Welcome to Wikipedia. Your test on Confederate States of America worked, and has been removed. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. RainbowOfLight Talk 23:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Though I started dialogue with another adminstrator-editor, I am open and desirous of help / mentoring from one or two additional administrator-editors. My sole criterion is that the admin-editor desiring to help/mentor me is a Reformed Christian adhereing to the Three Forms of Unity, the original (1647) Westminster Standards, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, and/or any other equivalently Reformed Statement/Confession/Testimony. I mainly need help on starting articles, revising articles, what to include or not include, and editing issues (NPOV, Vandalism, Citation, Difficult editors, etc.)
I may grant additional exceptions to the criterion on a case-by-case basis.
If a desirous mentor-admin-editor is not a Reformed Christian or does not meet a granted exception, I appreciate his/her willingness to help but decline the offer.
If you are interested in mentoring / helping me, please e-mail me.
"A multitude of counselors make victory sure." (from the Proverbs)
I noticed in your edits on the CSA article that you mentioned in the talk page the difference between "true" and "false" Christianity. Unfortunately, as one can understand, Wikipedia does not get involved in saying what is "True" or not. Its generally why we try to let religious groups speak for themselves in articles relating to them by sourcing specific statements to leaders or authorities in the respective religious body, or well respected scholars on a given religion. If there is conflict in the religious group, than we also mention the division. If you take a look at, for instance, articles on traditionalist Catholic groups like the Society of St. Pius X we mention why they believe their correct, and why the official Catholic Church believes their wrong. In that way we let the reader decide which group is "Correct", SiberioS ( talk) 06:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello... please stop removing the term "evolution" from science articles. There is no reason for the change, and at the very least it should be discussed first. Thank you. -- Ckatz chat spy 01:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I put it on the discussion page that they have my agreement to close discussion if they don't have anything further to add. I stop participating in discussions where prejudicial statements and uncivility occur.-- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 01:15, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Coviepresb. I have something to add to the Solar System discussion on the talkpage. I've written a message to you there. Bishonen | talk 12:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC).:
I'm sorry if I offended you; I have no interest in a debate I take exceptionally seriously being sidetracked by shouting matches. I have attempted to make my point as clearly and as civilly as possible in response to your arguments. Serendi pod ous 14:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I am immediately backing off from this talk. I need a breather to think about the talk and discussion and to learn more about wiki.I will reply to any responses when I return to this talk to either maintain what I said or to admit mistakes where I indeed made them. (Serendipodous: during this temporary cessation, I am still willing to correspond with you about the fundamentals of science and perhaps other related interests as you seem to have keen mind on certain things. Please feel free to send me an e-mail.) -- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 22:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I have had 2 notable negative instances of wiki challenges since I joined wiki. I think some of it is due to my ignorance as a relatively new editor and trying to go it alone. I would like to make very beneficial contributions to wiki, but from the discussions in those 2 challenges, I can certainly grow and become a much better wiki editor. Though I started dialogue with another adminstrator-editor, I am open and desirous of help / mentoring from one or two additional administrator-editors. My sole criterion is that the admin-editor desiring to help/mentor me is a Reformed Christian adhereing to the Three Forms of Unity, the original (1647) Westminster Standards, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, and/or any other equivalently Reformed Statement/Confession/Testimony. I mainly need help on starting articles, revising articles, what to include or not include, and editing issues (NPOV, Vandalism, Citation, Difficult editors, etc.)
I may grant additional exceptions to the criterion on a case-by-case basis.
If a desirous mentor-admin-editor is not a Reformed Christian or does not meet a granted exception, I appreciate his/her willingness to help but decline the offer.
If you are interested in mentoring / helping me, please e-mail me.
"A multitude of counselors make victory sure." (from the Proverbs) -- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 21:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Is your objection to the word Pretender, or is it something more substantive? I'm just asking, as I have no objection to your edit either way. I believe that we use the term 'Pretender' far too easily. In our article on the concept, we say: "The term pretender is applied to those persons on whose behalf a claim to a throne is advanced, regardless of whether that person himself actually makes an active claim." While that may be a valid use of the term in a specialist work devoted to royalty, I think that it is misleading in a general work.
But perhaps you are objecting in some other way? I am just curious.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 07:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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Sarah Stierch: As I posted on your talk page, I received this spam on my talk page on this Fine Art Edit-A-Thon thing from you, and I do not appreciate spam or any unsolicited advertisment on my wall. Please do not do that again; otherwise, if you continue, I will consider it harassment. Thanks.
