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Hello

I replied to your question at the Teahouse here. Thanks for asking. Biosthmors (talk) 00:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

January 2013

Wikipedia is not restricted to a particular national variety of English. Please don't change perfectly good English from one variety of English to another, unless there are good reasons to do so. You may like to read WP:ENGVAR. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:20, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have said that this applied to your editing of Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola, in which you replaced various words by specifically US equivalents. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:07, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi James, I am very sorry. I don't even remember doing that! Yes, I am aware of the manual. Thank you for alerting me of it and for reverting my changes. By the way, how did you become aware of that error? Sosthenes12 (talk) 18:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

If I remember rightly, I was alerted to the article by a report at Administrator intervention against vandalism about another editor who had edited that article, and found your edits by accident in the course of checking the history. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:16, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:The Economy of God LSM.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:Normal Christian Life Tyndale.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:Recovery Version Holy Bible.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:The Normal Christian Life Tyndale.jpg

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Pages Under Construction

Hello Sosthenes12. I have noticed that you often make several edits to pages in a short span of time, often cutting parts off abruptly, such as on the Oswald J. Smith. If pages are still under construction, please use the Template:Under construction at the top of the section or article to show that you are in the middle of a larger edit. Thank you for your contributions! Happy editing! PrairieKid (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for taking everything well and for all the contributions! Happy editing! PrairieKid (talk) 00:09, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

The Local Churches

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Re: Thanks for the Help

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Vandalism at Witness Lee, etc

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JamesBWatson (talk) 17:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure how I did it, but in one of my answers to you on my talk page, I somehow managed to make a really crazy mistake, completely reversing the meaning of what I was intending to say. Here is a correction. Really sorry about that. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Recovery Version

Moved, as you requested. Further comments on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:34, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Richa bhadra.jpg

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Federman, Michigan

Hi Sosthenes, I was wondering why you added a copy edit tag to Federman, Michigan? I couldn't find anything that was wrong with that page, copy edit-wise, so I removed the tag. Cheers, Tdslk (talk) 02:19, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

(160001) Bakonybél

Hi, Sosthenes, I think my article better now. Please, look at this. Módis Ágnes Vadszederke (talk) 12:37, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, I can do it. Módis Ágnes Vadszederke (talk) 22:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Please ignore. dci | TALK 21:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas Hi Sosthenes, i think your bot is a bit zealous. Ran reflinks over the article and there are no discernible bare URL's ; Applying English Wikipedia commonfixes No changes necessary: references template found. No changes were necessary in Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas Also there are 8 different sources in the article, with only Arxiv being quoted more than once (common in a science/math article) and Tufts University pages x 3 re current data. All sources are verifiable and reliable archives journals, or university pages, and there is no linkrot as the bot seems to have suggested, so I have undone the Page Curation. Thanking you, Ybidzian (talk) 19:54, 18 March 2013 (UTC) I have unreviewed a page you curated Hi, I'm DCI2026. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Battle of Mogadishu (1767), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. dci | TALK 21:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC) I have unreviewed a page you curated Hi, I'm DCI2026. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Battle of Mogadishu (1780), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. dci | TALK 21:33, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

stub tags

Please watch out not to add {{stub}} to an article like Seán Óg Ó Ciardubháin which already has a specific stub tag (here {{Munster-gaelic-football-bio-stub}}) - it just wastes other editors' time. Thanks. PamD 20:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookie! Don't worry about it - I just mentioned it 'cos it's one of the things I come across while stub-sorting. Cheers. PamD 22:01, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks :) Lechlak (talk) 14:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for all the guidance and help you provided! Lechlak (talk) 20:52, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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Move of Talk:Recovery Version of the Bible

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I have replied there, and moved the talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:59, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

subvarieties

It was a request from the project page, because articles already link to this page I think it should be redirected to a section of the variety page which contains the definition, but I don't know how to do it.Mauricebench (talk) 19:29, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

thank you, that's it Mauricebench (talk) 10:58, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Jayanitor

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...and again, at User talk:JamesBWatson#Archive. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:58, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

please dont!

I'm sorry, this is my sisters made up creature. I wanted to make it popular like the leprichan... You see, she used to tell me this story all the time! it is still a work in progress... Please dont delete it!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacobs Grace (talk • contribs) 20:35, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of page RDTR

Hi there, no it is not a test, it is a draft article. Should this be elsewhere? thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andywales1 (talk • contribs) 18:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Socking?

