User talk:Giraffeedits

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Happy editing! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Kivunim Institute (June 4)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by SafariScribe were:

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Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 18:29, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Giraffeedits! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 18:29, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:The Kivunim Institute has a new comment[edit]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:The Kivunim Institute. Thanks! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 18:30, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! VViking_TalkEdits 13:49, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 2024[edit]

Please stop linking common words, per MOS:OL. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:12, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Hello Giraffeedits! Your additions to History of the Jews in Finland have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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July 2024[edit]

Hi, pertaining your additions of a copy-pasted template "Historically, there was a Sephardic Jewish community in {{PLACENAME}} during the Middle Ages, before the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain" to different articles about villages, could you 1) try to integrate your additions to history subsections into a coherent whole 2) preserve source integrity. In addition, I am also concerned that 3) the linked article Sephardic Jewish seems to be framed primarily in terms of a diasporic population of Jews descending from Peninsular Jews, not about Peninsular Jews. 4) the existence of a country named "Spain" in 1492 is moot and some caution instead of carelessly dropping the term may apply. Thanks.--Asqueladd (talk) 18:11, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. In the future, I will make sure to integrate the content about Jewish history more concisely and seamlessly into different articles. I will also fix the disambiguation links of "Sephardic Jewish". I understand your point about how the content of that article focuses on Diasporic Jews rather than Jews living in Spain. I'll also refrain from using the term "1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain," due to the fact that Spain did not yet exist in 1492. Giraffeedits (talk) 18:36, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]