Thanks for Bethlehem work Hi I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for your efforts in copyediting the Bethlehem article Im trying to improve it for GA statusper it being the Collaboration of the Week for WikipediaWikiProject Palestine Al Ameer son talk          edit Award for your great photographic work   The da Vinci Barnstar  This award is given to UserGilabrand 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 WikipediaBarnstars 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 worthwhileGilabrand 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 Its agood idea to have page for awards and barnstars like so UserGilabrandAwards 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 itd 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 scholarscitation Eddie talk   Peres made these statements in  when he was foreign minister Clearly he was caving in to Turkish pressure Israel has very few friends and cannot 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 dont know what the right wording is but do you see the problem with Sumac also Rhus is a genus of approximately  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 nonplantpeople 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 doesnt 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 didnt 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 ie 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 Im happy with his wording As for first word Wikipedia policy isnt quite that strict earliest natural point in the prose at WikipediaLead sectionBold title and I dont know whether a plural fits under slightly different form or not Anyway enough