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Hannah Marshall
I hope you don't mind that I've moved Hannah Marshall to draft space as per my edit summary. Schwede66 23:27, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
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On Hammoth-Dor
Hello, St. Anselm. If I am reading the edit history correctly, back in September you put a "clarification needed" tag on on the article Hammoth-Dor. I've cleaned up the relevant sentence. I'm wondering if you now consider it clear enough for me to remove the clarification needed tag. I would do it myself, but I figured since you put it there first, I'd check with you.Alephb (talk) 11:02, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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Paige Patterson
I don't understand how an image of the guy (you can definitely see it is the same person) cannot be posted on the page of the actual person. What about public photos taken from newspapers like the Baptist Press? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:92C5:BB00:5E7:630:56C6:1E8F (talk) 01:19, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- No, they are all under copyright. Please see Wikipedia:Image use policy for more details. StAnselm (talk) 01:48, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
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Message on my talk page
Hi,
I'm confused as to why you left a warning message on my talk page. The underlinked tag keps getting removed because there's a program that I use called AutoWikiBrowser which, amongst other things, detects errors in tags. According to its algorithms, that article is not underlinked therefore the tag keeps getting removed. It's semi-automated and works on lists so that article is one in thousands that AWB deals with.
Please remember not to template the regulars as it's patronising and a bit rude really.
DrStrauss talk 20:09, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, I've had problems with tools doing things I didn't want - but we still have to take responsibility for our edits. See WP:AWBRULES: "You are responsible for every edit made." Perhaps you need to raise the problem with the tool's developer, or maybe you just need to stop using AWB. With this particular removal, you had done it twice - and made no other edits to the article. I had reverted your first removal, but you had ignored that. Anyway, I'm sorry you were offended by the template, but please also see WP:TR. StAnselm (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
- I suppose so: it's only a minor thing really but I'll raise it with the developers but I make a lot of useful edits with AWB as can be seen in my thanks log so I'm not stopping using it. I knew you'd reply with the rebuttal essay...
- Sorry if I came off a bit terse, hopefully we can both bear that in mind in future.
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Making Threats Against Others
I see your threat you made at my talk page. If you think I violated the 3RR rule then file for it. But I see you edited it back to what was the previous consensus as I was also doing the same which is not a 3RR violations. Reverting edits that go against the consensus is proper. Maybe before making wild threats you go to the talk page as I asked instead of ASSuming. ContentEditman (talk) 16:32, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Help needed
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Congratulations on Ten Years!
You have contributed much! Congratulations on Ten Years on Wikipedia! :)
May God bless you in the years to come. :) Is there any way I can pray for you?
With hope,
TenorTwelve (talk) 21:58, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you. Yes, as my user page indicates, I'm working on a PhD. I'm very close to the end now - please pray that I can make the remaining corrections before Easter. StAnselm (talk) 06:08, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
- Good luck. We want to know the outcome. -Roxy the dog. bark 12:41, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
Torah is not a subset of the Bible
this is not OK. Please don't make these kinds of claims in Wikipedia. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 04:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Jews traditionally divide the Bible into Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim. That makes Torah (in one sense of the word) a subset of the Bible. Getting all huffy about that is ridiculous. Alephb (talk) 11:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Part of the issue is - what is The Bible? Jews have Tanakh and Christians have their own versions (which are not the same among Christians; the Catholic Bible has more books than the Protestant Bible see also Christian biblical canons). Most Christians are not thinking Tanakh when they say "Bible" in my experience, they are thinking some version of the Christian Bible. Otherwise they wouldn't get upset when I said "The Bible doesn't include the New Testament" which is perfectly true if;) you are Jewish and talking about your "Bible" and b) if "Bible" is really a term that anybody can use however they want. Jytdog (talk) 01:13, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
