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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Look at the talk page edits by 97.106.241.66 ( talk · contribs) Dougweller ( talk) 13:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, well, the school terms are (almost) over and little 'controversies' pop up everywhere, ignited by editors who seem utterly clueless when it comes to reliable sources and NPOV. It's probably best to wait until September and revert the hell out of. I won't be around much the next two months or so (though you'll never know), so I hope you'll enjoy the Summer. Take care,
Cavila (
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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey Djwilms, if you get a chance, could you look at the brewing fiasco at Ahatallah? It may be slightly out of your area, but as a published author on the Church of the East, combined with your knowledge of the Syriac Orthodox Church, I think your opinion would be most valuable. The talk page will show you exactly the way the debate is going.-- Cúchullain t/ c 14:06, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- The Saint Thomas Christians remained within the fold of the Catholic church for the next six decades, but during this period they grew increasingly restive. The Syrians quite liked the conciliatory Jesuit bishop Francis Roz (1600–24), who showed some sensitivity to their age-old traditions, but they disliked his successors Stephen Britto (1624–41) and Francis Garzia (1641–59), who did not. Under Garzia’s episcopate they began to complain that the few privileges and exemptions granted them at the synod of Diamper were being infringed. In 1650 they secretly wrote to the Mosul patriarch Eliya IX Shem‘on (1617–60) and his Kochanes counterpart Shem‘on XI (1638–56), and also to the Jacobite patriarch in Antioch and the Coptic patriarch in Alexandria, asking for a Syrian bishop to be sent to them. Two years later a Syrian bishop, Cyril Ahatallah, duly arrived. Originally a Jacobite bishop of Damascus, Ahatalla had formally converted to Catholicism in 1632 and had consequently been drummed out of the Syrian Orthodox church. In 1650 he was living in Cairo, at something of a loose end, and was shown the letter from the Saint Thomas Christians by the Coptic patriarch. Seizing his opportunity, he persuaded the Mosul patriarch Eliya IX Shem‘on to consecrate him metropolitan of India and China (his Catholicism apparently being no bar to this appointment) and sailed to India to seek his fortune. On his arrival in Meliapur in 1652 he was promptly arrested by the Portuguese as a schismatic, in that his claims infringed the pope’s authority, and was deported to Lisbon to be questioned by the Inquisition. He seems to have died in Paris in 1659 while being taken to Rome for further questioning.
In view of the bewildering diversity of particulars about Ahatallah (or is it Ahthulla), furnished from different quarters, I wish to mention that it is almost impossible to establish the true identity of this prelate, who set out to help the Saint Thomas Christians of Malabar (Kerala). As far as I know, there are six different beliefs about him.
The Wikipedia article Ahatallah expresses only one view, that of the Roman Catholic missionaries. Many of the information given in that opinion are questionable. Neduvelilmathew ( talk) 16:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering why you removed my revision to the immram article. Why is C.S. Lewis' book considered notable when the many westward voyages of Tolkien's works are not? Tolkien's original idea of the Silmarillion seems very much like an immram, wherein a sailor sails west into a magical world.
Hawkwing74 ( talk) 22:24, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
You should not accusatuions so fast. It is disruptive. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mathenkozhencherry. You shouldnt have protection on talk page, It keeps other good faith editors like me from editing. 4747longstreet ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:03, 1 July 2010 (UTC).
Please remember to use Preview (I know it's so easy not to), to preserve proper 'Contents' indentation ( see here). Thanks, -- Trafford09 ( talk) 16:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Saw your edit and comment on the History of Florida State University page and thought I'd respond. The connection between FSU and the Presbyterian Church is evidenced in the several sources listed as references on the page. See especially the book "At First" by Barbara Rhodes, which is the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee and the several works by Dr. Dodd.
-- Sirberus ( talk) 11:23, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
-- Sirberus ( talk) 01:20, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
-- Sirberus ( talk) 22:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
With all due respect, how on earth did you decide consensus was for Delete here? 4 editors in favour of deletion, 4 in favour of keeping or merging. Another admin decided there was insufficient consensus and relisted, after which only one other opinion was expressed which was in favour of keeping the article. Your closing statement seems to be more a personal opinion rather than a summary of the consensus from the discussion, and focuses on only one aspect of the WP:MUSIC guideline.-- Michig ( talk) 19:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
You might want to put Deva Victrix (which was substantially changed today) and Chester on your watch list if they aren't already there, please. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 14:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
The case was just checked. wiooiw ( talk) 22:50, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
You have email. Dougweller ( talk) 15:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
Nothing yet on Ahatallah, but you might be interested in a snippet I have just dug out of my yellowing files on the Chaldean metropolitan Shemon of Ada, who was sent to India in 1700 at the Vatican's behest on a mission very possibly to the prejudice of the Portuguese. I've just added it to the article India (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province). In any discussion of the reliability of sources, it is important for the Saint Thomas Christians to recognise that 'the Catholics' did not all speak with one voice. Here endeth the lesson.
