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Hi! This is Icarus!, being non-Wiki (I'm not logged in...), saying thanx for the work on the Discordianism page! Keep it up! 24.176.20.60 16:30, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
CheeseDreams has just filed a complaint against me asking I be banned from any articles involving Judeo-Christian topics [1]. If you think there would be any value at this early stage to your commenting on the ArbCom page or talk page I'd appreciate it -- or, if it is okay with you, I can just keep you posted. Thanks, Slrubenstein 23:22, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Weley, CD has been banned for a few days for violating the AC decision. But look at these: [2] edits by a friend of CHeeseDreams. the changes to the Cultural and historical etc. article were ludicrous and I reverted. But s/he also worked on other Christianity related articles. I suggest you take a look -- I do not know the material, or history of these articles, well enough to know whether these edits are reasonable and valid, or if this is just Cheese Dreams violating the ruling. Slrubenstein 19:16, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Well, so many things keep changing -- she seems to have an infinite supply of sock-puppets and I know others keep following her trail trying to clean up. Maybe what I was referring to got lost in the process. Anyway, just be aware that she loves sock puppets and that she is targeting articles pertaining to Christianity (or anything she can use concerning gnosticism or ancient near eastern religions that can also be a platform for her views on christianity) Slrubenstein 23:28, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I invite you to sign in as a participant to the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses project and add that page to your watchlist. Tom Haws 21:04, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
I say your comment on the Jehovah's Witnesses project page - I think that this organization was a but premature for them, and the structure is a concern. I wonder if the idea was a bit forced rather than natural like other projects.
I have been increasinly concerned with this project's (and simlar projects) credibility. If JWProject is modeled after the LDSM one, we have work to do. I think Latter Day Saint editors are doing a much better job in staying NPOV, and with the addition of Non-Latter Day Saint editors such as User:Alai have helped balance articles even further. We are heading in the right direction, but don't want to be accused of bloc POV edits and "groupthink."
I left a note (including a comment about you) at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Latter_Day_Saint_movement#Cool_Project_.2F_Good_Group that explains some of my thoughts/concerns. We'll need more non-Mormon editors to make the project a success. Since other Latter Day Saint editors look up to you so much because of you (usually ;))unbiased approach, and with how many people watch your edits on religious topics your addition to the project would be a welcome step, bring other Non-Mormon editors to the project and would be much appreciated. I hope you'll join the project. If you can't join/don't want to, could you suggest editors who would be appropriate to invite? - Visorstuff 17:51, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hey Wesley, just dropping by to say keep up the good work. I saw your comments in the merge request re mormons & christianity, on balance I think I agree that it's a separte topic form anti-mormonism and criticisms of mormonism (which may or may not be good candidates for a merge, depending on viewpoint). I'm not really qualified to venture an opinion beyond that, being an inetrested spectator and little more, but respect to you (and the others) for the work done in keeping the articles objective. And informative, which is above all what we're here for. -- Just zis Guy, you know? 16:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Well, basically, I'm about to go through it and start ripping out all unsourced material. Also am going to take out all inaccurate information (see talk page). - Ta bu shi da yu 23:55, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Not only do I believe every Bible chapter deserves and article, I believe every Bible verse does. As a pilot project to see if the idea is feasible I have created articles on John 20:15, 16, and 17. The articles are not great, I am no Biblical scholar, but I personally feel that at least for the Gospels there is enough material for an article per verse. Others disagree with me and the matter is currently being debated at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/John 20:16 and Talk:John 20:16 - SimonP 22:03, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
Could I get some help with The Two Babylons? If we can fill in the blanks here, then we can improve the Historicity of Jesus article! - Ta bu shi da yu 09:38, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Don't know if you're still watching this page, but the topic is of great interest to me, and I've left a note on the talk page there. Eager to hear your thoughts. Peace, BrandonYusufToropov 17:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, Slrubenstein 20:17, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Dear Wesley,
I just ran across your user page on Wikipedia and wanted to invite you to help us over at OrthodoxWiki.org. May God bless you! - Fr. John
If I want to teach somebody a lesson in tolerance, I will. There is nothing you say that will stop me from holding somebody to their own ideal, when it comes to them persecuting other people. Learn more about why things are said, not merely what is said. You seem to need some of this lesson in tolerance as well. I at least defend people who are mobbed, because I care about disadvantaged people. Do you really care? Borderer 05:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I've blocked User:Borderer indefinitely, since he is an alias for banned user Kenneth Alan. -- Decumanus 04:13, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)
There are proposals posted for the Human article, if you'd like to support one. -- Goethean 23:26, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I see that you are an Orthodox Christian who has at some point been interested in the Hypatia article. I wondered if you could shed some light on a query I have about the article (see Talk:Hypatia of Alexandria#Use of the word "dogma"). I see that "dogmatic" was used as a substitute for "fundamentalist" after some debate but I am not certain that the people who decided on use of the word "dogma" quite understand its theological meaning, especially in the Orthodox tradition. I don't completely understand it myself, but I did attend a lecture by the (largely anti-Christian) religious scholar Karen Armstrong who roundly condemned the use of "dogmatic" as a term of abuse and stated her conclusion that, particularly in the Othodox understanding of it, dogma is actually a very good thing. She argued that its negative connotations had emerged partly because it was used by analogy on people (e.g. politicians) who acted in a blind, unthinking and uncritical belief and partly because less and less people understand the theological meaning. AFAICS, if an anti-Christian scholar is saying that dogma is good and dogmatic shouldn't be used to carry negative connotations, people ought to be wary of applying it, especially to Christians (for whom it holds a particular religious meaning distinct from the meaning of popular understanding) and also particularly to people who lived before it acquired its current connotations! You seem to be a fairly logical person to ask to see if I am barking up the wrong tree or not :) Any feedback would be appreciated, but if you really don't know/don't care it's no problem. Sorry to bother you! VivaEmilyDavies 18:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley. We have a new user User:Vegasbright at the WP:LDS project who is absolutely sure all of us True Believing Mormons at the project are out to squelch him. We'd really like to groom him as an important POV addition to the project (like you, Alai, John Hamer, and now Sam Spade), and I would personally hate to lose him. But he seems impatient and pessimistic about the whole thing, and he is having a hard time understanding that this is not a blog site, that we have to use our best writing. I suggested he should rub shoulders more with you and the other non-LDS project participants, but I guess it hasn't happened. Anyway, if you drop by at his user page and his personal blog you will get an idea of where he is coming from and perhaps you will think of somehow you can put an arm around him and help him scheme against all of us closed-minded True Believing Mormons. Thanks beforehand. Cc:Alai and Sam Spade. Tom Haws 05:13, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
I would like to report several incidents of vandalism on the page for Sacrament. I fixed the page; they were minor things. It seems, however, that the user 203.36.44.14 has a history of vandalism. Perhaps a warning or a blocking might be in order. That's your call. Thanks. KHM03 02:49, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
203.36.44.13 has vandalized Sacrament again. The vandalism has been fixed, but I suggest a block. If not, then whatever you think best. Thanks. KHM03 11:58, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
203.36.44.13 has vandalized Sacrament yet again. The vandalism has been fixed. KHM03 11:36, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
I blocked
203.36.44.13 for 24 hours. It looked like all their recent
contributions were vandalism.
Wesley 03:57, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, you know I have always respected you and your work to ensure that the history of Christianity is represented accurately, and that the Christian point of view is represented fairly. Please comment on Jguk's most recent actions [3], [4]. It seems to me that he is destroying what I thought was a carefully constructec (though not, of course perfect) NPOV article. I know how committed you are to your views, but I also trust your committment to NPOV and would like to know what you think. Slrubenstein | Talk 15:14, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I chose a different username but am going to keep the Jesus is the Christ User page and talk page as my pages through a redirect. Your comments re the difficulty in addressing me with that username and the impersonation that someone did of me convinced me that I should change it. Abeo was User Jesus is the Christ 16:44, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Your name has been invoked in the midst of a debate; thought you'd like to review and, if led to do so, add your two cents. KHM03 17:53, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
This article has been listed on vfd. Your thoughts on this and/or your help expanding the article to more than a dictionary definition would be appreciated. In XC, JHCC 13:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Wesley, as a somewhat left wing Christian of ecumenical bent I have neen trying to strengthen the WCC & NCC articles. I would appreciate any comments/additions on Orthodox perspectives. I know enough to know it is different. (This is seperate from a discussion I am having over Christian right criticism.) Paul foord 10:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
These pages sure could use some help, perhaps you're interested?
It appears that you have some expertise in Christianity, having tried out a number of denominations. It is unusual to go from protestantism to orthodox, mostly because there a comparatively few churches (except for Greek Orthodox). I was curious, did you marry someone who was Orthodox? Also, would appreciate your assistance on maintaining the general Christian POV when the article specifically asks for it, as in Abraham or Ishmael. -- Noitall 13:09, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
Wesley 16:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
...which I think will go a long way toward resolving unproductive disputes on pages he and I both edit.
