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Montfort Hi. Please notice that there was no Montfort Castle prior to the Teutonics taking over, so they didn't 'move to Montfort'. The recovery of the estate by the de Millys after the 3rd Crusade must be mentioned, it's not self-understood, definitely not by the regular Wik. user. The significance of the location is a long, long-discussed issue, very controversial, so reducing the topic in the article is not appropriate. The relation to the HQ in Acre is a major topic. Read A. Boas' comments, the opinions are very much split, it looks like Acre stayed the seat of the Order with just some specific functions moving to Montfort. If you have the time, go on and add the different opinions, but reducing a complex discussion to just one theory, which has little factual support, is counterproductive. The Germans have good material on Montfort, see Biller and Piana. Biller doesn't agree with Boas' interpretation of the three-storey admin. wing, that's worth introducing (I ran out of time). When at Montfort, the only well-preserved rooms (with ceilings) one can see are the two basement halls under the Great Hall, and the tower gate, and the Great Hall is an eye-catcher, so if you can elaborate on those, please do. Thank you and cheers, Arminden (talk) 07:57, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I was not challenging the subject matter, but the fact that it is original research and not well-written. Rather than pushing the revert button, look at the edits more carefully. You can add "Monfort region," for example, to make it clear that these were pre-castle days, rather than deleting 907 words.--Geewhiz (talk) 08:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Sorry, I'm in a huge hurry - and need the info. I don't think I deleted words overall ;) Smth else: you removed [a] I think I read somewhere that there were two families of the same name; is that the reason you edited Philip out of here? Was he from an unrelated clan? Arminden (talk) 08:56, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

I removed it because it is not sourced and refers the reader to a non-existent page. Actually, Wikipedia is not based on "something I think I read somewhere."--Geewhiz (talk) 09:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC) Please, read through the sources (Boas, Biller), and the "architecture" paragraph I wrote after reading those sources, to better familiarise yourself with the difficulties in understanding the castle's structure. The aerial photo is very useful to understand it, at least until we can add a plan and cutout (and after that also, I'd say; to me it was). Also, the well preserved "tower" is one of many, it's the half tower that served as an inner gate tower. // The Milly issue: I didn't introduce it, it was there already. I'm not looking for a fight, I honestly asked you if you know if Philip was from the same family as the owners of this estate. That would be relevant, and then a link to Philip might be of some interest. If not, he surely doesn't belong here. // All I say is: compare how it used to look like [1], with how it looks now, after me spending a lot of time and effort with adding good material, introducing a systematic structure, fixing some inaccuracies etc. Sure, I didn't remove much of the old, unsourced material - and what's not clearly wrong shouldn't be removed either, until new, sourced info on the very relevant topics it covers are introduced. That's Wiki, it builds up over time. But every art. needs the whole picture. Step by step. Enough, I really need to run. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 10:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi. I stumbled into Zalul Environmental Association while working on an AfD and article you made some improvement to years ago. It has a sort of PROMO tone, but is clearly a notable outfit. Just mentioning it here in case you are inclined to do a little cleanup. Lots of sources came up in my English language news archive search. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC) Temple Mount Sifting Project Hello Gila, I recently undertook it to update and expand the article both in the Hebrew and English Wikipedia. I'm a fairly experienced and known editor over in Hewiki, but not so much over here, and there are also conflict of interest issues, so I didn't touch the article itself, but rather wrote a new version in User:Daniel at TMSP/sandbox. I could just add a request edit and get attention from random people, but I preferd to try to find someone familiar with the subject. As the top (non-blocked) past contributor, would you be interested in incorporating what I wrote into the existing article (or just replacing the whole thing, if you find it appropriate)? Daniel at TMSP (talk) 08:41, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Sport in Israel You might be right, but I need a better explanation. --S Philbrick(Talk) 12:43, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, not sure what the problem is. It is totally not the norm for photographers to be given credit in the article itself. Credit for photos appears in Wikicommons. If the photo is copyrighted, it would not be in Wikicommons...Aside from that the material I added is not copyrighted. I just added a few sentences of history which definitely should be expanded, but it's all I have time for at the moment. If you could add to it, that would be great. Best,--Geewhiz (talk) 12:57, 28 March 2019 (UTC) Gilabrand, We are not on the same page. My rollback had nothing to do with photos. I saw material and one of your edits which appeared to be copied from this source. that site doesn't appear to have an acceptable license. There are possible reasons for a false positive but I need to understand why the text in your edit matched the text at that site. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:04, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Please explain your edits Israel–Poland relations Xx236 (talk) 06:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

