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As the time passed after I stopped contributing, I came to the conclusion that political arguments are an inherently useless waste of time, which would much better be spent on genuine education and achievement. I've learnt some things since, and enjoyed doing so. As to the Middle
Eastern articles -
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It is no secret that I cared to present the
Israeli view, and that I was the only Israeli to do so on Knowledge (during most of the period of my presence). Therefore, those who blame me for being responsible for those flamewars have a seed of truth - however, as the Hebrew saying goes, "things that
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First, I'd like to remark that my participation in the on-line encyclopedia project was a wonderful experience for me, allowing me to communicate with fascinating people, to expand my horizons in various subjects and improve my ability to express myself in
English. Being a part-time encyclopedia
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I've not contributed to
Knowledge since late November 2002, and do not plan to resume my participation in the forseeable future. More than six months have passed since; I feel it is appropriate to leave a note here at this time, as enough time has passed to allow me to exercise a degree of
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So why did I leave? During my time on
Knowledge, I took part in the editing of numerous articles, on the subject of Middle Eastern politics, which on frequent occasions developed into raging flamewars. Such atmosphere made it almost invariantly impossible to create sound articles.
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Contributing to
Knowledge is a team effort; and in many of the articles, I've had the privilege to collaborate with distinguished, intelligent and generally cool people. Many fond memories of my experiences as a Wikipedian remain with me.
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we see from here are not the things they see from there". Without anyone who understands or is ready to genuinely defend the
Israeli stance, the resulting content is severely lacking, and is "unblessed", as far as I'm concerned.
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about Israel; Since the theme of
Israeli nature appears a lot in Goldberg's poems and I almost certainly disqualified myself as a poem translator, I'd like to humbly request any Wikipedian who can translate it to do
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Hi, my name is Uri
Yanover. I'm an engineer, you may find some details about me via LinkedIn. In the distant past, I had been a Wikipedian, and made significant contribution into these articles:
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P.P.S. I enjoy a lot the mathematical section on
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they will not get better until they are edited in the spirit of true scholarship; may this happen one day.
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P.S. In response to an earlier comment, now moved to
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