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Shavuot celebrates Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
What's This? Shalom aleichem sports fans, and welcome to the first of what I hope will be a monthly newsletter with the need-to-know information about our fair WikiProject. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to recommend a story for the newsletter, click here to leave a message on the Newsletter Coordinator's talk page. In the News
WikiProject Good Articles is doing sweeps over all our current good articles to ensure they still meet criteria. For more information and how you can help, check out WikiProject Good Articles Sweeps.
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One new Judaism-related article was created this month, the long requested
, so whenever you get the opportunity make sure to go create a few.
In the right column you will see a listing of our most popular articles. All of these articles got 170,000+ page hits in the past month, and they should be on everyone's watchlist so we can keep them vandalism-free.
Spread the word! No, not the
Word... (well, you can do that too) I'm talking about inviting knowledgeable users to join the project. You can proclaim your undying love of WikiProject Judaism in methods mild to wild, check the project template page and member list for examples. We also now have a flashy advertisement, to use it add {{Wikipedia ads
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Capt. Feathersword's puffy shirt
Hi Manassehkatz, I wanted to explain why I reverted your
Puffy Shirt link on The Wiggles. To be honest, as a Seinfeld fan, I also thought of that episode in relation to the good Captain's attire. However, I'm not sure it fit because pirates have always worn puffy shirts and remember, The Wiggles are an Australian group who may or may not be familiar with the reference. The Captain was also wearing the shirt when he was introduced into the group since its inception in 1991, and since the episode aired in 93, there's no way it could be an homage to Seinfeld. I love it, though, that a Seinfeld reference found its way into this article. If you could find a source supporting a link between the Capt. and Seinfeld, please add it back in. Until then, I think the link should be removed. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 15:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply
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I didn't realize the Captain predated the Seinfeld reference. I still think the link is reasonable, though if there were a Pirate Clothing or similar article that would be fine and it could link to Wiggles & Seinfeld. I found an article
Pirates in popular culture
which doesn't have a reference to Wiggles or Seinfeld - if I get a chance I will fix that. Manassehkatz 03:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Now with 200% more Jewishness!
Yes, folks, we're moving on up. This newsletter is now the newsletter for both WikiProject Judaism, WikiProject Jewish History, and WikiProject Kabbalah. In the future, I may split them, but for now I think we'll be just fine with one. As always, any questions or comments should be directed to me, L'Aquatique.
A Special Dispatch
Just a note, not aimed at anyone in particular. By order of the administrative cabal, it is officially not cool (and possibly
Godwin-esque law
. Remember Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In the News
A new class on the importance scale has been added- C Class- which covers articles better than start but not quite to B Class yet. It is up to the WikiProjects to decide whether to adopt them or not. Currently, there has been little discussion within our Projects, so if you feel strongly either way be sure to note so at your Project[s].
There is a proposal to reword the section on NPOV regarding religious articles. Please see
Wikipedia_talk:NPOV#Religion section - Disputes between historians or scientists and religious_views
to weigh in.
Thanks largely to the efforts of Xyz7890, a new navbox has come into being featuring Halakha topics. See: Template talk:Halakha to join in the conversation about how it can best be improved.
To Do
The Simple English Wikipedia is beginning a project of creating and improving articles related to religion, including Judaism. At the present time, volunteers are needed to propose our most important subjects for articles to be created. The official working list is here and a more extended list is here. If you are unsure of proper topics, you might try checking our lists of top importance level articles: Judaism and Jewish History. (WikiProject Kabbalah currently doesn't have such a list)
[Simple English] WikiProject Christianity is considering running a monthly drive wherein two or three top importance articles from English Wikipedia are simplified and moved over to S.E. They have extended an offer to work with us in creating a similar project for Judaism related articles. For questions or volunteer opportunities, please contact User:John Carter.
WikiProject Kabbalah is in dire need of an article rating system for quality and importance. If you are familiar with that system and have some time on your hands, please create one. It could also use some infoboxes...
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United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Please stop changing the event links on the medal table to redlinks. The visible links should have the "-er" American style, but the actual article titles themselves have the "-re" style so, that's what the link needs to point to.
Sorry about that. After it didn't seem to work right, I realized that was the problem. It all started with 1 visible link that was metre instead of meter that I was trying to fix. I'll be more careful in the future. Manassehkatz (talk) 03:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sir Moses Montefore, a Jewish activist who died 123 years ago this month
"Censorship" of names of G-d
There is an interesting discussion currently taking place regarding whether or not it is acceptable to censor (i.e. G-d, HaShem->YodHey) names of G-d in articles to protect Jews who may be reading or editing the article. You can weigh in here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Yahweh.
Article Cleanup Lists User:B. Wolterding has generously offered us use of his bot to generate lists that show which articles of ours are tagged for cleanup. You can read more about this service here: User:B._Wolterding/Cleanup_listings and if you would like to take him up on his offer, contact him on his talk page.
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The Jewish BarnstarThe New Jewish Barnstar
There is a collaboration drive to get
good article status. For information about how you can help, see the talk page or contact User:Piotrus
.
WikiProject Kabbalah's only Featured and Good articles have been removed from the WikiProject, on the grounds that neither article (Diane Keaton and David Beckham, respectively) actually mention the subject's affiliation with Kabbalah. If you have sourced information linking either of these people to Kabbalah, please add it so the articles can be returned to the WikiProject.
After a rather heated discussion, there are now two barnstars for use by the Jewish WikiProjects, {{The Jewish Barnstar}} and {{The New Jewish Barnstar}}, and you can choose which one you would like to use.. Remember: barnstars are for rewarding users who are doing good work on the project or on Judaism, Jewish History, or Kabbalah articles, and anyone can give anyone else a barnstar. If you see a user who you thinks deserves a thank you, give them a barnstar!
To Do/Help Requests
If you have some spare time on your hands, we could use an article about a Kabbalah scholar named
DYK
if the finished article is eligible.
The folks at Shimon Peres need some assistance from someone familiar with both the Hebrew calendar and language to help them figure out the subject's birthday. If you can help, please see Talk:Shimon_Peres#Birthday.
We get a lot of articles that are being created and not announced! By announcing new articles, you attract attention to them, and the more people looking and editing the better they will get. If you would like your new article to appear in the newsletter, add it
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There are some 40 odd standing requests for Judaism related articles. Please make them! I would, but I'm too busy writing this. .
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Washington, D.C.
Please do not engage in
three revert rule. Thank you. --Aude (talk) 03:20, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply
]
I am aware of the 3 revert rule. When I saw the Washington, DC featured article, I immediately thought of a few facts that I thought would be appropriate for the article. The others were already in there (e.g. the height limits) and the "airports in DC but not in DC" was not and I thought it important. Clearly others disagree. Not worth fighting this one - though I did consider putting it on the talk page. I may go back and rewrite (or try) the whole airport section of Transportation, but for now I'll just leave it as is. Manassehkatz (talk) 03:32, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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