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Leib Gurwicz

File:Rav Gurwicz.JPG

Just to thank you for uploading the beautiful new image of Rabbi Leib Gurwicz, the old one was atrocious! Chesdovi 15:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Recent categorization edits

Hi, Lostvelt, and welcome to Wikipedia. I found a couple of your recent edits to be slightly problematic, and I want to point out two things:

1. The two categories Category:Religious Zionist Rosh yeshivas and Category:Hasidic Rosh yeshivas should not have the word "rosh" capitalized, according to convention. That is why you may notice that I am requesting them for deletion and re-creating them at Category:Religious Zionist rosh yeshivas and Category:Hasidic rosh yeshivas, respectively. Yes, it's a little pedantic, but things like grammar and capitalization are important in an encyclopedia.
2. I noticed that in a few cases you have removed categories that were serving useful purposes. For example, you removed both Category:Lithuanian Jews and Category:Orthodox rabbis from Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman. The second category can indeed be removed, because anyone in Category:Rosh yeshivas can be assumed to be an Orthodox rabbi. However, Category:Lithuanian Jews should not have been removed, because it serves to connect the Jews of Lithuania in a single category. (In this case, since Category:Lithuanian rabbis exists, that would be an even better category.) In many other cases as well, multiple categories are appropriate.

Hatlacha rabba in your continued work on Wikipedia! --Eliyak T·C 21:11, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Template

{{Commentators on the Jerusalem Talmud}} is a very nice template. What is missing IMHO is the name of the commentaries. Who wrote the Pnei Moshe? JFW | T@lk 21:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. I get your point. But who is more important, the commentary or the person who wrote it :-).

For multiple commentaries I would put, behind the name of the author, the names of the commentaries - seperated by a bullet or a comma if necessary. For commentaries embedded in other works I would prefix the name of the works in question with "in:".

Just an idea.

Not that I want to give you extra work or something. JFW | T@lk 21:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Your idea is interesting, but it would imply that we would have seperate pages on the commentaries and seperate ones on their authors! On Wikipedia I fear these commentaries would be deleted for reasons of obscurity. But it may be worth trying. JFW | T@lk 21:37, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Question

Hi. I understand the need for a "Hasidic rabbis" category, by why would you be removing parallel national categories such as "American rabbis", "Romanian rabbis" etc.? This is likely an oversight on your part, but its effects are disruptive. Dahn 22:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, the situation you describe, with or without exceptions to the rule, is basically the same for all national categories leading to all professions. If a person was simply living in a country, he should not be in national categories - if he had the nationality of n number of countries, then I hope you will agree with me that the exact value of n should also be reflected in categories (in the few cases where the subject of an article had a large number of citizenships, the categories will be a large number themselves, since this is helpful to the reader, and since it is ultimately unavoidable - for a "non-rabbi" example, see Christian Rakovsky). The Hasidic category, for example, describes the kind of rabbi, and does not supplant the citizenship of the rabbi - if done properly, as I attempt to do it, this folds neatly into the category tree (for example, the "Romanian" part connects the articles with their Romanian context, through related categories, whereas the "Hasidic" part connects them to their particular theological school - this has an obvious purpose, and is by no means redundant, afaict. Dahn 23:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

this might interest you

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Messianic Jews and Hebrew Christians --Yeshivish 06:31, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Just wanted to add my words of welcome to you. I have noticed your work. IZAK 07:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Nachman Shlomo Greenspan

Well done! A nicely put-together article. --Redaktor 22:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Rabbi Avraham Eliezer Alperstein.JPG

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Greetings.

Hello Lostvelt: I just wanted to let you know again that I have come across and seen your work relating to rabbonim and Yiddishkeit and it looks very good. Congratulations. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 12:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

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Rav Chaim Joseph Gottlieb of Stropkov

Lostvelt, I saw that you contributed to the article about Rav Chaim Joseph Gottlieb of Stropkov. I am a descandant of the Rav and wanted to ask you if you are too or if you have any other relationship to Stropkov or the Gottlieb family.

Thank you and Shana Tova! Felix

(you can email me at fesky22188@web.de) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fesky22188 (talk • contribs) 09:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

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