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question about level of interest in an article

--YoavD 07:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)Thank you for sending me the help file - actually I read parts of it before starting. I got a message that maybe my article will be deleted - do you think that the subject is interesting enough for an article?

There are about 80 chess federations and I wanted every one of them documented by the head of each , and every article to include the mentioned below.

Thank you for your opinion!

Yoav Dothan (YoavD)

The national federation history The national championships

The winners The tables The games

International events with the national team

Olympiad Regional tournaments

Titled players

GM SM IM LGM LIM

International tournaments that are organized by the national federation

External link to the federation:

Hello!

I did an effort to demostrate what I planned , so please take a look in the ICCF Austria to see what was my intention. Of course I cannot do it all alone , but this was the idea. If you think that the wikipedia is not the proper place for such articles , then I will still thank you for what I learned from you about editing , and specially that I invested only a small amount of time , compared to the total project...

Thank you for your time!

Yoav--YoavD 10:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks & question about Judaism

Shalom to you too!

Thank you - of course I am new , and when I saw on the history page that my name was added I thought it is automatic - now I know which icon to press..

I am just sending two letters to the federation of Austria and Belarus. IF they will be interested , they will develop their entry , otherwise it should really be deleted. All the material that is supposed to be added does not exist in the WEB , and probably not in any book just data in many places that was collected during the time (about the history of the federation) , and about the players it is sad that most of the beautiful masterpieces are usually lost , and even if they find their place in a database , there are without the original remarks of the creator , remarks that give an access to the thoughts of the masters.

So - I hope that people will cooperate - before I started I asked the worldwide director and he thought that it is a good idea and encouraged me to write.

About Judaism : I am sceptical about my ability to contribute - about new articles I just do not know enough - about translations from Hebrew - I could do some work but someone else should revise my English - it is simply not good enough. So - what did you have in mind?

If the Hebrew Encyclopedy would be/ is already public domain , then many articles could be translated! --YoavD 07:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

some details on myself

Hello again!

I am from Ramat Hasharon , approx. 10 km north of Tel Aviv and just south of Hertzelyia. I am 51 years old and member of the Reform congregation of Ramat Hasharon (my wife is the chairperson of the community) so I learnt quite a lot about Judaism but I am not an expert...

I play chess since I was a child , and I am a Grandmaster of the ICCF since 2004 (in 1993 I was champion of CC in Israel) so this is really my hobby.

I was a teacher for 25 years at the Tel Aviv University , but stopped at 2000. Now I am a full time frelancer working on developping financial computerized systems / models.

What more? I have 3 children - the oldest is doing his PHD in law (TAU) , my daughter is studying maritime biology and my youngster will finish his army duty in 3.2007.

My wife is also a certified tourist guide in Israel (but she does not work) - the only one guided is myself and in the past the children , we love to tour Israel, specially the northern part. --YoavD 08:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Ramat Hasharon

First - am I doing the correct thing in aleaving you a message by entering your page or is there a direct way to answer your last message?

I will gladly develop the article on Ramat Hasharon - it may take a few days but when I will do it I will leave you a message.

I will also be happy to contibute to Judaism , if you wish me to translate from Hebrew. An article every few weeks would be o.k.

--YoavD 08:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC) I finally understood your meaning! I saw your invitation for the WEBSHOTS and accepted (of course!) but could not see any albums of you - maybe you tagged them as private.

--YoavD 11:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello !

I have a question : I copied an article and pasted it on http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/ICCF_Belgium and after updating the names of the GM and so on it does not show them as potential links (red lines) but with the brackets.

Could you please explain to me what is my mistake?

Hello!

Thank you for the smile notion a few days ago!

I have another question: In the main page I read "Wikipedia languages This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 1,570,356 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; the largest are listed below."

In the list of all the wikipedias you see a lower number:

1 000 000+ articles No. Language Language (local) Wiki Articles Depth Total Edits Admins Users Images 1 English English en 1,569,261

Why are the two number not identical? Thank you!--YoavD 09:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

--YoavD 07:22, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I read your message on my talk page

What did you have in mind?--Lance ^talk 03:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

• Understood.--Lance ^talk 03:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the award.

--Lance ^talk 17:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Adoption Welcome Template

Hi Frummer,

I like your modification to this welcome template e.g. User talk:Pharm Sci. Which seems to have got at least six users requesting adoption - well done. Can I suggest a couple of things though.

1. Put a link on the talk page of WP:ADOPT so others can use - if your okay with that?
2. Modify it slightly so that it links to WP:ADOPT as well - as there is useful info there (an Adoptee's Area will be up and running in days) and they need to know where the central area is. Also the contact time of adoptees is more like 24 hrs, so might want to modify a few hours. Keep up the good work.

