User talk:GHcool

Shiphrah and Puah
If you'd open a discussion about this on one of the talkpages, I'd support this.

You could also add information about the etymology based on Rashi (Exodus 1:15), himself based on the Gemara Sotah 11:2. Debresser (talk) 17:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * DONE. I didn't add the Rashi thing in my argument, but I encourage you to do it.  --GHcool (talk) 18:40, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Supported. I didn't mean that you could add that to the discussion, rather to the merged article. Debresser (talk) 00:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

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Views on your user page
Hi GHcool, I was amusing myself reading your user page “views on Israel”, and noted it includes a bunch of factual claims which are wrong. It may be that you wrote it a long time ago - over the years we have improved the quality and sourcing of the various articles on our encyclopaedia, so it may be worth updating. If helpful I can tell you which claims jumped out at me as obviously wrong. Am equally happy for you to ignore me - your page is your page and you can say what you like. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:53, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'm always happy to correct myself when I'm in error.  And you're right.  I wrote that stuff a long time ago and haven't looked at it in years.  I'm going to reread it quickly to make sure I even stand by what I wrote back then! Thanks for your interest! --GHcool (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Marine Academy of Science and Technology
Regarding this edit; while I am not opposed to Wikipedia covering this story in some way (whether it be a mention on the school's page, or in an existing article on Antisemitism in the United States, etc.,) but what is the rationale for sliding in the NYT article as a reference for something mundane that could be easily referenced elsewhere? ? OhNo itsJamie Talk 22:31, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

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Question about a lede edit I altered and intend to resubmit for the Israel article
I'm leaving this here because you just thanked me, and as such I think you're online still lol. So, you may or may not be aware of the fiasco currently taking place regarding the Israel wiki page's lede: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Israel#Edit_war_attempts_being_made_by_Anti-Semetic_Websites_like_4chan

This was the original lede edit I made:

"The state has attracted criticism for a variety of reasons including: its apparent nuclear weapons arsenal, Israeli civilian settlements built on lands occupied by Israel, the Judaization of Jerusalem as observed by the United Nations under Israeli sovereignty of the city, its targeted killings program, widespread racism despite broad anti-discrimination laws within the country, observed human rights abuses and violations, and an alleged manifestation of an apartheid regime.           "

I am aware now that such an addition to the lede could be interpreted as hostile and heavily biased. As such, I have re-written and shrunk it down to something that would be objectively neutral, in my opinion:

"The state has attracted criticism for its policy regarding territories occupied by it, its apparent nuclear weapons arsenal , and its targeted killings program among other reasons."

I am intending to put this in the lede because of what I did with the Saudi Arabia lede about a year ago (ctrl+f "The state has attracted criticism for a variety of reasons including:" there). I was hoping if you could hop into the relevant discussion on the talk page for Israel and state your opinion, and whether you would be okay with such an inclusion.

Thank you for your consideration, TheEpicGhosty (talk) 01:47, 7 August 2020 (UTC)


 * So what's your question? --GHcool (talk) 19:06, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Anti-Zionism
Hello. I reverted your recent addition at this page. I think I understand what you're trying to get at, but the source you added offers a definition of Zionism, not anti-Zionism. I think we want to use a source that specifically defines anti-Zionism in the manner you described before re-adding this. However, I made some further edits that I hope will contribute to neutrality, etc. Wikieditor19920 (talk) 13:23, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The lead as it stands currently is satisfactory to me. Thank you for your cooperation.  --GHcool (talk) 19:08, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Love your approach
Shalom. I don't think we've ever crossed paths before on Wikipedia, but from what I see of your edits/posts and general good outlook on often contentious issues, you are a true asset to have on Wikipedia. You've been around here longer than me. Time brings with it experience and wisdom. Godspeed, friend.Davidbena (talk) 16:00, 20 October 2020 (UTC) -

Conservatives
Hi,

I don't know why you removed Congressman David Dreier from the list of prominent conservative officeholders. He was a member of Congress for 32 years, a member of the congressional leadership, and the chairman of the House Rules Committee for 10 years. Plus, he was the main proponent of NAFTA, which was the defining free trade deal of the last 30 years and is a staple of conservative economic principles (until Donald Trump turned the Republican Party into a protectionist direction more recently).

Mediaexpert3 (talk) 06:23, 15 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Moving this to the relevant talk page. --GHcool (talk) 17:21, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

1RR breach
You have breached 1RR at BDS article (you have also removed an RS (abc) with a false edit summary). Kindly self revert asap. Thank you. Also it is perfectly in order for a source to comment on itself so your removal of the sps was also wrong.Selfstudier (talk) 21:46, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

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Requesting some article expansion help
Greetings @ GHcool,

Hi, I am User:Bookku, I find information and knowledge gaps create Drafts, try to recruit draft expanding editors and promote drafts articles for further expansion.


 * Draft:Turkish textbook controversies in the section 'Depiction of Jews and Israel'
 * Draft:Civil life in conflict zones
 * Draft:Criticism of Edward Said's Orientalism
 * Draft:List of erstwhile slave trading townships
 * Draft:Slavery in Mecca and Medina
 * Draft:Intellectual discourse over re-mosqueing of Hagia Sophia
 * Draft:Amina Dawood Al-Mufti

Requesting your visit to above drafts help expand the same if any of these interests you. Any inputs from Israel academic / language reliable sources also will be welcome.

Thanks and warm regards

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 07:01, 31 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your invitation, but I must decline. I have no expertise in any of the topics above and no reliable sources on these topics.  I wish you good luck.  --GHcool (talk) 22:25, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

1rr
Thats a 1RR violation at Anti-Zionism, you mind self-reverting?  nableezy  - 21:50, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * DONE. --GHcool (talk) 22:38, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * ty kindly,  nableezy  - 00:02, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Anti-Zionism
I was ready to go to Nishidani's talk page, and gently remind them again but it's you this time! Anyway could you let me know which work Lindfield 2019 refers to, and I'll add the required cite. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 20:24, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't understand the question. Didn't I put the information in the reference? Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 361, Qtd. in Lindfield, p. 77
 * Sorry didn't mean to cause confusion. When you use short form refs (like sfn there has to be a full cite elsewhere in the article. In the diff I linked in earlier you added but didn't create a cite for it to link with. This creates a no target error, you can see the details and how to turn these errors on here Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. Just ask if you have any questions.-- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 20:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Although taking a second look I see you didn't add the information, just as plain text. That's fine if you going to use plain text refs to refer to it, but if you use templates like sfn they need a full cite. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 20:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

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