I haven't got Neill with me in the office, so I don't know offhand whether he mentions him. He probably falls neatly into the gap between the first and second volumes.
Djwilms ( talk) 07:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for my confusion over the timing of your article. You were quite correct. A suggestion only..... if you copy your draft into a new article then it avoids the confusion and you can note with an edit where the audit trail continues if its important. Anyway thx for the article. Victuallers ( talk) 16:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I created this page several days ago and would like to expand it further. I know you do alot of Florida related stuff about the Mississippian culture, but its an area I know almost nothing specific about the local culture variations of Mississippian, and I'm also currently on the road for the next few months working and dont have access to my own library. I would like a section about the area if your interested, maybe local tradition that was influenced by one of the larger centers? or developed a particularly unique local style?. I left a few notes on the talk page Talk:Mississippian culture pottery if you would be interested in helping expand the article further, maybe get to GA eventually? Hoping to polish it enough over the next few days to submit it to DYK. He iro 17:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Your removal rationale for your edit is "Avalon Code" isn't known as only "Avalon", so the title isn't ambiguous". Is there any particular Wikipedia Guideline that you are referring to? Is it WP:PTM? If so, then according to your rationale many of the other entries on the same disambiguation page must also be removed (e.g. Avalon Series, Avalon: Web of Magic, Avalon Cemetery, Avalon Publishing Group, Avalon Group, Avalon School, Avalon Project, Avalon Theatre etc), since they all aren't known as only "Avalon". Apart from this, when you check through other disambiguation pages (e.g. Rice, Mississippi or Color), you will see that many of the entries in these disambiguation-pages are exactly the same as in the Avalon disambiguation-page. For example: Rice Middle School, Mississippi Burning, The Joker (That's What They Call Me), Avalon Code all fulfill your removal rationale. So, how are we going to solve this issue? Amsaim ( talk) 15:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
See [1]. Dougweller ( talk) 05:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Did you have a reason for downgrading Riothamus from a king to a leader? The quote from Geoffrey Ashe says Riothamus too led an army of Britons into Gaul, and was the only British King who did. AJRG ( talk) 17:32, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
hello, good work on fixing my confused editing on cynocephaly. i take it that cynocephali is the plural of cynocephalus, and wanted to add this to the article for clarification. am i right about this? cheers, k kisses 21:54, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've reverted this edit that you made, as that isn't using {{ Album reviews}} which is what is mentioned at WP:ALBUMS#Reception. It also mentions that the reviews should be given in prose as they are in the article, which then makes the use of the template redundant. -- JD554 ( talk) 12:16, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Your changes are a real improvement. A second set of eyes always helps. You saw flaws I would never have spotted. One question, not particularly important. The official bios of religious leaders often mention two key events: when they became convinced of the truth of their belief, often through some sort of revelation, and when they decided to become a preacher. I assume this would not be limited to Christian leaders. For Mac Brunson, the events are decribed in the sources for the article. Should they be included, and if so how can it be done in a neutral fashion? Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, you may have noticed we have a new user who's been creating separate articles for minor characters from the Mabinogion. Not in itself very alarming, but you may want to keep an eye on this and offer him or her some help and guidance. Especially given that much of Culhwch ac Olwen consists of bewildering catalogues of better and lesser known characters. Cavila ( talk) 23:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I understood that you removed references to infowars.com.. You stated that, "Alex jones is not a reliable source for anything". Just because it's your belief, I doesn't mean you get to decide for every future visitor of the article. Use the films talk page to express and evaluate your thoughts.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godhand11 ( talk • contribs) 02:06, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your kind words. I enjoy working on Wikipedia, although still quite a novice I suppose. Hope to expand the stubs I have placed in the very near future. Also have an idea to expand the article on Perceval, perhaps aim for Good Article status. I'd like to try for that. Will have to read some translations from Old French first – I'm not too familiar with either Perlesvaus or the continuations to Chretien's story of the graal. Collaboration? Richard asr ( talk) 15:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Sww Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan Vaughan Anwyl - what do you advise? Dougweller ( talk) 06:10, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have put the Wales article forward for GA status. It just needs tweaking, and maybe a heavy-handed swipe from outside to get it in place. I am writing to those who are constant contributors and defenders of Wales and Welsh articles, to not scream at me for doing this, but to help get the article through. If we fail, we fail, there is nothing wrong with that; but Wales should be a Good Article at least and if it takes good intentioned amateurs to reach that then so be it. FruitMonkey ( talk) 01:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
On the wrong page, so you've probably not seen it -- Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/User conduct/Creation. Dougweller ( talk) 15:57, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
On a page called i've introduced a new controversy section(backed by very powerful sources) on
All India Trinamool Congress, some users've reverted my edits claiming my sources as unreliable ones(but as per wikipedi's policy they are powerful). I've posted an RSN, which didnt suite one user Active Banana(he has roll back rights). So he had roll backed my RSN. Now I am confused what to do. Please tell me whether the following sources are OK or not:
AITC is a State Party of India, and it is very vocal of its good bondage with banned MAOIST party. Now when I've introduced this fact(backed by well cited sources), a user named kkm010 has reverted my edits claiming them as "degrading the quality of article". I assume wikipedia guarantees every user the right to expand an article if he has reliable citations.
