Jnothman

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AfD Helper

I would like to first thank you for coding the afd helper app. Secondly, is it possible it could be changed to work with other XfDs? FirefoxMan 16:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Ha-Redeye: Jewish "Swahilis"?

Hi do you have any idea if this article Ha-Redeye really adds up? Thanks, IZAK 08:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Bnei-semel.gif)

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Aramaic Wiktionary

Seeing your knowledge in Aramaic, I believe that you may be interested in something that has been recently proposed on Meta. :-) אמר Steve Caruso _(desk/AMA) • Give Back Our Membership! 06:18, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Jimbo is coming to Sydney

Sorry to spam you if you aren't interested. See Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#April 25th for more info if you are interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

Hi. I'm notifying you that, at my request, Riana slightly modified your AFD helper script to accomodate for AfD debate categories. If anything doesn't work, tell me, not her. Thanks, Will ^{(I hope they cannot see, I AM THE GREAT DESTROYER!)} 14:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Jnothman/afd helper

I've left a note there. Just leaving this here in case you miss the other one. Enjoy your break! - G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 04:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Betar-semel.jpg

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Wow

Have you set a new record for the number of annoying boilerplate messages on your talk page at once? The Wikipedia police are out to get you. enochlau (talk) 14:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

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AfD helper

The "What a Brilliant Idea!" Barnstar

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Thanks for making such a useful tool (AfD Helper)! I used to comment on AfD's a lot, but quit because it took forever. Now, I can comment on more AfD's in less time! Thank you again! NF24(radio me!Editor review) 15:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes - there's a cosmetic bug in the script. When the dialog box opens up, all the code ends up inside of it. You probably already know about this, but I'm just letting you know. Still a great tool! NF24^{(radio me!}_{Editor review)} 15:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For writing a script that can be easily retooled into manty purposes. Will (talk) 18:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Idan Raichel

Joel: Hi, I did some editing in the Idan Raichel article & in addition to adding some material I added a link to a post I wrote at my world music blog about one of Raichel's songs. One of the reasons I added the link is that I feature an mpe of Bo'i that visitors can listen to to actually hear his music. I've also discussed Raichel's career & the music in some detail in this post as an experienced music writer.

Someone named Jauerbach removed my link & implicitly accused me of spamming the article & commerically promoting myself & my site. I want you to know that I did no such thing & that my interest is solely in deepening the article & Wikipedians' awareness of Raichel's music. I have an MA in Jewish studies, studied several yrs. at Hebrew University, am fluent in Hebrew & have a great love of Israeli (& Jewish) music. I don't know why some people think the worst of you for doing something with the best of intentions.

If someone decides there can be no external link to my post I will reluctantly accede to this decision. But I think it will diminish the experience for anyone reading this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richards1052 (talk • contribs) 05:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Idea for Talmud articles

Hi Jnothman: I am reposting the following request from User Sh76us (talk · contribs) on my user talk page for wider notification:

I was thinking of trying to stimulate development of a series of articles on Gemara concepts and doctrines, maybe to help children or newcomers to Gemara with explanations of some fundamental concepts that recur throughout the Gemara. Some examples might be articles on Yiush, Chazakah, Ta'aninun (as in "Ta'aninun L'Yoresh"), Eidim Zomemin (forgive my awful transliterations), Migu, etc., etc. Maybe we could even create a category or subcategory for it. I created Breira in this vein. As I don't have the experience or expertise in Wikipedia to know what to do to best develop this idea, I figured I'd come to you for your opinions on: (1) whether it's a good idea; and (2) How to best go about implementing it. Thanks Sh76us (talk) 15:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Centralized discussion at: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Idea for Talmud articles. Thank you. IZAK (talk) 05:48, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Ozymate

Hi jnothman,

A user name has been blocked here using the name ozymate. The speedy deletion of this users and the blocking was base don the name of the person is the same as the name of an organisation/website etc... the person who own the account is the owner of the company and this is the reason why there were blocked can you please intervene on their behalf and ask for the block on this user name being unblocked.

The block will have an effect on the busines name and reputation of Ozymate and its operations I consider this not a good thing for wikipeda to do.

IMO!

regards

pipera —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipera (talk • contribs) 10:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

GPL'ng bibleverse script

Hi jnothman,

Reading up a bit on ye old bible citation discussion, I noticed that back in 2006 you were planning to move your script to a tools server and release it under the GPL. Seeing as you're pretty busy, is there anything I can do to help with that? Please let me know. TrickyApron (talk) 21:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Got your message - thanks! I'll look into contributing this summer. TrickyApron (talk) 21:14, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Automod and edit windows

Greetings. I am working on a script (that I shamelessly stole from you - hope you don't mind) to add one categery to a template. I am having a problem with the edit portion. I pass the parameters to am_make_url and call window.open, which works, but the text I want to add at the end is placed two lines down from the last character. Since these are templates, the introduction of newlines is bad. Do you have any insights into how to fix this problem? Thanks. --Thetrick (talk) 17:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

en-dash (–) required between verses, not a hyphen (-)

Great piece of code here and at {{Bibleverse}}. What would you say to the suggestion of slightly modifying this PHP script to returning an en-dash (–) instead of a hyphen (-) between verses, no matter if "15:30–32" or "15:30-32" were specified? This would have the salutary effect of prettying up a lot of pages edited by people who don't know (or care) about the distinction. Écrasez l'infâme (talk) 20:51, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

ndash rather than hyphen

The bibleverse tempate causes the reader to see this:

Genesis 1:15-16

where, by standard conventions, at least as I understand them, it should show this:

Genesis 1:15–16

with an ndash rather than a hyphen. Can that be fixed? Michael Hardy (talk) 12:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD Helper derivative

Just thought I'd let you know, I always did like having a dash in between the vote and the message. Here it is. :) — neuro^(talk) 13:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

AfD helper glitch

It would seem that the tool tried to submit twice, once without prompting me to edit what it had created. Odd.