You and I worked productively on the Christo-Islamic article, and it occurred to me that you might wish to share your thoughts.
Anyone who is interested in voting one way or the other is invited to the discussion here. BrandonYusufToropov 17:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, could you take a look at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses? Somebody has decided to split the artile on POV lines, citing the Latter Day Saint articles as an example. This is bad practice, and I would rather root it out than propagate it. Tom Haws 15:07, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, sorry if this isn't really your thing, but could you offer some advice on external links. There seems to be a lot of link spamming going on, all over the place. I've been doing some work on the Christadelphian, and despite doing a bit of a link clean-up and explaining my reason for doing so, we still seem to get a few people whose main purpose seems to be to add links of minimal relevance. I've read through the external links guidelines a couple of times, but would welcome a second opinion. Thanks. RJB
Hi, Wesley. I feel personal concern and ownership of the suspicion you continue to express toward JWs and Mormons. I respect you so highly and feel I have depended on you so much for assistance from time to time that it causes me grief to find myself feeling unable to express myself adequately to you. Am I approaching this wrong? What barriers stand in the way of my being able to communicate effectively with you about these matters? It would be personally valuable to me if you are willing to explore this here or by e-mail. My ears are open. Tom Haws 18:28, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Visit Talk:Nontrinitarianism, please. Mkmcconn (Talk) 29 June 2005 20:14 (UTC)
I notice that at Talk:John 21 you state that Wikipedia should not be a bible commentary. In this case, you would probably have an opinion concerning Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew 1:verses. ~~~~ 1 July 2005 20:02 (UTC)
You may find this interesting and may want to chime in (if you wish). KHM03 2 July 2005 00:46 (UTC)
Good friend, you need to archive this monster of a page! How about this for a statement on the Jehovah's Witnesses page (if it's not an exercise in futility to think about this):
"Trinitarians often compare the Jehovah's Witnesses' unbelief in the Trinity to that of the ancient Arians - not because their beliefs are equivalent, but to point out that the ancient councils of the catholic bishops, the creeds produced by them to counteract the Arians, and the prayers in churches following that tradition which rejected Arianism, all contradict the Jehovah's Witnesses on some of the same points of faith." |
What do you think? Mkmcconn (Talk)
Please see Talk:Christianity#Pointless.2C_POV_paragraph_under_.22Early_Church.22 for the latest goings on. Thanks. KHM03 5 July 2005 17:40 (UTC)
Please see the intro to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I added content that I think has been sorely missing. A discussion may ensue. p.s. Sorry I didn't respond to the section above. :-) Tom Haws July 5, 2005 18:15 (UTC)
There is now a stub template for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related articles in need of expansion. Please add {{orthodoxy-stub}} to articles. You can also go to the Category page for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related stubs and click the "watch this page" link in the sidebar, so that you can see new stub articles as they appear. Spread the word! JHCC (talk) 6 July 2005 14:56 (UTC)
Hiya,
you recently voted to delete at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew 1:verses
however, that VfD concerned only the verses from Matthew 1, wheras Uncle G's proposal covered a much larger group of verses.
would you be prepared to consider Uncle G's proposal and make a vote at the new VfD - Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, which covers the full list of verses in Uncle G's suggestion?
~~~~ 9 July 2005 15:24 (UTC)
You might like to watch over the edits of SimonP - [5]
~~~~ 16:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, today I saw an edit you made on the secret teachings of Mormonism; I think the words were, to the effect, "those who were previously Mormon, learned these secret, publically unknown teachings in Mormon temples". Given that anyone who searches Google for Mormon Temples will find a plethora of references for all the ceremonies that are in Mormon temples. I find it an impossibility that there could be anything SECRET about Mormon temple ceremonies and thus impossible to have any "secret" teachings. Generally, I consider these types of quotes the product of rank anti-mormonism (they simply have no basis in fact, but they can sure stir up the anti-cultists. I would request that you delete it. I trust you to a high degree of objectivity, but I don't have the same confidence in other editors that frequent Mormon sites. If I changed it, I suspect it would be reverted. If you feel differently about what you wrote I would like to gain a better understanding of your thinging. Thanks. Storm Rider 04:17, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Going back to your previous response, LDS members who go to the temple covenant to maintain the sacredness of their covenants by not revealing them to anyone outside of the temple...member and non-member alike. You are correct that the vast majority of LDS members simply do not discuss the temple except in the broadest of descriptions. However, there really are no secret Mormon temple teachings given the advent of the internet and the willingness of those who have covenanted with God to keep "it" sacred openly discuss it. I have found everything that is taught in Mormon temples on the internet. That is another reason why it is difficult for those who have gone to the temple and now find themselves outside of the church, or those who seek its demise, to state there is some "unknown" teachings going go. Anyone who wants to know what goes on, can.
Please go back and read the paragraph in question and see if my proposal that your comments don't fit makes sense. Thanks. Storm Rider 15:21, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Wesley 21:33, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Excellent comments - I can understand what you are saying about not being allowed into the Mormon temples - how I think about it, is similar to how Anabaptists treat baptism and most Christians treat communion With anabaptists, children are not baptized until they understand and believe, with most Christians (including the Orthodox church I attended) communion is only given to the penitent confirmed believers. In the same way, the Temple is seen as a conduit for revelation. Only those are properly prepared can recieve that communion with God that is experienced there. In my opinion most who go to the temple get too caught up in the forms of the ordinaces rather than the communion and revelation that can come as you are close to God, as it is. But people tend to be closer to God when they adhere by certain teachings - such as not being immoral or drunk. Even those who attend could be more prepared, but leaders decided to draw the line at ten questions that determine "worthiness" which include a relationship with and belief in God, Faith in Christ, a belief in the restoration of the Gospel and continuing revelation, living a moral life, not smoking, drinking or the like, keeping legal obligations paying child support or alimony, keeping covenants with God, paying tithing and attending church meetings, living within the laws of your locale, and being honest. Nothing that other churches don't teach, but righteous living is seen as a prerequisite to have a certain level of communion with God.
I've never heard about "certain questions about doctrine could only be asked and answered in a certain room in the Mormon temple." But then I've only been a temple-attending mormon for nearly 15 years. :^) No, that is not true to my knowledge. I'd love to see evidence to the contrary if you can find it, but doubt it exists. I know that you are encouraged to talk to the temple president in his office or in the Celestial room if you have questions about the symbolism of the presentation of the ordinances, rather than in the hallways or outside the temple (again more of a cultural one-on-one learning thing). I'd be interested if you do find anything on it. The issue with some former Mormons sensational claims is that they aren't substantiated anywhere (examples I heard on my mission were that sex was had on temple alters, incidentlally which are only about a foot wide, or that the devil was worshipped there). Even the most obscure and strange mormon teachings are well documented in historical record and is pretty widely available. One of the "strange" things about Mormonism is that Joseph Smith received a revelation that records were to be kept of doctrine, teachings, minutes and so forth, so it is. And one can go to the church archives and request council of the twelve minutes or diaries outlining how the temple ordinances were recorded, or journals of those who detail their most sacred experiences. The church has a very open book historically. More recenly, many of the more recent records are not shown when requested (and some older ones), specifically if they are about someone who is still living (think U.S. privacy laws). In fact, the last time I went to the Church historical office, I saw that Jerald and Sandra Tanner, well-known anti-Mormons (who have been heralded for preserving in public some of the most obscure LDS historical records), had signed into the library to do research as well (and ran into her while there). Most of the older records that they would not allow you to have is because they are fragile, or in a few cases contain information (such as temple rites) that they would rather not have widely available (however you can access them at BYU special collections without a problem) - but that is a more recent policy, and the Tanners published most of those documents before the rule was enforced. All I'm saying is that I've not seen evidence of "secret teachings" or "document supression" by the church, but on the contrary, a very open book for those inquiring minds who want to know, and even for known enemies of the church who want historical data to back up their claims. I'd be interested if you do find anything that can be substantiated. - Visorstuff 23:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't been able to participate in this conversation as much as I would have. The Mormon temples are not typical places of worship; we do that at our ward buildings. The temple is a place where individuals make covenants with God. We also commune with our Father in Heaven there, but that is a secondary to covenant making. Further, because we believe so firmly that there are required ordinances that mortals must obtain (i.e. baptism), we feel obligated to perform those ordinances on behalf of our ancestors. In this manner, all might be saved.
It is true that from any outsider's perspective, both of our religions would look whacky, wierd, strange, or even bizarre. However, given my numerous conversations with Catholic priests I have found great similarities. Our expressions of faith may differ slightly, but we have far more in common than what separates.
