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List of kosher restaurants

Noting here that I've contested the speedy deletion request of this article; it's merely a list with a neutral lead section.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:55, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Got it, thanks. But is that what you did, or did you just remove the tag? I don't see a discussion auto-created there with your explanation. I would like that forum in order to refute your contention, because being "merely a list" is a criteria for deletion, and can certainly be a blatant promotion, when the purpose of the list serves only as an advertisement with no informational value noteworthy of an encyclopedia.

If what you did was to just remove the tag, the thing to do is to restore it, and after saving the page, click on the button that says "Contest this speedy deletion". OTOH, if that's what you did, I'll need help finding where your discussion input was put.

—Boruch Baum (talk) 10:44, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

G11 is only for spam-like stuff and promotional stuff. List articles are not inherently advertising, much less blatant advertising. I did remove the deletion tag, which is the usual way for non-page creator editors to contest a speedy deletion. Concerns about an article violating WP:NOT are adjudicated at WP:Articles for deletion; speedy deletion only handles a few very specific cases of such. Does this help?Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Understood. Why, though, then, do the instructions ask you to click on the button that says "Contest this speedy deletion"?

The substance of your response is off-point, though, because all you are doing is making a generalised statement "list articles are not inherently advertising", without addressing the truth (my truth? my opinion? my contention?) that this particular list certainly is blatant advertising.

Are you advising me to continue by adjudicating using the WP:Articles for deletion process?

—Boruch Baum (talk) 11:13, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That button is there for the page creating editor; speedy deletion requests are generally contested by the page creator but we prefer them not to remove the tags themselves due to the conflict of interest. Yes, the discussion needs to continue in an AfD.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:18, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking

Hi Boruch, thanks for your work. Just a reminder that we don't usually link years, dates, or (many more well-known) country-names. Tony (talk) 08:08, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Jews in Bulgaria

Hi, I am not sure what I did wrong in the references. Could you explain it to me? Thanks in advance. Amusecuiop (talk) 22:15, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Amusecuiop: - I responded to you on the pre-existing thread on your own talk page.

Reference errors on 21 October

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Cheryl Lehman

Could you please take a look at the page, to see if notability issues are being satisfactorily addressed now. Dreadarthur (talk) 01:03, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Dreadarthur: Done! I responded in detail on the article's talk page. —Boruch Baum (talk) 06:45, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your detailed comments. Have to do more. She is notable, as are many accounting academics not yet the subject of Wikipedia profiles. Not everybody is Joel Demski, but they are nonetheless notable within the discipline, and across disciplines. Need to better prove this, within the constraints of my time elsewhere. Dreadarthur (talk) 03:02, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

December 2015

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Proper mathematical notation

Hello.

You wrote the following:

{\frac {sin(x)}{x}}=1-{\frac {x^{2}}{3!}}+{\frac {x^{4}}{5!}}-{\frac {x^{6}}{7!}}+\cdots .

Formerly the article had said this:

{\frac {\sin(x)}{x}}=1-{\frac {x^{2}}{3!}}+{\frac {x^{4}}{5!}}-{\frac {x^{6}}{7!}}+\cdots .

I might have written it as follows:

{\frac {\sin x}{x}}=1-{\frac {x^{2}}{3!}}+{\frac {x^{4}}{5!}}-{\frac {x^{6}}{7!}}+\cdots .

Using the backslash in "\sin x" has at least two effects: (1) It prevents italicization of "sin", and (2) it results in proper spacing before and after "sin" in expressions like this:

a\sin b\,

I think it may also effect the size of the letters in some situations -- for example when "sin x" appears in a subscript, but I'm not sure about that last.

When you write "sin x" with no backslash, then it looks like this:

sinx\,

There is no spacing between "sin" and "x" despite the blank space in the code.

Using \sin with the backslash in the code is standard usage in TeX, LaTex, MathJax, and Wikipedia's TeX-like system for mathematical notation.

Morover, you wrote {{{sin(x)}}} where {sin(x)} would have the same effect. The extra {curly} braces are just clutter and may get in the way of editing and mislead people about good coding of mathematical notation. See WP:MOSMATH and the pages to which it links for more about this. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:58, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Michael Hardy: Thanks for the comments, all correct, and unintended side effects of my attempt to correct what was annoying me. The motivation for my edit was because (at least on my browser) there is a very large vertical white space between the numerator of the fraction and the fraction horizontal line, amounting to three lines (character heights) of whitespace. After too much back and forth between me and Slawekb (talk · contribs) on Talk:Basel problem#Formatting per WP:MSM and WP:MOSMATH#Multi-letter names, it was suggested to me that the issue might be my browser (firefox v42.0) and not the formatting of the web page. Do you also not have any unusual vertical whitespace when using tex trig functions in fractions? —Boruch Baum (talk) 18:40, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have no such problem. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:21, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

January 2016

Regarding your edit at tractate, please be warned that if you insist on making factually incorrect edits and edit warring, you will be reported. Debresser (talk) 01:58, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Debresser: Not only is the edit factually correct, but it will be very helpful to most readers, so I most certainly am restoring it, and you are quite welcome to "report", but please first calmly consider to what you are objecting: referring to a text (and only secondarily, in parentheses) by its most commonly known name.

Secondarily, may I ask: Are you stalking me? Are you doing so on the background of my edits to the Chabad page? Can I expect more of the same of all my other Wikipedia contributions? If in your heart the answer to any of those questions is yes, or even maybe, reconsider.

—Boruch Baum (talk) 02:08, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See the talkpage there, where I explain why you are wrong. On a sidenote, if you don't know your stuff, don't pretend you do. Debresser (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Boruch Baum, I'm having the same issue your having with debresser. I've added my name to your complaint. Let's coordinate on this. Here is my complaint: Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests Two Editors Using Disruptive Editing and Ad Hominem Attacks Lokshin kugel (talk) 05:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-Warring

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1066 Granada massacre

Talk:1066_Granada_massacre

Do you have an opinion on my proposed changed to the wording?

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Your draft article, Draft:Andrew Penson

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Hi, Surgut

Hi, you are not German right? It is a German word (Baum = tree), ok than I have do write in English :D

You thanked me for the Surgut-2-Power-Plant edit (its the largest gas-fired power plant in the world), but I forgot about Surgut-1, it is the 3rd largest oil fired power plant in the world.

The Surgut-1 Power Station (Russian: Сургутская ГРЭС-1) is the third largest oil-fired power station in the world, at an installed capacity of 3,268 MW.

The power station is located in Surgut, Russia. The facility began operations in February 1972.

On 28 June 2011, a gas explosion occurred at the power station. At least 12 people were injured.

Can I add it too? I guess Surgut-1 and Surgut-2 are generating power for a radius of more than 1,000 kilometers since Surgut only has around ~300,000 population! Except the Surgut-2 gas-fired plant also provides thermal energy (hot water for heating) to the town, but in Russia this is done by natural Gas seperated by Gazprom? Greetigs Kilon22 (talk) 12:59, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Celestial longitude

I have posted a comment on Talk:Celestial longitude#Content of this article that you might want to read. Iceblock (talk) 19:44, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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