and for his extraordinary efforts making Wikipedia a safe and fair place to write and edit and for ensuring total fairness whenever the tide of unreason rears its misguided head. Whenever the applecart may be up-ended Avraham will judge fairly and set it straight. Congratulations! IZAK (talk) 01:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

User:Dauster
Awarded to User :


 * [[Image:Wikipro.JPG|20px]] The Jewish Barnstar. Dear Bill: It is a true honor to present you with this Jewish Barnstar award, particularly for your diligence and skill in writing up the vast majority of the Weekly Torah portion articles and for the weekly upkeep of each week's Parashah in the Template:Torah portion. See Barnstars: "The Jewish barnstar may be awarded to editors who greatly and positively contribute to articles relating to Jews and Judaism-related topics" -- you most certainly qualify and deserve recognition. Mazel Tov and thank you and keep on going strong! IZAK 15:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Durova
Awarded to User :


 * [[Image:SpecialBarnstar.png|20px]] The Special Barnstar. Dear Durova, I do greatly appreciate your sensitivity as well as courage regarding your recent suggestions about (not) using the 613 Mitzvot article (in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration.) You are a very brave and wise person. See Barnstars: "The Special Barnstar may be awarded to a user as a gesture of appreciation..." With best wishes, IZAK 10:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Epeefleche
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 * [[Image:Wikipro.JPG|20px]] The Jewish Barnstar. Dear Epeefleche: You long ago deserved many awards for your sincere, intelligent and brilliant contributions and improvements to many Jewish topics on Wikipedia. Your tenacity and devotion to these often complex topics has won you many admirers, me included. May your efforts continue to be blessed and receive the recognition due to them as a result of all your immense and impressive hard work. Keep on going strong! Mazal Tov! IZAK (talk) 13:15, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Gilabrand
Awarded to User : (Note: Regretfully this user was subsequently blocked, even though she had made some excellent contributions.)


 * [[Image:Vitruvian Barnstar.png|20px]] The da Vinci Barnstar. This award is given to User:Gilabrand in recognition of all your imaginative and original photographs related to topics about Israel and Judaism, as can be seen on your user page. In particular, I was impressed by how many of these photographs enhance so many articles about people, places and things in Israel. Mazal Tov and may you be blessed to continue contributing to Wikipedia in this productive fashion for a long time to come. See Barnstars: "The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work..." and you most certainly deserve it. Sincerely, IZAK 04:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Itsabouttime
Awarded to User :


 * [[Image:Editors_Barnstar.png|20px]] The Editor's Barnstar. Based on your careful, meticulous, highly-skilled and very learned edits to articles relating to many subjects in Judaism, you are hereby awarded the The Editor's Barnstar See Barnstars: "The Editor's Barnstar is awarded to individuals who display particularly fine decisions in general editing..." Mazel Tov! IZAK 14:18, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Jayjg
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 * [[Image:Wifflebat.png|20px]] Wifflebat Award. Wifflebat Awarded with gratitute to User:Jayjg. The Wiki Wiffle Bat is an award given to those who have shown exceptional skill in the area(s) of logic, rationality, dispute resolution/mediation particularly in the face of flames and general animosity. These people keep swinging in the face of long odds and distant goals! See Other awards/Wiffle. You more than qualify on all counts! Congratulations and welcome back! IZAK 11:30, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:MenschBarnstar.png|20px]] The Mensch's Barnstar. Dear Jayjg: You are the very personification of this notion of Mensch in all of your years as a hard-working and fair editor and admin on Wikipedia. Your caring and fairness towards all people and subjects is your trademark. It is an honor for Wikipedia to have an editor of your caliber and knowledge. Wishing you the greatest success in all your important endeavours. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 02:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif|20px]] The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. For your ongoing efforts in improving the First Roumanian-American congregation article, and hundreds like it, that in turn improves the quality of such articles and encourages editors of all such WP articles. IZAK (talk) 07:21, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

User:Jehochman
Awarded to User :


 * WikiDefender_Barnstar.png The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Dear Jehochman, thank you for finally instilling sanity into the out of control arguments surrounding the "Jews & Communism" article that was dragging everyone into the mud. You saved the day at the point you intervened by putting everyone on notice that higher standards of civility and honesty were called for at all times especially when dealing with such sensitive matters. You saw what was happening and you took the correct action. "The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes" and this provably applies to you. Best wishes and thank you, IZAK (talk) 22:10, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Jfdwolff
Awarded to User :


