User talk:Amire80/Archive 2008 - January

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Slovio
(Moved to User talk:Josquius, please reply there.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 05:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Nimrod Kamer
You've contacted me on fr-wikipedia : fr:user:stef48. You've asked me to delete the Nimrod Kamer's article. But, please, can you give some page where fr-wikipedian can take source : user page of him, the "preuve" (in french, sorry) that he was blocked, ... Best regards (can you answer on my user page in fr-wikipedia please) Stef4854 (talk) 10:41, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

New User
Amir,

Hi there. I'm not sure if "Adoption" is what I need, but I'm researching the options in Wikipedia for my company. We are a CAD/CAM software company. Recently it was discovered that our company (DP Technology/Esprit) is mentioned on a CAD/CAM page in Wikipedia. I'm interested in learning about how to use Wikipedia, possibly create a page for our company, and once/if that is complete I may be interested in expanding to include pages in several languages representing the countries where we are located.

Please let me know if you have any tips or helpful information! DPStacy (talk) 21:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * Thanks for asking.
 * It's important to understand that Wikipedia is not a place where every little thing in the world should be mentioned, but an encyclopedia.
 * To get an idea whether an article about your company will fit into Wikipedia, please read these important guideline documents:
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * Notability (organizations and companies)
 * Autobiography
 * Please don't let this discourage you from contributing. I am not familiar with your company, but if you can write about it in a way that will fit the guidelines above, feel free to do it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Adopting?
Are you still adopting users? There's a user in need of adoption. Jose João (talk) 00:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. Is it you? You seem to be quite experienced.
 * But of course you can ask me for anything. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Adoption
Hey, I noticed you were offically officially up for adoption. While I'm not exactly a new user I'd like to have mentorship and help at editing articles, as the majority of my edits are vandal reverts. I was wondering if you'd be willing to take me on as your discription description of yourself on the adoptee page says you are expirenced in article editing wikiprojects. Thanks, -- Nn123645 (talk) 06:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You seem to be quite experienced, but i don't mind mentoring you.
 * One tip that i already have - since you are asking for it: try to improve your spelling. The best way to do that is to use Mozilla Firefox for surfing the web and for editing Wikipedia - it has a built-in spelling checker.
 * Feel free to ask me for more help. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks lol, spelling is something I have always struggled with. I do use the firefox spellcheck but I'm starting to think that maybe I should start writing replys in word instead of directly into the edit box. -- Nn123645 (talk) 02:42, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh no, don't use Word :)
 * Word is not better than Firefox and it's proprietary, which is a bad thing.
 * In any case - if you need any help, mentoring, ideas - ask me. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Just sent you a email. :) -- Nn123645 (talk) 23:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Achim
I was wondering your thoughts on how I replied to Achim on my user talk page and how I could do better. I'm thinking maybe I should open a editor review on myself, so I was wondering your input is. Thanks, -- Nn123645 (talk) 04:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I didn't go deep into what happened there, but threatening with RFC, even in a friendly way as you did should be the very last resort. Think about it: if you want to settle things without RFC, why mention it at all?
 * Besides, i saw that that user is a suspected sock. I don't know whether it is true or not, but if he is a suspected sock, then he probably already gets enough attention from the admins.
 * Last thing, i saw that you wrote something very long on his talk page. Writing long passages is not a bad thing, but i'd invest that energy in the article space and point the guy at the relevant policy pages. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for the input. The reason I was mentioning RFC was to try to get the editor to understand that if he doesn't change undesirable things will happen. I had forgotten about the paragraph I wrote when I included that. Thanks for the input, and if the card on your page below is correct, happy birthday :D. -- Nn123645 (talk) 14:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Adoption: Sahilm
Please adopt me --Sahilm (talk) 22:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll gladly adopt you!
 * First, and important tip: Messages on talk pages should be left at the bottom of the page. It will do the right thing if you simply press the + at the top (between "edit this page" and "history").
 * Feel free to ask me for any help! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

RE:Wikipedia Bahasa Ibrani (message in the Malay Wikipedia)
You're welcome! Shalom. --אדםוןד ואודס (talk) 06:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Mark Hucko
Sorry I could not be of any help in the case above, but when I work I have to concentrate on that.

