User:Jnothman

Hi, my name's Joel Nothman, a Wikipedian when I need to procrastinate. I have been absent from Wikipedia essentially since 2007, not for lack of alternative procrastination. I am an observant Jew living in Sydney, Australia, studying at the University of Sydney, messing my way through a B.Sc./B.A.. I am likely to major in Computer Science (interested in computational linguistics), Linguistics and Classical Hebrew. I have plenty of other committments, so Wikipedia just comes as a procrastination tool- and it is very effective at its job, too. See also my web site. My interests are many, so maybe once I've consolidated a list, I'll write about them. I think most areas of my knowledge that will come into use on Wikipedia, though, are in relation to Judaism/Israel, particularly focussing on Zionism and Zionist history, modern Israel, Hebrew and Israeli linguistics, etc. I enjoy responding to questions on the Help Desk and occasionally the email one too. If I really feel like spending lots of time in the Wikipedia world, I monitor the recent changes with CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter and deliberate on the day's always-stunning collection of AFDs (see my afd helper script). I have also been working on scripts to make Wikipedia nicer to use and moderate, and am a member of WikiProject User scripts. See my Wikipedia contribs or kate's edit count.

Now: Monday 20 April 17:44 UTC Useful links, etc: Help Desk Today's AFDs Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) Israel-related topics Cleanup resources Wikipedia:Stub types Category:Judaism stubs Category:Jewish history stubs On other wikis Hebrew Wikipedia Wiktionary

Tools, complex templates, etc MediaWiki patches to bugs #146, #1211, #1212 Template:bibleverse and the associated php script afd helper tool to make voting on AFDs a lot quicker Todo Add cookie use to AFD show/hide tool Bible source selector script companion to Template:bibleverse Articles, etc Working on: Conversation analysis Possible Todos: Eureka Prize Joshua ben Gamala / Joshua ben Gamla / Jesus ben Gamala [1] Hanukkah Maccabees List of Jewish surnames Jewish denominations Template:Hebrew alphabet and letter articles Politics of Israel Religion in Israel World Union of Jewish Students and related articles Adjacency pair, Discourse analysis, Preference (conversation analysis) or Preference organisation, repair sequence or repair (conversation analysis) (NTRIs, self-repair), pre-sequence Higher School Certificate Clean up Fiddler on the Roof Category:Bible exegetes or Category:Bible commentators Jews in Australia but on Judaism in Oz rather than individuals. See [2] Knesset - a mess of POV and original research Mishnaic Hebrew language: needs a lot of work- common verbal forms; Aramaic and Greek influences; comparison to LBH, DSSH Jews against circumcision / Brit Shalom: research, probably merge and expand Wikiproject:Given_names or Wikiproject:Onomastics to make an encyclopedia of given names (or onomastics), expanding on the likes of www.behindthename.com. See Category:Given_names or John (name) for a good example. But it seems that this may be more wanted in Wiktionary New Jew Kippah - some ideas in the talk page... Category:Jewish_liturgy pages Niqqud could do with some organising and maybe more detail Hebrew phonology Israeli music List of Israeli musical artists these pages need a lot of work in merging and providing content Hineni (youth movement), a youth movement I am involved in, which may or may not deserve entry into Wikipedia. Other similar movements have web pages on Wikipedia, but at least some of them are more international. Here is Hineni online. Birthright Israel add to Paramount Pictures per http://www.cartoonresearch.com/paramount.html take on a dump file at Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation; solve some Wikipedia:Bad links Done with for now Kaddish Zionist youth movement. My first article! Was easier to define and work with than Zionist youth group or Jewish youth organization, etc... Dudu Fisher. My second article started. Nurit Hirsh. Largely a translation from Hebrew Wikipedia Shalom. Wrote more complete use in expressions section.

Barnstars

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This Working Man's Barnstar is awarded to Jnothman for his tireless and diligent work on the reference desk templates! -- Natalya 19:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

File:Barnstar-lightbulb3.png		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		Thanks for making such a useful tool (AfD Helper)! I used to comment on AfD's a lot, but quit because it took forever. Now, I can comment on more AfD's in less time! Thank you again! NF24(radio me!Editor review) 15:43, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

File:Vitruvian Barnstar.png		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For writing a script that can be easily retooled into manty purposes. Will (talk) 18:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)