Main Story on AITC-Maoist Nexus in Mail Today
Story in CNN IBN
Both of them are very well known Newspapers/Tv channels of India.
Please help quickly in the matter. Please reply soon.
Basuupendra (
talk) 13:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I just now saw your notice on the AfD for floruit, posted to the Latin project page. The discussion was closed when I visited it. If this comes up again, you might also post a notice to the Greece and Rome Project, where I think a number of people might be interested. There doesn't seem to be as much overlap as one might think between the two projects. Cynwolfe ( talk) 21:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Bravo -- good work! DavidOaks ( talk) 21:32, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
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-- Cirt ( talk) 06:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Preface: I love what you do and the effort you put into Wikipedia. Please hear me out, though, and I am just trying to explain my request below.
Cuchullain: As you are a Jax resident (and I am a native), can you please give this particular article a break? I don't even want to cite any references for proof of living in the neighborhood because some give away sensitive info. I live down the street from literally everyone mentioned (except Connie Nielsen who lived on the other side of Timucuana). Give it a break, please. If there is a Wiki article on someone and they live in the neighborhood but the only source is their address listed on Whitepages, why is that unreliable? I plan on editing Avondale, Riverside, San Marco, and San Jose, too, and I know many of the residents in those neighborhoods, too. FWIW I can go (as anyone can) onto the tax commissioner's site for Duval County and get names and addresses that way, if that's how you want verification. It doesn't get more official than that. And I'm still impressed you single handedly went through all of the references. When it comes to notable residents for any neighborhood, it's either just common knowledge or it's inside info from people who have lived there. Why don't you weed through Ponte Vedra's page? Every notable resident there is unverified (though I know personally that many of the ones listed do live there and I know at least one that's unlisted: Hurley Haywood and Martin A. Siegel).
The goal of WikiProject Jacksonville is to increase Jacksonville's presence on Wikipedia, which can be done by linking to other Wiki pages. Everyone in Jacksonville knows someone such as Preston Haskell lives in Ortega, and most people know his exact house. If you want to keep on deleting these people from individual neighborhood pages, why not create a Jacksonville Notable Residents page?
I just looked for it, and was brought to the Atlantic Beach page, which also has a notable residents section. You considered my notable residents un-reputable before (even though more than half had their own Wiki page) and yet AB has 3 notable residents including a local amateur golfer, a local radio show host, and a Cycle 10s America's Next Top Model winner. I don't care that those very unfamous residents are listed and not verified, but I do care that you seem to be picking on my neighborhood that I love so much and which actually does have lots of pretty famous characters (heck I would love to be included someday hehe). You can't play selectively like that, and I don't know why you're being so harsh on a Jacksonville page. Go pick on other cities' neighborhoods first. :-) Jsimms3 ( talk) 23:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you think that THIS is for real? Never heard of it (but then, that applies to a lot of things). Also cannot find anything about it, and cannot find the references cited, and nothing about the supposed publisher of the references. All done by 2 new single-issue editors (one of whom uploaded the map and the flag in the article). Some of their related edits suggest that they're familiar with the modern area. If it doesn't bear examination, then take no notice, just thought I'd mention it. Regards, Notuncurious ( talk) 16:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
There's little hope of sorting this out on the talk pages; it's yet another of J T Koch's fanatical Atlantic-Celtic minions who are spreading over Wikipedia and the rest of the Net convinced that theirs is the One True Way. Same M.O. as Jembana - delete all conflicting opinions and then add a ridiculous number of citations when others object to the censorship. Paul S ( talk) 18:51, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I generally try to follow the MOS and use lowercase as appropriate, I appreciate corrections when a mistake is made, and I'm usually willing to go either way on this kind of thing when someone has a preference. However, the use of uppercase in Wales in the Roman Era was deliberate: it is consistent with the related articles (* in the Early Middle Ages, * in the Late Middle Ages, etc.) ... the idea is that "Roman Era" is intended as a descriptive entity, not as two words that happen to be adjacent. How about reconsidering the page move and doing a quick reversion to the way I had it? (and a PS ... if you think I took the issue of renaming articles lightly, have a look at the bajillion articles and templates that I individually updated from "Roman Wales" to "Wales in the Roman Era" so that a bajillion redirects would be avoided). Am hoping you will be reasonable and see it all my way :). Regards, Notuncurious ( talk) 13:56, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I talked with an admin about the disruptions that Doc QUintana is causing, and he recommended taking it to ANI. I don't look forward to another talkfest with him, but as his is continuing to enforce his view against consensus, I don't see another way. Any thoughts on this? - BilCat ( talk) 01:22, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