 * [[Image:WikiDefender Barnstar.png|20px]] The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Presented to Dr. Wolff for his valiant defense of Wikipedia's standards and articles over all the years, as exhibited by his unwavering determination to defend, and watchfulness over, the Ten Commandments article. See Barnstars: "The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes." Congratulations and thank you Dr. Wolff! IZAK 10:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

User:K.e.coffman
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 * [[Image:Goldenwiki 2.png|20px]] GoldenWiki Award. Your work is pure gold! Congratulations on your amazing diligence, intelligence and above all superlative research and wide backround reading. In honor of all your efforts and in recognition of your contributions to worldwide scholarship that your work on Wikipedia reflects it is my honor to present you with this Goldenwiki award. Mazel Tov ! IZAK (talk) 09:13, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

User:MarkBernstein
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 * WikiDefender_Barnstar.png The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Dear MarkBernstein, your passion for the truth is a guiding light. Thank you for entering the sordid discussions surrounding the even more sordid discredited "Jews & Communism" article. Your principled no-nonsense expression of nothing but the truth and your courageous nomination of the article for its second deletion nomination eventually rid Wikipedia of a great stain on its reputation. "The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes" and this is 100% true about you. Do not despair, the forces of evil and lies are always seemingly more "overwhelming" but they can never defeat the power of truth. Keep on going strong and please continue on as a beacon of light on Wikipedia and beyond. In admiration, IZAK (talk) 21:51, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Pharos
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 * Tireless Contributor Barnstar Hires.gif The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Dear Pharos, you deserve so much credit for taking on the job of trying to "salvage" an intellectual and moral wreck, the so-called "Jews & Communism" article, by reducing its toxicity and trying to bring normalcy, historical context and true WP:NPOV to this tough topic, all under the most harrowing circumstances. You kept your cool and remained professional under fire while facing great provocation. Wikipedia is fortunate to have you. May you continue to go from strength to strength! Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 10:11, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Rachack
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 * [[Image:Wikipro.JPG|20px]] The Jewish Barnstar. Dear Rachack: This award is long overdue for all your dedicated efforts and painstaking hard work over many years to add serious biographies about notable figures from the world of Torah Judaism and thereby enriching Wikipedia and its readers all over the world with this unique information that you have skillfully gathered together as an obvious labor of love! Keep up your great work! You have my admiration. IZAK (talk) 09:07, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif|20px]] The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Dear Rachack: You deserve this award for never giving up and always retaining your humility and never getting discouraged. From the time you joined Wikipedia almost six years ago you have been a consistent, polite and tireless contributor. May you go from strength to strength. You have my admiration. IZAK (talk) 09:09, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Redaktor
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 * [[Image:Vitruvian Barnstar.png|20px]] The da Vinci Barnstar. This award is in recognition of all your wonderful technical and editorial work related to topics about Judaism, as your user page testifies. In particular, I was won over by your creation and work on Template:Hasidic dynasties. Mazel Tov and may you be blessed to continue contributing to Wikipedia in this productive fashion for a long time to come. See Barnstars: "The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work..." and you most certainly deserve it. Sincerely, IZAK 08:36, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

User:Shuki
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 * BoNM - Israel.png Israeli Barnstar of National Merit. Dear Shuki: Even though you have already been awarded this worthy medal by another editor, it is my honor and pleasure to present The Israeli Barnstar of National Merit to you yet again a second time because of all your untiring and amazing work on behalf of so many Israel-related articles. With much admiration, IZAK (talk) 11:15, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

User:SlimVirgin
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 * [[Image:WikiDefender Barnstar.png|20px]] Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Awarded to SlimVirgin for her defense of Justice on Wikipedia. IZAK 06:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Barnstar of Reversion2.png|20px]] Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Awarded to SlimVirgin for her Wisdom in this regard. IZAK 06:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Resilient_Barnstar.png|20px]] Resilient Barnstar. Awarded to SlimVirgin for her Valor IZAK 06:34, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Goldenwiki 2.png|20px]] GoldenWiki Award. Congratulations upon Rudolf Vrba becoming a featured article, you have worked on it for months with amazing diligence, intelligence and above all superlative research and wide backround reading. In honor of all your efforts and in recognition of your contributions to worldwide scholarship that this article will now reflect it is my honor to present you with this Goldenwiki award. Mazel Tov ! IZAK 08:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Smeat75
Awarded to User :