Alf Photoman 00:14, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
Amir-remember me? I have a question: Since you're an admin., can you warn an IP address not to vandalize pages while I correct the vandalism he/she made? The IP address is 96.241.20.230. Thanks! Shapiros10 (talk) 20:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I see that he only did one bad edit.
 * You don't have to be an admin to warn vandals. Just go to WP:WARN, pick the right warning and place it on his talk page (don't forget to sign). This is prone to mistakes, so be sure to preview the page before you place the warning.
 * You may always ask me for help with admin stuff, but since no-one can follow his talk page 24/7, you may use the page Administrator intervention against vandalism to report persistent vandals. (Read the instructions on that page and don't just report every little vandal there.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 01:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * FROM YOUR FRIEND:
 * Thanks :) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

-- Nadir D Steinmetz 20:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:55, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

HappyBirthdayClubMember (talk) 07:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Some questions
Hey Amire, long time since we didnt talk right? Well, I have two questions.
 * 1. How do you "graduate from adoption"?
 * 2. Why different language versions of Wikipedia have different notability standards. For example, I translated an article about Paulinho Mocidade but it was deleted. However, in the Portuguese Wikipedia, the article only mentions that the article is a " stub about a singer. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it". I mean, arent the rules same for all language versions of Wikipedia? -- Nadir D Steinmetz 21:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. No specific rules for that. Be bold. You are welcome to remain my friend and ask me anything anytime.
 * 2. Why different language versions of Wikipedia have different notability standards. - Every language Wikipedia has autonomy to decide on its own policies. The notability standards are essentially the same, although everyone everywhere argues about them all the time :)
 * In your case it was a speedy deletion, and the reason was WP:BIO - the person who deleted thought that he doesn't fit the notability criteria for people. Hundreds of articles about non-important people are created on Wikipedia every day, so it became a speedy deletion criterion.
 * If you think that this guy is notable, don't give up: you may try to re-create the article, but do your best to prove that he fits the policies at Notability (music) and Notability (people).
 * It is quite possible that Paulinho Mocidade is not notable for the Portuguese Wikipedia either, and no-one has noticed it yet :) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:33, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Nadir D Steinmetz 21:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering if there is a program that counts your edits you made only in articles. Do you know if there is? "My preferences" counts all edits you make, whether in User pages, articles, or talk pages, right? -- Nadir D Steinmetz 12:01, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * See WikiProject edit counters.
 * Here's a quick simple tool: . Feel free to copy the code to your page and use it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Thx -- Nadir D Steinmetz 21:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Amire
i didn't understand you. Thanks. I am for years in the both wikipedias. You can ask david shai. Shmila (talk) 17:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't need to ask David Shai. I can just read your contributions list and see that you have very similar interests to Marina T., nnimrodd, and the other Captain Sudoku friends, and i am not the first one to notice this.
 * In that sockpuppetry case i only listed you as "possibly related". Currently i am mostly concerned about User:Sofie Van Loo, who appears to be infringing copyrights. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Bracha Ettinger's photo
Amir - Many thanks for you kind proposition to help. I took the photo of Bracha Ettinger with the photo camera of Bracha Ettinger in Berlin last year. I gave the copyrights to Miss Ettinger. This signifies that she can do with this picture what she wants. She wanted me to put the photo in Wikipedia myself, since it was taken by me, and since she doesn't edit on Wikipedia. She wanted it to have the usual kind of copyright free. So I did my best to put it on properly, but I am not an expert. Please let me know if I need to write to her and ask her to step into the discussion and to declare that the copyrights are free for use under the Wikipedia conditions. Kind regards, Sofie Van Loo, Curator/Art critic. Sofie Van Loo (talk) 22:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