I suspect the language you use about about learning in one room of the temple is a misquote from language used in the temple. Wesley, do some reserach in the bible on new names. In the OT, new names were given to kings. Revelations would also be a good place to look as to who would receive a new name. Honestly, I don't know why we are asked to keep our temple experience sacred. Yes, spiritual experiences are to be valued as pearls and not shared inappropriately. What I do know is that it is enough for me to be asked not to, I will strive to be obiedient and honor that covenant. I appreciate your willingness to ask and hope you will continue to seek an understanding of temples; both from today and from yesterday. In doing so, you will gain an even greater understanding of some orthodox teachings. Storm Rider 18:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I do enjoy this quality of conversation; thank you. However, let me be clear; I respect, admire, and seek truth where ever it is found and regardless of the religion in which I find it. I am a Latter-day Saint because I have been a student of religion for the vast majority of my life. The differences between the fullness of the gospel in Mormonism and other religions, for me, is like eating meat versus drinking milk. They both feed and sustain, but one is simply more complete.
The mysteries the Mormonism attempts to address are just that. As you stated, the God/Man progression thing so often quoted, is just that a mystery. For me, I believe there is one Eternal God, our Father in Heaven. I personally don't believe he had a beginning and will not have an end. The principle being taught is that we are the creation of God and we have a purpose. We are meant to follow Christ, strive to become like Him, His spirit in our heart daily and manifest that Spirit in our choicese and actions. We are not meant to pass through this life, gain a set of wings, and then sing praises to God for eternity. That picture is belittling to God (It still boggles my mind when talking with some that they feel God created us for that purpose! Surely, He is not so insecure). He is God whether we worship him or not. There is more to eternity than I find taught in the majority of religions.
It is true that Mormons take God at His word; all mortals are His children and He wants us to return to Him. I would never say that the God that hears both our prayers is different. I only know of one God; there is no other. Wesley, I dare say that each of us, John Paul II and any prophet that has ever lived, learned a great deal more when they came before the Savior. If our knowledge has no affect on our actions it is of little value. Who has to learn more is of little concern to me; that does not mean that we all should not be students of truth and seek it out. For me, I will continue to do as much work for the dead as possible to ensure that all are able to enter His kingdom. I am not content to rest while others perish as a result of my inaction. Thank you again, I really do enjoy reading your comments. You have a wonderful faith in Christ. Storm Rider 04:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
And a missionary to boot! I think I will have to provide you with a white shirt and name tag; Elder Wesley. The mystical side of Eastern Orthodoxy is both admired and, in fact, treasured. I have always appreciated both EO and C devotion to those who have already passed through this life. The LDS is view is that Baptism is a requirement; baptism for the dead is the avenue provided to offer that ordinance to those who have passed. It does not insure their salvation, only ensure that should they accept Christ in spirit prison as described in 1 Peter 3:19, the ordinance is done. I still believe in the Apostasy; were it not real so, there would not be the number of Christian churches we have today. It is true that I see no leg for any of the Protestant chruches to stand; they are all the creation of man. They have no authority. That does not mean that I do not value their many contributions to faith and grace.
As I lived in France for a few years, I took great pleasure in worshiping with Catholic congregations on occaision. I have no doubt that I would also feel a similar Spirit in an EO congregation. The Holy Sacrament is something of great worth to me. I look forward to each Sunday to partake of the bread and water as a way of renewing my committment to Christ and His gospel. I suspect that I believe the vast majority of which you believe, I just believe in more. Let's us continue to seek truth and recognize it where ever we find it. Storm Rider 19:51, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
12.158.58.139 17:27, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Firstly let me say that I am sorry to have to bother you.
Secondly, I wish to let you know that a recent VFD that you took part in has closed. The result was that 32 people voted to keep all individual bible verses as seperate articles, and 34 voted that they shouldn't (2 abstensions, and 3 votes for both). This is considered by standard policy not to be a consensus decision (although the closing admin stated that it was a consensus to keep them).
Thirdly, the subject has now been put to a survey, so that it may remain open until there is a clear consensus for what appears to be a difficult issue to resolve. You may wish to take part in this survey, and record a similar vote to the one you made at the VFD there. The survey is available at Wikipedia:Bible verses.
~~~~ 18:34, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
SimonP (the creator of the 100 or so gospel verse articles) has tried to claim that the votes for the "only notable verses" section would include most of the 30,000 verses of the bible because he sees them as notable. To avoid such a POV twisting of the votes, I have added a new section - [6] - for voting on whether the number of notable verses is more like 30,000, or more like 30. Would you care to vote there as well? ~~~~ 00:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm terribly sorry, but I don't have the time or energy to keep up with these votes, surveys, discussions, and on and on. It's important, but I'm going to sit this one out and focus what little wikitime I have elsewhere. However, I do appreciate your bringing this to my attention, and I am certainly interested in the eventual outcome. Wesley 03:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I just stumbled on this, and tried to cleanup and NPOV it. I saw your comment in the discussion. While I believe it is a salvageable article, I agree that there is not much meat there, and I wouldn't mind a merge to Holy Spirit...feel free to VfD if the Spirit (hehe) so moves you. -- MikeJ9919 05:55, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on the issue, but that entire article has an anti-Albanian slant. Is it still even that relevant in historical terms? Perhaps it could me merged into a history of Kosovo or something related to the UN mandate. Tfine80 02:09, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
You may be interested in participating in this vote. KHM03 15:37, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps this project should be a more general Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity? This project is considered inactive at the moment as far as the header shows, and there are projects for other religions, but not Christianity... so I believe that this project would be more effective as one for the whole of Christianity or at least moved into a subproject. I will give this message to all the present membership list of this WikiProject. -- EmperorBMA| 話す 20:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
This is up for deletion. I would like to have it kept as he is a significant critic of The Two Babylons. Would you care to vote on the VfD? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:12, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
User:LucaviX vandalized my user page...I asked him to cease and desist but thought it best to also let some administrators know about it. Just FYI. Thanks. KHM03 09:25, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
You appear to be busy, lately; but I wonder if you have some advice on how to resolve the dispute over the use of the "Myth" category and sub-categories to describe Biblical accounts. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 16:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Your comments on the current discussion in Category talk:Christian mythology/Proposed compromises#A_new_suggestion would be much appreciated. Thanks. JHCC (talk) 14:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I am out of the country and will in transit for another nine days. If I can find a better internet cafe from which to work I´ll look at what is going on, otherwise it may have to wait a bit but do let me know how I can be useful, SR
It seems as though at least a few of the edits are for no other purpose than to annoy. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 19:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if I helped or not. It seems that I had a hand in giving Anon a reason to shake the dust off his sandals, which frankly, I'm not happy about. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 01:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that your User page wasn't vandalized. I am trying to help clean up the Wikipedians/Kentucky subpage. It has been replaced by Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky. Thanks! Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 20:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Can you please check the edits (since 29 August) on Theotokos? I am unsure whether valid information was removed. Thanks. +MATIA ☎ 14:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
User:195.188.250.67 has done some pretty brutal vandalism at Jesus; just one to watch I think. KHM03 11:23, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
You may want to look at Binitarianism, which makes some interesting comparisons between this heresy and Eastern Orthodoxy. KHM03 18:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
That is a good job done
So you belong to the universal church :) (I'm tempted to say, "too" but that might bring much controversy). I should have known--though at first I was thinking you were Popish, as I am. In any case, with a name like Wesley, though...Haha--is it a nod to your denominational past? Sorry to be cryptic, I saw you on Talk:Christianity. I agree with "historic"... Pax et bonum, -- Dpr 03:41, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Ya, he might be one... I suggest that we don't add this category however. No current theologian or Christian leader will get in to that category (no matter what they do or say) because of their supporters and because of misinformed outsiders. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
You had some good things to say on the Jesus page. What do you think of my compromise for hte second paragraph? The other is intent on cluttering up the paragraph with every possible argument, but I think saying "arguably" fairly covers it without having to actually make the arguments. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Gator (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
