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Happy editing! BilledMammal (talk) 07:33, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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BilledMammal (talk) 07:40, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Jim Swan. Thanks! Greenman (talk) 20:26, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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NagalimNE (talk) 13:12, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by David Biddulph (talk) 12:40, 14 December 2021 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).[reply]

Hi Xland44! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, How do I delete my draft page?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread. See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). Muninnbot (talk) 19:02, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pages can only be protected by an administrator. Just placing the tag at the top of the page has no effect. If you believe a page should be protected, make a case at WP:RFPP. Zero^talk 01:00, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Zero0000: Thank you! I ended up realizing that after a few minutes of confusion haha, and indeed have already submitted a request (although it's since been denied). Thank you very much!! --Xland44 (talk) 08:24, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Xland44! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, How do I edit this "Decadebox" template?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread. See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edit to the Mahmoud Darwish article did not completely accurately reflect the original article you cited. I have fixed it, but here were the problems:

Your version read, Prime Minister Ehud Barak rejected the proposal on the grounds that "the time is not ripe" to teach Darwish in schools, as it legitimizes the negation of Zionism

1. A more minor citation misdemeanor: the article cited Barak using a mixture of paraphrase and direct quotation: the time "is not ripe". You changed the extent of the direct quote: "the time is not ripe". Please distinguish carefully between direct quotations and paraphrased text.
2. A confusing phrasing: I understood your text to cite Barak's critique of Darwish's work as legitimizing the negation of Zionism. The BBC article, however, stated that the opposition Likud party accused Mr Sarid of "legitimising the negation of Zionism" , not that Darwish legitimizes this. Perhaps the text you inserted was somewhat ambiguous.

I mention this to be helpful. Good luck with further editing! Clean Copy^talk 16:01, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Neither one was intentionally incorrect, thanks for pointing out the errors and explaining why you corrected it. I really appreciate the heads up! Xland44 (talk) 20:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:02, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Xland44. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Joseph Naveh".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:31, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, The Wandering Inn (series), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:38, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've moved this back to drafts, because it is almost entirely unreferenced, with no evidence of notability. It would only have been deleted if it had remained in the main space. Please provide sufficient referencing before publishing it, and ideally put it through an AfC review first. Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:40, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Xland44. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:The Wandering Inn (series), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Xland44! Your additions to Nakba Law have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Hi @Diannaa,

Thank you for making Wikipedia safer. Unfortunately, I must request you to rollback your change - the cited laws I translated were directly taken from the scanned copy of the Government of Israel's laws; publicly available and in the public domain. I'll update the citation to be the PDF hosted directly from the Israeli Knesset rather than a mirror however, to make this clearer. The scanned copy comes directly from ISSN 0334-3030 "Book of Laws" which was published by the Israeli Ministry of Law pg. 686,

In case there is still any concern (although there shouldn't be, this is in the public domain), the translation of the necessary parts of this law which I provided would also fall under Fair Use in the theoretical case in which it were not public domain.

I'll also note your use of Wikipedia:Revision_deletion is a form of misuse, as per the following:

"Blatant violations of the copyright policy. Best practices for copyrighted text removal can be found at WP:Copyright problems and should take precedence over this criterion." "The community's decision was that RevisionDelete should not be used without prior clear consensus for "ordinary" incivility, attacks, or claims of editorial misconduct."

Your changes also blindly rollbacked changes to the page which did not have to do with the translation of the law.

I will be working to retranslate this section and request that in the future you use the standard procedure for removing copyrighted content if you believe something to be in transgression; as for the given page, if you have further concerns, please tag me in the Talk page of the Nakba Law, or follow the guidelines in Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution.

Thank you,

Xland44 (talk) 17:25, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I can't view the link https://fs.knesset.gov.il/18/law/18_lsr_301085.pdf; I get a message "403 Forbidden". So I went to the Wayback Machine to view an archived copy of the document, and it does not have any English content at all; it's in Hebrew.

In Israel, statutes, regulations, and the like are not subject to copyright, but any English translation of it is protected by copyright. (Since there's multiple ways to translate any given text, creating a translation of a public domain work generates a copyrightable document.) There's two alternatives: either create your own translation, or re-add the one that matches the document and add quotation marks. — Diannaa (talk) 00:05, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As a bilingual English/Hebrew speaker, the translation I provided was translated by myself in its entirety, which I translated specifically with the intent to freely give it to the public domain, with the desire to contribute to Wikipedia and the article in question. If you could be so kind as to undo your RevDel so that I won't need to put in the work once again, I would appreciate that. Xland44 (talk) 19:31, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have now restored the content. Thank you for the detailed explanation, and for your patience. — Diannaa (talk) 20:16, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!

I appreciate it a lot

Xland44 (talk) 21:41, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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