If this can be helpful
Dear Amir If this is of any help, you can see this same photo of Bracha Ettinger taken by me freely on the net at the page of University of Puerto Rico, where Ettinger is the next Visiting Scholar and Artist. http://cmcep.uprrp.edu/Bracha_Ettinger/index.html As for myself, I have put as user name my real name. I am a curator and art critic in Antwerp. Therefore I will be very glad if you can take me off the list that connects me to another user names, I have no experience how to deal with this. Many thanks and best wishes, Sofie Van Loo Sofie Van Loo (talk) 00:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * This is not so helpful. That site says that the photo was taken by Sofie Van Loo, but it doesn't prove that you are Sofie Van Loo. Also, it only says that the content is copyrighted, but it doesn't say that it is under the GFDL license. Please read Copyrights.
 * User:Marina T. uploaded the same images with similar and confusing explanation about the creator and the licensing, which makes me think that you may be related. You are welcome to reply to my suspicions at Suspected sock puppets/Marina T.. I apologize in advance if I am wrong. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Dear Amir To respect me, since I have put my real name, I am asking you to take me off that list. Kind regards Sofie Van Loo (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you are the real Sofie Van Loo, you can be sure that i respect you. The list will be checked by other administrators, and if they will find that i am wrong, then the page will clearly say so.
 * Please don't remove the warnings from your page. If they are wrong, reply and say that they are wrong.
 * You can contact me personally by e-mail - click "E-mail this user" on the left. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Taw interwiki removals
Hi Amire80. I've reverted your interwiki removal on dewiki.

My rationale: It may be argued, whether to interwiki from enwiki Taw to de:Taw. But de:Taw has to interwiki to enwiki Taw, as the German article is about Hebrew Taw and the corresponding information can be found in enwiki Taw, despite the fact that the enwiki article covers a broader subject.

--Pjacobi (talk) 22:56, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Replied at Talk:Taw. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:10, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Image Dudu Nobre
Moved to User talk:Idontknow610 --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Possible Adverts on User Page
Amir: I was looking at newly created accounts, and one user (DevilKai) could possibly be using his user page to advertise his career. Take a look at it yourself and let me know if he needs warning. Shapiros10 (talk) 00:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your attentiveness, but that's not a disaster. The rules for user pages are much more lax. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Consideration for Your Adoption Program
Hello Amire80,

Allow me to introduce myself. I am working on managing the online reputations of many notable companies including those that break industry and mainstream news (which are often cited by other reliable sources), and companies themselves that are well-noted within their respective industries.

I have been following the area of Social Media, including Wikipedia, and am very sensitized to the needs of following guidelines and providing maximum value to the community first and foremost.

Because there does not seem to be any provisions for agencies or reputation management entities in Wikipedia’s guidelines, I would like to be requested for adoption into your program because I want to make sure that I never run afoul of Wikipedia’s guidelines and counter to that of the passionate community that makes up Wikipedia.

I understand that many Wikipedians devote a significant amount of their time making this community and knowledgebase the best it can be, and I understand and respect the mission and vision of this site and the members that make up this community.

I feel that I have much to offer as a result of my affiliation with many notable companies who have rich and varied content that can potentially be contributed to Wikipedia’s various projects including but not limited to the main encyclopedia, but potentially images, audio, etc. I have an ear that is close to the most breaking and notable news provided by these companies soon after it has been formally published.

My intentions are to be a "matchmaker" of the most relevant and notable content that can add value to Wikipedia’s databases, including but not limited to areas requiring more sources, citations, and general insights. I feel that at least in the beginning, I will need assistance from a Wikipedia veteran especially due to the scope of possible areas of contributions that I could potentially provide.

Thank you for your consideration for your program. I look forward to becoming a valued contributor and a positive member of Wikipedia and work with you and other community members towards a common goal.

Warmest Regards,

--Sodazure (talk) 15:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem - you're welcome any time.
 * It would be great to have new professional content and images on Wikipedia, as long as it is licensed accordingly under Free licenses, such as GFDL or Creative Commons. Note that works licensed for "non-commercial use" are usually not accepted on Wikipedia - this must a be a truly Free license. Read Copyrights for more information. Feel free to ask me for explanations if you don't understand something.
 * A couple of technical notes:
 * You don't need to write

