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Hi there Chefallen! I've noticed you have yourself listed as a member of the Food and Drink Wikiproject. Unfortunately it looks like the project has been slowly sliding into inactivity except for a couple of people. That makes me a sad potato, and nobody likes a sad potato amirite?

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Regarding this edit. Mind if I asked you why did you remove the language icons? Actually I have always found them really helpful in most cases. Is there a new rule against them? Cheers. //Halibutt 14:06, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

I don't know of any rule about using language icons for citations, but I do know there's a parameter inside the citation for language and I prefer that because it seems to be more standard usage (noticed it's that way in other articles) and it doesn't affect the spacing or font size of the citation the way the icon does. However, I have nothing in particular against the language icons, so if you prefer it that way, I would not object to your reverting it. --21:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Well, it's all a matter of taste I guess. I use them most of the time not because of their looks (style, page width vs. size etc.) but rather because of their functionality. In short they save the reader the effort, especially in such long lists of "related reading" positions, where he or she might be interested in looking for a book in his or hers language rather than just any book. The icon tells at a glance whether to read the rest of the entry or to search further down the list (it used to be arranged by language rather than alphabet). In short, the icon is there to answer the question of "do I want to click the link or not". Sure, there is a parametre inside of the citation template series, but it's pretty much redundant now that more and more positions (books, articles and whatnot) have their titles also translated to English (trans_title parametre) and all look "English" at first glance. //Halibutt 21:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

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If you place images immediately prior to a section heading, you disrupt the heading, which is why it should be placed after the header. You have now done this twice, despite explanation. Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:36, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Not so. I'm not seeing a problem with the heading at all. Continue discussion on talk page. -- Chefallen (talk) 14:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

I am seeing a problem. And you are ignoring MOS, as I mentioned to you previously -- which is not in accord with your subjective view as to whether it is a good idea to have an image immediately precede a heading. And the reason for the MOS on this issue is ... see my first comment. Please stop reverting, in violation of MOS, and despite explanation.--Epeefleche (talk) 16:16, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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In the Ancient Israelite cuisine article, you reverted my edit that changed "century" to "millennium". The current article text reads "Wild species of barley and emmer wheat were domesticated and cultivated in the Jordan River Valley as early as the 9th century BCE." This is in the pre-Israelite subsection (ie.: before 1200 BCE as can be inferred from the following subsection). The barley and emmer mentioned in the paragraph were discovered (as mentioned in the same paragraph, though with less detail) in the Pre-pottery neolithic A layer of Jericho (dated to the 9th-8th millennium BCE, ie., more spefically, mid-8000 through mid-7000 BCE). The 9th century BCE, which you seem to think is the correct date, places it in the 800s BCE (well into the Israelite era, thousands of year after the domestication of wheat, emmer, barley, eikorn, etc.). Even the same subsection seems to contradict the use of "century" since they talk about wheat and barley being used in the paragraph talking about the 4th through 2nd millennium BCE.
From the citation for the particular sentence in question, Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is this:

My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethno-biological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there. The valley's first domesticated cereals were barley and emmer wheat, which are still among the world's most productive crops today

Emphasis added. Thus, even the reference from which the statement was derived contradicts the use of "century". Everything seems to point to the use of "millennium" (which is what I had corrected it to before you reverted me).
Why do you say that my "rvt incorrect"?
— al-Shimoni (talk) 07:17, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it should read "millenium" as you say. My apologies, I misunderstood the diff. I will revert my change. --Chefallen (talk) 21:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Not a problem. I was just really confused about how I could have erred on that. :) — al-Shimoni (talk) 10:25, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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