re: your request for a serious scholar on the topic of does the NT call Jesus God? Raymond E. Brown In Theological Studies #26 (1965) p.545-73 he wrote the article entitled "Does the NT call Jesus God?" which can be summarized as follows: Mk10:18, Lk18:19, Mt19:17, Mk15:34, Mt27:46, Jn20:17, Eph1:17, 2Cor1:3, 1Pt1:3, Jn17:3, 1Cor8:6, Eph4:4-6, 1Cor12:4-6, 2Cor13:14, 1Tm2:5, Jn14:28, Mk13:32, Ph2:5-10, 1Cor15:24-28 are "texts that seem to imply that the title God was not used for Jesus" and are "negative evidence which is often somewhat neglected in Catholic treatments of the subject." Also: "Jesus is never called God in the Synoptic Gospels, and a passage like Mk 10:18 would seem to preclude the possibility that Jesus used the title of himself. Even the fourth Gospel never portrays Jesus as saying specifically that he is God. The sermons which Acts attributes to the beginning of the Christian mission do not speak of Jesus as God. Thus, there is no reason to think that Jesus was called God in the earliest layers of New Testament tradition. This negative conclusion is substantiated by the fact that Paul does not use the title in any epistle written before 58." And "The slow development of the usage of the title God for Jesus requires explanation. Not only is there the factor that Jesus is not called God in the earlier strata of New Testament material, but also there are passages, cited in the first series of texts above, that by implication reserve the title God for the Father. Moreover, even in the New Testament works that speak of Jesus as God, there are also passages that seem to militate against such a usage - a study of these texts will show that this is true of the Pastorals and the Johannine literature. The most plausible explanation is that in the earliest stage of Christianity the Old Testament heritage dominated the use of the title God; hence, God was a title too narrow to be applied to Jesus. It referred strictly to the Father of Jesus, to the God whom he prayed. Gradually, (in the 50's and 60's?) in the development of Christian thought God was understood to be a broader term. It was seen that God had revealed so much of Himself in Jesus that God had to be able to include both Father and Son." 209.78.22.90 22:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, I have just added a new section to Judaism and Christianity on "love." It is just a stup of a section, hopefully others will add more about the Jewish notion. But I know that my characterization of the Christian notion is at best wildly incomplete. When you have time, would you go over it and add whatever additional material, detail, nuance, explanation you think necessary? Slrubenstein | Talk 00:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, if you know other editors who are very knowledgable about Christianity, could you ask them to look at the section on love? I am very concerned about not misrepresenting, or doing justice to, the Christian point of view. Slrubenstein | Talk 17:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Wesley. I am glad I made an appropriate choice. However, I have added even more content on the Jewish notion of love and I think that more on the Christian notion is necessary to provide balance. I also added a long quote from Maimonides to the section on Heaven and Hell; in fact, I did a rewrite a week or two ago. I know the Jewish position is well-represented but again I am concerned that in the process the Christian view may appear misrepresented or at least underrepresented. So, take your time but I am glad you are considering adding more. Slrubenstein | Talk 21:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there anything like that? Or only the wiki portal (I don't remember the portal's wiki-link right now, but I've seen it somewhere). I'm looking for someone to help me at Talk:Theotokos#IN_NEED_OF_TRANSLATION. Thanks. +MATIA ☎ 19:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an article that was started (not by me!) in relation to Criticism of Christianity. When you have an opportunity, please take a look at it and give your take on the article talk page or make edits. I had redirected it to the "Criticism" page, but the original author didn't seem to care for that option. Any help would be great...thanks... KHM03 13:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I became aware of this user after he left a somewhat aggressive message on Doc glasgow's talk page; I immediately noticed that the user may be engaged in other overly aggressive behavior, anti-Semitism, and vandalism. I'm not asking for any action, but I might suggest this user be watched a bit. Thanks... KHM03 12:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
You're most welcome. Enjoy! :) — Preost talk contribs 01:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I pray you have a very merry Christmas and a truly blessed 2006. KHM03 19:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at the fracas that's surrounded this article of late? It's finally been addressed in the talk page there, but there seems to be an unwillingness to do anything but continually re-add a massive pile of content (after it being reverted by multiple editors) without discussing it first. — Preost talk contribs 03:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for directing me to those; trying to fix Ancient Egyptian artiles is one of my main goals here. Most of the articles need a lot of work, a lot of the data is hopelessly obsolete, and in many cases erroneous like the Herrud thing. In the Osiris and Isis articles however, while the links to Jesus and Mary are a bit overemphasized, the articles are generally accurate. There are some very visible parallels between certain aspects of Egyptian and Christian deities. There just needs to be some NPOV there trying to present a bigger picture, which I'll try to add when I get a chance. Flyboy Will 05:59, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Str1977 11:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I've made a lengthy suggestion at Talk:Mythology#Etymology and usage — some analysis and a suggestion. I would appreciate your input. Thank you. JHCC (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Wesley, I hope you had a good start into 2006. If you are free, could you have a look into the recent addition to Christianity by "86.137.164.37". Thanks, Str1977 14:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to participate in
WikiProject Christianity
The goal of WikiProject Christianity is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity available on Wikipedia. WP:X as a group does not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but prefers that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented. |
A.J.A. 22:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Trouble is a-brewin' thereabouts and with many other articles edited by Nrgdocadams, who seems to have some deeply inaccurate ideas that he insists on visiting upon various theological articles, accompanied by quite a lot of use of ALL CAPS and such on Talk pages. Any chance you'd be willing to take a look? — Preost talk contribs 02:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, I was reading the "Saint" article and became a bit confused. In the Orthodox section it spoke of Glorification, but then used the term cannonization. Is that term interchangable among the EO? I would appreciate your thoughts, thanks and may our Father continue to bless you, Michael/ Storm Rider 04:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You wrote a message to me lecturing me on ettiquette, but you failed to notice that i had, in fact, provided copious, verifiable references (which were not original research of mine) for the author whose erroneous work I was criticizing.
Nrgdocadams 08:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)Nrgdocadams.
Please take a look at the discussion going on here when you have a chance. I'm trying to work with a new editor who doesn't seem like he wants to work with me, regarding a particular link. Any help is welcome...feel free to let me know if I've acted inappropriately. Thanks... KHM03 01:20, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley.
We have worked together on Icon article, maybe you can look into my Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev? abakharev 12:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Please look at this when you can; it could use a touch of the East. Thanks... KHM03 20:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC) 14 Christianity's origins I am sorry, KHM03, that I have to contact you again but there's something brewing on Christianity, as exemplified in this edit: [1]. Currently, I reverted it again, but he will certainly return to reintroduce "fact". So please keep an eye on it. Cheers, Str1977 10:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry, Wesley, that I have to contact you again but there's something brewing on Christianity, as exemplified in this edit: [7]. Currently, I reverted it again, but he will certainly return to reintroduce "fact". So please keep an eye on it. Cheers, Str1977 10:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 10:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Since yours was the most recent comment on the Donatism article I thought it might be of interest to you, an article in Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 56(1): 56-74, entitled Six Constantinian Documents (EUS. H.E. 10, 5-7), that relate to the disposition of the Empire to the fledgling Church as well as to "the Donatist question." Thank you. L Hamm 20:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Thought you'd be interested in this. KHM03 02:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Based on ROHA's past behavior, it is my belief that he intentionally refuses to create an account so that he cannot be blocked effectively for 3RR violations. (See the history of both Adolf Hitler and Talk:Adolf Hitler, as well as other issues that he's caused elsewhere -- most notably, at Bob Dylan.) -- Nlu ( talk) 18:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd be glad to look at it. And it's very nice to have you drop by. Long time no see. Tom Haws 15:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley, thanks for asking. And you don't sound confrontational at all.
In the union negottiations between the Pope and the Eastern Church many issues were discussed: sabbath fasting, the make-up of the bread for the Eucharist etc. Most of these were matters of the rite and could be dealt differently in different parts of the world. This principle is the basis for the modern Eastern rite Churches. However, the issue of papal primacy could not be subject to such diversity, as cannot have and have not the a supreme jurisdiction invested with the Pope. The remaining issue is the Filioque.
As I have said, this had been gradually adopted in the West, based on different renderings of the Nicaean creed. The Pope had accepted it after the year 1000, but Photius of Constantinople had used it as a weapon in his fight against the Pope. Photius wanted to counter the notion, developed in the East, that the Roman Church had never erred and will never err - the basis of Papal infallibility; Photius wanted to provide one instance where indeed a Pope had erred and resorted to the Filioque, blowing it out of proportion and claiming that the Fq was heretical. (And he was quite succesful in this endeavour, to the detriment of unity).
Of course, in the union talks in the 13th and the 15th centuries the Pope could not possibly accept this view and hence he always insisted on the doctrinal correctness of the Fq. That didn't maan any judgment on whether it had been right and proper to include it, and it didn't mean that the creed without the Fq was deemed heretical (and hence the Eastern rites speak the creed without the Fq). What the Pope demanded of the Easterners was to accept the Fq as a non-heretical variation on the Nicaean creed. Photius had provided "who proceeds from the Father through the Son" as the opposing view to the Fq (without ammending the creed, of course). Now, the Easterners were asked to accept the equivalence of "through the Son" and "and the Son". The bishops at Lyons and at Florence did this, albeit out of political motivations, but the anti-Latin enmity created by Photius and of course increased by the sack of Constantinople 1204 had sunken so deep into Eastern sensibilities that the East wouldn't accept this agreement. Emperor and Patriarch were slain during the fall of Constantinople 1453 and the Turkish sultan appointed one of the agreement's opponents as the new Patriarch, sponsoring the anti-Western enmity among the Orthodox Christians.
So, to sum up, it's not that the Popes have insisted that the creed with the Fq is orthodox and the creed without is not. They have (and do) insist only on that the creed with the Fq is just as orthodox as the creed without it.
Papal jurisdiction is another factor of the division (and IMHO the real dividing factor), but it is another matter. The Fq, as a dogmatic-theological question, has always been much more suitable to raise controversies, as in such a question there can be no compromise.