Cheers Lethaniol 21:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Block

I've placed a 15min block on your account. You are currently creating new pages at a rate of 8 pages per min (50 edits in a row) and appear to be an automated program in violation of the bot policy. Unapproved bots should not be editing at a rate of more than 2 edits/min. To request approval to run a bot, please see WP:RFBOT. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome Back (I was watching this page in case you came back sooner I was going to lift that block). Welcomebots have historically not been deemed useful by the community, although there has been no outright denial of them by the bot approvals group (as opposed to bots such as dictionary-spell-check-bots) or by the community (as in admin-bots). High-speed editing by non-flagged-bots (and 8/min is about the limit for them) is generally frowned upon, and you will likely be mistaken for an unauthorized bot again if resumed. Bots in trial and pre-bot work is typically requested to run at no more than 2/3 edits per min, and no more than xxx (usually 50-500 depending on the task) identical or almost identical edits. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Not trying to throw a wet blanket on your project, but you were flooding the recent changes list, (one of the reasons why we have bot flagging). Putting up a bot request has been streamlined, and there is an auto request form you can use at WP:RFBOT, if nothing else you should be able to get approved for a trial run. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Hi, I just noticed my rotating Barnstar. Nice to see that others notice. Thank you.--Smokefoot 04:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi

I’ve posted a reply to you on my talk page. Db1944 19:45, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Your Welcome Message

I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to use your variation of the welcome template. I think it's the greatest and most helpful one out here. If you have a problem with it, please say below. TeckWiz^TalkContribs_@ 00:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

no prob frummer

RE:Noahide Laws

My comments:

• Obviously, the "fact" tags need to be taken care of.
• Stick to one citation format; I saw some external jumps in the text.
• The latter part of the text needs many more citations
• "The Rainbow Covenant: Torah and the Seven Universal Laws - Clearest explanations about the Noahide Laws - Very Readable" Is that opinion or part of the title? If opinion, remove.
• I'm not an expert on religion, so I don't know whether or not the text is factually accurate. However, adding citations always seems to go a long way to resolving disputes.

Good luck, Gzkn 03:32, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Second Life

Could you think about my comments on the FA nomination page? Metamagician3000 03:41, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

please subst welcome templates

When using certain template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template.

This appears to include the {{welcome123}} template. That template appears to be designed soley for subst'ing. When you didn't subst it, everytime someone changed something on that page (in this case User talk:QaTTes), their sig was used in the template. Subst'ing solved that problem. Will (Talk - contribs) 03:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Philip Berg--wrong picture

Hi. I think you put the wrong picture up for Philip Berg. He is an older guy, since the KC was established in the 60's. The picture you have is one of his sons, I think. —Dfass 06:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Uoj chassid

Was indef blocked 3 days ago, so why place a welcome template on his user page? --Chussid 08:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Why do you say Yehuda Berg is a rabbi but do you deny that title to Yisroel Dovid Weiss and Moshe Aryeh Friedman? Is it not slightly hypocritical to act like that and yet call yourself 'frum'? --Chussid 09:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

What, what?

Hi FTT,

I saw a "What" on my "user" Wikipage, I supose it's more of a comment than a questions. Yes, I'm ill-literate, a slow learner, and new to wiki, not to mention that i'm not Jewish (or anything else for that matter) but my name is Berg (not related to Michael), and I would like to contribute to Wikipedia, and could use all the help anyone will give. ... rats, how do I sign my name? quad tildes? ah, see, I learned something - already!

mybest, larry, larry Pfranc of Oregon 01:45, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, thanks for the "what", ooooh, I just learned how to type: Nüvi with an umloud!

Question about user page

I was wondering if it was wrong if I had a picture of me on my userpage. Should I remove it? Thanks for any help. Flclovesun 03:43, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment

I will remove them.User talk:Yousaf465

Norman Finkelstein and the attempt to slur him.

You posted wtvr the truth is, it would be distasteful. we can't judge kapos anyways. frummer 04:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC) at [1]

I'm adding the following, and wondered whether you'd care to comment:

I thought the Wikipedia would benefit from containing references to the utterly false and horrific things that are said in order to hurt Finkelstein (and other critics of Israeli), in an attempt to link him to the Nazis and the anti-semitic, and to generally impugn his credibility. Actions that definitely come from Zionists (Dershowitz being a particularily prominent one).

I attempted to add a mild and carefully worded subset of this material into the Dershowitz article [2] and it was immediately reverted with (please recall WP:BLP and stop this disruptive nonsense).

So I attempted to put it in here, eg [3]. It was twice reverted with the comments (remove bizarre [[WP:NOR) and (remove bizzare original research and WP:BLP violation again; please use more appropriate edit summaries).

Are there others who believe it belongs, and can anyone suggest where it should be put? PalestineRemembered 13:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: WP:UP

I will remove the said tag if all other such tags are removed from respective user pages. Thanks for pointing out the issue. Szhaider 17:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Barnster!

