User talk:Snakeswithfeet

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Nava Applebaum
Thank you for the help at Articles for deletion/Nava Applebaum. The article is now on the front page as a DYK.-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 04:25, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Blaming the Victims (disambiguation)


The article Blaming the Victims (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Disambiguation page that doesn't really disambiguate.

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Ami'ad
Hi. The info on it being founded by the Palmach was from the Hebrew Wikipedia (from which I translated the article). Can't really help much beyond that I'm afraid! Number  5  7  10:03, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't give a source (he.wiki doesn't use references that much. However, its official website does state that it was founded by Palmach members, although the Jewish Agency was later involved in deciding the name of the place. Number   5  7  09:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. My translation (Google) says :"The founders of Amiad were sent here in 1946 by the Palmach, to help guard and protect the road to Tiberias from hostile attacks by arab mobs." If they were sent there, then the actual founders could be the "graduates of the Hanoar Haoved movement" as my source says, no? OR the Palmach themselves were "graduates of the Hanoar Haoved movement." Can you read Hebrew youself well enough to make the distinction between "the founders ...were sent" and "the founders were..." in this case? If the Palmach sent founders who were graduates ... well, that makes sense to me but I don't want to be doing WP:OR. Snakeswithfeet (talk) 05:08, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Er, the link I gave you above is in English. It doesn't mention anything about HaNoar HaOved, although it does state that some of the later residents were part of HaBonim Dror. Number   5  7  11:13, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know if you read this (which was linked to in the Amiad website), but it may clarify things as it states that the founders "were the first of their movement (Noar HaOved) to form a unit in the Palmach.". As for Wilhemina, the reason I used the disambiguation "Palestine" is because it only seems to have been a residential settlement prior to WWI - i.e. before the Mandate era, hence only using the term Palestine. Number   5  7  19:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Category
I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of this category you created is? Anyway, if it is retained, it should be renamed Category: Jewish villages in the British Mandate for Palestine. Number  5  7  10:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, Number 57. The purpose for such a category is to demonstrate the presence of the Jews in historical Palestine at that time. It is similar perhaps to the Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in that that category provides an historical presence of (Palestinian) Arabs in a particular place and at a particular time.  Things have changed since then, but this helps keep the historical record straight. I am not averse to changing the cat name to your suggestion: Jewish villages in the British Mandate for Palestine or perhaps Jewish villages in the Mandate for Palestine (since the British were the only ones to have a "Mandate for Palestine" it may be redundant to add "British")  I have never changed a category name and not sure how to go about it, though. Snakeswithfeet (talk) 03:57, 7 April 2011 (UTC)


 * While I have you, so to speak, I would like to return to the article Wilhelma, Palestine. The more I mull it over, the more convinced that the name should be changed back to your original Wilhelma, Israel and my reasoning follows. The German Templar village was founded in the modern era, 1902, in the region known as "Filastin" under the control of the Ottoman Empire until ~ 1917-1922. From 1917 - April 1948, under control of the British, Wilhelma was apparently an internment camp, not a village at all. Since May 1948 it has been a part of Israel.  These pictures from the Commons appears to show that the area is still known as Wilhelma, even if it is also known as Bnei Atarot.  I think it more correct and specific to place Wilhelma in Israel given the geography, the history and the currrent situation, (that for the better part of the time it has been occupied freely, ie not a prison camp, it has been occupied by Jews and Israelis.  Your thoughts?  Snakeswithfeet (talk) 05:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm still of the opinion that it should be Palestine. It may be in Israel now, but during the time when it was actually a village, the place name was Palestine (or perhaps even Ottoman Empire). Number   5  7  08:54, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * PS, to change a category name, see WP:CfD. However, as there are relatively few entries in it, it may be easier to create a new category, empty the existing one, and then I'll delete it for you. Cheers, Number   5  7  08:56, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Re: Wilhelma, Palestine
Hi Snakeswithfeet! I don't see any disagreement with your comments on the talk page (not sure what you were referring to), so moving the page shouldn't be a problem given enough time (say, one week after your original comment, which means 3 days from now). If someone does oppose it, then I will join the discussion, although to be honest I have little to add at this point because I do not have high-quality sources on the subject. —Ynhockey (Talk) 22:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

prior accounts
Have you ever used a prior account on Wikipedia?  nableezy  - 22:46, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

taking a leave
Circumstances of a medical nature require me to take a leave of absence from Wikipedia for a while. Hope to return shortly. Snakeswithfeet (talk) 01:30, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Sockpuppet investigations/Dajudem for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page.  nableezy  - 18:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello
I saw you leaved a message for me a year ago, I wanted to apologize for not replying. I wasn't here because I got tired of Wikipedia (I apologize for that statment, I know that for some of you it's most important), which is ruled in articles about Israeli-Arabic conflict and Palestinians by Anti-Israeli operators. they censor anything that is against their view of it. they publish doubted sources and say that creditable sources "are simply not true" if claiming anything against it. I thanks you for your suggestion, though I doubt I will stay from resons cited above and fro, the lack of my time for really entering this story. greetings, --Yamisrael (talk) 16:43, 4 July 2011 (UTC)