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Wikis Take Manhattan

Wikis Take Manhattan


Next: Saturday September 27
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WHAT Wikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year's Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well.

LAST YEAR'S EVENT

WINNINGS? Prizes include a dinner for three with Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales at Pure Food & Wine, gift certificates to Bicycle Habitiat and the LimeWire Store, and more!

WHEN The hunt will take place Saturday, September 27th from 1:00pm to 6:30pm, followed by prizes and celebration.

WHO All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in team of up to three (no special knowledge is required at all, just a digital camera and a love of the city). Bring a friend (or two)!

REGISTER The proper place to register your team is here. It's also perfectly possible to register on the day of when you get there, but it will be slightly easier for us if you register beforehand.

WHERE Participants can begin the hunt from either of two locations: one at Columbia University (at the sundial on college walk) and one at The Open Planning Project's West Village office. Everyone will end at The Open Planning Project:

349 W. 12th St. #3
Between Greenwich & Washington Streets
By the 14th St./8th Ave. ACE/L stop

FOR UPDATES

Check out:

This will have a posting if the event is delayed due to weather or other exigency.

Thanks,

Pharos

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NYC Meetup: You are invited!

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday November 16th, Columbia University area
Last: 6/01/2008
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, finalize and approve bylaws, interact with representatives from the Software Freedom Law Center, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the June meeting's minutes and the September meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikis Take Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wikipedia Loves Art! bonanza, being planned with the Brooklyn Museum for February.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

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Ellis Rivkin

Ellis Rivkin is the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born on September 7, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B. A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins University in 1941 and his Ph.D. in history also from Johns Hopkins University in 1946. And he also attended the Baltimore Hebrew College (now Baltimore Hebrew University) which awarded him the B.H.L. degree in 1943. He is also a published author of several scholarly books and articles.

Works

Pharisees

  • Beth Din, Boule, Sanhedrin: A Tradegy of Errors

Hebrew Union College Annual (1975), 46, 181-199

  • Defining The Pharisees: The Tannaitic Sources

Hebrew Union College Annual (1970), 40-41, 205-249


  • Pharisaism and the Crisis of Individual in the Greco-Roman World.

Paper presented at a meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY. (1966). Jewish Quarterly Review (1970), 61(1), 27-53


  • Scribes, Pharisees, Lawyers, Hypocrites: A Study in Synonymity

Hebrew Union College Annual (1978), 49, 135-142

Ancient Judaism

  • Ben Sirah - The Bridge Between The Aarionide and Pharisaic Revolutions

A reprint from Eretz-Israel, Volume Twelve, 1975

  • Ben Sira and the Non-Existence of the Synagogue

1969


  • Ben Sirah
  • History of the Jews

In The new international encyclopedia (1964). New York: Scribner's

  • Judaism, A Religion of City Dwellers The Internal City

Paper presented at the Conference of Scholars at the Weil Institute, Cincinnati, OH (1963)

  • Judaism's Historical Response To Economic Social And Political Systems
  • The Meaning of Messiah in Jewish Thought

Paper presented at the Evangelical Christian-Jewish Conference, New York, NY (1975). In M.H. Tannenbaum, M.R. Wilson and A.J. Rudin (Eds.), Evangelicals and Jews in conversation on scripture, theology and history (pp. 54-75). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker (1978)

  • Some Historical Aspects of Authority In Judaism

Yearbook of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1951), 61, 3-15

  • The Story of Korah's Rebellion: Key to the Formation of the Pentateuch

Society of Biblical Literature 1988 Seminar Papers (pp. 574-581). Atlanta: Scholars Press.

  • The Uniqueness Of Jewish History

Yearbook of the Central Conference of Scholoars at the Weil Institute, Cincinnati, OH (1963)

Modern Judaism

  • An Image of a Jewish Tomorrow

Address delivered at the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Biennial Convention, Los Angeles, CA (1971)

  • Biblical Foundations of Religious Pluralism

Paper presented at at a conference of the Texas Conference of Churches, the American Jewish Committee and the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, Dallas, TX (1982)


  • Blacks and Jews in Historic Interaction: The Biblical-African Experience

Paper presented at a Black-Jewish Dialogue Sponsored by The American Jewish Committee Nashville, Tennessee (1975)


  • Building A Biblical Foundation for Contemporary Ethics

In R.J. Hoffman and G.A. Larue (Eds.), Biblical v. secular ethics - The conflict (pp. 99-105). Buffalo, NY: Prometheus

  • Capitalism and Jewish Destiny

POINTER, Vol. X, No. 1, Winter 1974


  • The Crisis of Identity in the Dynamics of Jewish Life

Paper presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the National Council of Jewish Education, Baltimore, MD (1975); Published in Jewish Education (1976), 45(1), 4-16, 31.