Thanks for the barnster! You've equally done your share of welcoming also, as I've seen. --TeckWiz^TalkContribs_@ 23:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcoming

Sure thing. Btw, what is the record for welcoming? I'd like to break it if anybody knows, I have around 1,800 now or so. Just H 02:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I concur that welcoming newcomers is the main purpose of welcoming, but it's enjoyable feeling for me to see how many I can achieve, as a personal accomplishment, kind of like when you work out if you see if you can do just one more. Just H 02:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Subst

Yeah, I have a no wiki copy and pasted already on my user page for easy access. Just H 02:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW

Where can we find the bot results of what the newbies do? Just H 03:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: WelcomeBot

Re your message: I read what little information there was at Category:WelcomeBotResearch and it was unclear to me exactly how you plan to collect and analyze whatever data you plan to collect, what you plan to do once the analysis is finished, and what the goal is. Can you please elaborate on these points? Thanks. -- Gogo Dodo 06:43, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Re your message: I see, though that still really wasn't all that clear. I'm not entirely sure that your methodology is correct either. You have a relatively small sample and you will have difficulty making a comparison between those that have been welcomed and those that have not. Have you discussed this with other groups such as the Wikipedia:Welcoming committee? The idea of an automated welcoming bot must have come up before and one hasn't been written. There are good reasons, I'm sure. -- Gogo Dodo 07:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I looked around some more and I see that you were participating in the discussion of such a welcoming bot at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot. Approval was denied, but admin who closed the request left open the option to reactivate the bot request. I recommend that you reactivate the request before you proceed in collecting any data. If the bot request is denied, there is no need for you to go through all the work of collecting all the data. -- Gogo Dodo 07:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I've been looking at bit at your experiment. One of the fascinating things to me about Wikipedia is the disparity between the number of users who have registered (3.5 million?) and the number who have done more than 10 edits (total, cumulative, ever) - about 150,000 as of the end of October 2006. So more than 90% of registered users actually never follow through in the sense of becoming active in Wikipedia after registering. It would certainly be valuable to do something that would increase that percentage.

I hope you're familiar with the concept of "control group"; otherwise, whatever analysis you're doing isn't going to tell you anything at all about the impact of putting a welcome template on talk pages of new users. If you're not familiar, or haven't thought through exactly how your analysis is going to go, please drop me a note - I think I could help. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I just looked at control group, which redirects to Scientific control - that's a rather poor article for such a key concept in science.

Anyway, a control group is a group of subjects that don't get the experimental treatment. In this case, it would be new editors who did not get the welcoming template. So, ideally, your experiment would have two groups, as identical as possible, with the only difference being that one group got the template and one did not. What this allows you to do is to say "Getting the template lead to X, Y, and Z". For example, 10% of unwelcomed editors did 5 or more edits in their first 30 days of being registered, while 25% of welcomed editors did 5 or more edits - so the experimental treatment - the welcoming template - caused a 15% increase in this behavior.

Without a control group, you can say "Users who got a template did A, B, and C after getting it", but you can't say if the template actually changed behavior. And because you can't say if it changed behavior, you can't (effectively) make the argument that welcoming everyone (via a bot) would actually make any difference. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

If I left the impression that you needed to pick a control group before you began putting welcome templates on user pages, I apologize. It's possible to do so afterwards (as in, today or tomorrow or whenever); if you do so retroactively, however, you need to put extra thought into it so that your choice(s) are fully defensible. So I hope you've not dropped this project completely.

I joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies because I hoped it would do useful things, and have not participated, much, since joining, because there seemed little interest in doing good design before starting to count things. So if you'd like to discuss the best way to count and measure things, to minimize work and maximize useful conclusions from the data in your experiment, I'd be happy to do that. For example, I know a fair amount about statistical sampling - which doesn't mean you need to calculate fancy numbers and reliability figures, but rather such things as this: evaluating 100 data points, if done right, provides 80+% of the information available from evaluating 1000 data points, but with only perhaps 20% of the work. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

WelcomeBot

Hi! I'm not the one who created {{welcomeg}}, so I'm not sure if it would be ok to add the category there. What do you think? The way I welcome users is via my monobook, allows me to subst welcomeg on user's talk pages. Also, to be honest, I don't really like the colors in {{welcome123}} (IMO, they're too bright). I'd prefer if I could stick to the old template, however, I'd love to help if there's anything else I can do. Khoikhoi 07:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Defend the principles of WP as I'm attempting to do.

I chose the name "PalestineRemembered" because I expected to find that WP had been infiltrated by people with a much heavier agenda than mine. Prove me wrong, and you prove my name to be a worthless distraction.

I chose this name because doing so was "honest". People like you know exactly where I am coming from. If you're fair-minded, that makes judgements on my posts easier, not more difficult (am I right?). Yes, numerous attempts have been made to entangle me in disputes. But then they were going to do that anyway.

I only post in one field because I prefer to give away nothing about my real identity. As a precaution it's useless, the Zionists have vast resources available to track down and harrass people like me. They can again ring prominent people in my neighbourhood and point to what I've posted - but they can no longer pretend to be an individual who just happened to realise it was me.

None of the above need impact on my standing amongst other Wikipedians (though when it's combined with only passable skills as a word-smith, I may simply be ignored anyway!).

You picked up on the fact I'm trying to add material to the article on Norman Finkelstein. An administrator accused me of adding "negative material" to the biography of people who could be mistaken for Zionists. He'd apparently failed to notice I was doing so in order to try and protect these people from the lies and unpleasantness of the Zionists - think about it. (That's mostly the case, in 2 other articles I was trying to quote the murderous words of Zionists in their biographies, but that was a waste of time, no matter how carefully I comply with WP:RS).

