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Have a look please

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I have updated the nomination Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Egg fruit with a new one in the set, kindly have a look, I have noticed that you have supported the image before adding the second image. DreamSparrow ^Chat 15:51, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Interested to put in your input?

Hi Jobas, I see you have been busy with the Noble Prizes stuff. Would you like to join in on the discussion on one source that is being discussed? Your input would be appreciated at RSN.Mayan1990 (talk) 18:37, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate it Jobas. Since the other refs are still in the wiki articles and should cover similar points for Jews, Christians, etc we should probably leave the editors in RSN to do as they wish and not stir up more than is already going on. It can get messy and the points are preserved in the articles as is. I have moved on because of it.Mayan1990 (talk) 11:54, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great. I saw you made some excellent points on the RSN. But yeah, lets just move on. I agree with you that if it said 65% were atheists or agnostics, they would not hesitate to put it on there and certainly would not be making much of a fuss about it.Mayan1990 (talk) 12:05, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. I agree with you 100%..Mayan1990 (talk) 12:05, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hudson's Soap advertisement

I've put up a restoration, could you review your vote at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hudson's Soap advertisement and state which version you prefer? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Albert Reiss LOC ggbain-25651.jpg

Just to note, I did that restoration I promised. I just uploaded over. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Article for Deletion/Keeping

Hey Jobas, hope you are doing well. There is a page you have contributed to that is being considered for deletion: List of Christian thinkers in science. You are welcome to put in any input on the issues by going to the page and clicking on the link for that article. Mayan1990 (talk) 10:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your support on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Illuminations Picture! Elisfkc (talk) 17:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Filippino Lippi 016.jpg

An alternative image was added to the nomination 3 days ago. Could you indicate which version(s) you support? Thanks, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It would be really nice if you would re-visit this FPC, and update your !vote. Regards, Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:07, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Mother Teresa's Massacre in Aden

Such a decries, I have wrote this article Mother Teresa's Massacre in Aden, hope you are interested helping me building that article. YemArabSf (talk) 15:51, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Islam by country

Why did you revert my edit? I removed doubtful sources and replaced them by the most reliable source you can think of (Pew Research Center).

One of the sources was a report on biotechnology (http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_341_en.pdf)). Why should that be cited in an article about Islam? Yes, it includes one question about belief, but this is clearly not the main topic of the survey. 2% of the respondents said that they considered themselves Muslims, and so someone must have done the calculation that 2% out of 80 million of inhabitants of Germany is 1.6 million. By the way, the percentage numbers were rounded - thus, 2% could mean 1.5 or 2.4%. This is poor data.

Another source gives the number of Muslims as 2.1 million (http://fowid.de/fileadmin/datenarchiv/Religionszugehoerigkeit/Religionszugehoerigkeit_Bevoelkerung_Deutschland_2014.pdf). However, the authors specifically mention that this number only comprises the Muslims who express their belief in surveys. This may be of interest in an article about Islam in Germany, but not in this context, since it would make the table inconsistent. I am sure the numbers given for other countries were not retrieved by specifically asking whether these people actually believed in Islam.

REMID gives the number as 4 million (http://remid.de/info_zahlen/islam/).

But why not stick to the data of the Pew Research Center, as advertised in the article (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/17/5-facts-about-the-muslim-population-in-europe/)? This would be the most consistent way of presenting the table.

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Growth of religion

Do you think we should nominate it for a GA review? --Bolialia (talk) 07:57, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gene Kranz

I've added an Alt; think it's only fair to notify everyone who's voted. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:21, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On the recent conversation

"Many of these problems stem from the fact that scientific atheism was an ideology imposed on a population from official channels. Communists did not attempt to engage the hearts and minds of would-be converts but expected individuals to simply bend to patently superficial beliefs. In fact, communists forbid any active discussion concerning the weaknesses of scientific atheism even in the attempt to improve them." [1] Associate Professor Paul Froese [2]

And also the goal of the League was atheist conversation. [3] LoveMonkey (talk) 15:56, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jobas. Your name has been mentioned at User talk:EdJohnston#Edit warring on the League of Militant Atheists. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 18:38, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carol Greider

I've added an alt here. Could you look it over? Thanks! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:45, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tendentious Editing

I am becoming increasingly concerned by what appears to be a pattern of agenda driven editing on the part of Xenophrenic. I recall your recent and unsuccessful appeal to the 3RR noticeboard. When I first read your OP statement I thought there were so many issues being raised that it belonged more properly at ANI. If you choose to raise the issue again, I would suggest ANI as the best forum. Best regards... -Ad Orientem (talk) 15:28, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Hi Jobas. Hope you are doing well. There is relevant discussion on a recent article you edited ( forced conversion ). You are welcome to join and give your input on it since it does involve a few of your edits there.Mayan1990 (talk) 19:27, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Consensus