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It looks liek the AN/I notifications have reignited debate at Talk:Football, so perhaps thre is a chance of getting a consesnsus on the issue formed within the next 2 years. Doc's on a wiki-break ( a good idea, and one I had to implemet myself a few weeks ago when the wiki-stress got too high), and hopefully he'll not go back to reverting again. If he does, then the ANI had recommended taking him to the 3RR notification page. (I'd do that even if he doesn't violate 3RR, but as so as he reverts, as a contuation of the revert war. I do hope that is unnecessary, and that he'll join in the continuing discussions to find a solution. I'm sorry if I gave the appearnace of bailing out on you, but as I need to watch my wiki-stress levels better than I have been. Thanks for your efforts. - BilCat ( talk) 06:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
See Narwhal2 ( talk · contribs) and File:Baalbek- largest stone.jpg. Quack quack? Dougweller ( talk) 17:22, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Not James, he and I are actually working together on an article he created. See WP:NORN#Editor arguing that he can use a book describing Welsh law to make a claim for dynastic succession Dougweller ( talk) 18:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Chuchullain. Sorry for bothering you but referring to your user name you might be the right person to address. I'm from the portal mythology of the German wikipedia and we are working on several articles about the Irish mythology. I was wondering about the redirect from Bé Find to Étaín. Obviously it was created by a bot, but in Étaín Bé Find is not mentioned. Neither in the articles nor in the presented links (as far as I can see). Do you have any idea if there is any literature we can search for? Does Bé Find have another / an additional name I don't know? Thanks a lot in advance! -- Yrwyddfa ( talk) 17:15, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
Do you mind keeping an eye on the article I wrote on the fictitious second-century Nestorian patriarch Abris. I've just had a run in with a frothing Assyrian who believes that he was genuine, quoting that deeply-contested text, the Chronicle of Erbil. I've reverted his malicious edits and explained my reasoning on the article's discussion page, but I imagine he will strike again before long.
Djwilms ( talk) 01:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, please see my comments on the Florida Gators football talk page. I'm happy to converse with you further via email. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:25, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, I need a disinterested second opinion regarding athlete notability. I have been working for several months to clean up the WP bios of former Florida Gators athletes, including about 230 former Florida Gators football players. The vast majority of these former Gators clearly satisfy one or more of the notability criteria for WP inclusion, while approximately 10 to 20 of the football bios fall in what I perceive to be a "gray area of notability." And while my principal motivation is improving these articles so they reflect a common standard of formatting and at least some minimum common standard of content, I really don't want to spend a lot of time on articles that may (and perhaps should) be subject to a successful AfD. A classic example of this is the Dexter Daniels article. Daniels was an SEC first-teamer, but received no All-America honors or other SEC or national football awards, and played in a total of four NFL games in a single season, none as a starter. His professional career was brief and otherwise forgettable, and affords no interesting content to include in the article. Is this really the sort of article we want to include in WP, based on some sort of "he played in one professional game" minimum notability standard? I am not asking for you to take any official action, but I am asking for your educated WP opinion on point. Please feel free to respond at your leisure. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:20, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, can you use your magical tools to solve a grammar problem? When the Parade High School All-American subcategories were recently created, the creator of the new subcategories omitted the apostrophe from the end of the plural possessives "boys'" and "girls'" and I can't fix the problem by moving the categories to their correct spellings as a non-administrator. Thanks, as always, for your help. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 04:26, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuch, is there some edit counter or other system available for viewing my deleted edits? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. apologies but it seems I forgot to add a note to the edit summary when I first removed the link to Skirt. I had checked the page in question, and it does not seem to fit what we expect of a reliable source. not to make an issue of it, for sure, but the site has been spammed by a single-purpose editor and the use as a ref appears to have been a well-meaning attempt to use the link. (Note that the use as a ref for his sisters is based on a quip in response to a question about his having "great hair".) -- Ckatz chat spy 18:59, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
With no explanation, which is rude. Also the template I removed states "For other uses, see Wendigo (disambiguation) whereas the template right above it says "For other uses, see Wendigo (disambiguation). Is it all becoming clear as to why it was removed? I am happy to go into more detail, as obviously the first time round you couldn't quite grasp it. Either way I have reverted you, with an explanation as to why. Oh my gosh, it's a S N A I S Y ! What's a Snaisy? 08:19, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Bill, on Talk:Halloween the user Bakulan has just deleted my comment. Now i have no interest in pursuing anything with him or getting involved in his edit wars/reverts/comments with the other users, so i brought this to your attention. Thanks. Bostonian Mike ( talk) 02:21, 09 November 2010 (UTC)
Cooch, could you apply some form of protection to the "2010 Auburn Tigers football team" page? It has been under attack by multiple IP and SPA users since midnight last night. This is the week of the Auburn-Georgia game and the controversy surrounding Cam Newton seems to have inspired a lot of this crap. Probably needs to be protected through the end of the season. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Look at the talk page edits by 97.106.241.66 ( talk · contribs) Dougweller ( talk) 13:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Well, well, the school terms are (almost) over and little 'controversies' pop up everywhere, ignited by editors who seem utterly clueless when it comes to reliable sources and NPOV. It's probably best to wait until September and revert the hell out of. I won't be around much the next two months or so (though you'll never know), so I hope you'll enjoy the Summer. Take care,
