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Hi

I'm all about cooperating, but which edits are you talking about? Just curious as to which ones you don't think are factual or neutral. Antigrandiose (talk) 21:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Fan fiction

Hi Andrensath,

The link that you added to Fan fiction appears to be broken. Is it broken for you? If so, what was it supposed to link to? Thanks! Princess Lirin (talk) 21:57, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mizuo Shinonome

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Thanks

Thanks for all the help with the saiyanisland source. DragonZero (talk · contribs) 03:17, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

RfC

'Settlement' is merely one POV that also has many sources. With regard to Judea and Samaria District - that is a specifc administrative area defined by Israel and there are high-quality sources using both terms. The term is valid and I am certainly not pushing it here. In any case, this RfC is not about that and saying 'Israeli-occupied' is something we like to avoid in the I-P area since this is highly disputed and already implies a political POV. The RfC is about geography articles, not the political ones. --Shuki (talk) 09:11, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough; I was unaware of the full background here. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the NPA revert on my talk page. Pfainuk talk 17:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

3rd Opinion

You removed my request for a 3rd Opinion, but I do not yet have an answer to my question. I was under the impression that it was proper etiquette to point to WP:NICE when an editor is acting in an uncivil manner. I am hopeful that a neutral opinion will help me to understand wiki- policies. Dolovis (talk) 22:12, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

It's also generally considered polite to leave an editor's talk page alone if they've asked you to stay off it, and not go looking for somebody else to intervene. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 04:01, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Gibb House- Scots College

Hey Andrensath. Just wondering, do you have citation for Gibb not being a house? I'm not entirely sure if it was, but from word of mouth (or some Scots reading material from here or there), it was a part until the 1990s or something like that and subsequently removed with the addition of a set of new houses. Techhead7890 (talk) 12:28, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

No actual cite, just it not having been one while I was there (mid 2000-05). It might have been removed in the mid-90's, my year didn't even start primary until '95. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 21:09, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Possibly it was removed to 6 houses? I assumed it was in 2010 but it may well have been removed in 1990 with Uttley/Plimmer. Techhead7890 (talk) 03:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Definitely wasn't 2010, I remember a couple of boarders being in my house while I was there as a day student. I'd have to go check the archives at the school to be sure, so I can get back to you in four days? --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 04:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

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mediation: Israel and Apartheid

with respect to this edit: Please don't do that. You're not a mediation participant, and you have no call to be editing other people's comments (banned or not). that being said, I'm undoing your edits.

I haven't used a template, but please consider this a first warning for refactoring talk page comments. I will pursue administrative intervention if you persist. thanks. --Ludwigs2 19:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Actually, check this edit, where I was careful to list myself as a participant prior to striking through the banned editor's comments. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 20:52, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

BRD on MOS-AM

I've started up a discussion here: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(anime-_and_manga-related_articles)#Making_reference_to_WP:FICT.3F - could you please contribute your thoughts? --Malkinann (talk) 01:05, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for replying, I really appreciate that after you reverted, you joined in the discussion. :) --Malkinann (talk) 11:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Pantherskins canvassing

The canvassing should be deleted completely from the page, as now, it still attracts viewers to see what he had posted. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 12:45, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Question

You sure it's okay not to include manga is licensed for North America in the article (e.g. mentioning the US instead of including Canada) when infoboxes have flags for the two countries? I guess the recent updates to Highschool of the Dead would be a good example. Thanks for any clarification since that's what I always do when I create/update manga info like that. Ominae (talk) 05:45, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Um, your edit (see diff) about the licensing was related to the anime version, not the manga. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 06:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Is it? I know that I did the edit related to the manga. Ominae (talk) 16:27, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Those were seperate edits, I reverted the one about the anime licensing, not your second one about the manga licence. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 20:25, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The word "majority" steers from the subject matter and should be mentioned in the article body, but definitely not in the lead section. It's a weasel word.

