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		For your many fine contributions to articles about districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California, I present you this barnstar on behalf of the Wikipedia community. Thanks for your help. Cheers, -Will Beback 09:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We need Sources for Westside (Los Angeles County). Can you help? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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	Congratulations, Daniel E. Romero, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia! Thank you for all the quality gnoming you've been doing most recently, and for your contributions to Los Angeles related articles now and in the past. Hope you keep up the great work :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:30, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding your recent edits to this article. The gemara in Niddah does not say what you claim it does. I had to revert your edit in that section. Debresser (talk) 16:37, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I notice that you have been editing articles about the neighborhoods in Los Angeles to omit the ethnic characteristics from the lead paragraphs of said articles, with (usually) edit summaries decrying the information as having "racial" overtones, or similar wording. Don't you agree that the ethnic character of a neighborhood is one of the district's most salient features? Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:41, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You responded to this comment at User_talk:GeorgeLouis#Ethnic_Character_of_Neighborhoods, and I also responded there, where I made a proposal. Let's keep talking over there. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:03, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New stuff at User_talk:GeorgeLouis#Ethnic_Character_of_Neighborhoods and at User:GeorgeLouis/Sandbox. GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:39, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your recent message. However, there appears to have been a misunderstanding: it was I who deleted the sentences on flexibility in halachah and white talletot, and another editor who reinstated them.

In my edit summary, I gave full reasons for my edit. Fuller reasons are as follows:

On the whole I agree that Sephardim do tend to a more lenient and "centrist" view of halachah, but there are exceptions: Zimmels, in his Ashkenazim and Sephardim, lists examples of "Sephardic strictness and Ashkenazic leniency" as well as the reverse. The more important point is that section in question was a list of specific customs and usages. It was not intended to set out the general intellectual methodology of the different communities, which would require an article in itself. (On the talk page of the article I did raise the question whether there should be a separate article on "Sephardic Judaism" about the intellectual approach of the communities.) Or if it is to go in this article, there should be a separate section, with full discussion and citation of sources: Zvi Zohar, "He'iru Pene Ha-mizraḥ", might be a good place to start. I agree with you that just saying "Sephardim are more reasonable" or words to that effect, without discussion or substantiation, is unencyclopaedic (and being reasonable is not a "custom"!).

On talletot, I know that plain white talletot are recommended by the Ovadia Yosef school. Also, many people wear "white on white" striped talletot on Rosh Hashanah and Kippur for Kabbalistic reasons, but some Ashkenazim do this as well. Traditionally, Spanish and Portuguese Jews wore silk talletot (which did have blue stripes); the Ben Ish Hai holds that wool is halachically preferable but says nothing about colours. Similarly, Spanish and Portuguese Jews wear them like a shawl with all four corners in front, while Syrian (and I believe Moroccan) Jews fold the two back corners over their shoulders like the Ashkenazim. All in all, the picture is too diverse to allow any meaningful statement about what "Sephardim" do about talletot.

I would welcome further discussion to improve the article; and I shall hold off reinstating my edit till we have tried to resolve it. I would be interested to know your views. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 10:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your looking at the article and all, but can we talk on the talk page about undue weight being given to eastsider.com's fairly idiosyncratic definition being given such prominence?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 03:32, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure what you are asking. I am editing to reflect new information: The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council officially voted it is not the East Side, and those areas east of Downtown are the East Side. I am editing the article to reflect this. http://laist.com/2014/02/06/silver_lake_admits_that_its_not_the.php

Look at the list of neighborhoods that have been added to the list; e.g. Los Feliz, Atwater Village, and so on. This website, not even an online newspaper, theeastsider.com, made up a definition of the East side that's not supported by any reliable source at all, and yet the article now makes it seem like there's a legitimate dispute about this. There isn't. Mapping LA and every other reliable source in the universe says that the East side is East of downtown. The only reason the Silver Lake neighborhood council had to deny that is because the whole city was laughing at them for ever claiming that they were on the East side. There's not a dispute about this at all. Framing it as if there is is giving serious undue weight to the opinion of one unreliable source.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 03:46, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These are all in the templates. Is there a good reason to duplicate them in duplicated see also sections?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 03:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I see no great harm in having more than one internal link. Can you elucidate? GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was asking about this and this.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:52, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Daniel! I took a look at this edit.

AFAIK they are zoned there. But, I removed it because West Hollywood Elementary now has a picture. Fairfax HS is not in the West Hollywood city limits, but West Hollywood ES is in the city limits. Usually I try to limit the pictures within articles to schools within the community.

The only time I made an exception is Meyerland, Houston but in this case reliable sources discuss the connection between Bellaire High and Meyerland WhisperToMe (talk) 08:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel, do you edit the Spanish Wikipedia? If so, are you willing to add information to es:Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los Ángeles? WhisperToMe (talk) 12:44, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message.

I removed the references because the article concerns verifiable questions of halachah le-ma'aseh: in other words, what Sephardic laws and customs in fact are, and the historical development behind them. The general Sephardic approach to Judaism (such as different attitudes to secular learning and philosophy) is a far wider topic, which really deserves an article of its own. Entering this territory also comes perilously near to saying "look how much more reasonable we Sephardim are"; which I happen to agree with, but is not really an encyclopaedic fact!

I don't feel very strongly about this, and won't remove the references again if you really want them in, but I do not think they really belong. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 14:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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