Cheers, Str1977 11:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad to see someone actually took the plunge and added this to the article. I think this was becoming the main view of the discussion. Thanks. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page) 09:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:John1838 to see if it's all appropriate. Thanks... KHM03 18:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
John1838 reversed the blanking of his uerpage...just FYI. I listed the issue at WP:AN. KHM03 21:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I am doing a run off of 2000 articles from WP for a free download and want to include christianity but have hit the disputed notice. I am inclined to go back to http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Christianity&oldid=4704059 the old featured article form which was good but is there a more recent uncontencious version you would recommend? -- BozMo[[user_talk:BozMo|talk]] 13:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks -- BozMo[[user_talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I was asked to help Christianity with it's discussions on becoming NPOV... there is a debate on Talk:Hermeticism#Reason_for_reverting_Infinitysnake's_changes_2/22/06 on whether it should be stated that some scholars believed Hermes Trismegistus to be a real man. In my arguments I have noted the Christianity article, and I feel that the contributors of it may be able to give some view on how a religion article should be NPOV. I don't know if you will agree with me or not, but your help is requested.
KV 06:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Last January, you added an NPOV tag to Eastern Orthodox view of sin. I think at least some of your concerns have been addressed since then. Would you mind stopping by and commenting on what still needs to be addressed before removing the NPOV flag, if anything? Thanks, Wesley 13:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Wesley, wondering if I can ask a favor. Things have gotten quite heated at Talk:Joseph Smith, Jr. between User:Bcatt and a number of Mormon editors (we have moved a portion of the discussion to my talk page). I've tried to step in and help guide the discussion, but because I am a Latter-day Saint adherent, I am being accused of treating her differently than Mormon editors and abusing my administrative status (see my talk page) - both which I take very seriously.
Whenever I've tried to guide the discussion (which I have not been a part of for the bulk, except to try to help guide), she seems to have blown up at me, as if I am mastermining and encouraging discrimination about her. For example, a few months ago I suggested that she and Storm Rider work out their uncivility and take a break from the page, but she though I was being harsher on her than him (he took a break, she didn't). When I suggested we find out who the sock puppet is on the JS Jr, she said that I was holding double standards for LDS editors, and "engaging in questionable practices due to [my] bias." I don't know what I did to make her over-react like that, as my interaction with her was very limited up until that point, although she does have a history of controversy and antagonism towards personal beliefs (ie politics, philosophy and religion)(see her user boxes). As a non-Mormon admin who is trusted in the Wikipedia community, could you go to the talk page, read through and offer suggestions? In addition, and personally, I'd appreciate a critique of my handling of the situation and her. I do take these accusations seriously, as you know. Thanks in advance. - Visorstuff 16:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I saw some of the things thou writest on wikipedia, and I thought thee to be the 1st neutral Eastern-Orth wikipedian I found. I am writing articles upon liturgy on Romanian-, French- and Waloon-speaking wikies. Personally I am Anglican (of Lutheran soteriology and high liturgy), through Eastern-Orth, Armenian, and Byzantine-Cath backgrounds. I would maybe to talk with thee. Prithee, send me an e-mail to gandul_curat@}yahoo.com. Thankful, Waelsch (George) 00:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wes, could you please have a look into this request [8] ? Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 14:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley,
Thank you for your welcome. I look forward to contributing. I appreciate your reason for removing my link on the Jesus Prayer as it appears as a blog when viewed from the front page. May I ask you to reconsider? I'm suggesting this because the core of the site is not a personal blog, but information on how to make a prayer cord and pray the Jesus Prayer. My experience is that this is information which many people value, as, unless they are firmly located within the Eastern Orthodox tradition, this information is very hard to find. Others outside the tradition value the cultural adapatation of the knotted prayer cord as an option alternative to the Chotki.
I've therefore re-inserted the link avoiding the blog, and with a clear entry page to information about the Jesus Prayer and knotted prayer cords, and the blog page now being only one button among the others focussing on the Jesus Prayer. I trust this is in keeping with the spirit and aims of Wikipedia. Best wishes, Andrew Goodmanco 23:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC) (goodmanco) (If this is the wrong place for this message, please forgive me and delete.)
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Joseph Smith, Jr., and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. —This unsigned comment was added by Visorstuff ( talk • contribs).
Nsandwhich and the rest of us are aware of OrthodoxWiki, and have in fact imported several articles under the terms of the GFDL license. Ditto Theopedia, AnglicanWiki and, of course, Wikipedia. If you know of others, though, it might help. Thanks for taking the time to write. Grigory Deepdelver of Brockenboring Talk TCF 22:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC) (Still known on CKB as "Archola."
Sorry for the silly question, but why do some of my edits show up as red letter, those with square brackets and most show up blue after being saved? I would prefer they all show up as blue and have not red edits, but I don't recognize anything that I am doing that causes it; it just seems to be random occurence.
Btw, Strang is not looked upon as a resource because he was a only a recent convert at the time of Smith's death (just over a year). Strang latter provided a letter purportedly from Joseph that said he was to be the next prophet. The problem is that it was proven to be a forgery. He did have some high profile members that intially followed, but most fell away rather quickly. Having said this, the statement you have found is acceptable to reference. However, I think it should be a qualified reference.
I feel like my behavior interacting with Bcatt has greatly harmed our WIKI relationship. If I have lost your confidence, I apologize. I did not treat her well nor was my behavior in keeping with one who strives to be a disciple of Christ. That is my cross to bear and obviously shows my lack of discipline. I hope a warmer interaction can be returned. God's blessings be upon you. Storm Rider (talk) 17:31, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a section in this article called Origins of Christian mythology which I have been trying to find out why it is there. It seems to be a particular theory about the origins of Christianity rather than Christian mythology. I noticed you edited the section - do you have any idea why it is there, or of there is somewhere better it could go? DJ Clayworth 17:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints.
You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! |
I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.
Thanks! -- evrik 18:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Seems the page has been posted to an exmormon bulletin board, which has generated a lot of interest from exmormons (which is good - you know I've tried to recruit some in the past to help edit those pages). It seems they have many issues with the info added in by previous exmormons and by the Mormon editors. Wondering if you can help guide discussion as an editor from a different religion?
They've made some good progress, but its all ancedotal, and studies don't back up all of what they are saying (The internet exmo community is tight-knit, but not large or representative of the majority of those who leave the church. Some studies say that as high as 1-3 percent of those who leave fit this mold, of the 8-12 percent who either want nothing more to do with the church or officially leave it). Right now, they exmormons don't want a reference section [9] [10], [11] about themselves and I can't seem to add in any referenced material to the text without it being deleted, and can't seem to include references from the reference section into the article [12]. My fear is that it will end up only ancedotal information.
Last thing, is from your point of view, how should we approach them about the difference between Mormonism, the LDS Church, and the Latter Day Saint movement, per the academic naming conventions we've adopted here on the wiki? They've already removed every reference to other Mormon denominations...They equate Mormonism with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and academically, they are very different things. Can you help? - Visorstuff 19:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know about a christianity wiki that was recently started and has now moved to it's own server. Because of your interest, I think you would be a valuable member of our team and I'd love to have your contributions.
We are just about ready to go live!
As soon as we finalize the CPOV policy, I think we're ready to "go public" with this project and invite the world! We can submit to DMOZ and Google and start getting some real active hits on that site.
Please take a look and see if this project is something you would like to get behind. the URL is: ChristWiki
-- nsandwich 04:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley,
It has been a long time since we last communicated. I am now retired from Wikipedia, and have left a farewell message at my old user page.
There are very few people on WP whom I would definitely want to be sure had read this message; you are one of them.
In Christ,
JHCC
I am a relative newbie on Wiki. As my username suggests, I am interested in Religious History. I have made major edits to the article named above. As you were one of the major contributors (and you also voted to oppose it as a featured article), I'd like to ask you to take a look at it now. You can compare it with the version when you last edited it (last month). Your opinion is welcome. Thanks. RelHistBuff 11:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I recommend that you archive your talk page, as its gotten very long. -- ☆ TBC ☆ 02:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I've added some comments over on Talk:Mary, mother of Jesus concerning Calvin's view. If you have any further input, I'd welcome it!
Grace and peace, jrcagle 17:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Codex Sinaiticus has angered me, something I regret. But he has accused me of suppressing Christianity, which deeply offends me. Do you share this view? I as you honstly and as someone I consider a friend. Would you mind commenting here [13]? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 15:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 21:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind looking into the Diocese of Sourozh article? There's an anonymous editor who doesn't quite seem to get the point of NPOV. — Preost talk contribs 21:22, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking of nominating User:Storm Rider for Adminship. He's done a good job at keeping a level-headed conversation going on controversial religious topics, I believe. He would be a good asset to the religious corner of the wiki. Would you support that action based on your work with him? Please let me know on my talk page. - Visorstuff 19:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted you to check out Anonymous_P2P#Views_on_the_desirability_of_anonymous_P2P and see if you had anything to add. rearden9
Hi, I was looking through the article on Pontius Pilate and I'm trying to find sources for his being venerated in the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. Quickly perusing the page history, it looks like you added that. I believe you, I just want something to verify it, as one of my friends doesn't really believe it, and I want something more than an unsourced WP statement for it. Thanks! Carl.bunderson 06:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I've noticed that you've edited articles pertaining to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I wanted to extend an invitation to you to join the WikiProject dedicated to organizing and improving articles on the subject, which can be found at: WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy. This WikiProject was begun because a need was perceived to raise the level of quality of articles on Wikipedia which deal with the Eastern Orthodox Church.