all the time. It's enough to just press "Enter" twice.
 * It is customary to sign your name on talk page. You can do it by writing --~ . --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your help and feedback. I have since gone back and made the appropriate edits. Please let me know if there are any other areas that I could fix. I will review the Wikipedia Copyrights section in detail and let you know of any questions. --Sodazure (talk) 15:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Everything is OK.
 * I look forward to your contributions! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Your change to my comment on Seinfeld Talk page
Hi. I don't want to undo your change without asking you about it first. Looking at what you did (which, in your edit summary, you described as "refactored citation"), it looks to me as though you took the information from the citation and put it into the text of the Talk page. Is that what you intended to do? If so, I don't understand why; could you explain? See. (Sorry, I'm not sure how to do a proper link to a diff!) Candy (talk) 08:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Your diff link is OK.
 * You put that link in as a footnote. Footnotes don't suit talk pages well. It would be enough to put it inline in your comment there on the talk page. Better yet, you could add it directly to the article, as i already did.
 * Providing good references to information in Wikipedia is probably the best thing that you can do to the project, so thank you! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, cool. Wasn't sure how to accurately cite something on a Talk page. But it appears after my signature now. I would like to move it up so it is part of what I said. You may want to check after me to make sure I do it right. Candy (talk) 01:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You did it right.
 * You don't have to, but you may read this in your spare time: Refactoring talk pages. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

About Aranese
Hi! I'm pretty sorry you erased what I had written. Unfortunately I have been really busy on the Occitan Wikiccionari and haven't been around for ages! Well, I don't know what to say, it's so obvious that I don't know what to tell. First, Occitan is cooficial in the Val d'Aran, road and street signs are in Occitan there, so is the educational system, on the reverse Occitan has no real legal status in the French state and painstrikingly survives... About the policies I can say that the Occitan-Catalan/Catalan-Occitan dictionary (I'm one of the coautors) has been made because of the Val d'Aran and so has recently an Aranese (Occitan)-English-Aranese dictionary (Ryan Furness, from the University of Minnesota); until the moment there was no real bilingual dictionary aside from French-Occitan and Occitan-French. The promotion of Aranese has helped the current promotion of Occitan in Tolosa/Toulouse for instance and many projects are on the way. However those are facts and might not appear in any book so I don't know how it will please your appetite for quotations. I mean if you think the lack of quotation is such a problem, just leave it this way, I don't mind. I somewhat think it's not really fair, I don't know your knowledge of the Occitan culture, language or society but in my case I would never erase someone else's contribution (work, energy and time) unless I know very well and for sure it's wrong or not grounded. Do as you wish anyway, I have more pressing matters going on. In case you should erase something else I wrote, it would be safer to contact me on the Wikiccionari (Occitan Wiktionary) where I spend most of my time. Thanks, have a nice weekend, wish you a Happy New Year even though I'm not really sure how it applies in Israel! Best regards, coralament, Capsot (talk) 12:49, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi,
 * My knowledge of Occitan culture: I spent a few days in Val d'Aran, and was pleasantly surprised the efforts to preserve the language. In Vielha i bought the big red-yellow C-O/O-C dictionary, which is very good and also Aitor Carrera's grammar. I study Catalan in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I didn't study Occitan formally, but knowing some Catalan, i can read Occitan with some help from the grammar and the dictionary.
 * I suppose that you refer to the part that said "Aranese is currently one of the strongest actors in the Occitan sphere". I was really sorry to delete that information, but all information in Wikipedia must have sources.
 * For example: you say that "The promotion of Aranese has helped the current promotion of Occitan in Tolosa/Toulouse". Do you have at least a newspaper article about that, in any language? If you have it, then write it and add a reference to the article. Thanks a lot in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I wanted to know a bit more about you adn thanks about the information, I'm lucky enough to have some spare time now to read your page and know you answered here (and try to add a few more things. Well, as I told you before I'm the coauthor of the O-C-O, I'm Claudi Balaguer. You should know there are very few news coverage about non-statal culture in France and many of my friends have a real hard time trying to have some coverage of their events. So trying to find an article about it would take me a huge amount of time that I don't have and am not willing to spend. I mean that common sense should be enough, let's compare the current production of bilingual dictionaries or even the grammar you cited and you will see where's the main creative motor of the Occitan sphere. Moreover there's been recently the presentation of a new book written by Jusèp Loís Sans, former head of the Oficina de Foment dera Val d'Aran and currently head of some office of the Promotion of Occitan in Catalonia (at Barcelona). By the way thanks for saying the dictionary is very good! Some things are on their way but we should keep some kind of privacy so I can't talk about it openly, however if you take a look at the Avui next Saturday or rather Sunday you might get to have a better glimpse of what's going on there. I haven't read the local papers (la Dépêche and so on) to know how and when the influence of the Val d'Aran can be noticed or noticeable in Tolosa so I won't be helpful there. You could find some precious information in the paper la Setmana but they're not on the Internet yet (I don't know if they will appear there some day anyway!). As I told you before I won't spend lots of time to add such a small information when the problem with Occitan is much bigger. I'll try to talk more about it if you want to. The Val d'Aran (and even, but more than, the Valadas Occitanas) are our small piece of paradise if you ever happen to visit the other side of the Pyrenees you'll see clearly how things are and that my statement was just plainly obvious. Since you deleted it, I'll let you deal with it, my current ambitions and prospectives are the Wikiccionari and other languages Wiktionaries, the Occitan Wikibooks and if I can find some time, I'll try to create some lessons in the English Wikipedia about how to learn (Languedocian) Occitan. I insist again, if you ever wish to contact me, join me in the Occitan Wikiccionari, I seldom travel to the English Wikipedia. See you, bon coratge per tot, Capsot (talk) 14:05, 27 January 2008 (UTC)/Claudi Balaguer.
 * Hi again, maybe you're roaming around here. Just wanted to tell you I've answered your questions and hope you can find good reading. You can reach me there if you ever need me! Bye! Capsot (talk) 22:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Adopt me please
Shalom,

