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Reza Aslan

It says citation required for Reza Aslan's connection to Council on Foreign Relations. That is deceptive claim that cannot be edited since the article is protected. It is deceptive because the citation is readily available on the internet. It is outright cheating in order to hide his connections to a group affiliated with the CIA. Here is the citation: http://www.cfr.org/content/bios/Aslan_Bio_Dec12.pdf You better fix this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.0.199.121 (talk) 04:16, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Email

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Women's Rights in Iran, Sir Joseph.

Unfortunately Kudpung has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

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Schneerson and Crown Height riots

Transliteration correction

Can you elaborate on the revert you just did other than "Nope." Kh doesn't represent the Hebrew חית (Het or Chet), but rather the כאף (Khaf). Thanks Contributor613 (talk) 02:23, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

? Contributor613 (talk) 03:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Jewish descent category

Well, I'm not the one who moved the category. I moved the articles, yes, but the category move had already been done.

I take your point, but the problem is...well, everything else in Category:American Jews by occupation follows that pattern, so this category was an outlier. I have no objection to another change of name, but I'd suggest looking at some of the others as well to ensure that the differential is observed. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I posted a CFD so we'll get more input. Sir Joseph 02:02, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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it is actually educational.

if you had me added as a friend on facebook you would've been able to understand what im talking about. I'm trying to make a point about how people rarely make the effort to educate themselves through the internet, which is at our fingertips. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starkooky (talk • contribs) 23:33, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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Doxxed

And would would "doxxed" mean? Debresser (talk) 19:10, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Doxing basically, they outed you on the internet. Granted, I'm not sure how much of an outing it is since it takes a few seconds to figure out who you are, but it's still not cool. Sir Joseph 19:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

I see. You saw my Facebook? It is linked in the discussion. mentioned this outing in a post of mine. Debresser (talk) 19:15, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

I've seen it before. :) I think you should complain to TOI and tell them to remove the post or at least the comment where they pointed to your FB account. Sir Joseph 19:23, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

On the one hand I agree. On the other, the person meant it in a good way. He wanted to show that I am a religious Jew and it is not likely that I was paid by Saudi Arabia. I have had no problematic posts on Facebook. Debresser (talk) 20:25, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Dovid, how could you be doxxed? You identify yourself on your user page. StevenJ81 (talk) 21:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Right, so it's not a real doxxing, but if I write an article on another site and I then mention the username and then link to his Facebook, it might not be doxxing but it's still not that cool. Sir Joseph 21:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

No, it's not that cool. StevenJ81 (talk) 21:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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Hi. Have you every run into an editor named David Tornheim before? just showed up at the discussion on Jewish right spouting some odd opinions.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I have but I can't recall where but the name comes right out at me. Sir Joseph 14:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

ANI noticeboard

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The Human Trumpet Solo (talk) 18:32, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Is there a short course on the ANI thing? Figuring it out just looked daunting, sheet volume of comments.

The RFC I love so much?

You really need to knock it off with the childish insults, especially as it only reaffirms my position that you are far too emotionally engaged to be editing Jewish categories.The Human Trumpet Solo (talk) 21:57, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

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Sweden, yes, it is a crappy place to be right now

• SWEDEN BURNING: Stockholm in flames as car fire epidemic rages in 'no-go' zone
• Sweden Democrats: Trump was right
• Actually, Sweden Is Having Big Trouble With Mideast Refugees
• Scandinavia: The West's Citadel of Anti-Semitism
• Why Trump didn't get it so wrong about Swedenistan
• Malmo Police Chief requesting help
• Interior Minister discuss crime in Malmo
• Trump Is Right: Sweden’s Embrace of Refugees Isn’t Working
• Angry Swedes confront government officials

• Rape and Sexual Offenses, from the source

• Strange--my aunt, who has lived all her adult life in Sweden, and her children have mentioned nothing like this. Like, nothing at all, as if none of these things are actually true. But perhaps they read other newspapers. Sir Joseph, sure, it's your talk page, but this isn't exactly Misplaced Pages-related, and you're citing things that we don't cite here, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Swedes and half-Swedes among us are really, really offended by this kind of stuff. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 03:25, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

