M.Bitton

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		The Gold STiki Barnstar of Merit
		Congratulations, M.Bitton! You're receiving this barnstar of merit because you recently crossed the 25,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 14:40, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Hi, because of lack of time, i was not able to complete the article yesterday, thank you very much for taking the time to explain me how to use the Harv style and for completing (and correcting my mistakes) my edits at Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire. Cheers. ---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 21:36, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

@Wikaviani: Thanks! Glad I could help. M.Bitton (talk) 23:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	It’s always great to see more people fighting vandalism. Have a star! Jeb3Talk at me hereWhat I've Done 23:41, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

@Jebcubed: Thank you so much for your encouragement. M.Bitton (talk) 23:57, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

I see that you check recent edits for appropriateness. I clicked through to see a set of the reversions that you had made for rejected submissions, and I agreed with all of what I saw you had done. It seemed apparent to me through the decisions you made and the comments that you left that you were giving human attention to the decisions you made rather than over-relying on tools and automation. Thanks for that, and thanks especially for the notes you leave. You are doing good review. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:39, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:07, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	For your excellent job with creating the administrative maps of Albania! Ahmet Q. (talk) 07:40, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

@Ahmet Q.: Thank you so much for your feedback. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:27, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Another barnstar for you!

		The Original Barnstar
		For answering a lot of edit requests and helping to keep the backlog at bay. For a while, I was taking care of that on my own, and it feels nice to see someone else get to it first every now and then! Actualcpscm (talk) 17:22, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

@Actualcpscm: thank you very much for the encouragement and for tackling those time consuming edit requests that tend to be pushed to the back of the queue. Keep up the great work! Best, M.Bitton (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for your incredible work on the Horn of Africa relief map :)

		The Original Barnstar
		Here's a barnstar for your incredible work on the Horn of Africa relief map! Really appreciate the effort you put into it :) KluskaSlaska (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Also, on a related note, I would love to do some more map work once I have more time in late summer. Do you have any good guides on how to get started on maps for Wikipedia? :) KluskaSlaska (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@KluskaSlaska: Thank you so much for your feedback. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good guides that would help you. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 14:02, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed in myself for not giving this to you sooner! You have been a great help creating maps for many articles, don't stop doing what you do! – Treetoes023 (talk) 22:09, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

@Treetoes023: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 12:01, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Barbary slave trade

Due to unrelated drama I won't bore you with, I found myself looking at the history of this article, and uuh, thanks. A whole lot of POV-pushing was going on. When I have fewer tabs open I will try to remember to come back and give you a barnstar.

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank you for your great Anti-Vandalism work on Wikipedia! I really appreciate it! :D Wiiformii (talk) 23:24, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

@Wiiformii: Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 23:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Libyan genocide

Hi, thanks for reverting the speedy deletion notice. I wasn't sure if it was appropriate, so thank you for clarifying. Should I use the Template:Copyvio to hide the offending passages instead? Meluiel (talk) 20:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

If you're sure that a specific section is copyvio, then you might as well remove it. For other scenarios, you have a range of options (tagging, etc.). Obviously, there is also the option paraphrasing it yourself if you have access to the source, though that's entirely up to you. M.Bitton (talk) 23:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the advice, I'll do that now. And what about copyvio content in the page history? That's still a problem, right? Meluiel (talk) 11:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

(friendly page stalker) depending on how bad or extensive it is, yes, usually. Diannaa or another admin should be glad to help with that; Wikipedia is pretty serious about copyvio. Fix the article before you contact them, though, or they will put up an notice that makes it really hard to see the problematic content and therefor very hard to fix. Usually when this has arisen -- it comes up in translations from other projects -- I have had to rewrite from scratch Elinruby (talk) 21:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Right, yeah, it's a pain. The copyright infringing content has existed since the first version of the article, which (from what I understand of the various copyright processes) means likely having to recreate the article. I've just deleted the content from the page for now. If you're interested, you can see the actual report here: Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2024 June 14 Meluiel (talk) 23:20, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Recreating the article is only warranted if all of it was copyvio. This isn't the case. M.Bitton (talk) 11:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Alright, thanks a lot for the info. I've definitely mangled the process a little, very sorry! I've gone and edited my entry in the copyright problems page to better match the regular formatting. It's my first time dealing with a copyright problem and I'm still a novice editor in general, so apologies for all this, and thank you for your patience. Meluiel (talk) 18:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