For starters, poor English, bad grammar, superfluous, paring down non-encyclopedic detail, removal of sensationalism, creation of standard sections, addition of images. Is that enough explanation?--Geewhiz (talk) 08:02, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Topic ban Unless I am mistaken and your indefinite A/I conflict topic ban has been lifted, this is a violation of that ban. nableezy - 15:06, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

It never occurred to me that adding a specifically requested ref was against the rule in Wikischool, but it's not worth an argument. It's gone.--Geewhiz (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2019 (UTC) Honestly I think you should just appeal the sanction. I dont actually have a problem with the edit, just think you're better off abiding by or appealing the sanction. nableezy - 22:18, 22 July 2019 (UTC) Shemen Afarsimon What makes you say it isnt a vegetable oil? Rathfelder (talk) 08:55, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Because afarsimon is not a vegetable.--Geewhiz (talk) 08:56, 24 July 2019 (UTC) Speedy deletion contested: Amram Zur Hello Gilabrand. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Amram Zur, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article claims importance/significance of the subject. Thank you. Steven Crossin Help resolve disputes! 16:23, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

It may claim importance, but that would need references to back it up, and none of the references supplied do that. Either they don't mention the subject or the links are dead. You are welcome to improve the article if you can.--Geewhiz (talk) 16:25, 24 July 2019 (UTC) Note Please note Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gilabrand, Huldra (talk) 20:17, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Is this a joke? If so, it's a pretty bad one. --Geewhiz (talk) 10:20, 16 August 2019 (UTC) Elazar Shach Hi Gila Can you please check the first two sources in the Chabad section which seem to be sourced to the comments section. Chesdovi (talk) 13:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? I don't see a problem.--Geewhiz (talk) 06:21, 26 May 2020 (UTC) The source for the first three sentences (added by a newly registered account who has made one edit) is OR sourced from personal comments posted on Vos Iz Neias website. I am surprised you don't see the issue here. Regards. Chesdovi (talk) 12:39, 26 May 2020 (UTC) revert [2]why did you revert?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

You may have made some technical edits which I have no problem with, but in the process you deleted referenced information and entire sections. Improvements are fine, unexplained removal of data is not. Best, --Geewhiz (talk) 14:09, 21 June 2020 (UTC) And by the way, there is no such thing as "overkill" when other editors have asked for citations.--Geewhiz (talk) 14:12, 21 June 2020 (UTC) you may retain the 'sports' section however you reverted the citation expander???...additionally if you read citation overkill it would be beneficial, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:14, 21 June 2020 (UTC) Sorry about reverting the "citation expander." I actually have no clue what that is...What I objected to was deleting information, sections + section titles.--Geewhiz (talk) 16:29, 21 June 2020 (UTC) Alexander Goldberg (chemical engineer) Your editing and the use of Hebrew script has left the leader a bit mixed up because of text direction, splitting (1906 - 1985). Could you put it right, please, and change 193 to 1973? Thanks. Chemical Engineer (talk) 20:38, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Ways to improve Tzvika Brot Hello, Gilabrand,

Thank you for creating Tzvika Brot.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Needs more sources which are not just mentions,, but the subject is notable per WP:POLOUTCOMES and would survive an AfD since subject is the mayor of a big city in Israel

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Violation of your topic ban You have violated your topic ban twice at World Zionist Organization.

Your first topic ban violation:[3] was reverted, your second one:[4] is still there.