P.S. The empty edit summary was not intentional, it's the way the revert function in popups works. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 13:13, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Israel and the Apartheid Analogy reversions

The edit history for the Israel and the Apartheid Analogy article indicates that you are the editor who has been reverting my contribution to the section entitled "Differences in Motivation" (10.2). The reason given in the edit history is that the post by me is "POV material written as statements of fact by WP; IP, see WP:BRD. (TW)." This is untrue. The added material simply summarizes and cites relevant literature accurately and dispassionately. There is a further point. The context in this section is to provide information about refutations of the apartheid accusation by showing that the motivation for the separation of population groups by Israel is not racist nor analogous to apartheid, but has other reasons. The added paragraph gives some motivational reasons not mentioned by previous entries, and thus is fair and directly relevant to the subject. The documentation is accurate, and points to statements by leading authorities and sources. The section itself calls for fair comment on the Israeli point of view, and justifications for it, so complaining about POV is a nonsense in any case. If presenting the Israeli point of view is inadmissible, the entire section here and all defense of Israel would have to be deleted, which perhaps is what you want in the article? But what of the POV of contributions supportive of the Palestinian claim of apartheid? They too would have to be deleted. Then there would be nothing left. The additional paragraph in question goes as follows:

Gideon Shimoni, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew University, where he was head of its Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and author of a book on South African Jewry, has pointed out that while apartheid was characterized by racially based legal inequality and exploitation of Black Africans by the dominant Whites within a common society, the Israel-Palestinian conflict reflects "separate nationalisms," in which Israel refuses exploitation of Palestinians and on the contrary seeks separation and "divorce" from Palestinians for legitimate self-defense reasons.<the preceding is overly POV: A better version would be 'Gideon Shimoni, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew University, where he was head of its Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and author of a book on South African Jewry, has claimed the Israel-Palestinian conflict reflects "separate nationalisms," in which Israel refuses exploitation of Palestinians and seeks separation and "divorce" from Palestinians for legitimate self-defense reasons.' An actual quote for or equivalent to everything in those single quote marks from Israel-Palestinian conflict would be even better.> (Footnote reference:Gideon Shimoni, "Deconstructing Apartheid Accusations Against Israel," Interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 60, 2 September 2007/19 Elul 5767: see http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=1806&TTL=Deconstructing_Apartheid_Accusations_Against_Israel.) The centrality of the "separation" of populations, as promoting the opposite effect than that sought in apartheid South Africa, is also argued by Alon Liel, former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa and former Director General of the Israel Foreign Ministry. <Wrong. See Bantustan.>(Footnote reference: Alon Liel, "An Israeli View: Apartheid = Separation?!" in a symposium on bitterlemons.org entitled Democracy and the Conflict": see the August 12, 2002 edition at http://www.bitterlemons.org/previous/bl120802ed30.html) Benny Morris the historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict has emphasized that those that promote the equation of Israeli efforts to separate the two populations to "apartheid" are effectively trying to undermine the legitimacy of any peace agreement based on a "two-state solution." <'Benny Morris, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict'. 'has emphasized that those that promote the equation of Israeli efforts to separate the two populations to "apartheid" are effectively trying to undermine the legitimacy of any peace agreement based on a "two-state solution."' This should be a quote, as not everyone agrees that any form of two-state solution has any legitimacy to undermine!> (Footnote reference: Benny Morris, One State, Two States (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 203-4, n. 1.) This is the same point stressed by Judge Rosalyn Higgins, in her opinion abstaining from the ICJ ruling against Israel's construction of a "Wall" in January 2004: that a negative interpretation of the separation barrier was prejudicial to, and preemptive of, peace negotiations between the two belligerent parties.<And the 'security fence' and refusal to treat with the legally elected Hamas government of Gaza aren't prejudicial to, and preemptive of, peace negotiations?> (Footnote reference: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1605.pdf)

All the statements and references are fair and accurate. Please stop reverting my contribution.122.107.235.166 (talk) 02:51, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