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Hello. I have decided to submit this article to peer review in order to qualify for Featured Article status. Would you kindly click on the above link and add your comments or suggestions? Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 21:37, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

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Shlom bayit

Just to let you know that a consensus discussion is underway about changing Shlom bayit to Shalom bayit. Please add your opinion at Talk:Shlom bayit#Requested move. Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 23:46, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Toolserveraccount

Hello Jnothman,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your Freenode-nick (if you have one), your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 23:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

AfD helper

Hi, thanks for the AfD helper, very helpful :). But the first window always seems to cut off the text for me. Cheers - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:13, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Embedding Photos into articles

Hey, I know you might not respond to this right away, so whenever you have time you can respond. Anyway, I was wondering how someone may embed photos into Wikipedia articles? Last summer, I spent all of my time in Madison, the capital of Wisconsin. As such, I have a lot of photos of Madison and the surrounding areas. My question is really how do you go about adding the photos to articles if you have them in the Wikimedia commons. Basically that's really all I wanted to know.

Daniel Hoz (talk) 17:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

!תודה על העזרה
דניאל הוז
PS: Whenever I go back to my talk page I see that you asked about how I can be a Wikipedian in Arizona, New York, Wisconsin, and Israel. I've lived in all of those places, well, not "lived" in Israel, but I think you get what I mean in the sense that that's my origin. My parents are both from there, and my mom's parents were born there, but my dad's parents and my mom's grandparents immigrated from Europe, although I have descendants who I can trace back to mid-18th century Israel.

Nachman of Breslov

Hi, a new editor named Hakol litovah keeps inserting a blog under a new section, "Blogs", in this article. This blog represents someone's personal take on Rebbe Nachman and doesn't really belong in any "Blogs" or "External links" section, in my opinion. Can you be of help here? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Cough

Ahem! Uncle G (talk) 16:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Images of military insignia

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Talkback

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posting this here as I am not sure if you are watching the page UltraMagnus^speak 17:24, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Jnothman,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

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Invitation

There is a backstage pass coming up to be followed by an editathon in the State Library of New South Wales on 23 November. This is the first time that an Australian cultural institution has opened its doors to us in this way and will be a special opportunity because the Library is providing: one of its best rooms; its expert curators (along with their expertise and their white gloves); a newly launched website (containing new resources); and of course, items from its collection (including rare and usually unavailable material) which we can look at, learn from, and use, to improve WP articles. For example, on the chosen topic (Australia and WWI), the Library holds many diaries and manuscripts from the period.

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Template violates WP:MOS

In the article titled Noah there were Bible verses written as 12-15 (with a hyphen) where WP:MOS requires 12–15 (with an en-dash). I changed them to en-dashes and cited WP:MOS. The change was reverted by a user who claimed that an en-dash won't work because, he claimed, these are URLs – links to external web sites.

Is it possible to re-write template:bibleverse-nb to comply with WP:MOS while also linking to external web sites? Michael Hardy (talk) 17:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

AfD Helper script

Hi there. While I appreciate the time you've put into creating the afd helper script, there are a couple of things that I'd like you to please consider:

• AfD involves !votes (not votes per se) such that the closer can ascertain the weight of an editor's opinion based on Wikipedia policies and guidelines. This needs to be made very clear in your introductory text.
• Although it is not mandatory, reading the article that is the subject of a deletion discussion should not be discouraged. !Voting blindly is potentially dangerous and is open to abuse for any number of reasons—for example WP:IDONTLIKEIT/WP:ILIKEIT when a particular keyword appears in an article title. Users should be made aware that the script should not be used as a subsitute for the due dilligence required in assessing an AfD.
• Restricting the script to users with a minimum number of edits would seem sensible. I'm thinking around 1,000, which shows that an editor is here to build the encyclopedia, not destroy it or fill it with nonsense.
• In its current iteration, usage needs to be carefully monitored to make sure that AfD is not being flooded with deliberate disruptive/SPA votes.

This is not meant to be a critiscm. The script is potentially useful in the right hands but "in the wild" without the appropriate caveats, it may well cause problems. Thank you for your attention. Cheers,  Philg88 ^♦talk 17:00, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

@Philg88: Phil, it has been more than a month that Jnothman is not active (more than 45 days) here on Wikipedia. The script was last been updated 7 years ago hence it can be considered as a outdated script unless another user adopt it and try to address this concerns. Cheers, Jim Carter (from public cyber) 20:35, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Indeed @Philg88: I'm amused that it should do anything right or assist in any best practices after most of a decade intervening in Wikipedia policy plus code rot. If it works at all, and continues to be useful, make it better! jnothman ^talk 04:30, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

@Jim Cartar: Well that certainly isn't the way I read the mention on my talk page - it sounded like you were suggesting I should use the script. Apologies, jnothman, I didn't spot how old it was. Best,  Philg88 ^♦talk 05:02, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 00:30, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. Worm^TT(talk) 13:43, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Jnothman. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, Jnothman. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Jnothman. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)