Hi Excirial,

I am suspicious of two users that have similar editing habits. One is User:Maxypaxywaxy and User:Bdog6152. They both recently created hoax pages that referred to each other and they both vandalized the same page within a short period of time of each other. I see you have dealth with them recently and wanted to see what you thought. And by the way, Maxy replied to your message on his own talk page in a negative way. Thanks.

Sosthenes12 (talk) 20:25, 15 April 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

I think there is a very fitting template for this case:  Sounds like a duck quacking into a megaphone to me. So yes, entirely agree with your assessment. Bdog6152 actually created a previous copy of Maxypaxywaxy user page as well, so this is a really obvious case of socking. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:33, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

My wikipedia for Elfpack

Why has this been put on Speedy Deletion when it is the Same on Elftown, this is not a promotion this is for people to see what the Community is about, just like Elftown, yes, a little short at the moment, but will be getting larger when we have more time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sammiecoppick (talk • contribs) 21:27, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

re: Proposed deletion of Boston Marathon explosion

You still want to go ahead with that? Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 06:21, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

<puts down pitchfork /> —Theopolisme (talk) 11:26, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi!

I am not entirely sure what you mean by your message. If you are wondering why I proposed your article for deletion, the reason was that yours was one of 10 articles created about the same topic within just a couple hours. The other articles were more informative than yours at the time so I decided to nominate it for deletion. Looking back, I should have just turned it into a redirect. Sorry for any misunderstanding this caused.

Sosthenes12 (talk) 19:59, 17 April 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

Reply

Hi!

I am not entirely sure what you mean by your message. If you are wondering why I proposed your article for deletion, the reason was that yours was one of 10 articles created about the same topic within just a couple hours. The other articles were more informative than yours at the time so I decided to nominate it for deletion. Looking back, I should have just turned it into a redirect. Sorry for any misunderstanding this caused.

Sosthenes12 (talk) 20:02, 17 April 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

Rollback

In response to your latest message on my talk page, I have given you rollback rights, as I have enough experience of your editing to be confident you will not abuse them. Do be careful, and make sure you are aware of the guidelines at WP:Rollback. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:16, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

IP Address

HI Excirial,

How do you deal with people using a bare IP address to vandalize pages? The IP address ‎199.176.226.1 seems to have a long history of vandalism and has been blocked before. After the block was lifted the IP address is still used to vandalize pages. The last edits by this IP address was on Military Wives. Thanks!

Sosthenes12 (talk) 17:53, 19 April 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

The trouble is that quite a few IP ranges are dynamic, which means that every session a new IP address is assigned to a user. The person behind ‎199.176.226.1 today may be someone else tomorrow, and another person the next day. Due to this we have a situation where little can be done except going trough the entire "Warn and eventually block" cycle again (Unless the IP is a static adres, in which case a longer block won't likely target the innocents.

There are some exceptions to this general rule though. IP addresses belonging to schools are often blocked for extended periods (Up to a year at once), IP ranges may be blocked entirely if a sub block persistently vandalizes, Long term vandals may attract long term block on their IP or range and all open proxies are hardblocked on discovery. But as for little fries such as this one - unless they produce hefty amounts of vandalism consistently we just play whack-a-mole with them. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)}

overtagging

When an article is already tagged BLP sources, it does not help to also add the tags for primary sources, one source, notability, tone. The BLP sources tag and the notability tag are sufficient to indicate the problem. (article in question: Danny whitehead). The actual problerm is that it was an unimproved copy of a previously deleted article, and I deleted it by G4 DGG ( talk ) 20:49, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

About Author Melissa White (Authoress Melissa White)

Hi Sosthenes12. There does seem to be an assertion of significance: "She has also hosted and produced over 200 television programs to date and aired some of her programs on cable network stations." Wikipedia:CSD#A7 also specifies that the assertion must be a "credible claim of significance" - I'm still scratching my head about this. --Shirt58 (talk) 04:18, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melissa White (author).--Shirt58 (talk) 04:35, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Re: Matthew Holthaus

Re your message: Peridon and CactusWriter got to it a few times and CactusWriter protected it from recreation. Hopefully that puts a stop to it. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (PRODS)

Please review Wikipedia's policy on proposed deletions. Anybody, even an article creator, may remove a PROD tag. If you still feel the article must be deleted, then please submit it to Articles for deletion instead of restoring the tag. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 23:10, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Hash success

Seems OK to me. : hashsum. Eyreland (talk) 23:32, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

5sos'er

Hi, I wanna know whats front with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5sos%27er — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrine555 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (May 2013)

ICHTHUS

May 2013

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 363 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Pleonic, MJWilliams1998, Iloilo Wanderer, Jkadavoor, Sir Ian and McBenjamin. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

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Contest of the month
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Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;

Featured report; Madonna in the Church, by Ceoil, Truthkeeper88, and Johnbod was promoted to Featured Article status. Crucifixion and Last Judgement was promoted to featured picture status, after nomination by Crisco 1492.