There's nothing for me to say regarding your first point, I've seen videos and you can't really deny the BRA statistics, and Foxnews is a RS, especially when they are quoting politicians in Sweden. Is The Local a RS? , or SVT, which aired a video with a Swedish Minister basically saying he doesn't know what to do about Malmo, . As for your second point, I would politely ask why is there selective enforcement of that policy. I have seen people having userboxes supporting Hezbollah , I have seen a userpage with "three page-downs" worth of polemic , and of course we have EEng whose entire page is not Wiki related, and of course all the "humor" users, such as Bishzilla and Lady Catherine, etc. I understand you may be offended, but how do you think I felt when I was told that I should "cloak myself in ignorance" or "profundity" and the rest of the comments, it's as if you are only welcome to discuss things if you agree, but if you disagree it's suddenly not welcome. Or how do you think I feel when a userpage has a box supporting Hezbollah? You don't thin that offends me? I may end up removing this section, but for now I think I will keep it here. Sir Joseph 03:57, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Just to add, you should watch this video, about the man on the street and what is going on in Sweden, that your aunt or relatives aren't affected, perhaps just means they live in a more affluent area. Sir Joseph 04:14, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Sure. Listen, I'm not going to point them this way, since that's just insulting. I had hoped that you would have showed a different judgment than the "you're wrong" bit. I think you completely miss the point anyway--I'm not here in some administrative capacity, though I suppose I could be, I'm just here as someone, I don't know, a human being. And you also misunderstand something else: this is not a user page, this is a user talk page. If users wish to communicate with you, they kinda have to come here. And a Hezbollah userbox, or maybe you have whatever the opposite is of a Hezbollah userbox on your talk page, we know why we have those things: they inform fellow editors about interests and what not. What I get from this strangely placed list full of incendiary stuff from unreliable sources on your talk page is--well, that this talk page is a FORUM, and we're not a forum. But by responding to you I guess I'm just contributing to that aspect of this page. Natti natti, Drmies (talk) 18:35, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

OK, I see your point, so you wouldn't have as much of a problem with this if this was on my user page? Granted, it's a bit reactionary to put this list, but I'm just a little tired of people ignoring realities. Just yesterday there was an antisemtic attack in France. Europe is not the paradise people make it out to be and we can't hide behind trying to be nice when lives are at stake. (Regarding FORUM, do you not get how that is ironic that I was originally commenting on a thread on another user's talk page?) Sir Joseph 18:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Sorry, no, I didn't follow this all the way back. But this stuff about ignoring (or creating) realities, that's just not for here on this project. On a user page it is less unacceptable than on a talk page, but it's still polemic. And I'm not going to discuss "lives at stake" with you here, especially not when we have real dangers to deal with rather than hypothetical ones. Personally, I share, of course, your disgust of antisemitism, and I wish that its dangers were taken more seriously, and its causes and proponents discussed and brought out in the open, not done away with by way of platitude. I donated money for the repair of the headstones in St. Louis, and I am sure you were as heartened as I was at the Muslim community coming together to support those repairs. L'union fait la force, my dear Joseph, and I think you will find that Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, Jews, and African Americans are doing a nice job of showing solidarity for each other and each other's intersectionalities. But that's by the by, and this is not a forum. Drmies (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

The Hezbollah userbox bothered me. To be fair partly because for a while I thought it was a Hamas or similar userbox. It is really unclear because it sounds like it is referring to “from the river to the sea, all of Palestine will be free.” Then I thought “your causes are not my causes; your thoughts are not my thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8 now I don’t think any more about other people and I feel great.Jonney2000 (talk) 06:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