 * WikiDefender_Barnstar.png The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. Dear Smeat75, there is no such thing as winning too many awards and it is therefore my honor as well to acknowledge your stubborn and dogged determination, in spite of all the unjustified insults you had to endure, to pinpoint everything that was wrong with the misbegotten "Jews & Communism" article and you played a huge role in revealing it for the sham and shame that it was. "The Defender of the Wiki may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond to prevent Wikipedia from being used for fraudulent purposes" and this certainly applies to you. It has been a pleasure meeting you on Wikipedia. IZAK (talk) 21:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Snow Rise
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 * Special Barnstar Hires.png The Special Barnstar. Dear Snow, it has been a great privilege reading your rational and penetrating commentaries surrounding the sordid "Jews & Communism" article at various forums. Your accurate summaries and incomparable logic set the tone for a high caliber debate. I was immensely struck by your uncanny ability to almost "read the minds" of the protagonists and to call a spade a spade correctly from which they could not escape. Your commitment to Wikipedia and to help it is inspiring, even at the cost of entering into controversial turf where you have nothing to gain except the goal of ensuring that Wikipedia remain a respectable and responsible source of human knowledge and not a cesspool of pseudo-scholarship. Thank you so much for your dedication to and love of Wikipedia. Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 10:29, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

User:The Four Deuces
Awarded to User :


 * Goldenwiki 2.png The Golden Wiki. Dear TFD, Wikipedia owes you a huge collective thank you for researching the origins of the horrid "Jews & Communism" article and bringing about its well-deserved final demise. Thank you so much!! Your consistent rejection of its premises and clear recognition that it was pseudo-scholarship and your fearless first nomination of it for deletion and never wavering from your highly principled reasoning served as an intellectual and moral beacon in what at some points became an "insane world" by those defending the indefensible. May you go from strength to strength. Your sincerely, IZAK (talk) 11:02, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

User:USchick
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 * [[Image:Star of David Barnstar.svg|20px]] Template:The Jewish Barnstar. Dear USchick, you contributed tirelessly in so many ways to fight for a WP:NPOV in the now-discredited "Jews & Communism" article and you were never fooled by the underlying negative motives of the pseudo-scholarship it tried to sneak onto Wikipedia. But your sensitivity to how this relates to and impacts Jews and the harm it can and does cause was also very evident all along. Your strong common sense with a sound knowledge base and a willingness to give others the benefit of the doubt, even though you disagreed with them, is something that you can be truly proud of. Keep on going strong, Wikipedia and the world needs you! Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 10:38, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Yahel Guhan
Awarded to User : (Note: This user is no longer active on Wikipedia as of July 2008.)


 * [[Image:Vitruvian Barnstar.png|20px]] The da Vinci Barnstar. This award is in recognition of all your wonderful technical and editorial work. In particular, I was won over by your creation of Template:Jews and Judaism and Template:Chabadfooter. See Barnstars: "The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work..." and you most certainly deserve it. Congratulations. IZAK 05:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Yoninah
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 * [[Image:Wikipro.JPG|20px]] The Jewish Barnstar. Dear Yoninah. You deserve so much recognition and credit for all your wonderful contributions to Judaism articles on Wikipedia, especially those relating to Breslov subjects, Shabbat and Jewish holidays, and many others. There is no doubt that you have gained a following of steady admirers for the well-balanced articles you have steadily enhanced, as well as for the amazing original photographs you have added that beautify the pages of so many subjects relating to practical as well as mystical aspects of Judaism. Mazel Tov and A Freilichen Chanuka! IZAK (talk) 01:38, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif|20px]] The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. Dear Yoninah: Indefatigable. Untiring. Devoted. Detail-oriented. Clear-headed. Exact. Unflagging. Zealous. No task too small. Inspiring. Leading by example. Gaining the respect of all. That's what you are and much more, all in the service of Wikipedia as all your hard work reveals an immense labor of love in your desire to describe and explain all that is cherished, sacred and beautiful in Judaism. For all that you deserve this award and much more! May all your efforts continue to succeed and be blessed. Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 09:45, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Zeq
Awarded to User : (Note: Regretfully this user was subsequently banned, even though he had made some excellent contributions.)


 * [[Image:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif|20px]] The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. I, User:IZAK, hereby award you this Tireless Contributor Barnstar for your tenacity, bravery, continuous quality contributions and feelings of responsibilty towards articles connected to the modern State of Israel and for your fight to ensure that they adhere to a WP:NPOV and remain free of Israel-bashing anywhere on Wikipedia! Kol Hakavod! See: Barnstars: "The Tireless Contributor Barnstar may be awarded to especially tireless Wikipedians..." IZAK 11:50, 25 April 2007 (UTC)