User talk:Wisenerd

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed 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 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction to contentious topics

You have recently edited a page related to the Arab–Israeli conflict, a topic designated as contentious. This is a brief introduction to contentious topics and does not imply that there are any issues with your editing.

A special set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as contentious topics. These are specially designated topics that tend to attract more persistent disruptive editing than the rest of the project and have been designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee. When editing a contentious topic, Wikipedia’s norms and policies are more strictly enforced, and Wikipedia administrators have an expanded level of powers and discretion in order to reduce disruption to the project.

Within contentious topics, editors should edit carefully and constructively, refrain from disrupting the encyclopedia, and:

adhere to the purposes of Wikipedia;
comply with all applicable policies and guidelines;
follow editorial and behavioural best practices;
comply with any page restrictions in force within the area of conflict; and
refrain from gaming the system.

Additionally, you must be logged-in, have 500 edits and an account age of 30 days, and are not allowed to make more than 1 revert within 24 hours on a page within this topic.

Editors are advised to err on the side of caution if unsure whether making a particular edit is consistent with these expectations. If you have any questions about contentious topics procedures, you may ask them at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard or you may learn more about this contentious topic here. You may also choose to note which contentious topics you know about by using the {{Ctopics/aware}} template.

Richard Nevell (talk) 22:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on List of massacres in the Palestinian territories

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of massacres in the Palestinian territories, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:44, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft wikipedia article - Controversies surrounding restrictions on pro-Palestinian expression in Germany's cultural sector

Hi there! I'm not new to Wikipedia but I haven't created many pages. I would love any advice on a page I made, Draft wikipedia article - Controversies surrounding restrictions on pro-Palestinian expression in Germany's cultural sector - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Censorship_of_pro-Palestinian_expression_in_the_cultural_sector_of_Germany. If you could offer any guidance or help - or if you wanted to add to the article - I'd be honored! Thanks so much for your time Sellotapemaskingtape (talk) 13:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of neutral point of view noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Should we try to correct for reliable sources being systematically biased against Palestinians?. Thank you. --Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 23:44, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category verification issues

Hi, I am aware that some editors use categories pretty loosely, but they are also subject to the verifiability policy. I noticed you added some articles to this category when their articles did not describe them as "anti-Zionist". To be included in this category the person must self-identify as anti-Zionist or be described as such in reliable sources that are cited in the article.In this article for example the only arguably anti-zionist statement or action that appears is referring to Israel as an apartheid state, but even some zionists would agree with that statement. (t · c) buidhe 01:40, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lara Rajagopalan moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Lara Rajagopalan (2). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because the subject currently does not meets the WP:GNG, WP:NBLP, WP:SINGER, and WP:BANDMEMBER criteria showing no significant coverage for individual notability from secondary reliable sources that is independent of the subject apart from passing mentions from Katseye-related and Dream Academy-related reportings. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 19:45, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on List of massacres in the United States

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of massacres in the United States, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL and missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 09:26, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve List of massacres in Western Sahara

Hello, Wisenerd,

Thank you for creating List of massacres in Western Sahara.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

What is being defined as a massacre here?

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Shocksingularity}}. Remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Shocksingularity (talk) 02:21, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Charara funeral Bint Jbeil September 2025.webp

⚠

Thanks for uploading File:Charara funeral Bint Jbeil September 2025.webp. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:07, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Categorizing bios as Israeli soldiers

Hello! I see you categorized the article Esti Ginzburg as an Israeli solder. Given that Israeli citizens are required to serve in the military, I don't think this amounts to a defining characteristic, as required by WP:CAAP#D. I would imagine this applies to most articles on famous Israelis who served. If there's been a discussion on this or something though and I'm wrong, feel free to let me know! Mbinebri (talk) 23:13, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My rule of thumb is that if it's notable enough for Wikipedia, it's notable enough to categorize. There are plenty of Israelis whose possible military service is not mentioned on their page. As such, I wouldn't include it in their categories. Wisenerd (talk) 23:31, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:NOTABILITY, that information should only be included on their page if it is significant and noteworthy to the person. Esti Ginzburg has such an entry on her page:

_{She was enlisted to the Israel Defense Forces on 22 July 2009 as a soldier. In October of that year, while speaking in support of military enlistment, she caused headlines by criticizing her fellow Israeli model Bar Refaeli for evading military service via a short-lived marriage to a family friend. While serving as an Israeli soldier, Ginzburg said: "Military service is part of the things I personally believe in."}

If you want to remove this from her page, then feel free to. I'm just trying to organize the pages now, but if there needs to be a talk about this I'm open to starting one under the category talk page. Wisenerd (talk) 23:36, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"My rule of thumb is that if it's notable enough for Wikipedia, it's notable enough to categorize." That is really, really not how categorization works. Again, Wikipedia policy—try WP:CATDEF too—ties categorization to defining characteristics, not to every potential piece of information in an article. Wikipedia even has an an entire page dedicated to avoiding this. In Ginzburg's case, and probably many others, her military service is irrelevant to her notability and not defining. Mbinebri (talk) 00:08, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did a cursory look up of Ginzberg and it appears that her IDF service is relevant to her notability up until media appearances in October 2023. That makes it more central to her career than Adam Driver's military career, who still has on his page Category:Military personnel from Indiana and Category:Military personnel from San Diego County, California Wisenerd (talk) 00:17, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But it seems like this debate is more suited for the talk page of the category than my talk page. I will be moving it there. Wisenerd (talk) 00:18, 12 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on List of massacres in Palestine

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of massacres in Palestine, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL and missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 23:20, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]