User:Daniel Breslauer

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  • Name: Daniel Yehuda Breslauer.
  • Place of birth: The Netherlands.
  • Residence: Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Givat Shaul neighborhood).
  • Religious affiliation: Orthodox Jewish (belonging to the Dushinsky substream of Hasidic Judaism).
  • Date of birth: 25 January 1986 / 15 Shvat 5746.
  • Employment: Technical Support Agent for Netgear (www.netgear.com) at IDT Global (www.idtglobal.com).
  • Languages: Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish.
  • Nationality: Dutch.
  • Previous residences: one year in Prague, Czech Republic; considerable time spend in the Engadine, Switzerland.
  • Education: post-high school education; Yeshiva (Jewish advanced) education; one year Pre-Medicine at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Personal interests include Judaism; Israel- and Zionism-related topics; medicine; traveling.

I was previously a Wikipedia editor, and left because of the following reasons:

  • Abusive POV-pushing by anonymous editors (ie, using a username, but not their real name) on Judaism- and Israel-related topics. Editors relenting to personal attacks and wars in order to get other editors blocked from editing Wikipedia.
  • Editors constantly interfering in topics which are not their fields of expertise. I maintain that editors should only edit articles related to their field of expertise. For example, since I am an Orthodox Jew, I am not editing articles about Christianity, simply because that is not my field of expertise. And since I am quite familiar with medicine, I edit medicine-related articles, but I do not edit articles about, let's say, the Chinese language. If everybody would just stick to whatever subject he is familiar with, these projects have a chance of succeeding. To me this seems logical; to many on Wikipedia, it does not.