Could you self revert yourself? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Enforcement: [5] --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:11, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

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As per this AE report [6]. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 18:09, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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Adding an image of a street in Switzerland in 1897 (!!) is a violation of a topic ban on the Israeli Arab conflict?? Really? Decline reason:

That's not why you were blocked, per the arbitration enforcement case. 331dot (talk) 18:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC) I received your email; as a matter of policy I do not discuss these sorts of things off wiki. I will say that a topic ban means that you should not make any edits that are even remotely related to the subject of the ban. You are free to make another request for someone else to review. 331dot (talk) 10:10, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Declined unblock requests cannot be removed until the block is removed. Per WP:BANEX you are permitted to discuss your topic ban as part of appealing it or any other "legitimate and necessary dispute resolution" such as this block. 331dot (talk) 10:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

The key to a successful appeal is to go back, look at the report and the edits, figure out what the problem is, acknowledge the issue, and pledge to not make the same mistake. That would make it a lot easier for me (the blocking admin) to look at reducing the block. You can also appeal at AN, AE or ARCA through your talk page, but it's probably easier to just review the issue and move forward from here. And let me add, that if any other admin feels the block is no longer needed, or feels I made a mistake, they are welcome to modify or remove the block without my prior permission. The block was done as what I objectively thought was necessary and appropriate given the circumstances. Given a choice, I would rather see you review and understand the reasons, then just move forward in a productive way. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:12, 6 April 2021 (UTC) I was contacted by email (in a positive way), and I'm waiting for a response here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 14:09, 6 April 2021 (UTC) Explanation In the middle of the Passover/Easter holiday, a time when I was offline for religious reasons, I was blocked for allegedly violating a topic ban on the Arab-Israeli conflict that dates back to 2014. So many in this predicament have simply given up and left the project. But over the past seven years I have continued to edit Wikipedia on a wide variety of subjects, making a conscious and conscientious effort not to touch on the so-called “conflict” (admittedly, with a couple of inadvertent slip ups here or there). I have made literally tens of thousands of edits, adding data, references and images, in addition to rewriting for better English. The article that led to the current block is about the World Zionist Congress, an international organization founded in Europe at the end of the 19th century, the first global association of Jews. The edit in question was the addition of an image of the street in Basel where the Zionist Congress met in 1897 and voted in favor of the establishment of this organization. I did make one edit on that page which I shouldn't have made. There was an edit war going on about a paragraph that was defamatory, and I was alerted to it because the article is on my watchlist. Since one of the iron-clad rules on English wiki is that such statements need to be backed up, I hit the "good faith" button almost instinctively. Someone restored the statement immediately and that was that. Earlier I had edited a meaningless sentence in the lead and mistakenly deleted the Aliyah infobox. When this was brought to my attention, I restored it. But on the holiday, when I do not use Internet, I was charged with a "third violation" which was the addition of an image of a street. It never occurred to me that such an image had any connection to the “Arab-Israeli conflict.” In 1897, Israel did not exist, the picture was taken in Europe and Palestine was ruled by the Ottoman Turks. In any case, it was a holiday, I did not see the enforcement message and could not respond one way or another. At any rate, the image is still up - and nobody has made any move to remove it. So, I must say, this block leaves me sad, disappointed, and even insulted. I have been a contributor to Wiki for more than 15 years. I am one of the project’s 2000 most active editors. I have improved thousands of articles, created dozens from scratch, and have attended Wikimanias and Wikipedia workshops. At these events, the fact that people are not editing Wikipedia was bemoaned and