If you have a little time

Could you cast an eye over Morocco in World War II. No rush, no current edit war. I just came across it and it struck me as somewhat oversimplified somehow. Maybe in the unsaid implication that of course Jews were always discriminated against, which I don't think is historically true is it? As far as I can tell nothing it actually says at this point is really wrong, though. I did a driveby copy-edit, mostly for lower case, and corrected the usual conflation of the Free French with De Gaulle. I might come back to it at some point but I am still trying to get Regency of Algiers out of my hair. If you don't have time for this or are not better-better informed about this than I am, which is the underlying assumption of this request, then feel free to refer the question or ignore it altogether. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 01:06, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

@Elinruby: I can't see where it says that they were always discriminated against. While it's true that they lived in designated enclosed quarters, their economical condition wasn't that much different from the Muslims. The other issue that I see is the word "Mellah" which is currently linked to the definition and not the Mellah article (I will ping R Prazeres since they contributed a fair bit to it). M.Bitton (talk) 14:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll have a look when I can. M.Bitton is right. If I understand correctly, they may not all have been living in mellahs either (though certainly all the major cities had one), but I'd have to check that. The situation would have certainly changed after the advent of French rule in 1912 too. I fixed the link in the meantime. R Prazeres (talk) 16:52, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

@R Prazeres: I probably should have looked at the article history. I did not realize R Prazeres was involved or I would have known there was some research involved. If something gets improved as a result of the query though, I guess all is well that ends well. Here is my thinking for whatever it may be worth. I glancingly touched on this when I was working on Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and wound up deleting any mention of it there, because it wasn't really clear that there was collaboration per se -- although this is a fraught question when it comes to leaders of countries that were under Nazi/Vichy control, I incline to the view that at least some of those people were just trying to keep the power plants working -- and that if there was, the article was already long enough to need a split and there were far better examples. Apart from that, the very little I know about Moroccan history comes from working on Regency of Algiers and given the age-old animosities there, requires a grain of salt, but I was under the impression that Jews were welcomed and even more prevalent in Morocco than Algiers. Possibly I conflated with Moriscos. In any event I think my fundamental question is whether mellah were another incarnation of the ghettos where Jews were immured in Warsaw or Amsterdam under the Nazis, or historically segregated but relatively free neighborhoods. I realize the answer may not be binary but that was my concern. As for the remark about the Free French, very little editing was required to make the sentence acceptable in my view, but bottom line, the Resistance was fairly organic and decentralized, but De Gaulle, having proclaimed himself the government in exile, made a handy figurehead after the Allied invaded. I blame Hollywood; everyone makes that mistake. PS R Prazeres, I pinged you and M.Bitton to the Mohammed page, where there is a dispute about sources; your ping failed though, because I put in a period. I mention this in case you are interested, but the person trying to use a US Army historian as a source has taken this to an Arbcom request, and a boomerang may resolve the whole thing without further intervention or comment. Elinruby (talk) 21:27, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

ping

Thanks for the second look. I don't think it is the COMMONNAME but I only pinged you because you had already been there. Probably not a good idea to get embroiled too deeply in the article, as some serious PoV is getting pushed. Unless you want to, of course. It's just that having pinged you on that one issue I feel the need to warn you that it is ugly over there and about to go full "what is a genocide". Do with the information what you will. Elinruby (talk) 18:45, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I replied there. It's up to the community to decide what the common name is, I have no strong opinion on the issue and no intention of getting involved in that discussion. M.Bitton (talk) 18:55, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you again!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	You're simply wonderful to have a conversation with. You're a breath of fresh air in contentious topics. Moxy🍁 21:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

@Moxy: thank you so much for your kind words. Best, M.Bitton (talk) 13:04, 24 June 2024 (UTC)