Wells Cathedral, by Rodw, Robert of Ghent, by User:Ealdgyth, Christianity in Medieval Scotland, by Sabrebd, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, also by Sabrebd were promoted to GA status.

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Approved page deletions

• Speedy deletion nomination of "Oberon-07":

I do approve of the deletion. Similar articles ("Oberon-2",,...) should IMHO be removed as well.

Thierry Le Provost (talk) 18:59, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

• Speedy deletion nomination of "Martin Reiser":

I do approve of the deletion of Martin Reiser. Thierry Le Provost (talk) 19:06, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Unsigned user

please dont delet that it was a present for ma friends b day!

This is cute

Now you know what Wikipedia is for. WikiBirthday to you ! Thierry Le Provost (talk) 19:22, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

I rejected a pending change that you accepted

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I rejected this pending change at List of countries by GDP (PPP), which you had previously accepted. The change introduced an error into the table. That article is actually the target of a lot of erroneous unsourced changes like that, which is why pending changes was introduced to the article in the first place. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 19:43, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Your signature

Just a friendly note – and I don't know if you have since changed this – but your custom signature may not be ideal as it takes up an entire few lines of narrative space and some may find this distracting. Please refer to WP:CUSTOMSIG, specifically the length section. Cheers — MusikAnimal ^talk 23:10, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

History of IBM

There are several hundred books about IBM. I revised the History further reading section to provide easy, quick, access to all in the many IBM related articles without requiring duplicate entries/maintenance. You've set it back - is that because you're volunteering to bring then entries up-to-date? No need to reply, I'm gone.50.136.247.190 (talk) 00:40, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi,

In case you do see this message, I wanted to let you know that I did not do anything to the IBM page you were working on. There were some suspected incidents of vandalism on that page that I tried to correct but could not due to your positive edits which improved the status of the page. It was therefore not necessary for me to try because you were doing a good job. Thanks!

—Σωσθένης12 ^μιλώ 16:45, 8 May 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

You'll be amused - the so-called "vandalism" was me. I don't edit that often and, old, forget things. Instead of using colons to indent text, I'd repeated &nsp... multiple times. Thus the vandalism warning.50.136.247.190 (talk) 04:27, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Ha ha! Sorry for the misunderstanding! Thanks again for your hard work. I noticed you did quite a lot. I hope you would consider getting an account next time. Then at least your contributions can be attributed to you and you get some sort of recognition. Thanks again!

—Σosthenes12 ^Talk 16:51, 9 May 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

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My personal sandbox has a article in it that was moved and published. I want to work on a new test page, if I delete the existing old article text will it mess up the actual published article? That's why I created a "new" personal sandbox page, I am afraid of deleting the published article.

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Talking

Hi what's up people ✌✌✌✌✌✌ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.79.30.194 (talk) 19:00, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Committed Identity

Answered on my talk page. As always, I hope my answer is helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:30, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Adminship

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Adminship

I saw your messages on User talk:JamesBWatson and I wanted to chime in. To be a good admin, you have to do basically 2 things: 1) learn and practice the things that will make you a good admin, and 2) pass RFA. The two are, sadly, not always the same.

Advice for #1 is easy: learn the rules, learn when to use WP:AIR (hint - if the rule you are ignoring has strong support, then rarely use it, if the rule is widely viewed as obsolete and ripe for an RFC to change it, then you have a little more latitude but don't abuse it), demonstrate that how to get along well with others, demonstrate that your attitude is aligned with project goals, demonstrate competency and good judgment, etc.

The only real advice I can give for #2 is to dig through the last few dozen successful RFAs or the last year's worth whichever is longer and the last few dozen failed/withdrawn RFAs or the last year's worth whichever is longer, and look for patterns.

When you think you will be able to clearly show that you know and have practiced the things that will make you a good admin and you know you don't have any issues that will make your opposition rise to anywhere near the cut-off point and you know you have enough of the good things people are looking for that they will support you, then it will be time. Maybe. You still have to ask yourself this question: Do you really want to have the mop? This is important because you may want to have the mop now, but 6 months or a year from now when you are eminently qualified and would be a shoe-in at RFA, you may not really want that level of responsibility. Unlike the other questions though, whether you really want the mop at a given time is a question only you can answer. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 21:17, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry

Sorry for editing the page Richard Rusczyk. I really liked him and therefore got carried away. I sincerely apologize and will do my best not to vandalize wikipedia anymore. Thank you for understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.69.195.125 (talk) 02:22, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi!

