Thanks for Bethlehem work Hi I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for your efforts in copyediting the Bethlehem article I m trying to improve it for GA status per it being the Collaboration of the Week for Wikipedia WikiProject Palestine Al Ameer son talk edit Award for your great photographic work The da Vinci Barnstar This award is given to User Gilabrand in recognition of all your imaginative and original photographs related to topics about Israel and Judaism as can be seen on your user page In particular I was impressed by how many of these photographs enhance so many articles about people places and things in Israel Mazal Tov and may you be blessed to continue contributing to Wikipedia in this productive fashion for a long time to come See Wikipedia Barnstars The da Vinci Barnstar may be awarded to anyone who has enhanced Wikipedia through their technical work and you most certainly deserve it Sincerely IZAK talk Thank you Izak for that very heartwarming award That someone has noticed my contributions and sees them as noteworthy makes all the hard work worthwhile Gilabrand talk Hi Gila Yes you make beautiful art and I appreciate it as I am sure many others do Best wishes IZAK talk Hi Gila It s agood idea to have page for awards and barnstars like so User Gilabrand Awards and barnstars which you can place at the tope of this talk page where others can see it or on your main user page if you wish Thanks again IZAK talk edit Armenian Genocide Peres denial of the genocide should be noted in this article failing to do so makes it more of a hagiography than a biography His shortcomings must also be mentioned in addition to his feats like winning the noble prize Do you think it d fit better in political views In anycase it must and will be mentioned somewhere How about adding this in his political views segment Peres foreign policy outlook is markedly realist For example to placate Turkey the only significant Muslim country in the region that is friendly towards Israel Peres has explicity denied the Armenian genocide which caused an uproar among genocide scholars citation E10ddie talk Peres made these statements in 2001 when he was foreign minister Clearly he was caving in to Turkish pressure Israel has very few friends and can not afford to lose them so basically it is not free to take the position that would seem to mesh with its outlook and history which is to recognize that the Armenians were murdered en mass Now he is president an honorary position not a political one and his views whatever they may have been back then are worth about as much as mine are I have no problem with mentioning this view in the section on his political outlook but a separate section on this one utterance gives it undue importance and distorts the picture Gilabrand talk edit sumac opening sentence I don t know what the right wording is but do you see the problem with Sumac also Rhus is a genus of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae First of all there is no reason to italicize Sumac Secondly it is not accurate to say Sumac is a genus because there is no genus called Sumac but there is one called Rhus I may be too steeped in botanical jargon to easily come up with something which is natural to non plant people But we need to figure out something which a works whether people get to this page as Sumac or Rhus currently the latter is a redirect to the former policy would have it the other way around and b doesn t mix up scientific names versus common names in a confusing way Kingdon talk I am not a botanist and my reason for reading the article was because of the spice which is used all over the Middle East I was surprised that the spice didn t rate a mention in the lead Sumac needs to be the first word in keeping with Wikipedia norms and the same as the title of the article i e not plural How about Sumac refers to a variety of shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus as well as the purplish spice that is produced from its dried crushed berries Gilabrand talk Looks like Richard New Forest talk contribs has solved it for us I m happy with his wording As for first word Wikipedia policy isn t quite that strict earliest natural point in the prose at Wikipedia Lead section Bold title and I don t know whether a plural fits under slightly different form or not Anyway enough