• I'm going to assume, from your userpage, that you (Sir Joseph) live in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In which case, you're probably aware that a Jewish cemetery in Philly was vandalized overnight, and bomb threats have been called in against Jewish community centers both in Philly and around the nation (). So I'm going to politely suggest that your concern over the growing tide of anti-Semitism—which I share—might be best expressed not by lecturing Swedes on the "crappiness" of their country, but rather by meditating on goings-on closer to home. There are people nearby who are threatened by anti-Semitism, and who could use your support, in any form in which you care to provide it (outside of jingoistic lectures, that is). In particular, the coy will-they-or-won't-they flirtation between one of our two major political parties and the white-supremacist/neo-Nazi extreme-right fringe is something to consider, if you're curious why anti-Semites suddenly feel emboldened and validated here in the US. You might also wonder why our elected leaders and right-wing media (to the extent that the two remain distinct) are so intent on fabricating made-up massacres and incidents (Bowling Green, Atlanta, now Sweden) while remaining noticeably silent about these sorts of incidents that are happening on the plane of objective reality. MastCell  22:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

• MastCell, I of course am painfully aware of the US' growing antisemitism, especially over the past few years. My point in this was in response to another page's assertion that Sweden is all honky-doory. People, and especially those on the left, have an all-or-none thing going. They latch on to one thing Trump said, and can't understand that Sweden is indeed having problems with immigrants. There is no denying that there are places where cops don't go. Look at the Twitter feed that James provided below. The EMS needs to respond with body armor because they get attacked, sometimes with grenades. We don't do anyone any favors when we deny there are problems. In the US with the rise in antisemitism, at least the media is finally reporting on it, and people are doing something about it. As one of the videos in the below feed points out, you can't fix a problem if you're not able to discuss it. I can still walk around my neighborhood at night without fear of being beaten up. The same can't be said for most places in Europe. Sir Joseph 23:48, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

@Sir Joseph: Have you followed Tim Pool's recent Sweden reporting? (https://twitter.com/Timcast) His few short videos are more informative than a week's worth of MSM. The most recent one (an interview with a muslim immigrant) was particularly good. James J. Lambden (talk) 23:03, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, I think I saw one a while ago, I'm now going to watch more of them and hopefully follow him for more. Sir Joseph 23:49, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

This video, was especially scary. Sir Joseph 00:23, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

It's a family in a living room. And a dude in a car. You are so incredibly wrong about Europe and the walking around bit. "The EMS needs to respond with body armor"? Check this out. This is Misplaced Pages, by the way--not a place to solve the world's problems, and Twitter is not a reliable source. If you stop grandstanding about people "on the left", that would be great: stating that this stuff about "places cops won't go" is nonsense doesn't mean stating that there no problems with immigration. Can we carry on now? Drmies (talk) 02:19, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

You know how chilling the environment in Wiki is because I feel that I feel I can't respond freely, especially with an admin, but I will try. Have you watched the video or are you just commenting? Besides the whole Israel bit, he says 80% of the migrants to Sweden are ISIS. You keep saying Twitter is not a RS, but the videos on the Twitter feed that James J. Lambden pointed out is a journalist posting his videos. I have also seen yesterday a video with the EMS spokesman saying that his personnel do indeed wear body protection because they routinely get attacked. That you found one shootout in LA doesn't mean anything, that's not a daily occurrence. And again, it's not "nonsense" that there are no-go zones. And please don't try to tell me that I am wrong about Europe and walking around. Do I now need to post links to attacks on Jews in Europe? This is what I am talking about when people can't see that there is a problem. And not being able to say there is a problem, will mean the problem never gets fixed, as was pointed out by Ivar Arpi at: Sir Joseph 02:41, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

• To close this out, here is the final video from Tim, Sweden has real problems, "Can you trust the media in Sweden? I'll tell you flat out, no."

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Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Wayne Shaw (footballer)

If you don't mind, could this please be relisted. While I agree that numerically there were more "keep" !votes, I am not sure whether the concerns about "one event" or the coverage of local tabloidy sources was adequately discussed. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 14:48, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

I don't think it was an issue of one event, in my opinion it passed GNG which would then make it appropriate for a keep. You can go to Misplaced Pages:Deletion_review, I have no problem with that. Or, you can discuss on the talk page and if the article doesn't change to meet your expectations, you can open another AFD. Sir Joseph 15:32, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Banned sock puppet

Please don't delete the comment of a user until an admin or other official has made a determination that they are a banned user. Being blocked for using an open IP is not the same thing. Felsic2 (talk) 19:32, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

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