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Mass AfD

While I am a Russian (my family immigrated to America like seven generations past), and I am an atheist, none of those have anything to do with my AfD's. I am not a communist, either. I simply believe that those churches I nominated at the time were not notable enough to be on Wikipedia (such as ones that pretty much have "our church is located at 14 Main Street and our services start at 10am on Sunday...."). I have no intention on wiping out Christianity from Wikipedia, and saying that is my intention is quite insulting to me. --Адам Райли ^Talk 05:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: New Testament Baptist Church

An editor has nominated the article New Testament Baptist Church for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Testament Baptist Church. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article New Testament Baptist Church during the discussion, but do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the deletion debate. Jayden54Bot 22:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Your addition to the Tampa, Florida article

Jorfer, I undid your edit to the Tampa, Florida article. The reason I did this is becasue it was purely commercial. It was promoting an organisation. If you would like to list a bucnh of churches within that area, that would be great. But please don't make edis like that. They are not appreciated. Thanks.--CJ King 22:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Holy Name Church

I removed most of the Holy Name Church material that you added to Birmingham, Michigan for the simple reason that it's more appropriate for a separate article about the church than an article about the town. It's simply too much detail for the latter. I kept what fit with the article. I'm not opposed to having a Religion section, but a list of churches would be just an indiscriminate collection of information, and I can't really say the town has a strong religious character, so I'm not sure what would go in such a section. Anyway, thank you for your contributions and happy editing! --Craig Stuntz 03:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Once again I've trimmed down your addition to Birmingham, Michigan. The level of detail you added is suitable for an article about First Methodist Church, but it's way too much for an article about the city. I've tried to keep the part which is relevant to the city itself. --Craig Stuntz 14:43, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: this comment

I'm very clearly not "picking on" the school because it's Catholic. I couldn't care about the religious affiliation of the school. Please don't make assumptions like that. My only concern was the AfD closure. -- Kicking222 00:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Denton Bible Church

The Wikipedia:Places of local interest guide actually explains why your information in its current form is irrelevant to the article. I have explained in further detail on the Talk page. Your comments are welcome there. --Ntmg05 02:29, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I never said he wasn't notable. In fact, my edit that you reverted was specifically designed to give Nelson (and DBC) the recognition he deserved without being a commercial for DBC and/or his work. My argument remains that DBC is not notable enough to be described in detail on the Denton page, while Nelson 'is' notable enough to be mentioned in the "famous residents" section. If you do really care this much about DBC, you'll accept my compromise as we both get what we want (and meet Wikipedia guidelines). If not, your choice is to revert the page yet again and risk violating Wikipedia policy regarding editing to make a point, or you can accept Ohnoitsjamie's current compromise which is acceptable to me if you take the initiative and reference other Denton churches as well. You decide. --Ntmg05 03:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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University of North Florida image

Hey Jorfer! I was looking at your edits to University of North Florida and can't figure out what it is you did/were trying to do. What did you fix/try to fix about the seal image? It looks like in the end you left it exactly as you started. Just curious... --joeOnSunset 05:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

OIC. --joeOnSunset 05:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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Um, I didn't nominate Transient lunar phenomenon as a GA. Lunokhod nominated it. Diez2 00:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Over wiki-linking.

Hi. You might want to check out this page, WP:MOS-L. In my opinion, adding links to words like transient and phenomena (among others) add nothing to the article TLP. The only reason one would click on these is if the reader didn't understand what a "phenomenon" or "transient" were (do such people exist?). To me, these words (though not all the links that were added) are not "jargon". It would be like adding links to every word in a sentence. Obviously, you can do it, but who does it help? In any case, thanks for taking the time to read through the article and pass it to GA. Lunokhod 17:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to Quadratic equation

'Ello! I noticed that you added this link to the quadratic equation article. However, I don't have access to the bookrags service, so I was redirected to a screen wherein I was asked to (pay money to) register. In general, it's not a good idea to link to registration-only sites; you can read about it at Wikipedia:External links#Sites requiring registration. If you can find another source that doesn't require registration, that would be awesome. If not, fine. Thanks, and happy editing! Gracenotes^T § 02:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hm, yes, that's a little weird. Are you accessing the site from a university or school? If so, the school might provide services to its students, like access to information databases, which would not otherwise be available. My school has a couple of them. Gracenotes^T § 03:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem... and I hope I didn't cause you any major problems either :( Thank you! Gracenotes^T § 03:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)