How do you wish to draw a general agreement? Mateoski06 (talk) 16:33, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Per a comment on Commons, I've added a very slight sharpening to the original image. Can you please review your vote and make sure you're still happy with the image? Cheers! Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:49, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Winter Palace & Palace Square

Hi Jobas- An alternate version (crop) of the image has been added. You supported the original, would you support the ALT as well? Many thanks.--Godot13 (talk) 20:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Jobas you are an Arab, so Arabs in the article are not an ethnic group but a panethnicity?.--RabeaMalah (talk) 08:16, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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طلب

تحية طيبة أخي جوباس، لدي طلب من بعد إذنك: أرجو منك أن تخبر السيد باسم على صفحة نقاشه في ويكيبيديا العربية، بأن له رسائل على صفحة نقاشه في ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، فهو نادرا مايطلع عليها. وسأكون ممتنة لك إن طلبت منه إعادة النظر في قضية منع حسابي. آسفة على الإزعاج، ودمت بخير--همسة صدق (talk) 13:33, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	You've done a great job in ensuring that an array of articles do not reflect the perspective of ideologues. Rock on! Eliko007 (talk) 16:11, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple edits?

Just a question out of curiosity: Why do you make your Featured Picture comments over the course of 10-15 edits? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 01:37, 11 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental deletion

Sorry about accidentally reverting your other addition. I don't have an objection to it. Eperoton (talk) 03:12, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to reach a decision at Religiosity and intelligence

Your comments would be appreciated at this thread. Others have argued that there is consensus to remove the Randy Olson comments from the article (if I'm understanding their views correctly). Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for edit warring

I have given both you and Xenophrenic a block for edit warring. While so far no 3RR violation occurred on any individual article, the overall effect of the edit war between the two of you has the same effect. Xenophrenics block is longer because of your previous block history for edit warring. This doesn't mean that you can go to all the articles where you were edit warring and revert them to your version because he is still blocked. Fram (talk) 13:08, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fram, I appreciate you taking the time to review this issue. I should note that I did not break the 3RR violation and that I have been editing in this project for the last 10 years; to this date, I have never been blocked for edit warring. User:Xenophrenic emptied a category of all of the articles therein again without to discussing it; the CfD ended in "no consensus" and User:Xenophrenic was in the process of being topic banned for his actions. His edit summary stated: rvt insertion of unsourced, so I reverted his edit pending the current discussion initiated by User:John Carter that covers keeping or deleting all categories relevant to religious/atheistic persecution.

I would kindly ask to be unblocked, since I did not breach the 3RR violation and I never have been blocked for edit warning before. Once again, I apologize if I have not mentioned this issue in the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Very respectfully, Jobas (talk) 15:12, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to unblock you, but you are of course free to ask an uninvolved admin for an unblock review (via the template:unblock). Fram (talk) 07:22, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

While I been blocked for edit warring, I should note that I did not break the 3RR violation and that I have been editing in this project for the last 10 years; to this date, I have never been blocked for edit warring. User:Xenophrenic emptied a category of all of the articles therein again without to discussing it; the CfD ended in "no consensus" and User:Xenophrenic was in the process of being topic banned for his actions. His edit summary stated: rvt insertion of unsourced, so I reverted some of his edit pending the current discussion initiated by User:John Carter that covers keeping or deleting all categories relevant to religious/atheistic persecution, but still I did not breach the 3RR violation and I never have been blocked. I would kindly ask to be unblocked, since I did not breach the 3RR violation and I never have been blocked for edit warning before.--Jobas (talk) 14:29, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

The block has expired.

Regarding "but still feel I have not been blocked in the first place, since I did not breach the 3RR violation": If you have a look at WP:EW, you will see that it says "The three-revert rule is a convenient limit for occasions when an edit war is happening fairly quickly, but it is not a definition of "edit warring", and it is perfectly possible to edit war without breaking the three-revert rule, or even coming close to doing so". Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:56, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I think that the block has maybe expired by now anyway, as it was a 24 hour block placed at 13:05 on February 14. You might check to see if that is the case. John Carter (talk) 14:46, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

John Carter, oh that's right, but still feel I have not been blocked in the first place, since I did not breach the 3RR violation and I never have been blocked for edit warning before, I don't know if i can change it in my block log.--Jobas (talk) 14:49, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]