- The Christian Bibles all include the five books of Moses (a name we can all agree on), which we Jews call Torah, and we don't mind anybody else calling it Torah. Torah is a subset of the Bible in every sense of the word, anybody's Bible, everybody's Bible. See Biblical canon § Old Testament: "All of the major Christian traditions accept the books of the Hebrew protocanon in its entirety as divinely inspired and authoritative." Yes, of course translations differ, but nobody disagrees on the books that are included in the Torah. --Thnidu (talk) 04:22, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
- Is that quote actually in Wikipedia? Oy we need to fix that. Outside of that what you are saying is true - Torah is in everybody's "Bible". it just not everybody means the same thing by "Bible", and in the context above, naming Abraham as being someone in "the bible" and the quran just excludes (in my view) Jewish traditions about Abraham in a way that is both casual and unhelpful and we really should never do. There is sometimes reason to be sloppy but why be so when there is no need? Jytdog (talk) 04:35, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
- If we want to give a shout-out to every possible religious group so that no one feels left out, maybe we should have the infobox read "Torah, Protestant Bible, Roman Catholic Bible, Greek Orthodox Bible, Coptic Orthodox Bible, Tawahedo Bible, Mormon Scriptures." That way all the different Bibles belonging to groups with 15 million members or more are included; all of these religions have populations equal to or greater than the number of adherents of Judaism. Otherwise, some of our readers might think instinctively of Protestant Bibles, without stopping to take a minute to appreciate the full, rich tapestry of religious traditions. Alephb (talk) 01:29, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
- Is that quote actually in Wikipedia? Oy we need to fix that. Outside of that what you are saying is true - Torah is in everybody's "Bible". it just not everybody means the same thing by "Bible", and in the context above, naming Abraham as being someone in "the bible" and the quran just excludes (in my view) Jewish traditions about Abraham in a way that is both casual and unhelpful and we really should never do. There is sometimes reason to be sloppy but why be so when there is no need? Jytdog (talk) 04:35, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
- The Christian Bibles all include the five books of Moses (a name we can all agree on), which we Jews call Torah, and we don't mind anybody else calling it Torah. Torah is a subset of the Bible in every sense of the word, anybody's Bible, everybody's Bible. See Biblical canon § Old Testament: "All of the major Christian traditions accept the books of the Hebrew protocanon in its entirety as divinely inspired and authoritative." Yes, of course translations differ, but nobody disagrees on the books that are included in the Torah. --Thnidu (talk) 04:22, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
- Part of the issue is - what is The Bible? Jews have Tanakh and Christians have their own versions (which are not the same among Christians; the Catholic Bible has more books than the Protestant Bible see also Christian biblical canons). Most Christians are not thinking Tanakh when they say "Bible" in my experience, they are thinking some version of the Christian Bible. Otherwise they wouldn't get upset when I said "The Bible doesn't include the New Testament" which is perfectly true if;) you are Jewish and talking about your "Bible" and b) if "Bible" is really a term that anybody can use however they want. Jytdog (talk) 01:13, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
The Berkeley situation
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Joseph Natoli
Justlettersandnumbers has removed much of the Joseph Natoli Wikipedia page. Does this seem justifiable to you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:CA03:4940:49CF:3324:34A3:C4B0 (talk) 21:08, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
Draft article on "History of Fair Use proposals in Australia"
As per your original suggestion on the Australian wikipedians' noticeboard - and as 'seconded' by Capitalistroadster and Lankiveil - I and a couple of others (notably Damph & Trishhepworth, and also Tango Mike Bravo) have taken your advice and made the draft article Draft:History of Fair Use proposals in Australia' - an attempt to make a normal Wikipedia article discussing the issue of the various proposals/arguments around Fair Use in Australia over the years. I believe it is now up to beyond-minimum-standard for Wikipedias normal article creation criteria (whilst still not being 'finished' obviously), but I've put it up for article-creation-review just for the avoidance of doubt in case someone is worried my launching the article myself is a COI. If you, or others tagged here, would like to edit and improve the draft article - go right ahead! If you (or others) feel comfortable approving it for mainspace, feel free. Sincerely, Wittylama 13:32, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
- I don't think it's quite ready for article space yet. There is nothing, for example on the response by Copyright Agency Ltd to proposals (which was mentioned in the original discussion). Also, the "Example use-cases" is very strange: it says "Arguments have included", but the list that follows is of examples, not arguments. StAnselm (talk) 21:12, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
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Precious five years!
