User talk:Gilabrand

Archives This editor is a Master Editor II and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star. This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 8 months and 9 days. H This user had access to HighBeam through The Wikipedia Library. This user is one of the 2000 most active English Wikipedians of all time. This user is being watched by 104 other editors.
Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3 Archive 4 Archive 5 Archive 6 Archive 7 Archive 8 Archive 9 Archive 10 Archive 11 Archive 12 Archive 13 Archive 14

*User:Gilabrand/Awards and barnstars

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For working on an article that you felt shouldn't even exist and helping to bring it up, even if temporarily, to encyclopedic standards. Nableezy (talk) 18:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

		The Jewish Barnstar
		For editing the page Jerusalem stone.Elan26 (talk) 20:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)Elan26[reply]

Template:Bagel of Zion

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		I hereby award you The Photographer's Barnstar for the beautiful photos of Israel and Jewish stuff you have taken and graced Wikipedia with! I had noticed your contrbution way back in July 2007! The one of the Dome of the Rock viewed through the Cotton Merchants Gate (right) is my favourite! Happy snapping! Chesdovi (talk) 02:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		For your work on Hat, I hereby award you this barnstar. →Wordbuilder (talk) 17:23, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		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) 04:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		I was going to give you the copyeditor's barnstar, but I then realized that would be shortchanging your many other valuable contributions to and helping out with Israel and Judaism related articles. Much appreciated! nadav (talk) 07:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For all your quality contributions to Israel-related articles, you fully deserve this. пﮟოьεԻ 57 20:00, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		i frummer give you this award for all the great work you've put into many judaism, jewish and israel relates articles, all the while steering clear of controversy! ..thnx Gila!

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For the excellent editting and formatting that helped lead to Israel's promotion to featured article status. --Jdcaust 16:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Jewish Barnstar
		I award you with this Jewish Barnstar Award for your helping keep the Judaism article up to standards. Keep up Your Good Work! Nimrauko 23:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For defending Wikipedia from all lies-on-the-ground :).--Mbz1 (talk) 14:25, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Golden Wiki Award In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.0.115 (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