There are potentially two good reasons for changing my name. Perhaps "PalestineRemembered" could impact on people's impressions of WP. Mislead the passer-by into thinking that WP is not dominated by Zionists?

Secondly, WP depends on donations (for which I greatly respect the guy who created this resource!). Does my name tend to hamper WP raising money? Not my place to say, but again I think highly unlikely.

PS - if you wonder whether I'm exaggerating about the problem of Zionists making POV edits (and it being an endemic WP problem), see [4]. It happened less than 5 hours ago, an administrator is chipping away at an article, removing 100% good and relevant WP:RS material because he doesn't like it. The words of the historian are first to go. Shortly, (as happened last time in this same article), every word from the people themselves will have been removed. C'mon, prove me wrong, defend the principles of WP as I'm attempting to do!

PalestineRemembered 09:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Editing anonyomously

Thanks for your welcome message on my talk page, but I'm a long-time Wikipedian. You might want to consider modifying your message or welcoming style to take into account the assumption that some wikipedians might prefer primarily editing anonymously for various reasons. 24.3.90.180 12:07, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm!

Jewish, I presume. Well, shalom... :) — Rickyrab | Talk 20:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! The welcome list is coming quite along, thanks for the heads up on that once again.Just H 06:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow, I hadn't noticed that! Thanks for the heads up! I'll do it today. BTW, do you think i'd make a good admin? I'd like to go for rfa pretty soon. Just H 06:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Lol, who'd be the admins for the admin admins? I'd like to see what you're talking about, btw. If you could send a link, that'd be awesome.Just H 06:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

{{new}} template

Your use of the "new" template is causing articles that do already have categories on them to be filed in Category:Category needed, which merely creates unnecessary extra backlog for a cleanup project that's already very heavily backlogged. If you wish to use {{new}} rather than {{cleanup}}, then please find a way to use it such that articles do not appear in Category:Category needed if they already have a category on them. Thanks. Bearcat 10:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Personally, what I'd do is take the "Category needed" tag off the template, and apply that tag separately to articles that actually need it. That way it won't end up sitting on articles that already have categories on them. Or do two separate templates, one that can be added to new articles that don't have categories on them and one that can be added to new articles that do already have categories. Bearcat 10:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Leaving the note in isn't a problem, and you can still apply one of the category tags when necessary. An article just shouldn't automatically go in that category unless it actually needs to, that's all. Bearcat 11:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Opening paragraphs at Lost (TV series)

Hi, Frummer,

Wikipedia articles' opening paragraphs are intended to be summaries of the most important info of an article; and should be able to be read alone to get an encyclopedic short-version of the whole. Please see: Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout#Lead_section and Wikipedia:Lead_section. While I agree that the lead may need some tweaking for readability, I do not see the order of items there as being problematic. The article has been peer reviewed, and there was a specific discussion about the lead here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Lost (TV series)/archive1. Thanks,--Leflyman^Talk 19:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty familiar with WP:LEAD and WP:GTL. Let me reiterate without and copying and pasting anything. The lead simply delves into details of the production of the drama which does not conform to these guidelines. PP and FAC doesn't warrant locking the page. PP and FAC simply means the article gained recognition. I make a valid point and it stands to improve. Cheers. frummer 19:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

New Noob Tool

Cool! I'm going to check it out. Yeah, last night was a tough one. I've been unemployed/underemployed for the past several months and last night it just stung a bit more with New Year's. Just H 00:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Kavod HaBriyot#Requesting Comments

See: Talk:Kavod HaBriyot#Requesting Comments. Thanks, IZAK 02:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Thank you! --HIZKIAH (User • Talk) 08:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

WelcomeBot Update

Hi Dan, had a good new year's day!? ...About the WelcomeBot, its been getting interesting. I set up camp at Category:WelcomeBotResearch to establish some points for analyses. Made a new {{welcome123}} template mentioning WP:ADOPT and WP:WikiProject. Lately Hagerman has made some great input with his latest development, you can see his IRC bot which is live and has begun storing data into his local MySQL server. I would very much appreciate you signing in and participating in the research and drawing interesting conclusions. frummer 00:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the heads up on this, I'll take a look at the data so far over the next coupld of days - PocklingtonDan 08:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD process

Frum: there are three step: tagging, creating the subpage, and then you have to translude the subpage into the daily log. You never do that. Please start - it's very important. - crz crztalk 15:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

It's part of my philosophy about the role of admins on wikipedia... Admins are respected members of the community. But, the respect came first and is not a result of having the admin-mop.

The weight of a man's words is dependent on the respect they have earned and the strength of the argument. Nothing else matters. ---J.S ^(T/C) 00:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

AFD

I think Uncle G's thoughts most represent my views on notability.

