User talk:Toya

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-- Sango  123  16:14, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

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Re:
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George W. Bush, not Andrew Haas, is President of the United States. Sango 123


 * You mean this edit? I'd say that was either vandalism or a test since Andrew Haas and David Hiester don't even have their own articles. Thanks for removing it from List of Presidents of the United States. Regards, Sango  123  15:54, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary
Hi. Can I suggest that you provide more information in your edit summaries? Adding the same text (in another language), regardless of the edit, provides no information to anyone reviewing the change. Please consider providing valid edit summaries. - T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  16:24, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * What he said. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 16:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

אני המשתמש אריאול
Hi אריאול. I think you misunderstand the purpose of the edit summary ( unless I'm missing something ). Please review the edit summary guidelines. Thanks. El_C 11:56, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I have to agree. Please start using English in your edit summaries, as writing in Hebrew does most of us no good. John Barleycorn 05:05, July 30, 2005 (UTC)


 * אריאול/Toya, you need to tread lightly. El_C 09:37, 30 July 2005 (UTC) ,בברכה

British Commonwealth Occupation Force
I know there were non-Americans in Japan in 1945, even before the official surrender was signed on USS Missouri. But February 21, 1946 is when the official British Commonwealth Occupation Force arrived. Grant65 (Talk) 13:18, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Fire balloons on WWII Theater Template
Fire balloons were a weapon, not a theater of war.--Jpbrenna 22:33, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

unhelpful edits
Please consider creating articles rather than just creating links to non-existant articles. Once the articles exists, then you can create links to them. Also, I would definitely suggest using edit summaries. Otherwise other editors will say bad things about you behind your back or leave tacks in your chair when you aren't looking. Kaldari 20:26, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

is this for real
, it amused me anyhow! Leonig Mig 10:28, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It is real! see here. Toya 11:59, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Public response 9/11
Hi, Toya. I see the new page you've created. Two points:

The initial statement seems a bit subjective. I realize the topic is a bit subjective but new articles undergo a lot of scrutiny, and you should be prepared to receive comments about the page.

Another tip: I think your article would be much better served, and much more positively recieved, if you have something in it right from the beginning. One trick I use is, I wrote two very solid paragraphs, with a lot of research and detail, before I start a serious new article. Even have a link or two ready. This way people know you have done some actual work in advance, and are likely to show well-written results in little time.

What you have now is a stub, and it is going to come under attack -- fairly or not -- because there isn't really anything there.

Hope this will be of some value to you, and let me know if I can help.

klenk 07:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Summaries
Hi, please remember to briefly summarize your edits. The summary text will appear on the recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. Thanks and happy edits! ←Humus sapiens&larr;ну? 19:39, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Template
Please don't add blank articles to templates. Your changes are well-meaning, but they don't help navigate to related articles, which is the point of templates. --Goodoldpolonius2 18:15, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Al Aqsa
Yes the Hebrew letter צ is pronounced "ts" by most Israelis, but since Aqsa is an Arabic word, and צ is similar to the Arabic ص, most Hebrew speakers I've heard pronounce it as Aqsa with a hard "s". Anyway I changed it back. Ramallite (talk) 17:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Academic transliterations of Hebrew
Please leave the academic transliterations of Hebrew names intact&mdash;they are academic conventional spellings, not alternate spellings (which can be listed as "or Other Name", etc.). For Standard Hebrew in detailed academic contexts, ḥ is used for ח in all cases, and ḫ is used for soft כ in all cases. These are typical across Semitic linguistics studies. We do not use kh in this way. - Gilgamesh 23:32, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

west bank barrier
Thanks for editing this article. Please stick around. Zeq 19:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Sept 11 detentions
Nice work on the detentions article. Kaldari 05:33, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Edit Summaries
Hi, thanks for all your contributions. I just wanted to ask you to please use the edit summary box at the bottom of a page before you submit a change. See Edit summary for more information. Edit summaries are extremely helpful to help catch vandals and help RC patrols distinguish legitament entries (like yours), from the bad entries that so often need to be reverted. Thanks. -- Malo 18:42, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Toya.

Thanks again for your contributions. Can I suggest that if you are going to create a page about the Commonwealth countries in WWII then it should be called Military history of the Commonwealth of Nations during World War II, although it should probably contain little except links to the individual military history articles for each country. If you are not intending to create such a page it is probably better to leave a link to an existing page (Commonwealth of Nations) rather than a non-existant page in World War II. DJ Clayworth 16:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

