User talk:Z5tequ2u

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Please pay more attention to what you're editing

Your edit to Tower of Babel was reverted because you changed the height of Etemenanki, also known as the Great Ziggurat of Babylon, which has only been raised as a possible inspiration for the tower of Babel story and not necessarily the tower itself. Even if we're going to assume that scholarship on the Book of Jubilees is wrong and it was not written during the late Second Temple period, it would stand to reason that the tower in Jubilees is not Etemenanki. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:45, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a bit confusing to me...are you saying that the Book of Jubilees is unreliable? Even if it was not in a certain time period like you said, the Book of Jubilees is still referenced later on in the page and it shows the actual height of what I was trying to state in the beginning of the page. I feel like it's misleading others to believe that the Tower of Babel is 91 meters when it's first searched when it's actually the 2,484 meters.

The Book of Jubilees was written less than 2500 years ago. Even if the Tower of Babel was a real building, Jubilees was written thousands of years after the fact. Jubilees is one of many sources where people tried to guess the height of the Tower of Babel and there's not really any reason why the author of Jubilees would have been any closer than anyone else.

Our article does not say the Tower of Babel was 91 meters, it says that Etemenanki was 91 meters and that that's the only historical structure we've found that people have suggested might have inspired the story. If Google or whatever search engine you're using is getting things mixed up, that's on them (and in the case of Google, their answers do not change overnight).

Also, stop marking all of your edits as minor. They are not minor. Minor edits are things like spelling corrections. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:07, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My bad! I'm not use to this editing stuff...but ya when search on Google the "Tower of Babel height" the first bold number is 91 meters so I thought someone edited the page with inaccurate info. Thanks for the explanation

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Tower of Babel, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:47, 24 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]