Basically, I think we should retain the dignity of the traditional encyclopedia but with the greater advantage of having no restriction in size. We should be the encyclopedia that Britannica wishes they could be. Not just in width, but in depth as well. ---J.S ^(T/C) 00:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: {{uncategorized}}

If I remember right, I added that in following a request using {{editprotected}}. I don't mind making changes one bit, but I'd like to see some consensus about them (which I might have done well to check, before, I know). If Template talk:Uncategorized doesn't do the trick, might consider Eli's user talk, the village pump, or admin noticeboard. Luna Santin 00:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedian

Hmm...I'm not totally sure. I sugest you first recreate it in your sandbox or something and then present it at DRV. That's probably your best bet, as of now. Nishkid64 02:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiJ

Please please PLEASE upload yo WikiJ symbol to Commons so that Frenchs users (like me) could use it !--Inyan 07:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Frummer I do need adoption due to a lot of information to put to the Wikipedia you can go to the website of my company to have the information. If some one else will be kind to put it on the Wikipedia I will be happy.Eran Gabbai 12:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:Eran_Gabbai"Eran Gabbai

Wubi

How do you think this is vague? I read the first paragraph, and sounds fine to me... Could you please give some TODO lists? Yao Ziyuan 08:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Noobs

Thanks. It wasn't great enough for the rfa people though. Just H 18:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

If RFA isn't for me, then there's no reason for me to be here. If you truly mean that, please let me know. Otherwise, please let me know how I can improve myself to the point that i'm worthy for the mop. Just H 19:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Medical

Hey. I have requested speedy deletion for Template:Medical, which you created. It has been deleted through a TfD before and consensus is not to have disclaimer templates on Wikipedia. As per Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates, these seem to be speedily deleted on sight these days. Prolog 06:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey. Thanks for your reply. I'm not exactly sure what kind of template you mean. There is Template:User Wikispecies for promoting the project on one's own user page. You might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life. Prolog 18:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sidebox

Please do not change the formatting of my talkpage.[5] If I'd wanted the TOC on the right I would have done it myself. Thank you. JFW | T@lk 18:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

{{species}}

Please can you unprotect this template, i would like to make a template that for all articles on animals to list all their details such as status, taxonomy etc. Thanks. frummer 18:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

No. {{status}} is one of several templates that need to be static until they are no longer being used at all. It sounds like you are looking at making some other kind of {{taxobox}}. Don't reinvent the wheel. If there's something you don't like about the existing taxobox, please propose a change to it instead of creating something else. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like what you really want is to add a Wikispecies link into the taxobox. I believe this has previously been discussed and declined. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Most likely Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life and its archives, but also check WP:TX's talk and template talk:taxobox. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Project Interwiki

Hi, I believe the WP Taxoboxes can generate allot of interest in the wikispecies project. The project is undergoing an exciting revamp and I've proposed for a WP article to be featured on the WS main page on a weekly basis. I see you're a native of WP:TX, I propose to include a link to the WS article in all relevant Taxoboxes, essentially serving the same function as {{Commons}}. Perhaps the box can even be headed "WikiSpecies", for a few months so as to give us a wider editorial and bigger readership and generate media interest. I also propose for all the images in the boxes to be embedded with {{click}} leading to the image in WC, so as to generate interest in Wikicommons too. es.Wikipedia has already disallowed uploading images on their Wikipedia. PLease let me know. Cheers. frummer 18:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like what you really want is to add a Wikispecies link into the taxobox. I believe this has previously been discussed and declined. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

As UtherSRG said, when it was last discussed there was no consensus to add the link to taxobox, and no external links have been added yet to taxoboxes (as they have for company and film infoboxes). The best place to discuss it, however, would be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life or Template talk:Taxobox. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 22:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for the template :)

ShooterBoy 04:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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William Sledd

Some IDIOTIC retarded admin RE-deleted the William Sledd article even though it has already gone through undeletion.--Arislan 22:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hman?

No problem, I'm fearful for the future of Wikipedia, without a flexible but structured rule of law, there's gonna be chaos that will collapse this project soon: the rights of the individual and the rights of the collective have to be in balance with the intent towards bettering the encyclopedia in the process.

P.S- Who's Hman? Just H 23:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow. I just saw that. In the most recent 500 I saw, there must've been 2 or 3 with user pages and 2 or 3 with anything on their talk pages. I'd be honored to start the Union of Concerned Wikipedians with you, I can be quite the devil's advocate. Just H 01:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Second Life

I'm sorry that my changes ended up taking out so much of the lead section - I'll try to add more to it (though maybe not as quickly as tonight). I don't think the "History" title implies that the game is not new - the section has things like its founding, growth, changes, etc, and should expand as events occur. Also, I'm sorry, but I don't understand the WP:NATIVE comment - the shortcut WP:NATIVE does not exist. —AySz88\^-^ 03:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For all the kind words during difficult times. Just H 12:18, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:BITE

Thanks a lot for your note on my talk page! And sorry about this... I hadn't read all the section Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to list pages for deletion. I won't forget next time. --Edcolins 19:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Adoption Offer

Thanks so much for your offer to adopt. If you are patient for someone who does not use wikipedia that often, but who is sincere and honest, I look forward to learning from you. Best, zoticogrillo 8 January 2007

Re: Hi

Hi there! Thanks for the invitation but, unfortunately, I know very little about Earth to join that WikiProject. Now, if it were a fantasy land, I would be able to help :) Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 15:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I can give you a hand with whatever you need, but I am somewhat limited in time, so don't expect swift reply. Other than that, no problem :) -- ReyBrujo 19:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikijudaism template

THank you for the template ! Yours --Inyan 13:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Whoa!