discussed at length. There are good reasons why people are turned off or don't want to get involved from the outset. Maybe I am tougher than most, but I do want to continue contributing. I’ve actually been around long enough not to expect any good word or token of appreciation. Still, I have no desire to fight with anyone and would be grateful for the opportunity to get back to work, doing my little bit to “enhance the sum of human knowledge.” You and I talked briefly via email (I wanted to disclose this here) about the block, although nothing unusual was discussed. I'm inclined to unblock with a pledge to redouble your efforts, which some won't like but you have made a lot of edits with few problems. One of the problems at the AE discussion was a lack of participation by you, but I'm taking your explanation at face value. I do want to leave this up for a couple of days to allow discussion of other editors. Keep in mind, if I do unblock you early, and there is a slip up in the next year, it will be another admin doing the blocking and it isn't likely to be this short. I do not see the current block as a mistake, but we have a little more information now, and you do have a long history, so I'm willing to give some benefit of the doubt since these weren't the most blatant of violations. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 18:53, 11 April 2021 (UTC) Dennis Brown, The block was reasonable. I saw SD's comment above after SD asked me if the topic ban was still in effect and thought I'd leave it for a few days to see if Gila responded before I took any action. Three days elapsed so it was reasonable to take action without hearing from Gila. Given Gila's explanation, an unblock seems reasonable since she hasn't been sanctioned in several years. However, before you lift the block, I would like to see a clearer admission that the edits to World Zionist Organization were violations of the topic ban. The subject itself might not be inherently within the scope of ARBPIA, but a controversy about Palestinian lands being given to Israeli settlers couldn't be much further in-scope, and removing that content is clearly showing Gila's lack of impartiality on the subject, which is the reason the topic ban is in place. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:14, 11 April 2021 (UTC) HJ Mitchell, you said: "an unblock seems reasonable since she hasn't been sanctioned in several years.", just so you know, Gilabrand also violated her topic ban in 2019:[7] and 4 months ago:[8] and both flew under the radar.--Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC) Note to everyone: Gilabrand says: "The article that led to the current block is about the World Zionist Congress, an international organization founded in Europe at the end of the 19th century," And what was the purpose of this "organization" ? You can read about that here: "Zionism aims at establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine. For the attainment of this purpose, the Congress considers the following means serviceable: 1. The promotion of the settlement of Jewish agriculturists, artisans, and tradesmen in Palestine..." That "organization" started the entire A-I conflict, so its 100% a topic ban violation. And that edit was only 1 out of 3 edit violations by Gilabrand. And I also gave her a chance to self revert and she continued editing without self reverting.--Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 22:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC) Israel grid Hi Gila. Sorry to see the predicament you're in. It's saddening, you're right. There are energies mobilised in this I/P thing of an intensity and sharpness that make one shudder. I hope that "blocked" doesn't mean that you cannot receive & send messages. I wanted to ask you if you happen to know if there is a template for "Israel grid" for the infobox. There is one for "Palestine grid", which is great for Jacotin, Conder and the Mandate, but what about Ramat Gan or some kibbutz that happens not to be built on "the lands of the depopulated village of XY"? So, would you know of such a template? Thanks, and use the time to relax. If you must, you can still go to the sandbox and feel like nothing has changed until the 3 months are over. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 21:01, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@Arminden: There is no field for the Palestine grid. All the infoboxes derived from the settlement infobox have fields "grid_name" and "grid_position" where you can put anything you like. Zerotalk 04:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC) Zero0000: Thank you, that's good to know. I'll try it out right away. Arminden (talk) 10:44, 2 June 2021 (UTC) Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict...please fill out my survey? Hello :) I am writing my MA dissertation on Wikipedia Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article.