Cavila (
talk) 11:15, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 12:03, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey Djwilms, if you get a chance, could you look at the brewing fiasco at Ahatallah? It may be slightly out of your area, but as a published author on the Church of the East, combined with your knowledge of the Syriac Orthodox Church, I think your opinion would be most valuable. The talk page will show you exactly the way the debate is going.-- Cúchullain t/ c 14:06, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- The Saint Thomas Christians remained within the fold of the Catholic church for the next six decades, but during this period they grew increasingly restive. The Syrians quite liked the conciliatory Jesuit bishop Francis Roz (1600–24), who showed some sensitivity to their age-old traditions, but they disliked his successors Stephen Britto (1624–41) and Francis Garzia (1641–59), who did not. Under Garzia’s episcopate they began to complain that the few privileges and exemptions granted them at the synod of Diamper were being infringed. In 1650 they secretly wrote to the Mosul patriarch Eliya IX Shem‘on (1617–60) and his Kochanes counterpart Shem‘on XI (1638–56), and also to the Jacobite patriarch in Antioch and the Coptic patriarch in Alexandria, asking for a Syrian bishop to be sent to them. Two years later a Syrian bishop, Cyril Ahatallah, duly arrived. Originally a Jacobite bishop of Damascus, Ahatalla had formally converted to Catholicism in 1632 and had consequently been drummed out of the Syrian Orthodox church. In 1650 he was living in Cairo, at something of a loose end, and was shown the letter from the Saint Thomas Christians by the Coptic patriarch. Seizing his opportunity, he persuaded the Mosul patriarch Eliya IX Shem‘on to consecrate him metropolitan of India and China (his Catholicism apparently being no bar to this appointment) and sailed to India to seek his fortune. On his arrival in Meliapur in 1652 he was promptly arrested by the Portuguese as a schismatic, in that his claims infringed the pope’s authority, and was deported to Lisbon to be questioned by the Inquisition. He seems to have died in Paris in 1659 while being taken to Rome for further questioning.
In view of the bewildering diversity of particulars about Ahatallah (or is it Ahthulla), furnished from different quarters, I wish to mention that it is almost impossible to establish the true identity of this prelate, who set out to help the Saint Thomas Christians of Malabar (Kerala). As far as I know, there are six different beliefs about him.
The Wikipedia article Ahatallah expresses only one view, that of the Roman Catholic missionaries. Many of the information given in that opinion are questionable. Neduvelilmathew ( talk) 16:31, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering why you removed my revision to the immram article. Why is C.S. Lewis' book considered notable when the many westward voyages of Tolkien's works are not? Tolkien's original idea of the Silmarillion seems very much like an immram, wherein a sailor sails west into a magical world.
Hawkwing74 ( talk) 22:24, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
You should not accusatuions so fast. It is disruptive. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mathenkozhencherry. You shouldnt have protection on talk page, It keeps other good faith editors like me from editing. 4747longstreet ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:03, 1 July 2010 (UTC).
Please remember to use Preview (I know it's so easy not to), to preserve proper 'Contents' indentation ( see here). Thanks, -- Trafford09 ( talk) 16:58, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Saw your edit and comment on the History of Florida State University page and thought I'd respond. The connection between FSU and the Presbyterian Church is evidenced in the several sources listed as references on the page. See especially the book "At First" by Barbara Rhodes, which is the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee and the several works by Dr. Dodd.
-- Sirberus ( talk) 11:23, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
-- Sirberus ( talk) 01:20, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
-- Sirberus ( talk) 22:33, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
With all due respect, how on earth did you decide consensus was for Delete here? 4 editors in favour of deletion, 4 in favour of keeping or merging. Another admin decided there was insufficient consensus and relisted, after which only one other opinion was expressed which was in favour of keeping the article. Your closing statement seems to be more a personal opinion rather than a summary of the consensus from the discussion, and focuses on only one aspect of the WP:MUSIC guideline.-- Michig ( talk) 19:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
You might want to put Deva Victrix (which was substantially changed today) and Chester on your watch list if they aren't already there, please. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 14:59, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
The case was just checked. wiooiw ( talk) 22:50, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
You have email. Dougweller ( talk) 15:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
Nothing yet on Ahatallah, but you might be interested in a snippet I have just dug out of my yellowing files on the Chaldean metropolitan Shemon of Ada, who was sent to India in 1700 at the Vatican's behest on a mission very possibly to the prejudice of the Portuguese. I've just added it to the article India (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province). In any discussion of the reliability of sources, it is important for the Saint Thomas Christians to recognise that 'the Catholics' did not all speak with one voice. Here endeth the lesson.