(My comments are inserted inside <> tags in the above. Also, a better place for discussing this would be Talk:Israel and the apartheid analogy.) --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 05:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Since you are the reverter, according to the edit history, and since there is nothing objectionable in my contribution that needs extensive vetting, I go directly to the source, you. As for the inserted questions, perhaps it is sufficient to tell you that these details about the document sources and their authors' background can be found attached to the documents themselves. The footnotes provide their own author bios.122.107.235.166 (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Actually, the reason to handle this discussion at the article's talk page is so that all parties interested in improving the article can take part, not merely those who happen to watch my talk page (274 and a maximum of 29, respectively. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Now to your specific objections: there is nothing POV about defining "apartheid" in the South African setting as "racially based legal inequality and exploitation of Black Africans by the dominant Whites within a common society." This is what it was and no-one, so far as I am aware, argues with this, whether friend or foe. In any case, and even if others define "apartheid" differently, this is in fact how Shimoni characterizes it, which really is the only relevant issue. The footnote covers this. Shimoni emphasizes each of these traits, and especially the "racial" and "legal" aspects, within a "common society," and indicates how Israel's situation with the Palestinians differs radically. This characterization of apartheid itself, and its motivating traits, is needed to show precisely how Israel differs according to Shimoni; your suggested revision would remove this clarification of difference, which is the whole point of the contribution. The reference to racial legal inequality, the exploitation, the domination by Whites, and the common society references, are all in the source. To give quotes from Shimoni for each of these points, however, would blow out the edit to the point where it would overbalance other paragraphs in the article, not be "proportionate," and thus be revertible on grounds of overemphasis alone. If you want verification, go to the cited sources, given in the footnotes. There is no point and no possibility of reproducing the Shimoni article in the Wikipedia article. This is obvious, but giving extensive quotations would also mean that such quotations would similarly be needed for all the other sources cited in my edit, which really would blow out the proposed edit unmanageably, and this would clearly be grounds for reverting it and quite unreasonable. I cite more fully the Wikipedia demand for "proportionality" below.122.107.235.166 (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Fair point; I shouldn't have completely removed the definition of apartheid Shimoni used. Would the modification 'Shimoni has claimed that, in contrast to South African apartheid,...'(rest as per my prior suggestion) be acceptable to you? --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Why isn't the present wording OK? It clarifies precisely what the differing issues are. Merely leaving this in limbo, obscuring it, does not serve the purpose of the contribution. The differences are crucial to the argument, and should be left in. By the way, I went to the Wikipedia page dealing with Neutral Point of View, and amongst other things it advises, under the heading "Impartial tone: ... The tone of Wikipedia articles should be impartial, neither endorsing nor rejecting a particular point of view. Try not to quote directly from participants engaged in a heated dispute; instead, summarize and present the arguments in an impartial tone." This is precisely what my contribution does, and quotations would not further that goal. One further point: the phrasing "X has claimed" is specifically mentioned in the Wikipedia NPOV general article (see the section entitled: "Words to Watch" or the fuller discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Words_to_watch) as suggesting a hostile POV and therefore something that should be avoided when reporting on the views of sources or persons.

The present wording is not OK because it runs the risk of making people think WP agrees with Shimoni.

On the 'X has claimed'; this seems like a dialectal thing. The Times, fr'ex, would disagree that 'X has claimed' suggests a hostile POV. That said, 'According to Shimoni, X' has the same connotations in NZ English, and is specifically called out as acceptable in WP:SAY.

The issue is not what the Times policy is, but what the Wikipedia policy is, dealing with debated topics. The explicit Wikipedia policy guidelines make clear that in such contexts, "claimed" tends to cast doubt on the assertion and should generally be avoided. And as for the assertion that the present wording suggests endorsement by Wikipedia, merely because it simply states Shimoni's views without implying their dubiety nor condemning them, I refer you again to Wikipedia guidelines for NPOV when dealing with debated topics. Furthermore, since the context is the description of Shimoni's views, "according to Shimoni" tends to rhetorical redundancy and is not needed: it is obvious that this is according to Shimoni. I also would point out that to be fair, if these evaluative slantings and editorializing insertions and qualifications were (contrary to Wikipedia guidelines) to be applied to pro-Israeli viewpoints they would also have to be consistently applied to anti-Israeli viewpoints. They have not been, either by you or others.122.107.235.166 (talk) 00:49, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Next, you state that it is "wrong" that Alon Liel is the former Israeli Ambassador to South Africa and the former Director General of the Israel Foreign Ministry. This is not wrong. Check out the CV for Dr. Liel at http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/4/Dr%20Alon%20Liel. But it is also possible you mean that HE is wrong in his statements. However, it is not our province to determine if he is wrong in his statements, or that Israel is wrong in its official statements; all that is required in this context of presenting extant pro-Israel refutation of "apartheid" charges on the grounds of differing motivations between apartheid and Israel's situation (which is after all the topic of this section of the main article) is that he, as a representative leading authority in Israel, made them and indeed did so on behalf of Israel and that this is documented. I understand that your POV is different, and of course you have a right to your own POV, but this section and therefore this contribution is about his and Israel's POV not yours.122.107.235.166 (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't make his comments accurate, as anybody who understands the concept of a Bantustan should recognise, but it doesn't really matter that much. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Your comments on Benny Morris's views repeat the same objection, namely that you do not agree with him. However, in terms of Wikipedia policy it is sufficient to prove that he did indeed make these points by giving an appropriate and verifiable citation. A full quote of his long discussion is not appropriate here anymore than it would be appropriate for all the pro-Palestinian allegations either; I assume you have not demanded this provision of full quotes from each source for every cited and satisfactorily documented assertion of pro-Palestinian editors to this article.122.107.235.166 (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

How about 'Benny Morris,...has argued that those...are trying to undermine the perceived legitimacy...' (elided parts as per your version)?