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Sarah Stierch: As I posted on your talk page, I received this spam on my talk page on this Fine Art Edit-A-Thon thing from you, and I do not appreciate spam or any unsolicited advertisment on my wall. Please do not do that again; otherwise, if you continue, I will consider it harassment. Thanks.
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Sarah, you posted an unsolicited Smithsonian announcement on my talk page. This is the second time that I am saying that I am not interested in any messages on meet-ups from you and am asking that you cease posting meet-up annoucements on my page. Though I warned you on my talk page and your talk page when you posted the first unsolicited meetup announcement (Fine Art Edit-a-thon), I am considering this 2nd time a simple mistake; please do not make the same mistake again for a third repeated time lest I really will consider times after this as harassment. Please do not send me meetup announcements as, though meetups are a great idea, I am currently not interested in meetups. (Legal threat retracted AND recanted) Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 16:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
( Nobody Ent's comment removed as it did not address the issue at all.)
Hello. I noticed you left a message on User:SarahStierch's talk page threatening legal action if she did not cease her harassment against you. I do not believe this rises to the level of harassment by Wikipedia standards, WP:HARASS, and besides Wikipedia has a strong and very strict policy intolerant of legal threats of this nature called WP:NLT. Legal threats create a chilled environment that is counter to collaborative editing. While we cannot prevent you from pursuing legal action, a threat of legal action will earn an indefinite block. I strongly urge you to retract the threat from User_talk:SarahStierch#Smithsonian_message_.28harassment.29 and consider a more polite approach such as "No thank you" next time someone leaves you a message on your talk page. You'll find that sugar is more effective than salt.--v/r - T P 15:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
On my part, some of this stems from overreaction due to deficient charity and some of it stems from simple, innocent ignorance wikipedia's editing atmosphere and its position on litigation and how it negatively effects collaboration and editing. I have already apologized to Sarah for wrongs on my part in this conflict. I do feel bad and sorry for subjecting her to an unwarranted legal threat (and the negative emotions related to that subjection). As for my ignorance, I do appreciate TP's being patient and sharing with me more about wikipedia's positions and policies. I will certainly double-check myself in the future. Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 16:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Legal_threat. Thank you. v/r - T P 15:32, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
"Wrongs lie on both my part and your part, and I am apologizing here for my wrongs in the conflict. I apologize for my deficient charity/love on my part in this conflict. I apologize additionally for overreacting and the resulting legal threat. I also apologize for subjecting you to an unwarranted legal threat (and the negative emotions related to that subjection). I do feel bad and sorry for these wrongs that I did to you. I will certainly double-check myself in the future on how I related to you and to others. I do not, never have, and will never consider reconciliation (dialogue and/or any related apologies) to be harassment toward me. Hence, per ANI's thread |Legal_threat where you expressed to the admins that you desire to apologize to me, I will welcome an apology for the wrongs on your part. Coviepresb1647 (talk) 17:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)" Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 13:54, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
"Sincere appearing apology issued. If there are changes to be made to how user boxes for location are handled, there are better places than AN/I to plan such. And beyond that, I do not really see any further need for admin action on this issue. - TexasAndroid (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)"
Please contribute your comment and/or sources at >> Talk:Confederate States of America#RFC Infobox flag choice << to select the flag representing an historic nation-state 1861-1865 from three alternatives, a flag sourced as _____ .
Hey, Covieprsb1647, I saw that you undid Miszabot's archiving edit to Sarah's talk page. I'd imagine you meant to only preserve your thread, but by reverting Miszabot wholesale, you also restored a bunch of other threads that were supposed to have been archived. I've gone back and re-archived the other threads, keeping yours on her talk page until she responds/decides what to do with it. Just a suggestion: it's generally frowned upon to mess with other people's posts on other people's talk pages. I know it wasn't your intention to do so, but perhaps you should be a little more cautious when editing other people's talk pages? Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 14:12, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
The use of the term railfest and linking it to one rail event in the uk was the article as i found it - I do think that there are too many examples like that where no one goes back to re-edit or has it on their watch - a globalise tag is a bit redundant imho - I tried a few refs to start that if you read the diffs from what it was - the term is used in the uk, australia and usa - in the end tags can be a blight as much as a suggestion - cheers Satu Suro 14:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.
Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho ( talk) 06:03, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Go Hokies ( talk) 22:25, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:EgyptAir Flight 804#EgyptAir corporate press release. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Firebrace ( talk) 17:44, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Your test on Confederate States of America worked, and has been removed. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. RainbowOfLight Talk 23:24, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Though I started dialogue with another adminstrator-editor, I am open and desirous of help / mentoring from one or two additional administrator-editors. My sole criterion is that the admin-editor desiring to help/mentor me is a Reformed Christian adhereing to the Three Forms of Unity, the original (1647) Westminster Standards, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, and/or any other equivalently Reformed Statement/Confession/Testimony. I mainly need help on starting articles, revising articles, what to include or not include, and editing issues (NPOV, Vandalism, Citation, Difficult editors, etc.)