I saw you are open to adopt in the adoption program page. Would you like to adopt me? I want to have a reference person who I can ask about editing and who looks at my edits once in a while to tell me whether I am on the right track.

Nahraana 13:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Of course. You are welcome.
 * Two comments:
 * It seems that you set "Raw signature" in your preferences. This is not so good - your signature should link to you user page.
 * SlamDiego is right about Bakelite. There are articles with too much links, but Bakelite was mostly OK about this.
 * Overall, i see that you had a pretty positive start and quickly found a niche that interests you. Unfortunately, i don't know a thing about botany, so i won't be able to help you with that, but feel free to ask me for any help about the technical side of Wikipedia - editing, policies, images, templates, misunderstandings with other editors, etc. I wish you a lot of luck! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I'll be in touch.  Nahraana (talk) 23:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Procedure for Proposing New Entry for Notable Company?
Greetings, one of the companies I represent is notable within their respective industry. However they currently do not have a Wikipedia entry at this time. From what I understand, the process involves going to the appropriate wiki project page and putting in an introduction with full disclosure of affiliation and request adding the page (including a draft of the entire page) in the talk pages. At that time it would be up to the editors to determine whether they are notable enough to have a page. Is this the correct procedure? If so, would you please provide me with the correct location where I could instruct them to post this request? If not, please let me know of the correct procedure. Thanks very much, your help as always is much appreciated.

As an aside: For future reference, please let me know if I am going about the adoption program the correct way, i.e. posting questions and responses on your talk page. Thanks. --Sodazure (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * "The adoption program" is really nothing special - it's just there to help you find an editor who volunteers to help you in any question. So naturally, posting questions on my talk page is the right way to go.
 * For instruction about creating a new article read Your first article. Technically, you don't have to jump through bureaucratic hoops to create a new article. However, creating an article about a company with which you are affiliated is a conflict of interest (COI). It is not, by itself, a reason not to accept an article, but it does mean that you have to be especially meticulous about providing verifiable sources and asserting notability.
 * I suggest you read these pages on the matter:
 * Notability (organizations and companies) (a.k.a. WP:ORG)
 * No original research (a.k.a. WP:NOR) - especially the part about "Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources" (a.k.a. WP:PSTS)
 * Avoid peacock terms (a.k.a. WP:PEACOCK)
 * I understand that this is a lot of reading, but that's the problem when you want to create an article about a company with which you are affiliated. If you don't abide by the rules in these pages, volunteers who check the contents of new pages are likely to tag your article as a candidate for speedy deletion (CSD).
 * Do you mind telling me what the company name is? I may try to assess its notability. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for these resources and your willingness to help. You definitely go the extra mile! I have reviewed several of the resources mentioned prior to posting on your talk page, but will review them again in more depth. I spent some time this afternoon and took the liberty of collecting as many sources as I could find that had notable mentions of this particular company- I figured it would be good practice. I think the resources you have provided me are a good starting point, and I will be in touch with any additional questions and more details if I am stuck. In general, what is your policy of sending emails directly to you in certain cases? I appreciate your time. Thanks, --Sodazure (talk) 22:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You can send me an email any time, although i prefer to have discussions about work in Wikipedia on the talk page. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:04, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Inserting "Citation needed" vs. deleting unreferenced statements right away and two other questions
I received two contrasting opinions on this subject: Both users seem quite experienced. I would naturally tend to follow SlamDiego's suggestion since this seems more constructive and (as I am a beginner user, who is likely to make more mistakes) is "safer". I would like a third opinion. What do you think Amir?
 * User SlamDiego suggested I should write "Citation needed" when seeing another user claims a fact without referencing it (see User talk:Nahraana and my subsequent action 13:30, 27 January 2008 Nahraana on article Teddy bear.
 * On the other hand, user Allstarecho suggests unreferenced statements be promptly deleted (see 19:54, 27 January 2008 Allstarecho also on Teddy Bear).