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Daniel Lubetzky Hi Gilabrand, nice to meet you. I'm hoping you may help me improve Daniel Lubetzky's article- I posted an edit request with some suggestions at Talk:Daniel Lubetzky. He is a Jewish businessman and philanthropist, and you seem to be an experienced editor in this sphere. I would really appreciate your input. Thanks! SarahB2245dl (talk) 13:25, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help! I noticed that you didn't move Emmanuel Lubezki to personal life- was there an issue with that request? If so, I would like to understand for future reference. If not, I'd really appreciate you moving that, as well. I have some additional suggestions for the article that I will likely post soon, would it be ok to ping you once they're up? Thanks again for your time! SarahB2245dl (talk) 12:01, 21 October 2021 (UTC) Just pointing out that Wikipedia does not consider Twitter a "reliable source."--Geewhiz (talk) 07:48, 24 October 2021 (UTC) Thanks for your help. SarahB2245dl (talk) 14:04, 3 November 2021 (UTC) Violation of your topic ban 2 You have violated your topic ban with this edit:[9], Dont do it again. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 08:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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Michael Eisenberg Hi Gilabrand, Not sure why you reached out to me via email and not talkpage. Anyways, you wrote that you saw I edit a lot and maybe can help. Not sure how you got to me, but if you looked at my contributions, I'm sure you saw this isn't really my field of editing. So sorry, I don't feel it's very relevant for me to look into this. Cheers, --SuperJew (talk) 07:11, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Raviv Zoller for deletion
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 * I see you reverted that changes I made to the Raviv Zoller. The content you removed is not about Zoller, for example the ICL Group has become part of the global food production chain, venturing into new areas such as the meat substitute market is promotional, and violates WP:PROMO. I'll wait until the Afd is complete. If the article kept, then it will be copyedit to remove that promotional content. If you keep reverting it, I will issue warnings, and if you edit war to keep it, then its page protection and administration with possible article or full block for being disruptive. That is the standard process for editors that refuse to follow the guidelines. Being fully sources, isn't an argument. It has to follow guidelines.   scope_creep Talk  09:24, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I disagree. It is not promotional, it is factual. The CEO leads the company and if a change of direction is decided upon, it is the CEO who takes responsiblity for that decision. If you read the references, instead of rejecting them out of hand, you will see that. Please tone down your threats, to me and others.--Geewhiz (talk) 09:48, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Requesting some help in article expansion
Greetings @ Gilabrand

Hi I am User:Bookku, usually I find encyclopedic content gaps, create drafts and try to recruit article expansion editors.

Requesting your visit to Draft:Amina Dawood Al-Mufti, and help expand and improve the same. I do have some more drafts which are in need of expansion help that also includes drafts like Draft:Civil life in conflict zones and Draft:Turkish textbook controversies

Please do help in expanding the draft if any of the topics interests you.

Thanks and warm regards

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 15:24, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Jerusalem map by neighbourhoods needed
Hi Gila. I'm constantly bumping into this issue, as it's for instance often hard to tell if a landmark located on the boundary of two neighbourhoods belongs to this one or that one. I have tried to start a discussion (see here: Talk:Jerusalem) and posted notices on several other talk-pages, but I doubt many will even notice. You have a lot of knowledge about Jerusalem, maybe you know of a good source? Maybe can help (Hi David!), or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks and have a great evening, Arminden (talk) 18:45, 16 January 2022 (UTC)


 * This might be useful in some cases, but I guess not for precise boundaries...--Geewhiz (talk) 10:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)


 * , Wow! I really do not have anything on Jerusalem neighbourhoods. I wish I did, so that I can be of help to you. If I come across anything, I'll let you know.Davidbena (talk) 22:44, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Here is something else I found: https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=Category%3ANeighbourhoods_of_Jerusalem

Can you be more careful
And maybe read the Manual of Style for biographies before you do this to some other article. Most of the errors you made were non-standard or explicitly "don't use" section titles, but screwing up citations, changing encyclopedic language to non-encyclopedic, removing links, and for some reason getting rid of spaces is all bad style, too, and needs immediate clean-up, which is a lot of work for someone else to do. Kingsif (talk) 07:04, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

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You have violated your topic ban
You have violated your topic ban with this edit: where you are claiming that the disputed city of Jerusalem is "in Israel". Please self revert. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 16:21, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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Mobileye discussion
Hi there Gilabrand, my name is Gideon, I work at Mobileye. I noticed that you've edited the Mobileye article in the past, and thought you might be interested in a discussion I've raised on the Talk page regarding the controversy section. Would love to get your insight. Thanks, Gideon at Mobileye (talk) 09:17, 11 April 2022 (UTC)