User talk:Gidonb

Good Work


Now to add Palestinian culture/history/etc in the near future (I hope). My turn to see what I can dig up from that great city on the other side of the wall. Well done, very nice work. Ramallite (talk) 20:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Shukran ya Ramallite. I really appreciate it. There is room for much more information in the article. gidonb 21:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Farris (mineral water)

 * Hello Ecoleetage, your barnstar and the withdrawal are much appreciated! I'll stick it into the collection and will think of you when drinking Farris (mineral water)! ;-) Best regards, gidonb (talk) 22:30, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

A barnstar for a very special editor

 * Thank you, Katrinpark! gidonb (talk) 16:15, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Precious
  balance

Thank you, Gidon, open for many languages, for quality articles on a wide spectrum of topics, such as International Society for Contemporary Music, Moroccan Wall and Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma, for the correct Netherlands, for dispute resolution, consensus building and "creating a first or better balance in many articles", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:50, 2 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for you kind words, Gerda. I really appreciate your feedback!!! gidonb (talk) 20:19, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Line the Label
Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, E.M.Gregory!

DYK for Daniella van Graas
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, User:7&amp;6=thirteen! 00:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

 * Thank you, Marnette! I love stroopwafels. I wish all the nominators were as open-minded and thorough as you! gidonb (talk) 01:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You are welcome G! Enjoy the rest of your week. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 03:13, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Kopstoot for you
KittenKlub (talk) 16:01, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I sure needed that! Drama is not the pleasant part of the Wikipedia. I prefer editing any day! gidonb (talk) 03:13, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
Thank you for keeping it on top ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Gerda. Much appreciated! gidonb (talk) 03:49, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
For your work on Spijkstaal

The Banner talk 08:19, 16 October 2021 (UTC) 


 * Thank you, User:The Banner. In my early childhood we used to get our bakery and dairy products delivered with these cars. Sometimes I would get a ride. gidonb (talk) 11:28, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Our milkman had such a car/cart. And many, many, many moons later the husband of a friend had an SRV-wagen from this brand. So, good memories. The Banner  talk 12:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Mediator in AFD
Thank you, NiklausGerard! I appreciate your feedback! gidonb (talk) 12:07, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, Bearian! gidonb (talk) 14:28, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar
Hello @Gidonb, thank you so much for the barnstar. Here's a plate full of cookies for you!

Some baklava for you!

 * Thank you, SuperTah! Your feedback is much appreciated! gidonb (talk) 15:30, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:29, 2 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Gerda! gidonb (talk) 19:10, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Anat Schwartz
I tend to agree with your edit summary on the AfD, but I did want to mention that WP:ATTACK articles are subject to deletion when there is no previous version to which one can revert. Coretheapple (talk) 17:08, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for sharing that! It's really sad when BLPs are abused for ATTACKs. I may write something about that later. I believe that anything that has to do with Israel and/or Palestine is over-politicized. When you try to de-politicize you also get attacked. I comment on about 95% of the Israel deletion queue that doesn't deal with the Israel-Palestine conflict. When it does, maybe 60%? gidonb (talk) 17:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The entire area is a mess, and unfortunately due to the high volume of hostility and tendentiousness it tends to drive away editors, leaving only the true believers. Anyway, I was just interested by your edit summary and wanted to note that notability is not always the only criteria in AfDs. Coretheapple (talk) 17:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Folks can be super zealous and then project themselves on you. gidonb (talk) 19:56, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Joseph Otterbeen
Hi Gidonb. Not sure if you got the ping (at the AFD), but based on your ability to find sources for Belgian athlete Georges Demulder (specifically with BelgicaPress), I was wondering if you could determine if there's any significant coverage for Joseph Otterbeen (at AFD). Thanks. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I saw the debate, as User:Habst had tagged me, yet would be more hesitant to decide that Otterbeen was notable. Here, too, I have no access to articles. Let's assume that I accept that one article supports notability based on the title. Consistent with that logic, I would also need to reject the rest as not supporting notability as one can't have it both ways. Then Demulder and Otterbeen have one article. Yet, for Demulder it is more likely that additional notability-supporting sources exist. Soccer is better covered than athletics and Demulder played at the highest level. Look at the stats. User:Habst said that the number of sources for Otterbeen is greater than 150. It isn't. It's 24. That's a third of Demulder. Plus Demulder also played in Portugal. gidonb (talk) 03:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)


 * BeanieFan11, I looked at the article and it is SIGCOV as I assumed. Still, I am unsure that I support keeping. I have supported the deletion without prejudice of such extreme stubs in the past. Also, I was pinged there and addressed here. I will sit this one out for now. gidonb (talk) 01:43, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
 * BeanieFan11, Another reason why I did not get into this is that you called upon me as your expert witness. That's a real honor. The debate went well for the keep-sayers and my intervention would not have helped this case. I hope you will consider me again another time! gidonb (talk) 12:58, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you so much, Bearian! gidonb (talk) 04:09, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Noam Bettan and Maor Ashkenazi
Thank you for the help, I am giving 100% to be able to maintain the articles by Noam Bettan and Maor Ashkenazi, I am correcting any errors that may exist, I am very convinced that these two articles can be saved but it is the decision to continue improving to avoid its erasure thanks for your help. Acartonadooopo (talk) 16:44, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Talk:List of Belgians
You nominated Talk:List of Belgians for deletion at WP:MFD. It looks like you meant to nominate the list article for deletion. I've procedurally closed the MFD. You will need to nominate the article at WP:AFD. -- Whpq (talk) 18:12, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The system suggested that this belongs in MFD, not in AFD. I should have overruled the system. gidonb (talk) 21:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I suspect you were on the talk page when you invoked Twinkle or whatever tool you were using.  A talk page is not an article so its deletion would be discussed at MFD. -- Whpq (talk) 21:23, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That could have been it. Thank you for suggesting a plausible reason for strange advise! gidonb (talk) 21:53, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Re-submitted. Thank you! gidonb (talk) 02:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)