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Consider it contested.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 04:30, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Creating a talk page archive

Hi :)

If you'd like to remove the outdated image copyright warnings, you might want to create a talk page archive. It can be automatically done by a bot, and the settings can easily be adjusted by you after an initial setup. I will happily set it up for you. If you are interested, please reply with {{ping|ToBeFree}} to make me receive a notification. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:13, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

@ToBeFree:
That worked -- my next edit to this page will add two templates. One is for setting up the bot, and one is the "archive navigation box" for visitors. I recommend letting the bot template stay at the very top, while you can move the "archive navigation box" around wherever you like to. A list of configuration options for the bot can be found here: User:ClueBot_III#General_template_format ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:30, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks a ton!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 18:32, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
No problem, you're welcome :) It will take about 1-2 days until the bot notices that there is a new page for its watchlist. After that, it will react quickly to "{{tl|Resolved}}", which you can add to any section you'd like to archive. Note that you can also always choose to delete a message instead. Archiving is not obligatory; I like it because it allows me to keep a timeline of my Wikipedia interactions. Also, I think that archiving messages is probably "friendlier" than deleting messages, and avoids misunderstandings. I personally was positively surprised when I saw that you did not delete these messages. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:48, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Oh, PS: Just saying, because it looks tempting to me: Don't click the "create" button in the archive box yet. The bot will do it.^^ ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:49, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Awesome!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 19:12, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
The bot hasn't done it yet.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 20:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@ToBeFree:

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Shreveport Header Collage.png

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April 2018

Information icon Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Shreveport, Louisiana. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 17:39, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for messaging about this error. I would first like to write I thought I performed the edit in good faith, nevertheless, I must have been naive. I do assure you though, none of the research, at least for the nicknames, was original research. I will cite credible sources for all my contributions. Thanks for the head's up, and if that collage is deleted, I will surely use the CC-licensed files on Wikimedia Commons instead.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 19:23, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for notice!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 16:06, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Can you slow down of re-editing in List of Christian denominations page! Just for now!

What going on with recent editing at List of Christian denominations page today with so much mostly unnecessary re-editing for? And I think you want probably going with lean-to WP:DE and maybe WP:BIASED territory due of trimming down sections like one noticeable example of just because of modern-day Nontrinitarian or other lesser known "Protestant-like" denominations mostly look, modeled or inspired from Western Protestantism DOESN'T means their beliefs or theology are not same groupings with Mainstream and some Alternate Protestant denominations by based on their religious appearance? --User:Chad The Goatman (talk) 01:14, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

@Chad The Goatman: thanks for contacting me regarding the editing. I recall the article stating it is ordered from "ancient to contemporary Christianity", and the nontrinitarian section had to be removed because it was not based by branches. As for "Protestant-like" denominations, thank you for clarifying to me. However, you will not get your point across immediately accusing me and writing in all caps, in addition to exclamation points. Latter Day Saint movement among others listed there are actually Restorationist, and if you want to debate, just check throughout Wikipedia, and the sources attributed to their standing in the movement. I saw everything according to "ancient to contemporary Christianity" and not based off branches, even though I reordered them according to chronological order as specified. Any further remarks? PS: Calling my edits unnecessary, yet they were what helped cease the confusion of what is and has been discussed numerous times with the page being arbitrary. I am still working on the Protestants and others however because it is one large combination of everything...literally...--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 01:36, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
I'm sorry for capping or accusing you out of rage but please don't get rid some of my edits because I little-trying work hard of getting them right just like you did for that page. And for your Latter Day Saints example are predominantly theologically Nontrinitarian and having some unique 'Rites' (or rituals) different from other Restoration and Protestant sects except Community of Christ since 2000 due of their later non-Smith leaders attending some Protestant Seminaries cause them changing their Church;s theology and few of rituals just hopefully gaining some converts. --User:Chad The Goatman (talk) 02:50, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
It is fine @Chad The Goatman:, just be careful in your approach. I am guilty of this at times as well. I don't intend to revert any of your edits, because that would show bias and be counter-productive. And again, Restorationist churches both have Trinitarian and Nontrinitarian teachings in them. Look no further to the Jehovah Witnesses.TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 01:54, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

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Thank you for the notice!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 13:15, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For your work on the Los Angeles article. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 06:52, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
@BeenAroundAWhile: Thank you! It is such an honor to get my first Barnstar :D--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 02:52, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

El Paso's elevation

I didn't understand how to fix your "elevation rises over" wording at this edit, so I undid it. Probably you're trying to say that that elevation is 3800 and higher? Try again. Dicklyon (talk) 03:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Dicklyon: Yes that is what I was trying to say.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 21:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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Sorry!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 18:17, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Policy preventing Infobox flags

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With thanks, --Simtropolitan (talk) 18:07, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Forgive me then.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 02:29, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
WOW! Your work on the Mesquite, Texas article was great! As someone who has been pondering on how to fix that article for a while you beat me to the punch! Also thanks for using my photo in the collage! TheMesquitobuzz 00:26, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
@TheMesquito: no problem! I'm always here to help the Texas community with quality articles!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 18:15, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
You should also join WikiProject Texas!!!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 18:25, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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Dallas