Thanks for the apology! No worries, I totally understand. Have a good one! —Σosthenes12 ^Talk 16:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

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I hope I'm doing this correctly - I apologise if not. You can go ahead and delete that article, I misused Wikipedia to joke about a friend, sorry!

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Huh?

Why in the world did you accept this edit in a biography of a living person? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 01:57, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Weird. I don't quite remember what I did here. I must have pressed the wrong button. Thanks for catching it! Just curious, how did you find it?—Σosthenes12 ^Talk 17:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12

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WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (July 2013)

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July 2013

From the Editor

Welcome to the July 2013 issue of Ichthus. We focus on the chronology of Jesus, as well as looking back at the project content improved over the last month.

WP:X has gained another Featured Article, Gospel of the Ebionites, by Ignocrates. The Gospel of the Ebionites is the name scholars give to an apocryphal gospel that supposedly belonged to a sect known as the Ebionites. It consists of seven short quotations discovered in a heresiology known as the Panarion, written by Epiphanius of Salamis, and its original title remains unknown. The text is a gospel harmony composed in Greek, and is believed to have been written during the middle of the 2nd century.

St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn was promoted to Good Article status, as was two other welsh churches, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, and St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch.

The main page also featured several DYK hooks for articles in our project, namely Bob Fu, List of places of worship in Tandridge (district), Catholic Press, Garendon Abbey, St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey), Pargev Martirosyan, Praskvica Monastery, Heather Preceptory, St. Augustin, Coburg, Longleat Priory, St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, Christianization of Moravia, Christianization of Bohemia, Repton Abbey, St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Medingen Abbey, Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, St. James on-the-Lines, and Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.

Church of the month

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is part of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev in Ukraine. It is a functioning monastery that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 367 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Newchildrenofthealmighty, Evenssteven, Kerna96, and FutureTrillionaire. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

Focus on...

THE
HISTORICAL JESUS

When did Jesus live? When did he die? How do we know? We do, in fact, have excellent information about the time intervals for the life and death of Jesus. As in other people who lived and died in the first century, this gives an approximate date range, but still, give or take 3-4 years and we have pretty good estimates confirmed by a number of really diverse sources, ranging from inscriptions in Delphi to Roman and Jewish sources. The Chronology of Jesus article discusses how a wide variety of Christian, Jewish and Roman sources are used to establish the time-frame for the life and death of Jesus.

And all of his data fits together. For instance, the chronology of Paul had been discussed based on the Book of Acts long ago, then the Delphi Inscription is found in the 20th century in the Temple of Apollo. And guess what.. it confirms it and totally dates his trial in Corinth, which helps reaffirm the date of the crucifixion of Jesus. The same date range is independently estimated from the writings of Josephus on the Baptist's death. And it fits Isaac Newton's astronomical models for the crucifixion date as well as the independent lunar calculations of Humphreys. As that article shows, all these dates just fit together.

From the bookshelf

Chronos, kairos, Christos: nativity and chronological studies edited by J. Vardaman, E. M. Yamauchi 1989 ISBN 0-931464-50-1

This two volume book (with a very apt title) is gem-filled with scholarly research. Paul Maier's article in the first volume is a classic study on the chronology of Jesus and provides a useful summary of a number of issues.

Did you know...

Hemis monastery

• ... that the Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch who in 1894 originated the story that there was evidence at the Hemis monastery that an adult Jesus had traveled to India, later confessed to fabricating his evidence?

Calendar
This month (July) contains the feast days of Mary Magdalene, and James, son of Zebedee.

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August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

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August 2013

From the Editor

Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.

The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.

Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.

Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.

Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.

Church of the month

This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.

Membership report
We would like to welcome our newest members, Thechristophermorris, Psmidi and Jchthys. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

Focus on...

THE
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What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.

The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.

From the bookshelf

Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching by Maurice Casey 2010 ISBN 0-567-64517-7

In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.

Did you know...

Christian Demographics

• ... that in 1951 Christianity was the second largest religion in the world with 500 million followers, compared to 520 million Buddhists, but by 2013 it had gained the top spot with about 2.2 billion Christians?

Calendar
This month we celebrate the feasts of St Lawrence, St Bernard, and St Augustine.

