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			I'd appreciate your comments on the Chabad article talk page. I feel sources in the messianism controversy section are being mis-summarized by an admin, and want a second opinion. Thanks. ] 22:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Moshe Rubashkin

On 4 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Moshe Rubashkin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 23:46, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 25 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shaul Shimon Deutsch, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 09:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Milton Balkany

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--howcheng {chat} 06:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Jews convt to Christianity

Note that this category existed before, and was deleted about half a year ago through the WP:CfD procedure ], as being not really relevant; and potentially opening a whole string of X's cnverted to Y's religion. Perhaps your intentions with it are valid, but make sure it is not the resurrection of the old list. If you truly think your intentions have none of the problems in the discussion; I would be happy to keep it up, otherwise I would suggest deletion. Arnoutf 11:22, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Overstocked protesting

Last question first -- nah, no luck. I'm Greg Greene, a political consultant based in D.C., who picked up the 'Va.' in his internet handle because he spent seven years down in Charlottesville for college and law school. (You can see a slightly out of date bio here, if you like.)

I checked on your talk page b/c I filed the report on the 3RR noticeboard. I wanted to follow up to check on the outcome of that action, and came across your remark about sockpuppets as I read the archive.

It got my dander up b/c you have, in the last couple of weeks, made copious references to sock puppets in your edit summaries on the Greenwald article. One probably hit the mark (yep, SouthieFLA looked odd). Still, the blanket assertion here, just like the blanket assertions made in the edit summaries, left the implication that any one of us editors -- or all of us -- could be sockpuppets. You have to ask why someone could find that insulting?

As for the bit about admitting chicanery: ummm, no. I said mythical chicanery, as a retort to the sockpuppet assertion.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to adjust my hoop skirt. --GGreeneVa 04:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Chabad & Chabad (disambiguation)

You should not move a page by copy-and-pasting the content. The GFDL requirements require that the article history remain with all text. Please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to move a page. I have fixed the copy-and-paste you did from Chabad to Chabad (disambiguation) by perfroming an actual move. If you have any questions, please let me know. -- JLaTondre 20:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem. As for closing the move request, I'll leave that to the folks who normally monitor WP:RM. I don't normally participate there and each process has its own quirks. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 21:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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What do you mean by "legal rationale"? ShadowHalo 19:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Your boxes

Hi, I noticed you had a lot of the same userboxes as me. I think you might have some of them by mistake. For example, you have my Deist box, but later on you have an Athiest box. Just giving you a heads-up. Thanos6 23:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I don't care. Feel free to keep them. :) I just wanted to make sure you didn't have some of them by accident. Thanos6 23:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Absurd edit

Sorry about that. It was due to a program running in the background on my computer. I have now fixed the problem. Shlomke 14:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Harrassment

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Re: Misunderstanding

I hear that, but it should at least be sourced at the top. It should either say "some say messianism's big (ref.) and some say we don't know (ref.)" or "Berger and others say messianism's big (ref.) while Fishkoff and others say we don't know (ref.)." Otherwise, we make it look like one source has more backing than another. There are also sources which say messiannism's miniscule, but I'm too busy to look for these. --Yodamace1 21:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Then it should say "some say messianism's big and some say we don't know" or "Berger and others say messianism's big while Fishkoff and others say we don't know." For future reference, if one tzad has a source, so too the other tzad...we can't just delete the other second tzad's source--that makes the second tzad sound non-credible. --Yodamace1 00:29, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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Quick question...

I was looking at your userbox collection again, and then I looked at your username, and a thought hit me. Would you happen to be Dave Spart of the New Spartsman (Neasden)? -- Earle Martin 12:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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House of Saud userbox

I would like to make a suggestion, and, of course, you don't have to do it, but I thought it would hold more significance if it read "This user supports a Saudi-less Arabia". I am opposed to the Saudis too. --Philo 14:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Glenn Greenwald sockpuppetry

Unless I'm misreading, you are also a supporter of including a balanced section on G.Greenwald's extensive and even obsessive use of anonymous 'sockpuppets' to attack critics, defend himself (in the 3rd person) disseminate misinformation, try to make it appear he has myriad defenders attacking any blog that disagrees with him, etc. However, the Admins seem to have sided with people like AStanhope who revert the page, then request its locking to their satisfaction, and who refuse to compromise, even though a consensus reference to the matter was reached and stable for months, he and some collaborators made it their business to alternately revert so that none of them would be guilty of 3RR.

I have appealed for a revert to the settled form of the page, but to no avail (I've not even been answered). What can be done? What actions can be taken? How is it that a few driven opinionators can control content so?

If there is any way we can band together with like-minded contributors to rectify what I feel is an important inclusion in the article of a propagandist that shines light on dishonesty and bad faith, shading all his work, I'm interested in cooperating. People like Greenwald should be exposed so that their very extreme and opinioned, and widely disseminated propaganda can have the proper context included when weighing their propaganda.

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Parent categories versus sub-categories.

Hi David Spart: You have placed the parent category of Category:Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim on the pages of many Category:Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis which was not necessary. If one is already a Chabad rabbi then by definition one is automatically a Chabad chosid (while the reverse is not true.) For more information about how to align categories correctly, see Misplaced Pages:Categorization, especially Misplaced Pages:Categorization#How to create subcategories. Please note, that categorization is not as simple as it seems and requires a little practice, so please be cautious in this regard. Please feel free to contact me if you need help. Sincerely, IZAK 02:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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TFA overhaul again

Hey Dave. We've been having sort of a clash at the TFA requests page in that Raul wants to totally abolish that page, or at least disallow the idea of suggested dates. Now, this seems like he is just trying to lessen the ability of other users to have a say in TFA, and it's really making me angry. Anyway, I had remembered that you had, not too long ago, made that TFA overhaul proposal, and since the idea was brought up by me (and some others) here again to give TFA rights to more than one person (Raul) I figured I contact you. Anyway, read the discussion there, and chime in if you want. _└_┘_t 00:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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My Userboxes?

Eh... hello David, I just noticed that you seem to have copied all my user boxes onto your page, now there's nothing wrong with that, you're entitled to. But are you sure you meant to take all of them? Some seem to be contradictory, first stating that you are from American and later from Ireland, so where are you from, cause I can't work it out from your page? Perhaps you mistakenly pasted in my entire page here and you didn't intend to, but it is pretty bizarre, don't you think? I'd appreciate a response, thanks. --Hibernian 10:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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Chabad article

I'd appreciate your comments on the Chabad article talk page. I feel sources in the messianism controversy section are being mis-summarized by an admin, and want a second opinion. Thanks. Abe Froman 22:58, 30 July 2007 (UTC)