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Welcome to Wikipedia, Jgarpal! I am AFriedman and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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AFriedman (talk) 09:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to Wikipedia edit

Thanks for sharing the Category for deletion discussion. Yes, antisemitism is a real phenomenon on Wikipedia and I've encountered it more than once. Although I don't happen to agree with you about the category issue, it is very nice to see how committed you are to preventing Jewish topics from being treated unfairly. I am especially happy that someone with your outlook comes from Spain. I was just in Spain this past summer and there doesn't seem to be a lot of understanding of what Jews and Judaism really are over there. That's not surprising to me, because Jews haven't had a particular cultural or economic reason to leave our home countries and return to Spain in large numbers since we were expelled. Judaism in Spain was also suppressed for a very long time after 1492. Actually, the expulsion and forced conversion of the Spanish Jews is considered by Jews to be one of the major tragedies in Jewish history, possibly on the order of the loss of the Ten Lost Tribes. Spain had a very rich Jewish culture at one time. Nowadays, so many Spanish people are descended from Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity but because so few Spanish people are active Jews, it becomes more difficult for people in Spain to learn about this part of their cultural heritage.

Also, I'd like to know what else you would be interested in editing. I'd be happy to answer any questions you've got about the encyclopedia. --AFriedman (talk) 10:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

You wrote on my page edit

Jgarpal,

You wrote on my page about why I converted to atheism from Christianity. I would love to talk about this. If you're still interested, please write me on my talk page.

Sincerely, 0nlyth3truth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 0nlyth3truth (talkcontribs) 01:06, 9 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Your contributed article, King Jesus Ministry edit

 

Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, King Jesus Ministry. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - El Rey Jesus. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will to continue helping improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at El Rey Jesus - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Alex Sink edits edit

The reason I changed your entries on Alex Sink was that you did not approach the article's political positions with an unbiased eye. There are several other political positions you could have also inserted and it appears to me that the four you used were biased against this candidate (abortion, gay adoption, immigration, health care) and could sway a voter. One should approach a subject with complete objectivity. Quotes are excellent in articles with sources. Happy editing and thanks: Review Editor, Noles1984 (talk) 16:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello edit

I would like to ask you, what do you know about Israel? thanks. --Ademsemir (talk) 16:43, 9 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

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