You can find information on the project page about the WikiProject, as well as how to join and how to indicate that you are a member of the project. Additionally, you may be interested in helping out with our collaboration of the month. I hope you'll consider joining and thank you for your contributions thus far! — Preost talk contribs 18:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley. Some time ago, I had trouble with a very aggressive edit warrior, who was finally banned for six months after an arbitration case, and who didn't come back when his ban expired. The problem related to the reporting of a case where a dying Catholic woman was given Holy Communion for the last time. She was unable to receive a particle of the Host, as her mouth was too dry. (I'm talking of Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube was removed.) So the priest placed a drop of the Precious Blood on her tongue.
When I came to the article, over a year ago, it said that she couldn't be given bread, so the priest put a drop of wine on her tongue. I changed that to "host", and "consecrated wine". In real life, I avoid speaking even of "consecrated wine", as it carries an implication that it's still just wine, even though it's "holy" wine. Generally Catholics, even orthodox ones, are uncomfortable talking about "the Blood" or "the Precious Blood", so they get round it by saying "received from the Chalice". Anyway, "from the Chalice" wasn't appropriate in the case of Terri Schiavo, and "Precious Blood" would have been completely POV. My aim was to find a wording that would not affirm or deny Catholic doctrine. So I just left it as "consecrated wine", which is capable of an orthodox interpretation. I was a relatively new user, and my change was accepted without question.
Some months later, after I had had various disagreements with this user (not directly, but by siding with other people with whom he was in dispute), an anon came along, put "bread" into the article, and disappeared. I reverted, and the editor, now realizing that I had objections to "bread" put it back again and again and again, saying that it was not at Catholic encyclopaedia. He insisted that we needed to have it, because people wouldn't know what "host" meant, so I created the article Host (Holy Communion), and wiki-linked the word. He kept on reverting, saying that a wikilink wasn't enough, even though that article had a lot of very technical words wikilinked ( defibrillated, intubated, tracheotomy, anoxia, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, and thalamic stimulator, etc.) with no definition given in the article itself. I insisted that I was not trying to affirm Catholic doctrine on Wikipedia, by saying that she was given the "Precious Blood" since her tongue was too dry to receive the "Body of Christ". I felt "host" was neutral, since it doesn't imply that transubstantiation does or does not really happen. Eventually, other people arrived with input, we reached a compromise, and that editor was banned from Wikipedia.
Having been through that, I want to tread carefully. I've just seen lots of "bread"s and "wine"s in the article Coeliac disease. I fixed the Catholic part, and after some hesitation did a little bit of changing of the Eastern Orthodox part, but I wonder would you mind taking a look. As far as I know, Orthodox Christians don't use the word "host", which refers to a small, round, flat bread, usually with a cross on it, probably completely different from what you would use. For an NPOV wording, the article shouldn't deny or affirm any religion. Keep in mind that even if Orthodox Christians allow the use of the words "bread" and "wine" after consecration despite their belief in the Real Presence — and I don't know if they do use those words — it would still contradict Catholic teaching to use the word "wine" when referring to the consecrated species at an Orthodox liturgy, as Catholics believe that Orthodox have a valid Eucharist. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 10:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley could you check out SIL International, edit and offer some recommendations. Rearden9 15:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
You seemed to want it. Care to comment? -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 09:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Wesley, for your thoughtful response to my question on terminology for the Eucharist. On a different matter, I thought I would direct you to new discussion about Giovanni, in case you have missed it. Jayjg has now confirmed through checkuser that Professor33, NeoOne, and CleanSocks are all sockpuppets of Giovanni33. [14] [15] Giovanni has now come as close as I think he can come (without losing face) to admitting sockpuppetry. He has agreed here that it doesn't pay, and has asked to be unblocked on certain conditions which, if enforced, would make the use of sockpuppets completely futile. I've made a proposal here, at the Incidents Noticeboard. Also, this section of Danny's talk page gives a summary of this history and contains links to all or nearly all the places where it has been discussed. The blocking admin has indicated that he will consider unblocking early, and I'd be happy with that, but I think we need to work out the conditions that Giovanni agrees to first. Assuming that the sockpuppetry stops, I'd also be happy with removing the puppeteer tag from his own user page, in order to help him to make a clean start, free from any unnecessary humiliation. Don't feel you have to get involved, but if you have time, a comment at the noticeboard would be welcome. I'm hoping to have this sorted out as soon as possible, because I need to go on wiki-break to finish some writing. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 07:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, thank you for coming to help on the Christianity page regarding mercy. I always appreciate your contributions. God bless you. Storm Rider (talk) 20:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, please look at the Christianity talk page. You know my thoughts on historical Christianity and I hope you know of my deep abiding respect for both the Eastern Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church, but I am Latter-day Saint by the direction of our Father. My claim to be a disciple of Christ, weak though I am, is sacred to me. I reject any group to deny the label of Christian to any other group regardless of how backwards we might feel of their respective doctrine. Your measured and wise counsel would be helpful. Storm Rider (talk) 06:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
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Wesley, I have missed your comments of late. Where have you gone? If you have the time, please review the comments about cults on the Talk:Christianity article. I firmly believe the article is best served by simply addressing the beliefs and doctrines within Christianity. I resist the need to place judgements on the groups outside the mainstream. You have aided in this discussion in the past, I look forward to it again if at all possible.
I read a fabulous quote recently by John Calvin; I hope you appreciate it as much as I did:
A wonderful thought. Peace, Storm Rider (talk) 22:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Loremaster and I would appreciate it if you would look over the Ebionites article and provide suggestions to get it ready for nomination as a featured article. We recently finished incorporating the suggestions of Slrubenstein from peer review. Slrub suggested you would be a good person to work with to further improve the article and get a diverse perspective. Ovadyah 11:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Ebionites article passed GA. We are having a 2nd round of peer review to get it ready for FA nomination. Your perspective on changes needed to make it FA quality would be appreciated. Ovadyah 16:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Could you deal appropriately with this guy? He is a vandal. Rearden9 17:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Wesley, can I get your input on some external links at Shunning and Excommunication at Talk:Shunning#External_links. Regards, -- Jeff3000 02:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I added a note on the Eastern Orthodoxy Portal noteboard that this article is suffused with the church's POV and comes across as the private project of a HOCNA priest who appears to believe that he owns the page and can remove anything which does not fit that POV. Collaboration from others could improve the article immensely; please feel free to jump in or alert others. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.23.217.123 ( talk) 23:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Things getting out of hand. Recent Example to the orthodox wikiproject articles to only have people by consensus deny history- documented -truth and Greek cultural words and heritage under the guise of consensus to be allowed to hijack,steal and pervert/corrupt. There is no excuse for abusing people's cultural heritage. Please help me with the revert warring on the article icon. The bias and abuse is really getting outrageous and out of hand around here. Another example- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Historical_persecution_by_atheism Wikipedia has decided that people like Nobel peace prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn are liars engaged in anti-atheistic bigotry. This is getting really really out of hand. LoveMonkey 03:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm unhappy with your decision to undelete this article. Wikipedia should not have copyrighted material hanging around. There is nothing to stop the article's creator (or anyone else) from using that source to create a new article that is not a copyvio. Speedy deletion of copyvios is completely in accordance with process. I would prefer it in future if you would contact me on my talkpage first before undoing my deletion of pages. Failing that, deletion review is available as a forum for opinion from other Wikipedians. WjB scribe 01:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Wes the only info I copied was the name and date given to the papyrus as well as the measurements. It's discovery location, none of that information can be copyrighted. It was a skeleton article. As for being sensitive to copyright check out some of my recent articles that I created on the ancient churches and monasteries in Asia Minor, Turkey. Unlike Andrew c who's last creation seems to be [16] LoveMonkey 16:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The Ebionites article has been nominated for Featured Article. You are invited to show your support or suggest further improvements to the article. Ovadyah 08:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I ahve interacted with you enough to understand your position and trust me I know you were not saying you thought JW's are Christian. Personally I don't beliee any other religion claiming to be Christian (other than JW's) espouses true Christian beliefs and fell that their doctrines are dangerous and heretical. SO we are at an impasse with regard to faith. However we do share the desire to be objective (I think) when dealing with people of other faiths. That is why I support an inclusiveness to the article. If I were not being objective I would argue that only JW's could be considered Christian. George 23:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I on the other hand don't take such a soft view: I don't take kindly to people I know being called heretics.
