Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict/Archive 1

message: It looks like there's a consensus among the following to edit as a cooperative team: Delirium, No-One Jones (talk), OneVoice and Uncle Ed.
I firmly believe that we Team Members will enjoy cooperating with Danny and Viajero. Based on my many talk-page discussions and occasional private e-mails with these two fine contributors, I look forward with hope and confidence that we six can work together harmoniously as a like-minded coalition.
What we all have in common is:
*interest in the Middle East
*commitment to NPOV
*desire to work together cooperatively
--Uncle Ed 14:08, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Consensus

message: Uncle Ed, No-One Jones (talk) , Delirium
:*About my "reservation"... I should have said that I just want to make it clear that I'm not pledging to avoid ALL edits to a protected article. Just that, as usual, any edits I make to a protected article would be things I genuinely believed would be likely to cool down an edit war. Certainly not something that got victory for "my side".
::In any case, if anyone complains that one of my "edits to a protected page" is unfair, I will of course abstain from editing for a due period out of contriteness, not to mention elementary courtesy :-) --Uncle Ed 21:09, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Accept but with reservations

message: Steveritgo, an example would help me understand your statement:
:With all fields of study, there are greater contexts above even the enourmous contexts. Similarly the Arab-Israeli conflicts cannot truly be discussed without the an understanding of the greater influence of Western power —this is often the most controversial aspect of discussing the peace process. As academic experts are largeley concerned with details, and laymen are more concerned with generalities, neither academic detail nor layman in fact reflect the facts and human truth of events, and we should be aware of this.
-OneVoice 21:35, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your analysis, but the conclusions are backwards (for the Wikipedia anyway) the immediate issues are harder - the bigger issues are easier - not because they are easy, but because theres more interest in the macroscopic issues, and within these, the details can be sorted. The Peace process article should have nice Chomsky quote on it - I encourage everyone to read it - its a genuine altruism. -戴眩sv 21:15, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Further Discussion

message: Hi folks,
(is anyone there?)
I just wanted to let you know about a list of deletion debates on articles related to Israel and/or Palestine.  You can find it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Israel and Palestine.  
If you find this list useful, please help to maintain it by adding new items and (if necessary) archiving old ones.  Thanks!
Oh, and please feel free to join the project.  Help is greatly needed.
Cheers,
-- Visviva 15:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion list 

message: Well, is it? If so, I'm a journalist and I'd like to talk to y'all. 24.136.120.12 21:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This project is now active again. It is now open to everybody. --Timeshifter 00:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this project active?

message: Welcome Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism. Please join if you are interested. Thank you. IZAK 08:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Orthodox Judaism 

message: NEW: On Wikiversity there is now a "Jewish Studies School." Will it become a "duplication" of many things on Wikipedia? What should it's goals and functions be? Please add your learned views.  Thank you. IZAK 09:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish WIKIVERSITY 

message: I'd appreciate if someone would take a look at the issue I've just raised at Talk:International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict#Very unbalanced. I believe that part of this article has recently acquired a very strong pro-Israeli government bias. 
By the way, as I read the project page, this project appears to be by invitation only; it also appears from the history pages to be pretty moribund. I'd suggest that you might either invite more people or simply allow people to join of their own initiative; it might wake things up. - Jmabel | Talk 22:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This project is no longer by invitation only. It is now open to everybody. --Timeshifter 00:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Two weeks later, the imbalance in the article has only increased. - Jmabel | Talk 00:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help requested 

message: Comments would be welcome at Talk:New_Historians#Hatchet-job edit. - Jmabel | Talk 18:18, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New_Historians: Hatchet-job edit 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 21:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: I need some help with the above entry. See the discussion on Talk:Operation Autumn Clouds. Thanks. El_C 00:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Operation Summer Rains suboperations]]

message: Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident talk page regarding pictures. --Striver 22:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC

message: This banner uses the generic WikiProject banner code described on these pages:
*Template talk:WikiProjectNotice
*Wikipedia:Template messages/Talk namespace
Here is the generic code and banner:

Here is the code adapted to this WikiProject:

Just copy and paste this code below to the top of related article talk pages:

You don't need the "NoWiki" tags when you copy and paste the code to article talk pages. --Timeshifter 13:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject banner to add to article talk pages

message: If there are no objections I will go ahead and archive any talk sections that have not had any comments in the last few months. Are there any objections? 
Also, I will add the old inactive article sections to the archived talk page. This way we can start fresh without the confusion of previous rules and restrictions. I believe we need to let things flow more naturally as things come up in our editing. --Timeshifter 14:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I archived the old talk. I kept the project page intact, and put the old project info after the latest project info.  --Timeshifter 00:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to archive old sections of talk page and main article 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 23:05, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Anybody know how to make templates, userboxes, etc.?
I want some with the slogan "Meatpuppets for NPOV!
I think we sometimes have to fight fire with fire. It seems that various groups are recruiting for their "side" or ideology, and just don't understand NPOV. I think some wikiproject pages also act sometimes as recruiters for POV-pushing. --Timeshifter 05:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Internet sock puppet#Meatpuppet|Meatpuppets]] for [[WP:NPOV|NPOV]] 

message: I have noticed no article on the 1947-48 Palestinian civil war, though the French Wikipedia has a featured article on the subject. Anyone think they would be up to the task of beginning the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Twas Now (talk • contribs) 06:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does this article (1948 Arab-Israeli War) cover it? − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 06:53, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1947-48 Palestinian civil war  

message: See Talk:Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid#A_quick_straw_poll for a present initiative to rename the page.--Urthogie 13:59, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  straw poll at controversial page 

message: There is discussion about changing the name of the article. See:
*Talk:Al-Aqsa Intifada --Timeshifter 07:42, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Al-Aqsa Intifada]] 

message: *Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Society, law, and sex - A request for comment about the :Template:Palestinian ethnicity's picture has been filed. Your collective comments are solicted and would be appreciated. Thank you. -- Avi 15:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment filed