I may grant additional exceptions to the criterion on a case-by-case basis.
If a desirous mentor-admin-editor is not a Reformed Christian or does not meet a granted exception, I appreciate his/her willingness to help but decline the offer.
If you are interested in mentoring / helping me, please e-mail me.
"A multitude of counselors make victory sure." (from the Proverbs)
I noticed in your edits on the CSA article that you mentioned in the talk page the difference between "true" and "false" Christianity. Unfortunately, as one can understand, Wikipedia does not get involved in saying what is "True" or not. Its generally why we try to let religious groups speak for themselves in articles relating to them by sourcing specific statements to leaders or authorities in the respective religious body, or well respected scholars on a given religion. If there is conflict in the religious group, than we also mention the division. If you take a look at, for instance, articles on traditionalist Catholic groups like the Society of St. Pius X we mention why they believe their correct, and why the official Catholic Church believes their wrong. In that way we let the reader decide which group is "Correct", SiberioS ( talk) 06:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello... please stop removing the term "evolution" from science articles. There is no reason for the change, and at the very least it should be discussed first. Thank you. -- Ckatz chat spy 01:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I put it on the discussion page that they have my agreement to close discussion if they don't have anything further to add. I stop participating in discussions where prejudicial statements and uncivility occur.-- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 01:15, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Coviepresb. I have something to add to the Solar System discussion on the talkpage. I've written a message to you there. Bishonen | talk 12:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC).:
I'm sorry if I offended you; I have no interest in a debate I take exceptionally seriously being sidetracked by shouting matches. I have attempted to make my point as clearly and as civilly as possible in response to your arguments. Serendi pod ous 14:10, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I am immediately backing off from this talk. I need a breather to think about the talk and discussion and to learn more about wiki.I will reply to any responses when I return to this talk to either maintain what I said or to admit mistakes where I indeed made them. (Serendipodous: during this temporary cessation, I am still willing to correspond with you about the fundamentals of science and perhaps other related interests as you seem to have keen mind on certain things. Please feel free to send me an e-mail.) -- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 22:26, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I have had 2 notable negative instances of wiki challenges since I joined wiki. I think some of it is due to my ignorance as a relatively new editor and trying to go it alone. I would like to make very beneficial contributions to wiki, but from the discussions in those 2 challenges, I can certainly grow and become a much better wiki editor. Though I started dialogue with another adminstrator-editor, I am open and desirous of help / mentoring from one or two additional administrator-editors. My sole criterion is that the admin-editor desiring to help/mentor me is a Reformed Christian adhereing to the Three Forms of Unity, the original (1647) Westminster Standards, the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, and/or any other equivalently Reformed Statement/Confession/Testimony. I mainly need help on starting articles, revising articles, what to include or not include, and editing issues (NPOV, Vandalism, Citation, Difficult editors, etc.)
I may grant additional exceptions to the criterion on a case-by-case basis.
If a desirous mentor-admin-editor is not a Reformed Christian or does not meet a granted exception, I appreciate his/her willingness to help but decline the offer.
If you are interested in mentoring / helping me, please e-mail me.
"A multitude of counselors make victory sure." (from the Proverbs) -- Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 21:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Is your objection to the word Pretender, or is it something more substantive? I'm just asking, as I have no objection to your edit either way. I believe that we use the term 'Pretender' far too easily. In our article on the concept, we say: "The term pretender is applied to those persons on whose behalf a claim to a throne is advanced, regardless of whether that person himself actually makes an active claim." While that may be a valid use of the term in a specialist work devoted to royalty, I think that it is misleading in a general work.
But perhaps you are objecting in some other way? I am just curious.-- Jimbo Wales ( talk) 07:54, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
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Sarah Stierch: As I posted on your talk page, I received this spam on my talk page on this Fine Art Edit-A-Thon thing from you, and I do not appreciate spam or any unsolicited advertisment on my wall. Please do not do that again; otherwise, if you continue, I will consider it harassment. Thanks.
(Advertisement removed by coviepresb1647 as it is unsolicited advertisement / spam sent by SarahStierch talk.)
Sarah Stierch: As I posted on your talk page, I received this spam on my talk page on this Fine Art Edit-A-Thon thing from you, and I do not appreciate spam or any unsolicited advertisment on my wall. Please do not do that again; otherwise, if you continue, I will consider it harassment. Thanks.