Again, in all honesty and with all due respect for your objections, I still do not see that a fair presentation of Morris's views would be attained by eliding anything. They would instead be significantly weakened. Your suggestion of inserting "perceived" before "legitimacy" has the same problems as your earlier suggestion of "X claims that." It makes clear a rejection of the validity of the viewpoint and your view that the viewpoint is mere personal, not really true. This is judgmental and constitutes clear POV. My description is accurate and quite purposely brief enough to include the crucial essence of Morris's argument and no more, without expanding on it unnecessarily. Eliding essential considerations would make his views seem less comprehensible and effective. To repeat: it is not necessary to agree with him. But in fairness to him it is necessary to represent his views adequately. Making them less coherent would be a disservice, and indeed would further a partisan POV alien to him. I could easily have added more points from Morris's written text, as from those of all those cited here, so as to make his case more powerful and far-reaching, which I did not do, but we must give enough to convey his meaning and logic.

I was not suggesting eliding the description of his statements in the actual article, just doing so here to save typing the full version out needlessly.

Re: 'perceived legitimacy'; how about '...two populations to "apartheid" are, according to him, generally opposed to the [two-state solution]].'?

The same holds for your comment on Judge Higgins' written opinion on the ICJ case of the security barrier. The comment reflects your POV, but not that of Judge Higgins, which is the only thing at issue. According to Wikipedia standards, "Neutral point of view (NPOV) is a fundamental Wikimedia principle and a cornerstone of Wikipedia. All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view, representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. This is non-negotiable and expected of all articles and all editors" (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view). The topic of this sub-section of the main article is pro-Israel refutations of the apartheid charge. Therefore, these refutations must be allowed expression, fairly, proportionately and without negative slanting. The opportunity for negative views on these issues has already been fully provided earlier in the same article. This ensures fair and balanced presentation of both sides.122.107.235.166 (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't mean describing their POV in ways that make it look like WP agrees with it. For the Higgins sentence, how about '...2004; she believed that...' (elided parts again as per your version)? --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 09:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

The context is Judge Higgins written opinion, as expressed in the formal document appended to the ICJ judgment; obviously it comes from her and represents her opinion. It was not a matter of her "belief," which, again like "claimed" and "perceived" is airy-fairy, merely subjective, personal and variable, but her written opinion, which has separate and distinct weight as a considered legal judgement that stands by itself. This does not imply that Wikipedia endorses it. It merely reports what she wrote. That is what impartiality means. I am open to changing "stressed by Judge Rosalyn Higgins" to "argued by Judge Rosalyn Higgins." Written opinions are commonly referred to as "the Judge argued that..." In any case cited statements ought not to be accompanied by approving endorsements nor disapproving negations but just factual and neutral reporting, since otherwise the impartiality Wikipedia aims for would be compromised. See again the relevant NPOV page describing how controversial topics should be dealt with -- I think the text in question fits into those guidelines.

'argued by Judge...' works for me. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 11:13, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Discussion on closure of Israel and Aparthied mediation

Current consensus seems to be to move the article to Israel and Apartheid with an appropriate disambiguation line to prevent any misinterpretations. Please weigh in over the next few days. --Ludwigs2 17:14, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of fictional magic users

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Excuse me?

Would you care to explain this? What about my behavior is "problematic in general" and why exactly are you telling users, especially users saying things that approach being blatantly racist, to ignore me? nableezy - 15:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Let's see: You edit-war. You make personal attacks on other editors. You file spurious reports for admin intervention. How is your behaviour *not* problematic?

Secondly, do you have a link for the 'saying things that approach being blatantly racist'? --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 18:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Can you please provide a single link to a "spurious report" that I have ever filed? Also, please provide links for "personal attacks on other editors". Sure, I have edit-warred, so have most of the editors in this topic area. Maybe "blatantly racist" is not the right phrase, how about "discredited propaganda whose purpose has been to deny the very existence of a people". For a link for that, here you go: [1]. nableezy - 19:02, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Spurious report. Personal attack. --Andrensath (talk | contribs) 21:17, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Spurious report my ass, if I had asked for sanctions I could have gotten Shuki sanctioned. I requested a warning to Shuki to stop calling me a liar, that warning was given. Personal attack my ass, a user tries to push tired propaganda and I tell them they need to read a book. As opposed to the actual attack directed against a person that they are "problematic in general". Youve proven the low quality of your argument so I dont see a need spend any more time on it. Bye. nableezy - 02:30, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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