		The Modest Barnstar
		You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.2.33 (talk) 23:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You've been busy today with some great editing, so here's a falafel. Sit back and enjoy. Jethro B 23:21, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For your tireless contribution and efforts. E3 (talk) 14:25, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	Awesome job as always. Itsalleasy (talk) 22:29, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Please notice that there was no Montfort Castle prior to the Teutonics taking over, so they didn't 'move to Montfort'. The recovery of the estate by the de Millys after the 3rd Crusade must be mentioned, it's not self-understood, definitely not by the regular Wik. user. The significance of the location is a long, long-discussed issue, very controversial, so reducing the topic in the article is not appropriate. The relation to the HQ in Acre is a major topic. Read A. Boas' comments, the opinions are very much split, it looks like Acre stayed the seat of the Order with just some specific functions moving to Montfort. If you have the time, go on and add the different opinions, but reducing a complex discussion to just one theory, which has little factual support, is counterproductive. The Germans have good material on Montfort, see Biller and Piana. Biller doesn't agree with Boas' interpretation of the three-storey admin. wing, that's worth introducing (I ran out of time). When at Montfort, the only well-preserved rooms (with ceilings) one can see are the two basement halls under the Great Hall, and the tower gate, and the Great Hall is an eye-catcher, so if you can elaborate on those, please do. Thank you and cheers, Arminden (talk) 07:57, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was not challenging the subject matter, but the fact that it is original research and not well-written. Rather than pushing the revert button, look at the edits more carefully. You can add "Monfort region," for example, to make it clear that these were pre-castle days, rather than deleting 907 words.--Geewhiz (talk) 08:07, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm in a huge hurry - and need the info. I don't think I deleted words overall ;) Smth else: you removed ^[a] I think I read somewhere that there were two families of the same name; is that the reason you edited Philip out of here? Was he from an unrelated clan? Arminden (talk) 08:56, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it because it is not sourced and refers the reader to a non-existent page. Actually, Wikipedia is not based on "something I think I read somewhere."--Geewhiz (talk) 09:25, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please, read through the sources (Boas, Biller), and the "architecture" paragraph I wrote after reading those sources, to better familiarise yourself with the difficulties in understanding the castle's structure. The aerial photo is very useful to understand it, at least until we can add a plan and cutout (and after that also, I'd say; to me it was). Also, the well preserved "tower" is one of many, it's the half tower that served as an inner gate tower. // The Milly issue: I didn't introduce it, it was there already. I'm not looking for a fight, I honestly asked you if you know if Philip was from the same family as the owners of this estate. That would be relevant, and then a link to Philip might be of some interest. If not, he surely doesn't belong here. // All I say is: compare how it used to look like [1], with how it looks now, after me spending a lot of time and effort with adding good material, introducing a systematic structure, fixing some inaccuracies etc. Sure, I didn't remove much of the old, unsourced material - and what's not clearly wrong shouldn't be removed either, until new, sourced info on the very relevant topics it covers are introduced. That's Wiki, it builds up over time. But every art. needs the whole picture. Step by step. Enough, I really need to run. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 10:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi. I stumbled into Zalul Environmental Association while working on an AfD and article you made some improvement to years ago. It has a sort of PROMO tone, but is clearly a notable outfit. Just mentioning it here in case you are inclined to do a little cleanup. Lots of sources came up in my English language news archive search. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Gilabrand. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gila, I recently undertook it to update and expand the article both in the Hebrew and English Wikipedia. I'm a fairly experienced and known editor over in Hewiki, but not so much over here, and there are also conflict of interest issues, so I didn't touch the article itself, but rather wrote a new version in User:Daniel at TMSP/sandbox. I could just add a {{request edit}} and get attention from random people, but I preferd to try to find someone familiar with the subject. As the top (non-blocked) past contributor, would you be interested in incorporating what I wrote into the existing article (or just replacing the whole thing, if you find it appropriate)? Daniel at TMSP (talk) 08:41, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You might be right, but I need a better explanation. --S Philbrick(Talk) 12:43, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Hi there, not sure what the problem is. It is totally not the norm for photographers to be given credit in the article itself. Credit for photos appears in Wikicommons. If the photo is copyrighted, it would not be in Wikicommons...Aside from that the material I added is not copyrighted. I just added a few sentences of history which definitely should be expanded, but it's all I have time for at the moment. If you could add to it, that would be great. Best,--Geewhiz (talk) 12:57, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  Gilabrand, We are not on the same page. My rollback had nothing to do with photos. I saw material and one of your edits which appeared to be copied from this source. that site doesn't appear to have an acceptable license. There are possible reasons for a false positive but I need to understand why the text in your edit matched the text at that site. S Philbrick(Talk) 13:04, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gilabrand,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged PassportCard for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:52, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for letting me know. I explained on the talk page why I think the deletion is uncalled for.--Geewhiz (talk) 13:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Alexander Keynan, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page IDF (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:09, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Israel–Poland relations Xx236 (talk) 06:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For starters, poor English, bad grammar, superfluous, paring down non-encyclopedic detail, removal of sensationalism, creation of standard sections, addition of images. Is that enough explanation?--Geewhiz (talk) 08:02, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Harel, Israel, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Tumarkin (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:51, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unless I am mistaken and your indefinite A/I conflict topic ban has been lifted, this is a violation of that ban. nableezy - 15:06, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It never occurred to me that adding a specifically requested ref was against the rule in Wikischool, but it's not worth an argument. It's gone.--Geewhiz (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly I think you should just appeal the sanction. I dont actually have a problem with the edit, just think you're better off abiding by or appealing the sanction. nableezy - 22:18, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).