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I believe we have achieved agreement edit

I am in total agreement with your last edit to the Jesus tomb article. As an atheist and a Buddhist, I wanted to make sure the secular side of the argument was properly represented (the page is heavily controlled by Christians). I feel you edit did it well enough. My last and final revert accidentally removed part of your modification of the Statistics section. If I touch the page Ward will go crazy on me, so i just felt I should inform you, so you can put it back in at your disgression. Apparently, edit wars can occasionally reach agreement Thegreyanomaly 02:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

I also agree. BTW, the wikilink to the stats sections needs a fix. It should be "The Lost Tomb of Jesus#Statistical evidence". I would fix it myself except I don't want to be perceived as violating 3RR. Ward3001 02:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Barry Liebmann edit

All the sources you're turning up for Barry Liebmann are primary sources (from Mad themselves) or otherwise pretty much unreliable (toon zone). Ten Pound Hammer and his otters(Broken clamshellsOtter chirpsHELP!) 18:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

  • Yes and no. Primary sources can be used within reason, but the majority of the article should be backed up by third party sources that are not affiliated with Mad or Liebmann himself. And so far, I'm finding nothing. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters(Broken clamshellsOtter chirpsHELP!) 18:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Cigar edit

Hello Carlo. Yes, a cigar is a cigar. - I want to delete my discussion contributions where you posted your answer. Of course it will not disappear from the history, but before pushing this matter ahead, I want to get a feedback from some readers of thet ballad, wether I spoil their fun. With the deletion, also your short answer will disappear. If you disagree, you of couse can revert the removal of the text. Happy new year --DL5MDA (talk) 20:14, 31 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi Carlo. Initially I underestimated your hint. I made good use of it. I could tell you more by email. --DL5MDA (talk) 17:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Freud said "sometimes". Here it is neither a cigar nor is it "smut". Richard Wallace drew wrong conclusions from incomplete observations. --DL5MDA (talk) 21:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
There is more about cigars: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19413927 --DL5MDA (talk) 17:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

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Edit war? I'm reverting the work of a guy who recently vandalized the page, and who has not given his reasons on the talk page, although I have given mine.Carlo (talk) 18:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
I understand that, but you are already in violation of WP:3RR (as is the other editor). Let it go for now. I have restored the page, and will report the other editor if s/he reverts again. Mark Shaw (talk) 18:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
That was 2009. Carlo was right, and probably item #4 of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring#Exemptions would apply today. --DL5MDA (talk) 22:31, 10 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

The answer to your question edit

You asked, might this be still better? The answer is yes, yours is better yet. Thanks. Unschool 23:50, 5 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Boots - a maker of Bonnets and Hoods edit

I think that you are on the right track: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/18691105 And there also is something for your interest in Anglicanism: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/album/386777
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Update 2017-05-07: Almost 10 years ago you gave me the idea that the Boots and the maker of Bonnets and Hoods are the same person. Good observation. See also http://snrk.de/page_boots-bonnetmaker#Carlo
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Lewis Carroll may have referred to various historical and living persons (Thomas Cranmer, Henry George Liddell, St. Corbinian and the bear, Macarius and the hyena, Horatio Nelson etc.) in his tragicomical poem. The Bonnetmaker (=Boots?) is the only artist in the hunting party. Could this be a reference to his friend and illustrator Henry Holiday?
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Anglicanism: I still think, that Thomas Cranmer is among the persons who Lewis Carroll (and Henry Holiday) associated with the Baker:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/4iiuud/henry_holidays_illustration_to_the_chapter_the/ and https://www.academia.edu/9918883/Thomas_Cranmers_42_Boxes
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I tried to discuss this with Anglicans. Seemingly those who responded don't feel comfortable with my assumption that Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark also is about the history of Anglicanism. But I don't think that they made fun of it. He just may have used "nonsense" to address controversial issues (also related to the Oxford Movement). See also H01~H12 in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHuntingOfTheSnark/wiki/index
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I found an Anglican priest who did research on The Hunting of the Snark. In parallel to a little note in the Knight Letter (July 2018, № 100, p.55~56) on the Baker’s “hot” names and on Henry Holiday’s pictorial reference to Thomas Cranmer’s burning, a paper suggesting textual references from The Hunting of the Snark to Thomas Cranmer’s Forty-Two Articles has been published in The Carrollian (July 2018, № 31, p.25~41), journal of the Lewis Carroll Society in the UK. The author, Karen Gardiner, is an Anglican priest. So she and I (as well as Angus MacIntyre in 1994) all were lead by Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark and the Baker’s forty-two boxes to Thomas Cranmer – coming from different starting points and different backgrounds. --DL5MDA (talk) 07:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Maker of Bonnets and Hoods -> Boots
Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/96y8g5/is_there_an_ambiguity_regarding_the_amount_of/ --DL5MDA (talk) 06:39, 14 August 2018 (UTC), updated: 11 February 2024Reply

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Hello, The City of Plano, Texas would like to take ownership of the Harry LaRosiliere wiki page. Do you have any objections? Cityofplanotx (talk) 16:34, 5 March 2015 (UTC) CityofplanotxReply

I would say "no problem," but I don't think there's any such thing as "ownership" of a Wikipedia page. I made the article, but I don't own it. Change it if you like. Carlo (talk) 02:01, 25 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

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