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I wasn't able to determine with certainty that you have not been delivered this notice before. Please accept my apology if you have. Zerotalk 03:47, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
- Zero, my edits are reflected in the cited sources. Respectfully, yours are not. If you have a specific claim that anything I wrote was inaccurate, what is it?
- Do you deny any of the following?
- 1) The West Bank Arab leaders at the Jericho Conference were specifically invited by King Abdullah;
- 2) The Arab League never recognized Jordan's annexation of the West Bank (and in fact condemned it strongly;
- 3) The USA never recognized the Jordanian annexation; and
- 4) There was well documented discrimination against West Bank Palestinians in Jordan.
- If you agree these are well-documented facts, let's reflect them accurately in the article. Your edits claim or suggest all four of these facts are not true.GreekParadise (talk) 18:05, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Furthermore, you have made many other changes without citing sources. Please cite sources for your claims. For example you claim that King Abdullah commanded the armies of all seven Arab nations that invaded Israel in 1948. I'd like to see your source for that. He commanded the Arab Legion (the TransJordanian forces).
- If you don't have a source that suggests something is incorrect, let's rely on sourced materials instead. GreekParadise (talk) 18:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Bare URLs
Please read Wikipedia:Bare URLs and try to avoid them. That page explains why. Zerotalk 03:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
I'm an occasional Wikipedia editor. I always carefully verify sources before adding them, but I'm well aware that other Wikipedians are far more adept at converting Bare URLs to their proper format than I am. When I've done it in the past, I've often not gotten the formula exactly right. I apologize for leaving it to more adept editors to fix. But the sources are absolutely accurate.GreekParadise (talk)
Thank you for directing me to Wikipedia: Bare URLs. I found this there:
"What is right with bare URLs? Adding a bare URL reference to Wikipedia is much more helpful than no reference. If you only have time and inclination to copy the reference URL you found, that is a helpful first step, and we thank you for your contribution!
However, please note that a bare URL reference is also much less helpful than a fully formatted citation. Please help readers and editors by using full citations instead."
So when I don't know exactly how to source something, I only provide the "helpful first step." ;-) GreekParadise (talk) 17:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)