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Thank you

Thank you very much for the award, IZAK. It means a great deal and I will truly treasure it. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Dear SlimVirgin: What a job you undertook, you deserve the award 100% IZAK 09:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, IZAK, I hope it's OK that I'm adding this thank-you to someone else's thank-you section. I just wanted to say, er, thank you, for adding a welcome message to my talk page. As a newbie, that was a pleasant surprise. It was also helpful to get that added insight to some of the behind-the-scenes effort. --Rich Janis 13:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Dropping in and saying hi

I like the photo on your user page. lol. Very nice. Just to smile at you for being nice to everybody, I noticed. Regeane Silverwolf 03:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Regeane Silverwolf has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

• Dear Regeane Silverwolf: Thank you so much for the smile, it is greatly appreciated! IZAK 06:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Say, "Smile"!

Trampton has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Trampton 16:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

• Dear Trampton, thank you, IZAK 19:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Jewish question (disambiguation)

I am very much interested in your views on the above issues. Cheers (and hope you are well).Ludvikus (talk) 16:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you Ludvikus. I will take a look. I appreciate your wishes about my well-being, truly. Your sincerely, IZAK (talk) 09:46, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

History of the Jews in New Zealand

Hi IZAK,

I've reverted most of your edits as I didn't feel that copying the life history of two prominent Jewish NZers wholesale onto the page, or the restructuring that this led to, improved the page. Short life summaries might have worked better, but then someone would have to add info on every prominent Jew in New Zealand - and there's been a few, most of them more notable than Polack. I've kept your new categories and the section on relations with Israel. The page certainly needs expanding, but I didn't think that the bios of Vogel and Polack actually cast much light on Jewish life in New Zealand. If you would like another shot at improving the page, a great place to start would be Jewish New Zealanders in the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helenalex (talk • contribs) [1]

• Hi Helenalex: Thanks for your feedback. There was virtually nothing on the History of the Jews in New Zealand page so that adding the names of two of the most notable Jews in the history of the Jews in New Zealnd, one actually being a Prime Minister! was a huge improvement over the empty shell that existed there. I only copied over part of the information from their biography articles, and if you felt that it was legit in any case, you could have trimmed it as that would have helped. I will look it over again. Keep in touch and thanks again, IZAK (talk) 09:39, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Request on AfD

I withdrew the AfD, as per your request. Ecoleetage (talk) 11:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you so much Ecoleetage, I put in a couple of hours on researching and reworking it. Have a great weekend. IZAK (talk) 11:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

The Final Solution

Like I told you before, we're both on the side of goodness.

• Now you should get a laugh when you click on this "good" - not Final Solution - but the The Final Solution. Would you make the demand for the appropriate WP:Move? --Ludvikus (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Final Solution to the Jewish Question

Related to this problem I think is the above. The phrase used by scholars, museums, historians, etc., is "The Final Solution." A top Nazi in the Wannsee Conference used the 5-word expression above (once, in the "plan" letter). So the editors there (I'm assuming good faith) feel justified in having that as the title of the WP article. I think it's an insult to the 6,000,000 Jews who died in the holocaust to dignify the article by having WP editors re-create the Nazi usage which is unjustified by what the honorable scholars use. Everyone who's not an anti-Semite uses the expression "The Final Solution" for the Nazi plan, and we all know what if means in the context of European history. Accordingly, the 3-word expression is the appropriate title for our WP article. The 5-word expression is extracted from a final sentence of the Nazi of 1942. Hard to shay "cheers" in this contect, but Cheers to you, brother. --Ludvikus (talk)

The Final Solution

1. Just to keep you posted, my brother, I've succeeded (for now at least), in reducing the above 5 words to the 3 below the above.
2. Apparently, Heydrich used the 5 in a cover letter regarding the Wannsee conference - but that is no reason for us to dignify his utterance with that Capitalized Title, if you get my drift?
3. The common usage is in the 3 words.
4. Anyway, I thought it would be a good deed to update you.

• Shalom! --Ludvikus (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

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New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 17:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Jewish question

This Article needs badly to be expanded! --Ludvikus (talk) 12:50, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm utterly discusted now with Wikipedia!!! Look at what User:Mikkalai just did (his effective reversion):

The Jewish question connotes Jewish emancipation, removal of legal disabilities, and assimilation in general.

Jewish question may also refer to:

• The Jewish Question, an 1843 essay by Bruno Bauer
• The Jewish Question, a 1912 book by Arno Clemens Gaebelein
• The Jewish Question in the Classroom, a 1937 book by Julius Streicher
• The Jewish Question over Five Centuries, a 1939 book by Julius Streicher
• The Jewish Question, a 1995 book by Yevgenia Albats

I hope I can find the strength to leave Wikipedia, or this part of it, for a while. How you have the will power to work in this environment (and keep your cool), is amazing to me!!! Best, --Ludvikus (talk) 20:39, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Revisionism

You must check this out too, especially the related sub-articles. It may be a cover for the so-call POV idea that out 6 mil. did not really die in the Final solution. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

• The way that's done is with the POV idea that there really are two kinds of Historical revisionism, the good and the bad.
• The mainstream scholarly view is that there's only one, the bad. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Category:Arab

Hi, as I read it you edited Category: Arab to read " ... any person of the Middle East or North Africa whose mother tongue is the Arabic language;". WP:MoS says only "ethnic Arabs" are to have the term applied to them. I also see that Arab is unable to provide any definitive source for your statement or similar. Do you now have any definitive source - or are we dealing with a fuzzy set here? SmithBlue (talk) 11:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

• Hi SmithBlue: Thank you for contacting me. When I first created Category:Arab it was in June of 2004 [2] when things were still pretty new and to the best of my abilities I attempted to map out some complex topics and categories. I am not sure how much of the following I wrote: "The word Arab is most commonly used to refer to any person of the Middle East or North Africa whose mother tongue is the Arabic language; it is used in this sense for such terms as Arab World, Arab League. In this sense, there are nearly 300 million Arabs." But please note that the phrase "most commonly used" and the generality of it and what follows. I have not edited nor added much to that area in a long time and since then many other editors more editors intimately familiar with that topic have joined Wikipedia. If you have some questions relating to the subject matter of Category:Arab I strongly suggest that you seek out WP:ARAB and place a request/comment there at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arab world. Hope this helps and feel free to contact me again if I can be of more assistance. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 16:50, 5 May 2008 (UTC)