Wikipedia:Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week

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Every week, an Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week will be picked using this page. It is an effort to improve existing Orthodox Rabbinical biographies on Wikipedia and create new ones, with a central aim of creating a feature-standard article during the week-long cooperative editing process. Anyone can nominate an article or vote for a nominated article.

Every Sunday, the votes are tallied and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors as the Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week.

Selecting the next collaboration of the week

 * Any existing article in the Orthodox rabbis category OR any of its subcategories can be nominated.
 * Non-existent articles that would go into the above categories are also allowed, but a showing of how the proposed article would meet existing notability tests must be made at the time of nomination.

Voting

 * Please vote for as many of the following candidate articles as you like.
 * Please only add support votes - opposing votes will not affect the result as the choice is done by approval voting (the most votes, wins).
 * A candidate collaboration needs at least 3 votes in its first week to remain listed.
 * Voting indicates interest in contributing to the article during the collaboration period
 * There are no user criteria or requirements to vote.

To vote for an article:Please click on edit by the article's title, and add a new line with the text "# ~". This will add your username and the time you signed automatically. Please add comments if you wish.

Tie-breakers
To keep things simple, if two or more articles have both had the same number of votes by the selection time, the article nominated first is chosen as COTF.

Current candidates
Click here to add a new nomination

Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl
Nominated on August 6 2006; needs 3 votes by August 13 2006 to remain listed.

Support:
 * 1) --רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 10:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) - CrazyRussian talk/email 20:10, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) JJ211219 05:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) --Daniel575 07:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) --Jms2000 18:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) JFW | T@lk  22:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC) (needs NPOV)
 * 7) Chavatshimshon 20:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Azrich 21:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Dmostroff (talk) 08:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Comments
 * He was a very important Rav in Nitra around the time of the Holocaust, he helped save many Jews (to the chagrin of Stephen Samuel Wise Stephen S. Weiss . He helped re-establish the Nitra Yeshiva in Mount Kisko, NY. A very important Rav from Slovakia. --רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 10:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Should be Michoel Ber. JJ211219 05:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If we incorporate his ten questions to the Zionists. I will take care of that. --Daniel575 07:37, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Will you also allow the million and one answers to his questions? Yossiea 12:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, if you want. Guess we might want to make it a separate page then. ;) --Daniel575 23:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There was an article on him already!--Jayrav 22:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This article is sufficient and the current Collaboration of the week. --Shaul avrom 14:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Rabbi Matisyahu Salomon
Nominated on August 20 2006; needs 3 votes by August 27 2006 to remain listed. Support:
 * 1) רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 20:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Jeremy12201986 01:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) - CrazyRussian talk/email 03:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) -supportJJ211219 04:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Chavatshimshon 20:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. JFW |  T@lk  15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) 216.254.67.162 17:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Azrich 21:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
Nominated on August 20 2006; needs 3 votes by August 27 2006 to remain listed. Support:
 * 1) רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 20:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Jeremy12201986 01:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) - CrazyRussian talk/email 03:21, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) -Support JJ211219 04:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Jms2000 17:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Chavatshimshon 20:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. JFW |  T@lk  15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Azrich 21:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Dmostroff (talk) 08:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Comments:

Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir)
Nominated on August 20 2006; needs 3 votes by August 27 2006 to remain listed. Support:
 * 1) Jeremy12201986 01:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) -supportJJ211219 04:35, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 20:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) - CrazyRussian talk/email 01:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) --Shaul avrom 10:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Chavatshimshon 20:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. JFW | T@lk  15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Azrich 21:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Created a disambig at Nosson Tzvi Finkel that points to Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Mir) and Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka). Take heed. - CrazyRussian talk/email 01:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Rabbi Isaac Breuer
Nominated on 26 November 2006; needs 3 votes by 4 December 2006 to remain listed. Support:
 * 1) JFW | T@lk  15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) --Jayrav 15:59, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Azrich 21:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Haredi ideologue whose thinking underpinned most of Agudath Israel's policies on Eretz Yisroel. Grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch and brother of Joseph Breuer, author of several works (including Der Neue Kusari). Sadly his work is not readily accessible, which may explain why he still lacks an article. JFW | T@lk  15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, ISBN 0791402398 gives a secular perspective on his work. JFW | T@lk  15:57, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel
Nominated on December 10 2006; needs 3 votes by December 17 2006 to remain listed. Support:
 * 1) רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 03:40, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) --Shaul avrom 18:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Azrich 21:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments:
 * Very important because he was the Mashgiach of Lakewood Yeshiva. רח"ק | Talk | Contribs 03:40, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Rabbi Mordechai Willig
Nominated on January 27 2007; needs 3 votes by February 3 2007 to remain listed. Support: Comments:
 * 1) Happy138 21:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Shaul avrom 19:58, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Vonfraginoff 15:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Manuscriptboy 22:09, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A Yeshiva University Rosh Yeshiva. A prominent Posek for the Modern Orthodox community.
 * are there any written sources about him? Jon513 13:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * here you go - http://www.yutorah.org/bio.cfm?teacherID=80215 http://www.torahinmotion.org/spkrs_crnr/faculty/bioMordechaiWillig.htm http://www.bethdin.org/staff.htm http://www.ou.org/services/seminars/women98/Faculty.htm

Enjoy,

Happy138 14:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Rabbi Moshe Friedman
Extreme Neturei Karta Rabbi. Should have good Jews edit his page and all the rest who visit Iran, and Hamas. Pls support and edit their pages Moshe Friedman. Tellyuer1 (talk) 17:34, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Fascinating -- you think that "good Jews" should edit his page? How do you propose to know who is a "good Jew"??  Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:37, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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