(Advertisement removed by coviepresb1647 as it is unsolicited advertisement / spam sent by SarahStierch talk.)
Sarah, you posted an unsolicited Smithsonian announcement on my talk page. This is the second time that I am saying that I am not interested in any messages on meet-ups from you and am asking that you cease posting meet-up annoucements on my page. Though I warned you on my talk page and your talk page when you posted the first unsolicited meetup announcement (Fine Art Edit-a-thon), I am considering this 2nd time a simple mistake; please do not make the same mistake again for a third repeated time lest I really will consider times after this as harassment. Please do not send me meetup announcements as, though meetups are a great idea, I am currently not interested in meetups. (Legal threat retracted AND recanted) Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 16:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
( Nobody Ent's comment removed as it did not address the issue at all.)
Hello. I noticed you left a message on User:SarahStierch's talk page threatening legal action if she did not cease her harassment against you. I do not believe this rises to the level of harassment by Wikipedia standards, WP:HARASS, and besides Wikipedia has a strong and very strict policy intolerant of legal threats of this nature called WP:NLT. Legal threats create a chilled environment that is counter to collaborative editing. While we cannot prevent you from pursuing legal action, a threat of legal action will earn an indefinite block. I strongly urge you to retract the threat from User_talk:SarahStierch#Smithsonian_message_.28harassment.29 and consider a more polite approach such as "No thank you" next time someone leaves you a message on your talk page. You'll find that sugar is more effective than salt.--v/r - T P 15:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
On my part, some of this stems from overreaction due to deficient charity and some of it stems from simple, innocent ignorance wikipedia's editing atmosphere and its position on litigation and how it negatively effects collaboration and editing. I have already apologized to Sarah for wrongs on my part in this conflict. I do feel bad and sorry for subjecting her to an unwarranted legal threat (and the negative emotions related to that subjection). As for my ignorance, I do appreciate TP's being patient and sharing with me more about wikipedia's positions and policies. I will certainly double-check myself in the future. Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 16:42, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Legal_threat. Thank you. v/r - T P 15:32, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
"Wrongs lie on both my part and your part, and I am apologizing here for my wrongs in the conflict. I apologize for my deficient charity/love on my part in this conflict. I apologize additionally for overreacting and the resulting legal threat. I also apologize for subjecting you to an unwarranted legal threat (and the negative emotions related to that subjection). I do feel bad and sorry for these wrongs that I did to you. I will certainly double-check myself in the future on how I related to you and to others. I do not, never have, and will never consider reconciliation (dialogue and/or any related apologies) to be harassment toward me. Hence, per ANI's thread |Legal_threat where you expressed to the admins that you desire to apologize to me, I will welcome an apology for the wrongs on your part. Coviepresb1647 (talk) 17:53, 8 March 2012 (UTC)" Coviepresb1647 ( talk) 13:54, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
"Sincere appearing apology issued. If there are changes to be made to how user boxes for location are handled, there are better places than AN/I to plan such. And beyond that, I do not really see any further need for admin action on this issue. - TexasAndroid (talk) 19:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)"
Please contribute your comment and/or sources at >> Talk:Confederate States of America#RFC Infobox flag choice << to select the flag representing an historic nation-state 1861-1865 from three alternatives, a flag sourced as _____ .
Hey, Covieprsb1647, I saw that you undid Miszabot's archiving edit to Sarah's talk page. I'd imagine you meant to only preserve your thread, but by reverting Miszabot wholesale, you also restored a bunch of other threads that were supposed to have been archived. I've gone back and re-archived the other threads, keeping yours on her talk page until she responds/decides what to do with it. Just a suggestion: it's generally frowned upon to mess with other people's posts on other people's talk pages. I know it wasn't your intention to do so, but perhaps you should be a little more cautious when editing other people's talk pages? Thanks, Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 14:12, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
The use of the term railfest and linking it to one rail event in the uk was the article as i found it - I do think that there are too many examples like that where no one goes back to re-edit or has it on their watch - a globalise tag is a bit redundant imho - I tried a few refs to start that if you read the diffs from what it was - the term is used in the uk, australia and usa - in the end tags can be a blight as much as a suggestion - cheers Satu Suro 14:38, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Join us at the NLM next week, either in person or online, to learn about NLM resources, hear some great speakers, and do some editing!
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.
Please go to the event page to get more information, including a detailed program schedule.
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) and details about how to join the webinar. Klortho ( talk) 06:03, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Go Hokies ( talk) 22:25, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:EgyptAir Flight 804#EgyptAir corporate press release. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Firebrace ( talk) 17:44, 19 May 2016 (UTC)