This I copy from the current Nontrinitarian talkpage:
Jesus prays to God, John 17: 1-3
has faith in God, Hebrews 2:17, 18,Hebrews 3:2
is a Servant of God, Acts 3:13; 4:27,30
does not know things God knows, Mark 13:32; Rev1:1
holy spirit does not know either is taught by the Father, John 8:27
worships God, John 4:22
calls God his God Rev 3:12
is in subjection to God, 1 Cor 15: 28
has God for his head, 1 Cor 11:1
is exalted by God, Acts 5:31; Phil 2:9
is given authority by God, John 17:2,3
is given life by the Father, John 6:57; John 5:26
is given kingship by God, Luke 1:32,33
is given judgment by the Father, John 5:27; Acts 10:42
is given lordship by God, Acts 2:36
has reverent submission, fear, of God Hebrews 5:7-10
and is made high priest by God Hebrews 5:10
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Nice to have you watching and contributing at Hebrew Bible. I think progress is really happening there. Dovi is thoughtful and polite. I am learning a lot about the Jewish perspective on things while discussing matters with him. Please feel free to disagree with me at the page if you think I'm misrepresenting Christianity. I'm trying to be very neutral and academic about things. Alastair Haines 22:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Wesley, it is good to see you editing again. How have things been? Hope all is well. -- Storm Rider (talk) 03:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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Wesley, please spend a few moments review the article, Satanic ritual abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and make a comment on the title. I am looking for an objective party to comment. Thank you. -- Storm Rider (talk) 15:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Would you consider contributing to this? Slrubenstein | Talk 01:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome! It is good to hear from you, and happy New Year, Slrubenstein | Talk 12:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you comment on this discussion? Slrubenstein | Talk 20:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments and contributions at Binding of Isaac. About 3 weeks ago, I proposed to change the name of the article to "Sacrifice of Isaac" at Talk:Binding of Isaac#Name of this article, but so far haven't seen any response. I plan to go ahead and rename the article on March 20, 2008 unless there are objections. I invite you to visit the article and submit any comments you have on the matter. Thanks! -- Bryan H Bell ( talk) 17:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Wesley, I would appreciate your attention to the discussion concerning Mary that's taking place on Mormonism and Christianity. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 19:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have created the Theos Kyrios and Christos anesti pages as I thought they should exist in Wikipedia, can you help me (or contact any other Orthodox in Wikipedia - I'm new here so I don't know any other users) so we could expand them? Moreover, I've linked some references to these pages but I can't find any other articles that mention them, so I'd be glad if you could help me there, too. -- K kokkinos ( talk) 08:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I noticed your edit to the Launchpad article today. There's some information about the Soyuz component at:
— Sladen ( talk) 17:52, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind checking the St. Mark article? I saw you made initial entry and I cannot find sources for the traditions you wrote about. I've searched, but can't find any sources (my library is mainly Roman Catholic). If you have any sources for these traditions, could you please insert them. I put "Citation needed" flags on these traditions. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I know it's been a long time since you started this article, but could you please check out the Traditions section? Thanks very much. Jason3777 ( talk) 03:09, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I think there was considerable discussion as to how to represent Christian views at the Jesus article; just wanted to make sure you know about this recent edit. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I've just proposed merging Unification Church and antisemitism (which you worked on) into Divine Principle. Please join in the discussion, if you like. Steve Dufour ( talk) 15:41, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I found your old user page while checking out some old edits. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 11:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Wesley, I am a new user and have uploaded my first page on Ian McCormack. Immediately it was tagged for deletion, despite having numerous sources and plenty of links. I have addressed many of the issues brought against it (many of them good points) but the steam roller seems to be going on. If you could take a look at it and see what you think - if there is anything that ought to be changed, etc. If you think it is a reasonable article would you please supposrt it. Thanks, ChildrenOfLight ( talk) 19:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! This is Icarus!, being non-Wiki (I'm not logged in...), saying thanx for the work on the Discordianism page! Keep it up! 24.176.20.60 16:30, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
CheeseDreams has just filed a complaint against me asking I be banned from any articles involving Judeo-Christian topics [1]. If you think there would be any value at this early stage to your commenting on the ArbCom page or talk page I'd appreciate it -- or, if it is okay with you, I can just keep you posted. Thanks, Slrubenstein 23:22, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Weley, CD has been banned for a few days for violating the AC decision. But look at these: [2] edits by a friend of CHeeseDreams. the changes to the Cultural and historical etc. article were ludicrous and I reverted. But s/he also worked on other Christianity related articles. I suggest you take a look -- I do not know the material, or history of these articles, well enough to know whether these edits are reasonable and valid, or if this is just Cheese Dreams violating the ruling. Slrubenstein 19:16, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Well, so many things keep changing -- she seems to have an infinite supply of sock-puppets and I know others keep following her trail trying to clean up. Maybe what I was referring to got lost in the process. Anyway, just be aware that she loves sock puppets and that she is targeting articles pertaining to Christianity (or anything she can use concerning gnosticism or ancient near eastern religions that can also be a platform for her views on christianity) Slrubenstein 23:28, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I invite you to sign in as a participant to the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses project and add that page to your watchlist. Tom Haws 21:04, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
I say your comment on the Jehovah's Witnesses project page - I think that this organization was a but premature for them, and the structure is a concern. I wonder if the idea was a bit forced rather than natural like other projects.
I have been increasinly concerned with this project's (and simlar projects) credibility. If JWProject is modeled after the LDSM one, we have work to do. I think Latter Day Saint editors are doing a much better job in staying NPOV, and with the addition of Non-Latter Day Saint editors such as User:Alai have helped balance articles even further. We are heading in the right direction, but don't want to be accused of bloc POV edits and "groupthink."
I left a note (including a comment about you) at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Latter_Day_Saint_movement#Cool_Project_.2F_Good_Group that explains some of my thoughts/concerns. We'll need more non-Mormon editors to make the project a success. Since other Latter Day Saint editors look up to you so much because of you (usually ;))unbiased approach, and with how many people watch your edits on religious topics your addition to the project would be a welcome step, bring other Non-Mormon editors to the project and would be much appreciated. I hope you'll join the project. If you can't join/don't want to, could you suggest editors who would be appropriate to invite? - Visorstuff 17:51, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hey Wesley, just dropping by to say keep up the good work. I saw your comments in the merge request re mormons & christianity, on balance I think I agree that it's a separte topic form anti-mormonism and criticisms of mormonism (which may or may not be good candidates for a merge, depending on viewpoint). I'm not really qualified to venture an opinion beyond that, being an inetrested spectator and little more, but respect to you (and the others) for the work done in keeping the articles objective. And informative, which is above all what we're here for. -- Just zis Guy, you know? 16:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Well, basically, I'm about to go through it and start ripping out all unsourced material. Also am going to take out all inaccurate information (see talk page). - Ta bu shi da yu 23:55, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Not only do I believe every Bible chapter deserves and article, I believe every Bible verse does. As a pilot project to see if the idea is feasible I have created articles on John 20:15, 16, and 17. The articles are not great, I am no Biblical scholar, but I personally feel that at least for the Gospels there is enough material for an article per verse. Others disagree with me and the matter is currently being debated at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/John 20:16 and Talk:John 20:16 - SimonP 22:03, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
Could I get some help with The Two Babylons? If we can fill in the blanks here, then we can improve the Historicity of Jesus article! - Ta bu shi da yu 09:38, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Don't know if you're still watching this page, but the topic is of great interest to me, and I've left a note on the talk page there. Eager to hear your thoughts. Peace, BrandonYusufToropov 17:26, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, Slrubenstein 20:17, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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I just ran across your user page on Wikipedia and wanted to invite you to help us over at OrthodoxWiki.org. May God bless you! - Fr. John
If I want to teach somebody a lesson in tolerance, I will. There is nothing you say that will stop me from holding somebody to their own ideal, when it comes to them persecuting other people. Learn more about why things are said, not merely what is said. You seem to need some of this lesson in tolerance as well. I at least defend people who are mobbed, because I care about disadvantaged people. Do you really care? Borderer 05:47, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I've blocked User:Borderer indefinitely, since he is an alias for banned user Kenneth Alan. -- Decumanus 04:13, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)