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Lord's recovery

Hello Sosthenes12. I translated "The Lord's Recovery" into german. The german wikipedia asks now if anybody else besides Witness Lee uses the word "The Lord's Recovery". If not they will delete it. --Jusmeistar (talk) 16:36, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

a page you nominated for speedy deletion

im in the process of creating a page for a musician of mine and am having trouble uploading without speedy deletion occurring. any answers? I don't understand what I can possibly be doing wrong. God Bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J4Jera (talk • contribs) 18:12, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Local churches (Affiliation) title change

Greetings. I know it has been some time since you first raised the issue, but based on the recent discussion that took place in the Witness Lee talk page, I have decided to change the name of the article to simply 'Local churches.' I welcome your input on how we can further address any confusion or ambiguity surrounding the title of this article and its contents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abishai 300 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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Ichthus April 2018

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April 2018

Project News
By Lionelt

Belated Happy Easter and Kalo Pascha! We're excited to announce the return of our newsletter Ichthus! Getting this issue out was touch-and-go for a while. Check out what's happening at the Project:

• There was a lively discussion about the Easter Did You Know nomination Christ the Lord is Risen Today
• RFC at Knights of Columbus regarding a question about having Prop 8 in the lead
• In anticipation of being nominated for Featured article, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was put up for Peer Review by Ltwin
• The death of Billy Graham on February 21 was a profound loss for many. For the Wikipedia reaction see this discussion. Graham received a blurb.
• And... Order of Friars Minor--nominated by Chicbyaccident--is still waiting for a GA reviewer. Please help out if you can.

Achievements

Hedy Lamarr as Delilah

In March the Project saw four articles promoted to GA-Class. They were the oh-so-irresistible Delilah (nom. MagicatthemovieS) (pictured), Edict of Torda (nom. Borsoka), David Meade (author) (nom. LovelyGirl7) and last but not least Black Christmas (2006 film) (nom. Drown_Soda). Black Christmas? How did that get in there lol? Congratulations to all of the nominators for a job well done!

Did You Know
Nominated by The C of E

... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"

Featured article
Nominated by FutureTrillionaire

Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD) is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that a historical Jesus existed, although there is little agreement on the reliability of the gospel narratives and how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus. Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish preacher from Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Christians generally believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three Persons of a Divine Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. In Islam, Jesus is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah. (Full article...)

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Ichthus: May 2018

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May 2018

Project News
By Lionelt

Last month's auspicious relaunch of our newsletter precipitated something of an uproar in the Wikipedia community. What started as a localized edit war over censorship spilled over onto the Administrator's Noticeboard finally ending up at Wikipedia's supreme judicial body ArbCom. Their ruling resulted in the admonishment of administrator Future Perfect at Sunrise for his involvement in the dispute. The story was reported by Wikipedia's venerable flagship newspaper The Signpost.

The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.

Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project Watch

Achievements

Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!

Featured article
Nominated by Spangineer

Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five—Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. (more...)

Did You Know
Nominated by Dahn

"... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?"

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June 2018

Project news
By Lionelt

Here are discussions relevant to the Project:

• Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
• Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
• United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion

The following articles need reviewers for GA-class: Type of Constans nom. by Gog the Mild, Tian Feng (magazine) nom. by Finnusertop. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project Watch

Did You Know
Nominated by Gonzonoir

... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?

Featured article
Nominated by Cliftonian

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. (Full article...)

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Ichthus: July 2018

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July 2018

The Top 7 report
By Lionelt

The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
2. Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
3. Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
4. Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
5. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
6. Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
7. Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"

Did you know
Nominated by The C of E

... that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn "Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?

Our newest Featured list
Nominated by Freikorp

[[File:|200px|The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. ]]

The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling.

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.

Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. (more...)

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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.

Did You Know?

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?

Featured article

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

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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July 2019

The Top 6 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

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.

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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The Top 3 Articles

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The Top 3 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: " I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."
2. Harriet Tubman - an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and made some missions to rescue enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and Underground Railroads. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout, spy for the Union Army.
3. 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.

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• ... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
• ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?

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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. (more...)

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“ Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. ”

Romans 12:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

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Charles Dickens – British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social critic.

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The Top 3 Articles

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The Top 3 most-popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Pope Benedict XVI – retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation.
2. Pope Francis – the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
3. Dolly Parton – an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: "I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."

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• ...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
• ...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
• ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?
• ...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?

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Сретение Господне ("The Meeting of the Lord"), a depiction of Simeon recognising Jesus at the Temple, from a fifteenth-century Novgorodskye School Russian icon.

A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poem's narrative echoes the text of the Nunc dimittis, a liturgical prayer for Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of anti-Semitism on Eliot's part. (more...)

Bible Verse

“ May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose. ”

Psalm 20:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

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~ Jacques Ellul

French philosopher, sociologist, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist.
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