User talk:Matanya

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Laser pointer TEM00 photo
Hi Matanya,

I noticed a question that you posed on Srleffler's talk page, about a photo of a laser pointer's beam profile. I have a laser pointer that produces a TEM00 profile, so I conferred with Srleffler about photographing it, to show the Gaussian distribution. It was not easy to get a good photo of the beam, but I like a challenge and think I finally managed to produce a decent photo. I don't know if you're interested in using it, but you can see it on User talk:Srleffler if you are interested. Zaereth (talk) 21:23, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you very much, most appreciated. best Matanya (talk) 19:25, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding motion granting temporary local CheckUser permission to Arbitration Committee Election Scrutineers
The Arbitration Committee has resolved by that: For the purpose of scrutineering the 2013 Arbitration Committee elections, stewards User:Mathonius, User:Vituzzu, User:Matanya, and User:Tegel, appointed as scrutineers, are granted temporary local CheckUser permissions effective from the time of the passage of this motion until the certification of the election results. For the Arbitration Committee, Bbb23 (talk) 18:29, 1 December 2013 (UTC)



ACE2013
GiantSnowman 19:57, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for everything! Matanya (talk) 15:43, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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Images taken by Israel Defense Force - Article Fixup
Hi, I only discovered the ongoing issues with these images and the restoration by yourself via your revert on Canada–Israel relations - I wouldn't have realised without this.

I have tried as best I can to undo the damage to the articles by checking the contribution logs of myself, Filedelinkerbot and CommonsDelinker. I'm sure I haven't got them all, but I've made ~140 edits this morning several with multiple images restored. Also a few articles others had already realised the issues and restored the images, so its around 150 articles recovered.

Note due to not wanting to break the 1 revert per day rule I was unable to completely fix two articles Israeli–Palestinian conflict this edit, and Israel these 4 files

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 12:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! I have written a script to revert all needed changes but didn't run it yet. Thanks for helping out and saving me time :) Matanya (talk) 12:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014
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Removal of video of fly tying
Video was removed for a couple of reasons--1) location in article it shouldn't have been in the lead, 2) it was not of a typical fly commonly used or notable (something like a royal coachman would have been more appropriate), and 3) WP isn't supposed to be a "How To Guide", so content aimed primarily at showing people how to do something is discouraged. If you consider the Green Olive Helmet Sculpin to be notable enough for its own article, I would encourage you to create it and use the video there. --Mike Cline (talk) 12:50, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!


Happy Halloween!

Hello Matanya: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –  JudeccaXIII (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2014 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.
 * Thank you! Happy halloween to you too :) Matanya (talk) 18:50, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

jewishencyclopedia.com links
Hi. With a bit of effort, I got the broken DNS records for jewishencyclopedia.com fixed so that www.jewishencyclopedia.com works again. Unless you have some inside knowledge in this particular case, changing those links was probably not the best solution – many domains have www.something.com records that point to their desired public-facing webservers while their something.com records might actually not resolve at all or point to a corporate/organizational server. The reverse is almost never true except, as in this case, where there was a mistake.

Inbound links from the web are almost 10:1 in favor of the www... name in this case, per normal practice. It's probably not worth undoing the changes but there is the potential that they could stop working intentionally in the future, whereas www... is likely to remain the correct name for the desired web server. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 08:41, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thank you very much. I agree with every thing you said. I'd like to note i contacted them, and told them about the issue, but not reply was ever sent back to me, Hence i started to fix the links. Matanya (talk) 19:29, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah – I had to be pretty persistent, through bad email contact addresses, a mis-configured mail server, etc. but finally reached a human at the DNS provider, who replaced the missing record. I wonder if they (or anyone else) would have ever noticed that their traffic had fallen dramatically. —&#91;   Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 14:44, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Arbitration motion granting you local ChecUser permission for Arbitration Committee Election Scrutineering
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MIDI's and classical music
Hello, please don't add MIDI files to classical music articles; at best they are barely adequate representations of the real work, and are not helpful at all. At the very least, please bring it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical music first. Graham 87 14:23, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello, Thanks for passing by. Please educate me, what is so bad with MIDIs? I am not a pro musician by all means. Matanya (talk) 14:31, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * They're very, very mechanical, which classical music just ... isn't, as it uses acoustic instruments. Sensitevely rendered MIDIs with high-quality sampled instruments can sometimes be alright, but that judgement is best left to people with classical music expertise. Graham 87 03:59, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for your warm words, appreciated. Matanya (talk) 13:25, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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I need some help
Hi, hopefully you can answer a few questions for me: I'm trying to decide what to do about the user and User:Lior the swimmer on en.wiki. I read a machine translation of the discussion on Esc Steven's he.wiki Talk page, and it was very confusing. Thanks for any help.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:07, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Who is the blocking administrator? Do they have an account on en.wiki?
 * Referring to the same blocked user, was a CU ever run against them on he.wiki?
 * Hi, the user is user:אמא של גולן. Personally, without knowing what is the case on en.wiki, i think it would be safe to assume bad faith in the case of those two accounts. Best Matanya (talk) 16:19, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Although I can't confirm it because of some technical anomalies, I'm persuaded that the two accounts are operated by the same person. There's a possibility they are meat puppets, but, either way, they are violating en.wiki policy. As soon as I get my "paperwork" in order, I plan to block both.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:04, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, user:Bbb23, I blocked user:Esc Steven as He was acting improperly towards other HE wiki users and was starting to claim that somebody took over his account. The whole story sounded suspicious. When we wanted to check if he is the same as User:Lior the swimmer, Esc Steven says he wanted to retire, and so I blocked him again, indefinitely, and the check was stopped (so we cannot say if he is the same user). Esc Steven now wants to "return" to edit. --Golan&#39;s mom (talk) 08:30, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, that was the impression I got when reading the machine translation at Esc Steven's he.wiki Talk page. I imagine he wants to return because he's now blocked here.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:12, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

I knew it was going to happen...
I knew it was going to happen, but it would have been nice if you had only reverted the DOB issues and not the rest of the changes I recently made. On the other hand, thanks for taking care of what appears to be a global issue. Primefac (talk) 22:58, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, I apologize for over-reverting. Thanks for the thanks ;) Matanya (talk) 23:16, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
חתול חמוד בשבילך

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Featured picture scheduled for POTD
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