I haven't got Neill with me in the office, so I don't know offhand whether he mentions him. He probably falls neatly into the gap between the first and second volumes.
Djwilms ( talk) 07:01, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for my confusion over the timing of your article. You were quite correct. A suggestion only..... if you copy your draft into a new article then it avoids the confusion and you can note with an edit where the audit trail continues if its important. Anyway thx for the article. Victuallers ( talk) 16:31, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I created this page several days ago and would like to expand it further. I know you do alot of Florida related stuff about the Mississippian culture, but its an area I know almost nothing specific about the local culture variations of Mississippian, and I'm also currently on the road for the next few months working and dont have access to my own library. I would like a section about the area if your interested, maybe local tradition that was influenced by one of the larger centers? or developed a particularly unique local style?. I left a few notes on the talk page Talk:Mississippian culture pottery if you would be interested in helping expand the article further, maybe get to GA eventually? Hoping to polish it enough over the next few days to submit it to DYK. He iro 17:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Your removal rationale for your edit is "Avalon Code" isn't known as only "Avalon", so the title isn't ambiguous". Is there any particular Wikipedia Guideline that you are referring to? Is it WP:PTM? If so, then according to your rationale many of the other entries on the same disambiguation page must also be removed (e.g. Avalon Series, Avalon: Web of Magic, Avalon Cemetery, Avalon Publishing Group, Avalon Group, Avalon School, Avalon Project, Avalon Theatre etc), since they all aren't known as only "Avalon". Apart from this, when you check through other disambiguation pages (e.g. Rice, Mississippi or Color), you will see that many of the entries in these disambiguation-pages are exactly the same as in the Avalon disambiguation-page. For example: Rice Middle School, Mississippi Burning, The Joker (That's What They Call Me), Avalon Code all fulfill your removal rationale. So, how are we going to solve this issue? Amsaim ( talk) 15:08, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
See [1]. Dougweller ( talk) 05:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
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Did you have a reason for downgrading Riothamus from a king to a leader? The quote from Geoffrey Ashe says Riothamus too led an army of Britons into Gaul, and was the only British King who did. AJRG ( talk) 17:32, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
hello, good work on fixing my confused editing on cynocephaly. i take it that cynocephali is the plural of cynocephalus, and wanted to add this to the article for clarification. am i right about this? cheers, k kisses 21:54, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've reverted this edit that you made, as that isn't using {{ Album reviews}} which is what is mentioned at WP:ALBUMS#Reception. It also mentions that the reviews should be given in prose as they are in the article, which then makes the use of the template redundant. -- JD554 ( talk) 12:16, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Your changes are a real improvement. A second set of eyes always helps. You saw flaws I would never have spotted. One question, not particularly important. The official bios of religious leaders often mention two key events: when they became convinced of the truth of their belief, often through some sort of revelation, and when they decided to become a preacher. I assume this would not be limited to Christian leaders. For Mac Brunson, the events are decribed in the sources for the article. Should they be included, and if so how can it be done in a neutral fashion? Aymatth2 ( talk) 14:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, you may have noticed we have a new user who's been creating separate articles for minor characters from the Mabinogion. Not in itself very alarming, but you may want to keep an eye on this and offer him or her some help and guidance. Especially given that much of Culhwch ac Olwen consists of bewildering catalogues of better and lesser known characters. Cavila ( talk) 23:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I understood that you removed references to infowars.com.. You stated that, "Alex jones is not a reliable source for anything". Just because it's your belief, I doesn't mean you get to decide for every future visitor of the article. Use the films talk page to express and evaluate your thoughts.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Godhand11 ( talk • contribs) 02:06, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your kind words. I enjoy working on Wikipedia, although still quite a novice I suppose. Hope to expand the stubs I have placed in the very near future. Also have an idea to expand the article on Perceval, perhaps aim for Good Article status. I'd like to try for that. Will have to read some translations from Old French first – I'm not too familiar with either Perlesvaus or the continuations to Chretien's story of the graal. Collaboration? Richard asr ( talk) 15:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Sww Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan Vaughan Anwyl - what do you advise? Dougweller ( talk) 06:10, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I have put the Wales article forward for GA status. It just needs tweaking, and maybe a heavy-handed swipe from outside to get it in place. I am writing to those who are constant contributors and defenders of Wales and Welsh articles, to not scream at me for doing this, but to help get the article through. If we fail, we fail, there is nothing wrong with that; but Wales should be a Good Article at least and if it takes good intentioned amateurs to reach that then so be it. FruitMonkey ( talk) 01:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
On the wrong page, so you've probably not seen it -- Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/User conduct/Creation. Dougweller ( talk) 15:57, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
On a page called i've introduced a new controversy section(backed by very powerful sources) on
All India Trinamool Congress, some users've reverted my edits claiming my sources as unreliable ones(but as per wikipedi's policy they are powerful). I've posted an RSN, which didnt suite one user Active Banana(he has roll back rights). So he had roll backed my RSN. Now I am confused what to do. Please tell me whether the following sources are OK or not:
AITC is a State Party of India, and it is very vocal of its good bondage with banned MAOIST party. Now when I've introduced this fact(backed by well cited sources), a user named kkm010 has reverted my edits claiming them as "degrading the quality of article". I assume wikipedia guarantees every user the right to expand an article if he has reliable citations.