Sorry; for some reason I thought the IP had added the content, not removed it. Nevermind. General Ization Talk 03:00, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

It's all good @General Ization:. I knew something was wrong so I kept it civil lol--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 03:02, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
But yeah, a series of random IP addresses removes any notion of LGBT community in Dallas articles every now and then, including the main Dallas article. The same is also true for Fort Worth, Texas, although not with LGBT but more with religious definitions. It gets annoying. Can the articles be protected from unregistered users?--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 03:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
You've considered making a request for semiprotection or extended confirmed protection at WP:RFPP when this happens, or are they sufficiently random that temporary protection really wouldn't help? General Ization Talk 03:06, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
It's like almost every few weeks, but sometimes over a month.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 03:08, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

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Ichthus June 2019


ICHTHUS

June 2019
The Top 6 Articles
By Stalinsunnykvj

The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

    1. Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
    2. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
    3. Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
    4. Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
    5. Martin Luther King Jr. –
      " There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
    6. Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
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... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?

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Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene. (more...)

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Ichthus July 2019


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The Top 6 Articles
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A suicide attack on July 11th claimed by Islamic State (IS) near a church in the Syrian city of Qamishli shows that Christians remain a major target of the terror group. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

    1. Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
    2. Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
    3. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
    4. Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist.
      " Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
    5. Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
    6. Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.
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Eric and Leslie Ludy were 21 and 16 respectively when they first met, English professors suggest that older singles are unlikely to gather hope from their story.
Eric and Leslie Ludy were 21 and 16 respectively when they first met, English professors suggest that older singles are unlikely to gather hope from their story.

When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.

The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals. (more...)

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2019 US Banknote Contest

US Banknote Contest
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There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

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NYC

Nice work on the NYC article. I changed The Bronx back to the Bronx in running text, actually before I noticed you had changed them. I know that's slightly controversial, but it's been discussed at the Bronx's article's talk page I believe. Station1 (talk) 06:33, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

@Station1: Thank you, and no worries!!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 06:42, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Jersey City

Mind going back the Jersey City article and removing the pictures you've added that are objects that are NOT in JC? ThanksDjflem (talk) 20:27, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Forgive me. Thanks @Djflem:.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 20:32, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Jersey City, New Jersey, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Colgate Clock (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 12:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 21:20, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

That not how it works

That's not the way it works. The responsibility is on you not to commit copyright violations. When one is found, there are good reasons for doing a Rollback rather than spending the time to tease out exactly how to clean it up. I haven't yet Revdelled the problematic edits - I'll give you a couple hours to do the cleanup, then I'll do the Revdell.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:18, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@Sphilbrick: thank you. I removed the single text that warranted the copyright rollback. --TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 21:20, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Image size

Could you read over MOS:IMAGESIZE...."Except with very good reason, do not use px (e.g. |thumb|300px), which forces a fixed image width measured in pixels, disregarding the user's image size preference setting. In most cases upright=scaling_factor should be used..."--Moxy 🍁 03:35, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Moxy: thank you for the humble correction. I shall go over the provided material. --TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 03:37, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Shreveport, Louisiana into History of Shreveport, Louisiana. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa (talk) 15:23, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice @Diannaa:. I appreciate it truly!!--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 16:47, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Edit summaries

Hi there, would you mind using edit summaries? Just a brief explanation of your edit is a big help to other editors. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 22:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello, sure thing!! Sorry about that @Magnolia677:--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 22:49, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
I have about 15,000 articles in my watchlist, and when I see a trusted editor I skip the edit, but without a summary my curiosity gets the best of me. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
@Magnolia677: thank you for the complement!! But yes, I indeed understand.--TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 23:03, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020

Please stop your disruptive behaviour. It appears you are purposefully harassing another editor. Wikipedia aims to provide a safe environment for its collaborators, and harassing other users, as you did on Talk:Dallas, potentially compromises that safe environment. If you continue behaving like this, you may be blocked from editing. Drmies (talk) 15:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Excuse me, but was I not retaliated against first by someone feeling more highly intellectual than I? That's why I retaliated in all honesty @Drmies: I assumed good faith, until I saw their remarks on their talk page about previous contributors to Wikipedia. So I had felt highly insulted. --TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 16:19, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Your comments are very suggestive of a battleground attitude (see WP:BATTLEGROUND). I do not see where you were insulted; I did see a whole lot of unacceptable comments on Talk:Dallas. I hope you can let go of that anger. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:53, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
I shall take a read. Thank you @Drmies:. --TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 18:44, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Alright. Take care. Ima go pet my dog, that always helps. Drmies (talk) 21:37, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Put your image in a new file

Hello. I see you made a new version of this image. You did a terrific job, well done! However, I think it would be better to create a separate file on Commons to put your version (while indicating where you took inspiration from, i.e. from this and this), as your version is not really an improved version of the last one, but a reimagination with added details you took from this. If it is the will to replace the current image by yours on WP articles, I will manually replace the former by the latter if you upload the latter as a different file. Veverve (talk) 18:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

I asked for your version to be put here; could you indicate which ressources (images) you used? I have tried to do it myself by guessing, as you can see in the description of the file. Veverve (talk) 18:58, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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