User talk:TheCuratingEditor

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== Welcome! ==

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Happy editing! Selfstudier (talk) 22:44, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome . Becoming an editor after a while of making some edits under an IP address seemed to be the natural final course of development.

I just didn't think that all Arab-Israeli Conflict topics were subject to restrictions . Maybe it's a good idea to place some form of protection on that page , since even readers (IP editors) can edit it without logging in .

..I have to go and familiarize myself with Wikipedia editing . It's much more than just finding reliable sources (RS) "lawyering" (arguing) on the talk page .

Again : Thank you . I am happy to be here . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 03:14, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of AI pages are protected but not all. Its a separate thing usually added to pages following some sort of disruption. Selfstudier (talk) 09:09, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024[edit]

Hello, I'm InDimensional. I noticed that you recently removed content from History of Palestinians in Los Angeles without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. InDimensional (talk) 17:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read the above alert? Because you are editing in areas covered by it[edit]

For instance Robert F. Kennedy's 1948 visit to Palestine, Sirhan Sirhan, the article mentioned above, your addition to From Time Immemorial to Pseudo-history. The alert clearly says " any edit related to the Arab/Israel conflict " and "This prohibition is broadly construed, so it includes edits such as adding the reaction of a public figure concerning the conflict to their article or noting the position of a company or organization as it relates to the conflict." User:Selfstudier explained that not all pages are protected, we only do that if there's been a serious problem or the article is very contentious. Not all articles have a talk page notice either, although From Time Immemorial does and I've added more. Again, not possible to do all of them. I'm sorry, but if you can't figure out for yourself what's covered then it may be necessary to just block you, which would be a shame. I can't figure out why you have made edits that are so obviously in the area of the conflict. Doug Weller talk 12:58, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know Doug , the only restrictions on me are the ones which explicitly remind me that I have to have the minimum of 500 edits before editing them . The conversation with Selfstudier simply clarified to me there's more than just the protection levels involved (Whenever there's a lock icon or not) , and that's where I sticked only to articles that don't have the contentious-topic 500 edit requirement , or a protection level .

There's also this Sortie's paradox , of how can I determine if an article or edit its related to the Arab Israeli conflict , or not ? .

Prominent Living persons who are alive (Netanyahu) , or dead (Yasser Arafat) , and major events (1948 war) are clearly an active , direct part of the discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict .

On the other hand , I don't see exactly how biographies of insignificant individuals or otherwise unremarkable , some of whom from over a 1000 years ago like Eusebius , are related to discussions to the Arab/Israeli conflict itself . Their relevancy at most as I understand is just them happening to be from the same region where it's happening , which I assume you are saying is within the "any edit" restriction .

Regardless of my contention , I am going to admit that I don't have permission to edit Sirhan and Kennedys' articles for two reasons :

1)They are related to the problems in the Middle-East in some from , despite being a peripheral affair to the conflict itself .

2)My edits on the Kennedy article do indirectly involve the Arab-Israeli in an otherwise short trip conflict through its annotating hyperlinks in Kennedy's statements .

I will try being more mindful in future edits . Apologies for any misunderstanding or damages ..I am still a novice editor who still edits sporadically , and didn't get a full hang of the editing protocols . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 14:06, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The revert to Eusebius was by User:Sinclairian, nothing to do with the sanctions, see their edit summary. There's no paradox there. Changing Palestine to Israel if the source backs the original text would. You are expected to understand what the conflict covers and that shouldn't be a problem. Doug Weller talk 15:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please show me how the source justified this edit[edit]

The edit is [1] and the source [2]. You also deleted "The establishment of the state of Israel led to many Palestinian Jews becoming Israeli citizens, and those that remained Palestinian were principally Arab, many of which were then displaced in the Nakba due to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War." How is that not covered by the sanctions? Doug Weller talk 13:00, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The edit and source links lead to the same page . Anyway as already stated : my reasoning was that the article should reflect the national demonyms of our time .

Both Israelis and Palestinians at one point considered themselves "Palestinians" in some varying regional and legal sense as the inhabitants of Mandatory Palestine . However the Arab inhabitants had a prior history of using the term as a national demonym in the late Ottoman period that didn't involve foreign or colonial influences . Hence , I removed the paragraph mentioning Israelis as "Palestinian Jews" , especially in an article that focuses on a Muslim and Christian population .

As for "Hos is that not covered by the sanctions?" , I already said in the prior thread I wasn't aware the restrictions also included the edits themselves ( I thought only restrictions are on articles) , and that I don't see how a diaspora population is related in discussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict .

The only new thing I learnt from this new thread is that "Any edit" rule also includes removal of lines having hyperlinks leading to those same articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict .

..Roger , I got it ...I guess I can't edit at all then . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 14:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Demonyms need to reflect sources. And we don't use our knowledge or experience as a basis for editing.

Get 500 edits by making useful edits in non CT topic areas. Then you will be free to edit. This will also give you some time to familiarize yourself with the sometimes convoluted WP procedures and practices. Selfstudier (talk) 14:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty much what I thought .

Thank you for clarifying things to me ., embarrassingly , once again after 3 months . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 14:32, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ARBECR[edit]

This isn't an edit request per WP:EDITXY.

WP:ARBECR stipulates that you may only make straightforward edit requests, please do keep this in mind. Thanks. Selfstudier (talk) 13:17, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the message .

So should just reply to the thread to specify what the edit should be ? , or it's too late and the thread is an invalid edit request ? . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 14:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

..Oh , I just noticed it has been deleted .

Perhaps I'll make a new thread sometime , but much more specific to the edit's nature , as the samples at WP:EDITXY have shown .

Thanks anyway . TheCuratingEditor (talk) 14:28, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]