Nice! I missed it. I've been busy lately. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 11:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I suggest you ask them at their talk. I don't know what they are up to. Maybe an even better idea would be to make some usable framework for any project/portal/user who wants it? ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 11:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:ADOPT

Hi there,

As a current Adopter with the Adopt-a-User program there has been some ongoing developments that we would like to bring to your attention.

A new Adopter's Area has been created where you can find useful resources and other Adopter's experiences. Please feel free to add any resources you may have found useful as an Adopter, as well as recount any experiences that you think may help others. If you know of any useful resources for new users / Adoptees then you can add them here.

Also the way the adoption process works has changed slightly. To decrease workload at Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user, on offering adoption please change the {{Adoptme}} template to {{Adoptoffer}} on the user's user page, and this will add the user to Category:Wikipedians having been offered adoption. Users that have already been offered adoption can always have a second or third offer, but by separating out those users that have not had an adoption offer yet, it is hoped that no one will go lacking.

Furthermore numerous Adopters have been adding their details to a list of users available for adopting, to offer a more personalised service and allow new users to browse through and pick their own Adopter. The quickest way to adopt though, is still to contact users at the Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user.

Finally - thanks for all your hard work, keep it up - and if you have any general questions or suggestions about the further development of Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User please bring them to our talk page. Cheers Lethaniol 13:52, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

You are so going to laugh!

I've added some funny vandalism to your funny vandalism page. You are so going to laugh when you see it!!! Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 16:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

In case you don't know French, here is what it means:

This man killed the Beatle, John Lenon. My name is Pierre. I live in France. I eat baguettes and I have a huge moustache that twirls.

Kamope | userpage | talk | contributions 16:55, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Words from verses should be part of larger articles

Hi FrummerThanThou: tohu vavohu's contents and name moved to Creation according to Genesis. In the past, Wikipedia's editors have chosen not create articles based on verses or words from verses in the Hebrew Bible (or from the Christian Bible) as texts are more related to Wikisource projects. (Personally I am not against it, but Wikipedia has followed that line so let's keep things consistent.)IZAK 09:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Note to comment on page of R' Teitelbaum ZTVK"L

BS"D
With a screename like your it's hard to think someone hasn't yet removed you from WP:JEW or WP:OJ, it taka bothers me and probably many others. --Shaul avrom 19:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

user:Arudra

this is the sockpuppet of a blocked user user:Serafin who also edits under multiple IPs and is currently evading his block. just an FYI since I saw u added talk on his talk page.

--Jadger 03:20, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for the Barnstar award. Much appreciated. :D

Baiji

You mean attract more vandals? Sure, I don't see why not. I'm no biologist, but can copyedit. Xiner (talk, email) 13:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

RE:Second Life

Hey...kind of busy dealing with my own FAC right now, so I've only had a quick glance. Still quite a few "citation needed" tags floating around. Get rid of the trivia section. External links section needs pruning. That's all I have time for now... Gzkn 00:53, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Ivan Mishukov

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Ivan Mishukov/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Ivan Mishukov saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! -- ReyBrujo 21:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

{{new}}

Not that I know of. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 02:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

When you create a disambiguation page, such as Airstream (disambiguation), please mark it with a {{disambig}} at the bottom. This will allow the Wikipedia software to recognize it as a disambiguation page. In addition, please give a short definition of each of the linked pages. Eli Falk 10:35, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Status on merges you proposed

Would you mind taking a look at the discussion generated by your proposed merges involving the rapid prototyping, stereolithography, and 3D printing articles? I think there have been enough comments to see a couple opinions and perspectives. --GargoyleMT 17:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley

User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward2Jerry lavoie 22:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I am interested

Vote early, vote often

in getting people to vote about this picture which was just removed from the sacrifice article, so am contacting everyone recent on my talk page. Please consider taking a few minutes, looking it over, and voicing an opinion. Thanks. Carptrash 04:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

moshavim

Hello! I translated three moshavim that were not in the English wikipedia. Aviel ,Avital,and Avigdor. I will be happy to get your remarks before I start translating more. I do not know how much Hebrew you know , so I almost translated everything that was in the original. --YoavD 09:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC) ... I added also Aviezer --YoavD 15:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week

I saw you posted on this site recently.

Would you mind going there again and voting?

Thanks, Happy138 12:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Chess_Engines_rating_lists

Hello !

