User talk:24.90.77.69

June 2021

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Shul and Young Israel

I note that you reverted the note "Shul is Yiddish for synagogue" in the article, National Council of Young Israel, with the explanation, "It's wikilinked." But why force the reader to stop reading about Young Israel and go to another article to find out whatever "shul" is?

And if your logic is that wikilinking means that no further explanation is needed, why stop there? The same paragraph has this:

The first Young Israel synagogue was established in 1913 on East Broadway, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

By your logic, you could change "Manhattan's Lower East Side" to "the Lower East Side" with no loss to the reader of contextual assistance. But that would be excessive compression; as is omitting a brief translation of shul.

Wikipedia articles are full of these slight redundancies. In a print encyclopedia, where boldface indicates another article, I would not expect to see a word in a foreign language that required the reader to flip pages or open another volume to understand the subject. Wikipedia should be no less friendly to its readers, a majority of whom are not specialists already acquainted with the matter. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 21:32, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

I agree with Larry K. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 17:39, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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