Methodology

  • Confronting the Sources: The Intertestamental Period

Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA (1986)

Christianity

  • As to the Law a Pharisee: Paul's roots in Rabbinic Judaism

Paper presented to the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, LA.

  • Nostra Aetate
  • Paul And The Parting Of the Ways

Jewish Heritage (1959), 1(4), 23-28

  • Who Crucified Jesus?

Jewish Heritage (1958), 1(3), 11-16, 47

  • Ellis Elkin Society [1]


REQUEST TO BE UNBLOCKED to fix Victor E. Marsden

Someone added the following inappropriate reference for Marsden:

  • "Germans,"
in Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
ed. by Steven Thermstrom
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980)

User:El C

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. – Che.

I removed the improper external link. Thanks for pointing it out. Boodlesthecat Meow? 15:53, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

You could try the unblock template, and ask for a review of your case on AN.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 20:56, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Justinas Pranaitis

This has un-scholarly external links. As I'm blocked, I cannot make the corrections required. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Boodlesthecat Meow? 19:44, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Check out Wikisource's The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. A user there has taken it upon himself to edit the 1958 version of the same which was re-titled in 1958 "World Conquest Through World Government." I'm not blocked from Wikisource. But I don't want to get into any edit war there. The editor there is using an un-scholarly Web source of one David M. Dickerson. This person has been inactive since 2005. He apparently digitized the 1958 version with his own judgment. Anyway, if anyone is interested in cleaning up the mess on Wikisource regarding these Protocols of Zion it would be nice I think. --Ludvikus (talk) 21:54, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Sigmund Livingston 1872-1946

That's the birth & death range for the life of the above notable - founder of the ADL. You can confirm it by simply searching the Library of Congress.

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New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday January 18th, Columbia University area
Last: 11/01/2008
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, look at our approval by the Chapters Committee, develop ideas for chapter projects at museums and libraries throughout our region, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the November meeting's minutes and the December mini-meetup's minutes).

We'll make preparations for our exciting museum photography Wikipedia Loves Art! February bonanza (on Flickr, on Facebook) with Shelley from the Brooklyn Museum and Alex from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We'll also be collecting folks to join our little Wikipedia Takes the Subway adventure which will be held the day after the meeting.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

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William Hard 1878-1962

If I wasn't being blocked for 2 years, I would create a stub for this wonderful man who, inter alia, way back in 1920 helped expose the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a fraud. --Ludvikus (talk) 00:52, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD

I've just nominated: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Symbolic snake. I hope you will not see this as unfriendly to your contributions. Steve Dufour (talk) 02:52, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I posted your comment on the deletion page for people to consider. Steve Dufour (talk) 16:04, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

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New York City Meetup—Museum Extravanganza


Next: February 6-7, at the Met Museum and the Brooklyn Museum
Last: 01//2008
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Join us the evenings of Friday February 6 and Saturday February 7 around Wikipedia Loves Art! museum photography events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

There will also be a special business meeting on Saturday dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues with guests from the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Natalie de Bogory

This Article has been edited anonymously (not by me). It's got very interesting new factual allegations. However, it's un-sourced. I'd like to know the references. But since I'm banned for two years, could someone please as for the reference instead of me? Thanks. Ludvikus. --162.84.141.35 (talk) 00:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

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Michael Hagemeister

As I'm still being un-reasonable blocked for two years, will someone please add this link to Michael Hagemeister's Page and the article of his cited therein?

  • Here's the outside link I think should be added : [3]. Also, it's very important to read this 2008 article

about the Protocols of Zion and edit it accordingly, to make the Wikipedia article on this PSM conform to this latest scholarship. If and editors out there are kind enough to get me un-blocked, I'll be able to make these important additions myself. The person who is keeping me blocked for two years bears the WP name of El_C. --Ludvikus (talk) 16:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

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New York City Meetup

Next: Sunday March 29th, Columbia University area
Last: 01/18/2009


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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, sign official incorporation papers for the chapter, review recent projects like Wikipedia Loves Art and upcoming projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the January meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Ludvikus (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Continued block is now unnecessary. This long two-year block has made me realize how to avoid disruption & the causes of being blocked.