Could you please help me in moveing the table that appears now below the external links under the line "The top engines in the different lists are:"

Thank you! --YoavD 18:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

It is o.k. already. --YoavD 17:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Lev tahor

I've nominated Lev tahor, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Lev tahor satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lev tahor and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Lev tahor during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. IZAK 13:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Shlomo Helbrans

I've nominated Shlomo Helbrans, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Shlomo Helbrans satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shlomo Helbrans and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Shlomo Helbrans during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. IZAK 13:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Image:MBD.jpg listed for deletion

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Dor Daim article

Dear FrummerThanThou

I do not understand the accusation of bias. Most of the article says, in effect, "there is a group called Dor Daim founded in Yemen, and their beliefs are ABCDE", and I have been labouring to ensure that the article does not go into the merits and demerits of those beliefs but simply states that they exist. For example, it would be entirely wrong for the article to discuss the merits of the arguments on the dating of the Zohar (and when the article says things like "the problem comes in with the Zohar", this obviously means "the problem, on their view", and I have now clarified this); and to describe the Zohar or the Bahir as "Midrash" is to take one side in these arguments. On the other hand, to say (as fact, and in the main narrative portion of the article) "this is a wacky fringe group, condemned by all mainstream Jewish denominations", as you seem to want to, would be bias.

If you think the article portrays them too sympathetically, the place to correct this would be the "criticisms" section. I have already inserted a paragraph clarifying that the problem for most people is not simply that Dor Daim don't like Kabbalah (there are plenty of others who don't either) but that they seem to disenfranchise all who do like it (cf. the issue of Takfir in Islam). If there are other, documented, criticisms, then please insert them there; once more, so as to show that the criticisms exist rather than whether they are justified.

Perhaps the problem is who we are talking about. People like Yosef Kapach, who succeeded the original Dor Daim, were widely respected, including by secular Israelis. If (as I have seen in articles in Haaretz) there are hilltop settlers who call themselves "Dor Daim" and talk about expelling all the Arabs (or worse) and blowing up the mosques on the Temple Mount, this does not necessarily reflect on the whole movement; and there are plenty of other nutters out there with similar views who have nothing to do with Dor Daim.

I am not trying to discourage you from editing: but please clarify where you think the bias shows. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 10:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I have also shortened the "Criticisms" section, so that the replies to criticism aren't longer than the criticisms! Does the article look a bit better now? -- Sir M na G, 13 Feb

Question re: Project Israel

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Israel/Statement Itayb 19:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

a request for guidelines on how to assess the reliability of a source in matters concerning Israel

I'd like to request that Project Israel determine guidelines on how to evaluate the reliability of a source in matters concerning Israel. A (not exhaustive, and not binding) list of newspapers, magazines and organizations, whose publications can be used as reliable sources of information in Israel-related articles, would be most helpful. I suggest somehow incorporating the Alexa rating into the guidelines. I also think that these guidelines should be worked out in tandem with Project:Palestine.

More specifically, i'm wondering whether the online magazine israelinsider can be treated as reliable source of factual information. As far as i know it is relatively unknown magazine, and has a strong pro-Israeli bias. Please see discussion on talk:Azmi Bishara#israelinsider - i wonder how adequate it is as a source. Thanks Itayb 20:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issue with Adscape Media

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Adscape Media, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.adscapemedia.com/. As a copyright violation, Adscape Media appears to qualify for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Adscape Media has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

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• Responding to your inquiry on my talk page, I certainly have heard of fair use. But I suspect you may not be familiar with the Wikipedia guidelines on fair use, particularly the third paragraph: "An editor uploading copyrighted material to Wikipedia must provide a detailed fair use rationale; otherwise the uploaded material will be deleted." Assuming that the creation of an article 75% of which is a direct cut-and-paste from another website can ever constitute fair use, there was nothing on the article's talk page when I tagged it as a copyvio, and there is still nothing on the talk page despite the instructions in the hangon template you added. If you want to rescue the article, you really should explain how the concept of fair use supports your cut-and-paste so an admin can make an informed decision. -- Butseriouslyfolks 20:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Cut it out

No, it isn't trolling, and I didn't abuse my sysop tools. It was an emergency block, and I could care less. I did a procederial block because it was reverting someone whom was gauging consensus. You are lucky, but I restored that article. And I could care less about you think about this whole ordeal, you are acting overzealous about this. Deal with it, Yanksox 01:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Template Shmemplate

Shalom Rav,

I am trying to use the template of your userpage in order to build a more convivial WP:Judaism (in fr.wiki), but I have some slight problems with the size of the icons. Could you please help me ?

'Inyan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.77.4.129 (talk) 14:45, 21 February 2007 (UTC).

Image:Neshair.jpg listed for deletion

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Your New Wiki

Sure thing, but I don't know much about Youtube. Just H^{editor review} 21:50, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Template:Archives123

Hi, I was going to nominate this template for deletion, but I figured I would ask you why you created it first. It's not used anywhere and it seems to not function properly and stretch out the page. John Reaves (talk) 03:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

It's been nominated (WP:TFD). John Reaves (talk) 00:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

IP address edits

You left a comment on my talk page about edits I made, and I looked at my contributions and I swear I did not make that edit. First, I have a separate account that I always edit with, and second, I have a password for my computer so nobody could have used it. Do you have any idea how this could've happened? Is it because the IP address is used by multiple users with the same ISP? Thanks.