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May 2017
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Henry Adams
Hey, I've seen your revert and read the header of Category:Antisemitism_in_the_United_States. But what's written there is pretty weird, because antisemitism is something completely different than criticism of Judaism. Criticism pre-supposes scholarship, demonstrated by e.g. writing books or articles about the topic, which is not what antisemitism is about. And Judaism refers to the religious beliefs and practices, while antisemitism refers to ethnicity. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:34, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, I have no opinions about whether he can be categorised as a "critic", but the scope of the antisemitism categories were fixed a few years ago, and it was decided not to have antisemites in them. This was mainly due to BLP concerns, but it was applied to all biographies. StAnselm (talk) 20:41, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
- Why do we then allow Category:Anti-communists? Marcocapelle (talk) 08:52, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
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Image on Clementine Ford (writer)
Hi there, I just noticed that you removed an image I had added to the Ford article of her book. I took the photo myself and uploaded it, which I thought meant it was ok, but you've taken it down as "copyvio"? Could you point me a policy/page that I can read up on this as I thought a photo taken by oneself was acceptable. Thanks in advance! MurielMary (talk) 13:33, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, you should have come across it when you uploaded it at Commons, where it says "Works which contain other copyrighted works (derivative works) - these are not permitted, so don't upload them!". Even though you took the photo yourself, the book cover is still under copyright. StAnselm (talk) 18:15, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- I see, thanks very much for pointing that out! MurielMary (talk) 07:18, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
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Homosexuality in the New Testament
Hi StAnselm, I've been trying to get your attention so that you might rejoin the discussion on the talk page of Homosexuality in the New Testament. I'd like to know whether you agree with me that Revelation 21:8 and 22:15 should be discussed in the article in question. MagicatthemovieS (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
An advice
Jimmy Neesham
Did you try googling? It's so obviously the name he chooses to use and the one he's most commonly known by. CI and CA have different names for so many historic players - and CI refers to him as Jimmy in many of its articles. But never mind - I'l leave it to you to sort out. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:23, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, but did you google "James Neesham"? Still lots of recent news articles under that name. E.g "Cricket: James Neesham goes in controversial circumstances". I think you'd need to use WP:RM. StAnselm (talk) 20:38, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Testament
Hi, SA.
As an OT scholar, you may be familiar (or like to know more about this cite): Romer, John Testament: The Bible and History, Abstract. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1988). I have cited the book @ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irenaeus&diff=697775004&oldid=697773019 in the section Making the Choice: Irenaeus of Lyon, pp. 198-202 (for an Edit described as: 2nd para.,last sent.↑2:His polemic credited for laying out"orthodoxies of Christian church, its faith, its preaching&books that it held as sacred authority0.
Romer for the OT relied esp. on archeological evidence. Also relying on the latter & genetics (like, whoa!), hot of the press is this book: Steven Weitzman, The Origin of the Jews, Princeton, 394 pp. (rev. in the Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-search-of-the-origin-of-the-jews-1499726881 7.11.17 (!), p. A13.
Cheers, Thomasmeeks (talk) 22:04, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Eugene H. Peterson
Dear StAnselm:
Having logged in to add Peterson's denial/correction from this Christianity Today article, I see that you already deleted my earlier edit. I suppose it best to leave the article in its original form unless there are further developments?
Anyway, this is my first time to use the Talk function on Wikipedia, so I suppose that's some progress! I don't know if there's another way for folks to communicate about their edits. Please let me know if there is. I'm still learning how to efficiently edit things.
Best wishes! DCWinyard 10:51, 14 July 2017 (UTC), 01:33, 14 July 2017 (UTC) —
- Yes, I also saw the retraction and thought, "Good thing I removed it already." I thought it was putting a lot of weight on a one-word answer to a question. StAnselm (talk) 10:43, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you! DCWinyard 10:51, 14 July 2017 (UTC), 10:50, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
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Cancelled your undo on the movement of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories to Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact
The recent peer reviewed study summarizing the overwhelming evidence for Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, in addition to the two known historic cases, conclusively establishes Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. The title 'theories', therefore, is inaccurate and misleading, being a subjective spin rather than an objective content classification.
Hence, the page needed to be renamed.
I therefore renamed the page from Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories to Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, which you undid, further suggesting we have an RM discussion about it. I do not doubt the outcome of such a discussion would be in favor of the move.
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... then please put it forward on the talk page over here where it can be discussed. If people wish to have a formal RM discussion, that's fine, but I really don't see how anyone could reasonably and objectively agree with the old page title and disagree with the new one.
In the mean time, to prevent an nonsensical title for a well developed article, I have just now re-instated the move pending the presentation of any meaningful reason not to make it. Alternate options (new page title entirely, merge, etc.) are also potentially viable. prat (talk) 03:09, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
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I'll back off because you asked, but I think you're wasting your time with notability issues. The editor in question just made a copypasta draft, can't be bothered to read the notice on his talkpage, and he insinuates I'm attacking him. I'm trying to help that editor understand, which they refuse to do. I, for one, enjoy seeing editors get their Wikipedia boomerangs. I see enough competence issues there to hand them a 36hr block. Chris Troutman (talk) 22:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
- Well, I think you're WP:INVOLVED now, so you shouldn't be the person to do it. Although the account is very old, the user is really a newbie. And this was a straight-up personal attack. StAnselm (talk) 22:26, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
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Hi a while ago you created the article 2 Samuel 23, which is a stub. I've copied the content from this article into the larger article on Books of Samuel, and now that I've done this, I've proposed the article you created for deletion. All the best Mccapra (talk) 06:40, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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