Decline reason:

Per the discussion at WP:AN which I noted below, there does not appear to be much consensus to unblock you early. Jayron32.talk.contribs 02:54, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Discussion started at WP:AN to guage consensus for unblocking you. Please be patient as the matter is discussed. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 01:38, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Administrator User:Jayron32 for your effort. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:40, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Administrator Basket of Puppies for your effort. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:45, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Administrator User:Jehochman for your effort. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:48, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you very much Administrator User:Lankiveil for your effort. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Conversation archive in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive188#User:Ludvikus requesting an unblock --PBS (talk) 18:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday May 17th, Columbia University area
Last: 03/29/2009
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, establish a membership process for the chapter, review the upcoming Wiki-Conference New York 2009 (planned for ~100 people at NYU this summer) and future projects like Wikipedia at the Library, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the March meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

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International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict

What relevance do actions of the General Assembly have regarding International Law? Isn't it known that only resolutions of the Security Council have the status of such law? --71.247.68.78 (talk) 12:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

I think you're correct. --Ludvikus 12:54, 15 July 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.247.68.78 (talk)

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New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday September 13th, Columbia University area
Last: 07/25/2009
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In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

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Proposed deletion of World domination

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The expression "world domination" is actually used by crackpots in their conspiracy theories. Unless, the article is edited substantially to reflect this usage, I support the deletion of the article. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:50, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
I've also noticed the qualified usage "(Jewish world domination)" here: "List of conspiracy theories." --Ludvikus (talk)!

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"The Cause of World Unrest" is an extremely important anti-Semitic text. What Henry Ford's "The International Jew" was in the United States in relation to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," this text was in Britain. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:56, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Unblock request

{{unblock|(1) I have learned how to avoid being blocked in the future.(2) I understand now 100% how to avoid it - simply drop ANY confrontation with any other editor. (3) I've been blocked for over a year already, I believe (but I haven't counted it - I've lost the count. (3) I'm being requested to contributed [see above] my observations regarding proposed editing of article - but I'm unable to respond because of my being blocked. (4) I have absolutely no interests in any confrontations at Wikipedia which would lead to a "block" - so there's really no need to block me any longer.}} --Ludvikus (talk) 19:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Blocked for well over a year, positively worded unblock request, so I'll give you another chance. If you get into difficulties, I suggest you pursue dispute resolution.

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Howard Zinn

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Howard Zinn, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, nowadays the use of the term "revisionist" without any qualifier leads people to assume that the subject is a Holocaust denier, which is not what you meant. The fact that Zinn is a "revisionist" historian in the American sense probably should not go into the lede, to avoid this kind of misunderstanding. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
I think otherwise. The "confusion" is due to Wikipedia having failed to do it's job of making the distinction, doing disambiguation, etc. In part, I think, that's why my article is so important: Revisionist historians (American). Because the job is not easy, does not justify Wikipedians like yourself simply giving up. --Ludvikus (talk) 23:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I've been watching Howard Zinn for a couple of days, waiting to see if I was going to leap in or not and am pretty satisfied, even happy about your resolution of the issue of revisionism. As far as wikipedia failing to do it's job, well it is folks like us who actually do that job and your article on American historical revisionism (yours right?) was an interesting and for me unexpected direction to go in. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash (talk) 18:51, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your positive feed-back. Unfortunately, it's not easy to work in this community we know as Wikipedia. And only lately I seem to have learned how to improve my effectiveness. I think that the so-called Holocaust deniers have been so successful at promoting themselves as revisionists, that even Wikipedia was troubled by calling a noted living historian, like Howard Zinn, a revisionist. Now you may think what I've done is OK, but I'm not sure the editor who objects to the confusion will yet agree that it's safe to call Zinn a "revisionist" (in the good sense of the word. --Ludvikus (talk) 18:59, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I just emailed a historian, James Mullin, who seems to be using the term much in the way you are, and I am trying to learn to, to get an opinion. I either hear back from these folks or I don't. It's about 50/50. To many of us the word "revisionist' is a sort of dirty term with all sorts of implications but even the wikipedia article historical revisionism has little or no negative connotations. Life a wikipedia is a strange place. I have not mentioned this here (wikipedia) , but I was just interviewed by a world roving BBC crew doing a piece on "community" or something and we got into some of the frustrations involved. Probably will end up on the cutting room floor, but it was-interesting to try and put some of my feels into words. Of course my best answers occurred to me 3 hours after they'd gone. Oh well. Carptrash (talk) 23:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Well I do agree that Historical revisionism looks like someone's college term paper rather than a standard wikipedia article. However I am not sure that I am going to tackle it because I don't have the resources to do so. Since I work Fri, Sat, Sun I certainly will not do so in the next few days. And although I have a degree in history somewhere this sort of arguement is not one that really interests me all that much. It looks like trench warfare to me. We'll see. Carptrash (talk) 15:02, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
It's not as bad as you think - if we read this informative reference: [4]. --Ludvikus (talk) 16:22, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Global empire

I have nominated Global empire (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 02:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes. It should be deleted. It's now only a REDIRECT because I've Moved/Renamed is contents so: List of major empires. --Ludvikus (talk) 12:50, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
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