Company limited by guarantee

Hello. I have fully protected this page for 2 days while everything is sorted out.--§hanel 03:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:Wikilogos hehe, better later than never

Hi Frummest, some time ago you invited me to joim your logo variations stuff, never mind I was too busy at that time, so sorry and here's a logo proposal. Cheers!. --– Emperor Walter Humala · ^{( talk? · help! )} 04:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Could you have a look at these articles and their talk?

Could you have a look at these articles and their talk?

• Jewish reactions to intelligent design
• Jewish opposition to evolution

I feel the articles are extremely well sourced and balanced. I'd like somebody else to remove the tags. Please look at my last versions, because I have run up against somebody from the evolution/creation universe who wants to pick a fight. --Metzenberg 03:10, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I really need your help here. ZayZayEM is engaging in troll-like behavior, such as making edits on the very materials I am editing, removing sourced materials immediately after I add them, and so forth. It is a harassment pattern that extends across multiple articles. The main articles involved are:

* Jewish reactions to intelligent design

* Jewish opposition to evolution

* Natan Slifkin

It is bizarre behavior, because I can see no reason why he is even interested in this material. As you and I both know, it is material you have to really understand well to edit. Over the last week, I have substantially rearranged all the materials on Judaism and evolution in an effort to clean up the main Judaism and Evolution page first of all, so that it can be turned into a page that is not dominated by issues (such as the Slifkin affair) that would have undue weight. ZayZayEM has simply made it impossible for me to work. He has followed me from one article to another, demanding arbitrary changes. many of his edits, and his changes, show that he knows very little about the subject, which as you and I both know, is quite abstruse at times. --Metzenberg 16:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:Quitsmoking.JPG listed for deletion

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Image:Weissmandl.JPG

Could you please add comments on the image page explaining who this is? With no article linking to it, and no remarks on the page, it's pretty useless. - Jmabel | Talk 01:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

E-Mail

Thanks! i got your e-mail. i haven't logged into my acount in like 4 monthes. So what do you need to know about programming? I'm gonna log in when the e-mail arrives from wikipedia giving me my password. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.17.25.46 (talk) 16:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC).

Programming questions

I would like to say that I am by no means an expert in Python. My experience is mostly in HTML and PHP, but I dabble quite a bit in TI-Basic. Occasionally I program simple command line programs in C#. I would be interested in answering your questions, so please feel free to contact me about them.

Feel free to contact me with your questions. I'll get back to them as soon as I can. (oh, and if you'd like some reference until then, go here WikiBooks , They've got plenty on programming!)--Benrr101 01:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Cangooglehearme.com

A tag has been placed on Cangooglehearme.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. andy 21:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• I'm sorry you're irritated that I nominated this article for speedy deletion but you know how it works on Wikipedia - anyone with a genuine point of view is free to express it and if enough others agree it tends to carry the day. I didn't think the article was right for an encyclopedia and that was also the view of two other editors, one of whom deleted it. But as you also know there's an appeals system... andy 19:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
originated by Pedia-I
(Explanation and Disclaimer)

♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 20:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

List of songs containing covert references to real musicians

You may want to weigh in at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 April 15#List of songs containing covert references to real musicians, since you were involved in a previous discussion of this article. - Jmabel | Talk 05:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review...

I noted the message you left on my Editor Review and I was quite amazed at what you had written there: Do you think you have what it takes to be Wikipedia's youngest sysop. I was quite flattered by that message, but do you think that I have what it takes to be a sysop?

Thanks,

Booksworm Talk to me! 16:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

yes, i think you should go for it! frummer 12:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Hi5 (Website)

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Wikiproject:Israel

Just wondering why you left so many members off the new members list? Number 57 16:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, it's ok - I see there were two members lists before, but fewer people knew about the second one! Nice front page though. Number 57 16:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism to Eyal Hertzog

frummer - I may have criticisms of your article but wanted to warn you that someone else has more malicious intent. An anonymous user has blanked most of it, but as you can see from their talk page User talk:82.39.9.197 they are not a very good Wikipedian. Just wanted to let you know. I'll leave it up to you to revert and/or report. Kim dent brown 21:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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No content in Category:Wikify from Judaism

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Thanks for the welcome

I do appreciate it, even if I haven't said so in a month. It's been a busy month. And I'll disappear again in about three weeks (surgery rotation). But small manners are important, so thought I'd drop a line in appreciation. GUSwim 21:28, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Rabbiberg.JPG

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Jewishworld_cartoon.gif)

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Non-free use disputed for Image:Linden Dollar.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Rabbiberg.JPG

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Your User Name

Shalom,

According to Yiddish rules, your username is grammatically incorrect. The word frum, religious, is an irregular adjective; the comparative and superlative are frimmer (more religious), and frimster (most religious), respectively. Just thought I'd let you know. :) --MosheA 19:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Clearly the name isn't Yiddish; it's Yeshivish. Jon513 21:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Islam

Yes, I am a Muslim. I grew up frum, but I have recently converted. --MosheA 21:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)