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Titles of rabbonim

I'm not so clear what is the policy for using titles of rabbonim? Because a lot of articles refer to rabbonim as Rabbi ______, but someone used MOS:CREDENTIAL to call all rabbonim by their first name here? Does it depend on whether it is the first time reerring to him and subsequent use? Yeshivish613 (talk) 21:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I cited MOS:CREDENTIAL. "Rabbi" belongs in the honorific slot of the infobox, and once in the opening line ". . . was a rabbi". Further use doesn't provide any new information and is against our style guide. This is an encyclopedia. GordonGlottal (talk) 23:12, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I understand, I'm referring to when the article referenced other rabbis (not the subject of the article) which you removed their title to just say their full name. Yeshivish613 (talk) 23:14, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

According to your reasoning @GordonGlottal, when mentioning rabbis for the first time in the article (such as the Steipler, Chazon Ish and others in the article you reverted) they should have a title? Yeshivish613 (talk) 02:55, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's precisely where MOS:CREDENTIAL applies. If it's directly relevant to why they're being mentioned in the article, say "who is a rabbi". But no one gets a title just because they have a title. GordonGlottal (talk) 14:47, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

K-T-B

This is a fascinating article, but ... This has been unreferenced for over 15 years. If it's notable, then find and add reliable sources. If not, then please do us a favor and nominate it at WP:AfD. I alerted the linguistics community and an editor questioned its notability. Bearian (talk) 02:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weekly Torah portion articles

I've been looking at various Weekly Torah portion articles and have found that they have major WP:OR problems in common in the "In classical rabbinic interpretation" and "In medieval rabbinic interpretation" sections, which in all of the articles I've reviewed cite solely to the Talmud and various medieval rabbis, respectively. Likewise, they all have lengthy "further reading" lists and lots of uncited paragraphs. voorts (talk/contributions) 19:06, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Possible list of sages of the Talmud

I'm considering on writing a Wikipedia list of every sage in the Talmud but I'm not entirely if this would be possible. Can I have some opinions on this idea? ―Howard • 🌽³³ 20:29, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's quite ambitious, just as a pointer the ArtScroll book Introduction to the Talmud has a list and biography on a lot, possibly all of them. Yeshivish613 (talk) 16:13, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edah HaChareidis

Could someone please take a look at this article Especially these edits..[1]. Doug Weller talk 19:08, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help in reviewing user's contributions?

I came across a quote in the Joseph McCarthy article that plainly did not exist in the source, nor in any archived versions of the source AND contradicted the source. The quote in the article claimed McCarthy wasn't antisemitic, whereas the source it cited stated that "Anti-Semitism did factor into McCarthy’s attacks against the Malmedy prosecutors and his defense of the perpetrators, and so did opportunism."

I tracked down the editor who added the quote and pinged them, but got no reply. I have removed that quote, but when I looked at the editors contributions, they were almost all on topics relating to Judaism, many of them quite nuanced.

I have fairly elementary Jewish education, and do not pretend to understand many of the people and subjects the user edited. I fear -- based solely on quote absolving McCarthy of antisemitism that did not exist in the source -- that there could be other, similar instances, but cannot be sure. Is anyone here willing to spot check some of their contributions?

I will pore over their contributions to see if there are any that I might be able to check myself.

Thank you in advance! Delectopierre (talk) 08:33, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ostjuden

I've just translated the Ostjuden article from it.wiki and would be grateful if users of this project could help me improve its quality, including the appropriate templates, categorisations, etc. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 18:27, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Jewish deli, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
_{Delivered by — MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team}[reply]

Yad Vashem

Can someone please review the edits of user Emesz at Yad Vashem? The latest is to add a list of people Emesz thinks should be a "righteous among the nations" but are excluded despite being "some very deserving Rescuers". I've tried to explain that an editor can't decide by themselves that there is a controversy but that they need a source which describes it as a controversy. In no case has Emesz tried to find a source connecting these people to Vad Vashem; instead it is only what Emesz thinks should be that counts. But my explanation of policy is falling on deaf ears and I don't want to be the only editor reverting there. Zero^talk 11:32, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is clearly WP:OR, I'm watching the page now and if it approaches an edit war I will warn him and if necessary get him banned by an admin. Yeshivish613 (talk) 14:03, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please help de-orphan Eliyahu Leon Levi

The article on Eliyahu Leon Levi is an orphan since 2015. It is one of the oldest orphans on Wikipedia. It should be easy to de-orphan the article by placing the link on List of rabbis but that requires a knowledge that I do not have. To which type of rabbis does he belong? Can someone please help to de-orphan the article and maybe address the other issues tagged as well? Thanks! Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 03:19, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Added him to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Kabbalists#20th_century_Kabbalah. It's possible he should go in the Modern teachers of Jewish mysticism section instead, though that whole list is a bit...sloppy?

Someone with more knowledge than I could probably add him to the Kabbalah article, as well as Rabbinic presence in Bnei Brak.

Delectopierre (talk) 06:05, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]