Question 2: what do I write to make a link to the history page of an article? and to an older version of an article?

Question 3: it says in the guidelines that user pages can contain personal info but shouldn't become personal homepages or blogs. I added some more info in my page and think it is OK. Could you have a quick look an confirm this? Nahraana (talk) 16:53, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * "Citation needed" should be used on information which seems reasonable, but needs a citation.
 * If information seems really preposterous to you, be bold and remove immediately. (The leader of Wikipedia Jimbo Wales strongly supports this opinion, and i agree.) It is especially important in articles about living people; see Biographies of living persons for an explanation.
 * If you have doubts, ask at the article's talk page.
 * I often try to look for a source myself; if i can't find, i put "citation needed"; if no-one adds it within reasonable time, i remove the information and say at the talk page what have i removed and ask other contributors to put the information if they have sources. See for example what i did at Aranese language (check the history and the talk page.)


 * Answer 2: There is no nice "wiki" way to it. Just go to the page that you need, copy the the URL from the address and put it in square brackets. For example, this is where you added your message: the diff with your latest message.


 * Answer 3: Your page is perfectly fine. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the comprehensive answer! I copied it to my talk page for future reference. Nahraana (talk) 15:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

vav
Hi Amir, since you deleted a link to a reference claiming that the usage of double vav or vav with geresh is non standard, could you quote sources saying that it is? Dan Pelleg (talk) 16:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh. Maybe i deleted a little too much. I'll try to improve it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, please go ahead and restore this information. Obviously "double-vav" and vav with a geresh are sometimes used, but according to Academy of the Hebrew Language's standards this is "rogue" usage. Absurd as it may seem, there is no standardized way to distinguish in Hebrew between [v] and [w]. I think this is valuable information, especially if people are seeking help in "correct", i.e. standard transliteration into Hebrew (check out e.g. this, page 5, transliteration of Arabic letter waw - و - and other sources of the Academy of the Hebrew Language). Dan Pelleg (talk) 13:14, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Lingua Franca Nova AfD
Moved to User talk:Canley. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I've reworded the close to no consensus to delete, that's reasonable. --Canley (talk) 20:58, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Dating the template. Dead links.
Hi Amir,

I have two questions:


 * The fact template is dated by writing: .  SmackBot dated a fact template today in Philo-Semitism (first paragraph) but the date does not show.  How come?  Is that a bug?


 * Should I delete dead internal links (red links to yet-non-existing wikipedia articles) when I encounter them? I thought about this: although they don't look so nice they may encourage editors to click these links and write new stubs.  What do you think?

Nahraana (talk) 15:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The dates in the fact template are not supposed to be seen in the text of the article. They insert the article into appropriate categories. Look at the bottom of the page and you'll see that the page is now in "Articles with unsourced statements since December 2007".
 * You are right about red links - they often encourage readers to write new articles, so you don't have to remove them. You should only remove them, if you have a good reason to think that there's no chance that this article will ever be written. For example, if a person's name is the link, then remove the link only if you are absolutely sure that the person is totally non-notable and will never have an article. You can also remove red link if it's really ridiculous like this one. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks again! (and let me know if I start asking too many questions at once). Nahraana (talk) 16:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2008 (UTC)