Main Story on AITC-Maoist Nexus in Mail Today
Story in CNN IBN
Both of them are very well known Newspapers/Tv channels of India.
Please help quickly in the matter. Please reply soon.
Basuupendra (
talk) 13:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
I just now saw your notice on the AfD for floruit, posted to the Latin project page. The discussion was closed when I visited it. If this comes up again, you might also post a notice to the Greece and Rome Project, where I think a number of people might be interested. There doesn't seem to be as much overlap as one might think between the two projects. Cynwolfe ( talk) 21:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Bravo -- good work! DavidOaks ( talk) 21:32, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
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-- Cirt ( talk) 06:04, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Preface: I love what you do and the effort you put into Wikipedia. Please hear me out, though, and I am just trying to explain my request below.
Cuchullain: As you are a Jax resident (and I am a native), can you please give this particular article a break? I don't even want to cite any references for proof of living in the neighborhood because some give away sensitive info. I live down the street from literally everyone mentioned (except Connie Nielsen who lived on the other side of Timucuana). Give it a break, please. If there is a Wiki article on someone and they live in the neighborhood but the only source is their address listed on Whitepages, why is that unreliable? I plan on editing Avondale, Riverside, San Marco, and San Jose, too, and I know many of the residents in those neighborhoods, too. FWIW I can go (as anyone can) onto the tax commissioner's site for Duval County and get names and addresses that way, if that's how you want verification. It doesn't get more official than that. And I'm still impressed you single handedly went through all of the references. When it comes to notable residents for any neighborhood, it's either just common knowledge or it's inside info from people who have lived there. Why don't you weed through Ponte Vedra's page? Every notable resident there is unverified (though I know personally that many of the ones listed do live there and I know at least one that's unlisted: Hurley Haywood and Martin A. Siegel).
The goal of WikiProject Jacksonville is to increase Jacksonville's presence on Wikipedia, which can be done by linking to other Wiki pages. Everyone in Jacksonville knows someone such as Preston Haskell lives in Ortega, and most people know his exact house. If you want to keep on deleting these people from individual neighborhood pages, why not create a Jacksonville Notable Residents page?
I just looked for it, and was brought to the Atlantic Beach page, which also has a notable residents section. You considered my notable residents un-reputable before (even though more than half had their own Wiki page) and yet AB has 3 notable residents including a local amateur golfer, a local radio show host, and a Cycle 10s America's Next Top Model winner. I don't care that those very unfamous residents are listed and not verified, but I do care that you seem to be picking on my neighborhood that I love so much and which actually does have lots of pretty famous characters (heck I would love to be included someday hehe). You can't play selectively like that, and I don't know why you're being so harsh on a Jacksonville page. Go pick on other cities' neighborhoods first. :-) Jsimms3 ( talk) 23:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you think that THIS is for real? Never heard of it (but then, that applies to a lot of things). Also cannot find anything about it, and cannot find the references cited, and nothing about the supposed publisher of the references. All done by 2 new single-issue editors (one of whom uploaded the map and the flag in the article). Some of their related edits suggest that they're familiar with the modern area. If it doesn't bear examination, then take no notice, just thought I'd mention it. Regards, Notuncurious ( talk) 16:36, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
There's little hope of sorting this out on the talk pages; it's yet another of J T Koch's fanatical Atlantic-Celtic minions who are spreading over Wikipedia and the rest of the Net convinced that theirs is the One True Way. Same M.O. as Jembana - delete all conflicting opinions and then add a ridiculous number of citations when others object to the censorship. Paul S ( talk) 18:51, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I generally try to follow the MOS and use lowercase as appropriate, I appreciate corrections when a mistake is made, and I'm usually willing to go either way on this kind of thing when someone has a preference. However, the use of uppercase in Wales in the Roman Era was deliberate: it is consistent with the related articles (* in the Early Middle Ages, * in the Late Middle Ages, etc.) ... the idea is that "Roman Era" is intended as a descriptive entity, not as two words that happen to be adjacent. How about reconsidering the page move and doing a quick reversion to the way I had it? (and a PS ... if you think I took the issue of renaming articles lightly, have a look at the bajillion articles and templates that I individually updated from "Roman Wales" to "Wales in the Roman Era" so that a bajillion redirects would be avoided). Am hoping you will be reasonable and see it all my way :). Regards, Notuncurious ( talk) 13:56, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I talked with an admin about the disruptions that Doc QUintana is causing, and he recommended taking it to ANI. I don't look forward to another talkfest with him, but as his is continuing to enforce his view against consensus, I don't see another way. Any thoughts on this? - BilCat ( talk) 01:22, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
