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Notes to myself

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Whizkin (talk) 05:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lead section guidelines:

Maps:

Israeli settlements are not "neighbourhoods"

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There is a reason why Israeli settlements in "Greater Jerusalem" don't have an inbox: they are contested, cheers Huldra (talk) 21:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm improving the articles by adding the "Infobox settlement" to make them more informative, consistent and visually appealing. Are you concerned with the word "Neighborhood"? It's not a mandatory part of the infobox. There is no attempt to make any political statement here. Whizkin (talk) 06:13, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
By calling them "Neighborhood", you are making a political statement. Please take it up on talk, eg Talk:Gilo, before you include it again, Huldra (talk) 23:24, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's why I said the word "Neighborhood" is not a mandatory part of the infobox. I'll recreate the infoboxes without anything that can be interpreted as a political statement. They are important for many reasons. For example, they create the "at a glance" section for mobile readers. Whizkin (talk) 05:28, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But it is not only the word "Neighborhood" which is a problem! The map itself is. It presents the Israeli view; there is no difference between East- and West-Jerusalem. The pre-1967 border is not clearly marked. This is unacceptable.
Again, please start a discussion, (eg on Talk:Gilo, as that page has a lot of "watchers"), about this befor you make any more changes like this, Huldra (talk) 22:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Flags and templates

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Hi there! I see you are making a lot of edits that involve adding flags to biography articles. I wanted to let you know that flags generally shouldn't be used in infoboxes. In fact, nationality shouldn't be included at all when it can be inferred from birthplace. With that in mind, could you make some edits to your additions? Thanks, Nikkimaria (talk) 00:23, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for letting me know! I noticed there are many infoboxes that do have flags, and I emulated that, without being aware those were discouraged by the manual of style. I'll stop doing that from now on. I'll review previous edits, but this might take me a while . Whizkin (talk) 16:02, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Your note about nationality not being included when it can be inferred from birthplace—point taken. Whizkin (talk) 16:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 Done Whizkin (talk) 17:19, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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A barnstar for you!

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The Israeli Barnstar of National Merit
The Israeli Barnstar of National Merit is given to you in recognition of your quality contributions to the Israel domain at Wikipedia. Thank you for being an awesome Wikipedian! gidonb (talk) 23:43, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, thank you ! I'm pleasantly surprised ! Whizkin (talk) 05:09, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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