The Emergency (Ireland, 1939 - 1945)
Thanks for moving your edit to this more detailed article. But you still haven't provided any sources for your statements. If you can do so, feel free to revert my edit of your addition. --137.108.145.10 17:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Official titles
Hi - "Palestinian National Authority" (PNA) is the complete official title, whereas "Palestinian Authority" (PA) is shorter but used commonly. Official documents are not consistent, many applications and certificates have PNA on them, but others (including the Palestinian passport and (תעודת זהות) only have PA. As you can tell, it is not very professional. However, to answer your question, PNA is the official correct title, and in the encyclopedia should be used instead of PA. Ramallite (talk) 16:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I think "filastiniyah" sounds more proper than "falastiniyah" - to be honest the "fat'ha" or "kasra" (nequda) on the letter ف is something we learned in elementary school (and it's different depending on where a word is in the sentence - Arabic I'raab) and I don't remember the grammar rules right now, people say it both ways. But I think the proper pronunciation for a word that is after "tahrir" is with a kasra - "filastiniyah" . Ramallite (talk) 10:35, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

The section in the article 1948 Arab-Israeli War
Dear Toya, This section just needs to be re-written in good English and a source or sources cited and then it will be fine. --Ian Pitchford ''' (t) 11:54, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Intifada
In "intifada", the first "a" is longer than the second "a", so when writing transliterations it makes sense to say "intifaadat" or "intifādat" to make it more clear. Question for you: in Oslo Accords you wrote "was nicknamed the "refusal organizations"" - who calls them "refusal organizations"? We call them "mu'aradah" which simply means "the opposition". I was just wondering.... Ramallite (talk) 13:46, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Rejection of Tanakh
Hi Toya: Please see and vote at Categories for deletion/Log/2005 December 12 at where it is beeing suggested that the word "Tanakh" is "not neutral", and I am trying to explain to them that it is in keeping with NPOV to convey the way Judaism uses certain terms to describe the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh. Thanks. IZAK 16:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

A suggestion
Merge the info of the "conflict" article to another relevant article. Zeq 19:38, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Ashamed?
I am not sure I understand. If we need to say West Bank for a specific reason, yes we say "the West Bank". But we refer to it as Palestine otherwise. For example; Where are you from? I am from Palestine. Where is Ramallah? North of Jerusalem in the West Bank in Palestine. It's like if you live in גוש דן, you still say 'here in Israel' or 'I am from Israel' or 'I am traveling to Israel'. Where exactly in Israel? the גוש דן region. It doesn't mean that the Negev is not part of Israel also. So it is very much dependent on context, but it is normal to say 'Palestine' unless there is a special reason that you need to identify it specifically. Ramallite (talk) 04:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

El or Al (not the airline)
In Arabic it is spelled 'aleph lam', so I guess 'Al' is more proper than 'El'. Also, the Arabic letter 'ص' in "Aqsa" is pronounced a hard "S", the same as the way Sephardim (or Yehudim Mizrachim) pronouce 'צ'. Ashkenazim usually pronounce it 'TS'. But in Arabic this letter is always a heavy "S" and never "TS". Ramallite (talk) 06:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Hi. The only problem there is that the article was up for deletion previously and many people had concerns. When you merged it into the Islam and Judaism article, it can cause concern. So it would be nice if you could discuss that on the talk page. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 15:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Settlement versus Community
Thank you for explaining your choice of the word settlement. However, within the context of Palestinian attacks on Israel, the word “settlement” takes on a decidedly particular definition (i.e. Israeli population centers within the so-called "occupied territories"), and I would much rather there be no confusion as to what Palestinians are attacking. You'll surely agree with me that there is much less support for Palestinian bombardment of Israeli civilians than there is for Palestinian aggression toward the targets more commonly referred to as "settlements."

Acting Prime Minister
Actually, in English the term is "Acting Prime Minister" as per all media reports. Homey 14:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

HaPanterim HaSHkhorim
You have not provided any sources in HaPanterim HaSHkhorim. Could you cite some useful references, please?

Also, is there any particular reason why you user uppercase SH for a shin? I'm wondering if that is not problematic under the naming conventions. JFW | T@lk  22:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I know shin is one letter in the Hebrew alphabet, but the "sh" in English is a diphtong and there should be no need to transliterate the shin to SH. Have you seen this convention in any other articles? JFW | T@lk  09:55, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The whole article was transferred to the existing page Israeli Black Panthers. I added some references with external links but didn't change much of the text. --Pylambert 17:09, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Israel = Yisrael?
Shalom! I was wondering if there was any particular reason for your move of Israel Maimon to Yisrael Maimon. Is it one of those Hebrew language things? Thanks. - 20:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)The Great Gavini שיחה

Gettysburg Address
Hi, I appreciate your contributions to this article, but many of your changes have not improved the English syntax or sentence structure. Maybe you could consider doing fewer of this type of edits, or run these changes by someone else? I'd certainly welcome your input in improving the factual parts of the article and in many other areas. Cheers, Kaisershatner 02:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

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תרגום
ראיתי שאתה מרבה לתרגם ערכים מעברית לאנגלית. האם אתה יכול לתרגם את הערך הבא, הוא גם מופיע בגרמנית.

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Adolf Hitler's contacts with Jewish people
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