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It looks liek the AN/I notifications have reignited debate at Talk:Football, so perhaps thre is a chance of getting a consesnsus on the issue formed within the next 2 years. Doc's on a wiki-break ( a good idea, and one I had to implemet myself a few weeks ago when the wiki-stress got too high), and hopefully he'll not go back to reverting again. If he does, then the ANI had recommended taking him to the 3RR notification page. (I'd do that even if he doesn't violate 3RR, but as so as he reverts, as a contuation of the revert war. I do hope that is unnecessary, and that he'll join in the continuing discussions to find a solution. I'm sorry if I gave the appearnace of bailing out on you, but as I need to watch my wiki-stress levels better than I have been. Thanks for your efforts. - BilCat ( talk) 06:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
See Narwhal2 ( talk · contribs) and File:Baalbek- largest stone.jpg. Quack quack? Dougweller ( talk) 17:22, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Not James, he and I are actually working together on an article he created. See WP:NORN#Editor arguing that he can use a book describing Welsh law to make a claim for dynastic succession Dougweller ( talk) 18:04, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Chuchullain. Sorry for bothering you but referring to your user name you might be the right person to address. I'm from the portal mythology of the German wikipedia and we are working on several articles about the Irish mythology. I was wondering about the redirect from Bé Find to Étaín. Obviously it was created by a bot, but in Étaín Bé Find is not mentioned. Neither in the articles nor in the presented links (as far as I can see). Do you have any idea if there is any literature we can search for? Does Bé Find have another / an additional name I don't know? Thanks a lot in advance! -- Yrwyddfa ( talk) 17:15, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Cuchullain,
Do you mind keeping an eye on the article I wrote on the fictitious second-century Nestorian patriarch Abris. I've just had a run in with a frothing Assyrian who believes that he was genuine, quoting that deeply-contested text, the Chronicle of Erbil. I've reverted his malicious edits and explained my reasoning on the article's discussion page, but I imagine he will strike again before long.
Djwilms ( talk) 01:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, please see my comments on the Florida Gators football talk page. I'm happy to converse with you further via email. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 00:25, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, I need a disinterested second opinion regarding athlete notability. I have been working for several months to clean up the WP bios of former Florida Gators athletes, including about 230 former Florida Gators football players. The vast majority of these former Gators clearly satisfy one or more of the notability criteria for WP inclusion, while approximately 10 to 20 of the football bios fall in what I perceive to be a "gray area of notability." And while my principal motivation is improving these articles so they reflect a common standard of formatting and at least some minimum common standard of content, I really don't want to spend a lot of time on articles that may (and perhaps should) be subject to a successful AfD. A classic example of this is the Dexter Daniels article. Daniels was an SEC first-teamer, but received no All-America honors or other SEC or national football awards, and played in a total of four NFL games in a single season, none as a starter. His professional career was brief and otherwise forgettable, and affords no interesting content to include in the article. Is this really the sort of article we want to include in WP, based on some sort of "he played in one professional game" minimum notability standard? I am not asking for you to take any official action, but I am asking for your educated WP opinion on point. Please feel free to respond at your leisure. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:20, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuchullain, can you use your magical tools to solve a grammar problem? When the Parade High School All-American subcategories were recently created, the creator of the new subcategories omitted the apostrophe from the end of the plural possessives "boys'" and "girls'" and I can't fix the problem by moving the categories to their correct spellings as a non-administrator. Thanks, as always, for your help. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 04:26, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Cuch, is there some edit counter or other system available for viewing my deleted edits? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 12:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. apologies but it seems I forgot to add a note to the edit summary when I first removed the link to Skirt. I had checked the page in question, and it does not seem to fit what we expect of a reliable source. not to make an issue of it, for sure, but the site has been spammed by a single-purpose editor and the use as a ref appears to have been a well-meaning attempt to use the link. (Note that the use as a ref for his sisters is based on a quip in response to a question about his having "great hair".) -- Ckatz chat spy 18:59, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
With no explanation, which is rude. Also the template I removed states "For other uses, see Wendigo (disambiguation) whereas the template right above it says "For other uses, see Wendigo (disambiguation). Is it all becoming clear as to why it was removed? I am happy to go into more detail, as obviously the first time round you couldn't quite grasp it. Either way I have reverted you, with an explanation as to why. Oh my gosh, it's a S N A I S Y ! What's a Snaisy? 08:19, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Bill, on Talk:Halloween the user Bakulan has just deleted my comment. Now i have no interest in pursuing anything with him or getting involved in his edit wars/reverts/comments with the other users, so i brought this to your attention. Thanks. Bostonian Mike ( talk) 02:21, 09 November 2010 (UTC)
Cooch, could you apply some form of protection to the "2010 Auburn Tigers football team" page? It has been under attack by multiple IP and SPA users since midnight last night. This is the week of the Auburn-Georgia game and the controversy surrounding Cam Newton seems to have inspired a lot of this crap. Probably needs to be protected through the end of the season. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 14:41, 11 November 2010 (UTC)