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Study on article degradation

This comment today rings so true. Does that remind you of something? The whole discussion started today on my talk and I am beginning to see the situation more clearly based on what he said. History2007 (talk) 21:10, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wait: New plan--smuggle bats on a plane. ;)

--Flynnlives (talk) 18:54, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Johannes Maas and Worldwide Faith Missions

I came upon your involvement in the AfD nomination of an article about a missionary by the name of Johannes Maas (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johannes Maas (missionary) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johannes Maas (missionary) (2nd nomination) for the discussion). I have nominated Worldwide Faith Missions, another article which was written by the same author as the Johannes Maas article, up for AfD. I have also seen from your contributions to Wikipedia, that you are active on articles concerning Christianity. I am no expert on Christian organisations and have tried finding sources on Google to verify the notability of the subject. After having ploughed through many Google results, I have not been able to find one reliable source to establish Worldwide Faith Missions as a notable NGO. Perhaps you have access to sources on Christian NGO's which relate to this subject but are not available through Google? Apart from the author of the Worldwide Faith Missions article and myself, there has been no response so far on its AfD page. Would you mind having a look at this AfD perhaps? You can find it here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Worldwide Faith Missions. I have also asked other Wikipedia contributors (see User_talk:Phil_Bridger#Johannes_Maas_and_Worldwide_Faith_Missions and User_talk:Ἀλήθεια#Johannes_Maas_and_Worldwide_Faith_Missions) who were active on the Johannes Maas AfD discussion, to contribute to the present AfD. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 04:00, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pages

Hi, As of June 2012 I will be semi-retiring from Wikipedia. I will still watch a few pages every day or two, but not watch many pages every day as before.

Could I ask you to occasionally watch a few more pages that have good referenced content and should really be saved from vandalism, fringe views, sudden mergers, etc.? I think you already watch a few of these, but here is a list in any case:

Jesus has been stable for a year and is fully referenced. I even took out referenced based on suggestions, but it is stable "because it has so many references". The last big debate was about calling Jesus Palestinian or Jewish, etc. But that is over now once it was pointed out that it was a political issue more than anything else. The magnet for debate there is the regularly scheduled talk page comment that Jesus did not really exist. That has been discussed on talk many, many times and it usually ends with the demand: "per WP:RS/AC, please provide a WP:RS source that says 'most historians hold that Jesus did not exist' instead of arguing about it here". The debate always stops after that.

Crucifixion of Jesus: Again, pretty stable, as you know.

Christ, the Ministry of Jesus and Chronology of Jesus. All three pages are highly stable and fully sourced. They just need to be watched. There is also Nativity of Jesus.

Josephus on Jesus and Tacitus on Christ as well as Annals (Tacitus). These are three historically important pages. All three are fully referenced but frequently get large scale vandalism. They do need watching. Josephus on Jesus was the subject of a really long discussion and every possible aspect of it is now covered in the talk page archives. It has been researched in great detail and as questions come up the talk page archives almost always handle that.

Religious perspectives on Jesus, Jesus in Christianity, Sayings of Jesus on the cross, Imitation of Christ and Love of Christ: Again, very stable pages and it is just a question of looking out for merge flags, etc.

Your help in watching these as your time allows will be greatly appreciated. And thank you for all the good interactions we have had in the past years. History2007 (talk) 14:56, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Following your COIN notice

Since I asked intrinsic dignity about this, I might as well ask you the same:

It does look like there is more than a potential conflict of interest here. May I ask you to do the following:

Read WP:COI
State on your user page if you do have a conflict of interest.
under "External links" or in the text of the article, post some sources that you consider "tell the other side" fairly and without hype?

This will help everybody decide if there is a real COI and whether you can present an NPOV. Thanks for your help. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:46, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas!
History2007 (talk) 00:30, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks and good job on your comments made on Talk:Genesis creation narrative. Musdan77 (talk) 05:40, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A comment

I realize you do not like me. Still, I would have hoped you had the integrity to not reflexively revert me without adding any discussion of your own even though I explained my edits (until your second "undo" when I called you out). And I'll betcha you don't think all of the addition is good, either, and might even have approved of some of my rewording, if not the removal of the tables. Maybe my take is wrong, though, and you really do think my entire edit was wrong and your reversions were not fits of pique. I hope so, anyway. I do find it strange that you would lock in a reversion with the help of an editor who had not ever edited the article, yet makes his/her first edit in over a year, just minutes after I made my edits and explanation. Hoppingalong (talk) 02:44, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Indelible Grace for deletion

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Reports are not phenonema

Phenomenon.

jps (talk) 04:21, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delaware

Hi, back on September 17, 2008, you added "after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.", with a reference to the "Delaware" article on etymonline.com, but I can't see anything there regarding Cape Henlopen (not even when looking the article up on archive.org from when it was retrieved in 2007). Is there another source for this information? LordEniac (talk) 01:49, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's documented in plenty of books like Uniquely Delaware by Katie Moose (ISBN 140344644X), Delaware by Craig A. & Katherine M. Doherty, (ISBN 1438107315), Appalachian Trail Names: Origins of Place Names Along the AT by David Lillard (ISBN 081172672X), The National gazetteer of the United States of America: Delaware 1983 by the United States Board on Geographic Names, and The world-wide encyclopedia and gazetteer by William Harrison De Puy (1908), as well as in a 1988 pamphlet called "CAPE HENLOPEN THROUGH HISTORY". This is just in the first screen of google results. Hokie RNB 22:02, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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A kitten for you!

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