There are proposals posted for the Human article, if you'd like to support one. -- Goethean 23:26, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I see that you are an Orthodox Christian who has at some point been interested in the Hypatia article. I wondered if you could shed some light on a query I have about the article (see Talk:Hypatia of Alexandria#Use of the word "dogma"). I see that "dogmatic" was used as a substitute for "fundamentalist" after some debate but I am not certain that the people who decided on use of the word "dogma" quite understand its theological meaning, especially in the Orthodox tradition. I don't completely understand it myself, but I did attend a lecture by the (largely anti-Christian) religious scholar Karen Armstrong who roundly condemned the use of "dogmatic" as a term of abuse and stated her conclusion that, particularly in the Othodox understanding of it, dogma is actually a very good thing. She argued that its negative connotations had emerged partly because it was used by analogy on people (e.g. politicians) who acted in a blind, unthinking and uncritical belief and partly because less and less people understand the theological meaning. AFAICS, if an anti-Christian scholar is saying that dogma is good and dogmatic shouldn't be used to carry negative connotations, people ought to be wary of applying it, especially to Christians (for whom it holds a particular religious meaning distinct from the meaning of popular understanding) and also particularly to people who lived before it acquired its current connotations! You seem to be a fairly logical person to ask to see if I am barking up the wrong tree or not :) Any feedback would be appreciated, but if you really don't know/don't care it's no problem. Sorry to bother you! VivaEmilyDavies 18:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley. We have a new user User:Vegasbright at the WP:LDS project who is absolutely sure all of us True Believing Mormons at the project are out to squelch him. We'd really like to groom him as an important POV addition to the project (like you, Alai, John Hamer, and now Sam Spade), and I would personally hate to lose him. But he seems impatient and pessimistic about the whole thing, and he is having a hard time understanding that this is not a blog site, that we have to use our best writing. I suggested he should rub shoulders more with you and the other non-LDS project participants, but I guess it hasn't happened. Anyway, if you drop by at his user page and his personal blog you will get an idea of where he is coming from and perhaps you will think of somehow you can put an arm around him and help him scheme against all of us closed-minded True Believing Mormons. Thanks beforehand. Cc:Alai and Sam Spade. Tom Haws 05:13, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
I would like to report several incidents of vandalism on the page for Sacrament. I fixed the page; they were minor things. It seems, however, that the user 203.36.44.14 has a history of vandalism. Perhaps a warning or a blocking might be in order. That's your call. Thanks. KHM03 02:49, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
203.36.44.13 has vandalized Sacrament again. The vandalism has been fixed, but I suggest a block. If not, then whatever you think best. Thanks. KHM03 11:58, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
203.36.44.13 has vandalized Sacrament yet again. The vandalism has been fixed. KHM03 11:36, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
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Wesley, you know I have always respected you and your work to ensure that the history of Christianity is represented accurately, and that the Christian point of view is represented fairly. Please comment on Jguk's most recent actions [3], [4]. It seems to me that he is destroying what I thought was a carefully constructec (though not, of course perfect) NPOV article. I know how committed you are to your views, but I also trust your committment to NPOV and would like to know what you think. Slrubenstein | Talk 15:14, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that I chose a different username but am going to keep the Jesus is the Christ User page and talk page as my pages through a redirect. Your comments re the difficulty in addressing me with that username and the impersonation that someone did of me convinced me that I should change it. Abeo was User Jesus is the Christ 16:44, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
Your name has been invoked in the midst of a debate; thought you'd like to review and, if led to do so, add your two cents. KHM03 17:53, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
This article has been listed on vfd. Your thoughts on this and/or your help expanding the article to more than a dictionary definition would be appreciated. In XC, JHCC 13:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Wesley, as a somewhat left wing Christian of ecumenical bent I have neen trying to strengthen the WCC & NCC articles. I would appreciate any comments/additions on Orthodox perspectives. I know enough to know it is different. (This is seperate from a discussion I am having over Christian right criticism.) Paul foord 10:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
These pages sure could use some help, perhaps you're interested?
It appears that you have some expertise in Christianity, having tried out a number of denominations. It is unusual to go from protestantism to orthodox, mostly because there a comparatively few churches (except for Greek Orthodox). I was curious, did you marry someone who was Orthodox? Also, would appreciate your assistance on maintaining the general Christian POV when the article specifically asks for it, as in Abraham or Ishmael. -- Noitall 13:09, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
Wesley 16:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
...which I think will go a long way toward resolving unproductive disputes on pages he and I both edit.
You and I worked productively on the Christo-Islamic article, and it occurred to me that you might wish to share your thoughts.
Anyone who is interested in voting one way or the other is invited to the discussion here. BrandonYusufToropov 17:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, could you take a look at Talk:Jehovah's Witnesses? Somebody has decided to split the artile on POV lines, citing the Latter Day Saint articles as an example. This is bad practice, and I would rather root it out than propagate it. Tom Haws 15:07, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, sorry if this isn't really your thing, but could you offer some advice on external links. There seems to be a lot of link spamming going on, all over the place. I've been doing some work on the Christadelphian, and despite doing a bit of a link clean-up and explaining my reason for doing so, we still seem to get a few people whose main purpose seems to be to add links of minimal relevance. I've read through the external links guidelines a couple of times, but would welcome a second opinion. Thanks. RJB
Hi, Wesley. I feel personal concern and ownership of the suspicion you continue to express toward JWs and Mormons. I respect you so highly and feel I have depended on you so much for assistance from time to time that it causes me grief to find myself feeling unable to express myself adequately to you. Am I approaching this wrong? What barriers stand in the way of my being able to communicate effectively with you about these matters? It would be personally valuable to me if you are willing to explore this here or by e-mail. My ears are open. Tom Haws 18:28, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Visit Talk:Nontrinitarianism, please. Mkmcconn (Talk) 29 June 2005 20:14 (UTC)
I notice that at Talk:John 21 you state that Wikipedia should not be a bible commentary. In this case, you would probably have an opinion concerning Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew 1:verses. ~~~~ 1 July 2005 20:02 (UTC)
You may find this interesting and may want to chime in (if you wish). KHM03 2 July 2005 00:46 (UTC)
Good friend, you need to archive this monster of a page! How about this for a statement on the Jehovah's Witnesses page (if it's not an exercise in futility to think about this):
"Trinitarians often compare the Jehovah's Witnesses' unbelief in the Trinity to that of the ancient Arians - not because their beliefs are equivalent, but to point out that the ancient councils of the catholic bishops, the creeds produced by them to counteract the Arians, and the prayers in churches following that tradition which rejected Arianism, all contradict the Jehovah's Witnesses on some of the same points of faith." |
What do you think? Mkmcconn (Talk)
Please see Talk:Christianity#Pointless.2C_POV_paragraph_under_.22Early_Church.22 for the latest goings on. Thanks. KHM03 5 July 2005 17:40 (UTC)
Please see the intro to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I added content that I think has been sorely missing. A discussion may ensue. p.s. Sorry I didn't respond to the section above. :-) Tom Haws July 5, 2005 18:15 (UTC)
There is now a stub template for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related articles in need of expansion. Please add {{orthodoxy-stub}} to articles. You can also go to the Category page for Eastern Orthodox Christianity-related stubs and click the "watch this page" link in the sidebar, so that you can see new stub articles as they appear. Spread the word! JHCC (talk) 6 July 2005 14:56 (UTC)
Hiya,
you recently voted to delete at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew 1:verses
however, that VfD concerned only the verses from Matthew 1, wheras Uncle G's proposal covered a much larger group of verses.
would you be prepared to consider Uncle G's proposal and make a vote at the new VfD - Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, which covers the full list of verses in Uncle G's suggestion?
~~~~ 9 July 2005 15:24 (UTC)
You might like to watch over the edits of SimonP - [5]
~~~~ 16:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, today I saw an edit you made on the secret teachings of Mormonism; I think the words were, to the effect, "those who were previously Mormon, learned these secret, publically unknown teachings in Mormon temples". Given that anyone who searches Google for Mormon Temples will find a plethora of references for all the ceremonies that are in Mormon temples. I find it an impossibility that there could be anything SECRET about Mormon temple ceremonies and thus impossible to have any "secret" teachings. Generally, I consider these types of quotes the product of rank anti-mormonism (they simply have no basis in fact, but they can sure stir up the anti-cultists. I would request that you delete it. I trust you to a high degree of objectivity, but I don't have the same confidence in other editors that frequent Mormon sites. If I changed it, I suspect it would be reverted. If you feel differently about what you wrote I would like to gain a better understanding of your thinging. Thanks. Storm Rider 04:17, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Going back to your previous response, LDS members who go to the temple covenant to maintain the sacredness of their covenants by not revealing them to anyone outside of the temple...member and non-member alike. You are correct that the vast majority of LDS members simply do not discuss the temple except in the broadest of descriptions. However, there really are no secret Mormon temple teachings given the advent of the internet and the willingness of those who have covenanted with God to keep "it" sacred openly discuss it. I have found everything that is taught in Mormon temples on the internet. That is another reason why it is difficult for those who have gone to the temple and now find themselves outside of the church, or those who seek its demise, to state there is some "unknown" teachings going go. Anyone who wants to know what goes on, can.
Please go back and read the paragraph in question and see if my proposal that your comments don't fit makes sense. Thanks. Storm Rider 15:21, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Wesley 21:33, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Excellent comments - I can understand what you are saying about not being allowed into the Mormon temples - how I think about it, is similar to how Anabaptists treat baptism and most Christians treat communion With anabaptists, children are not baptized until they understand and believe, with most Christians (including the Orthodox church I attended) communion is only given to the penitent confirmed believers. In the same way, the Temple is seen as a conduit for revelation. Only those are properly prepared can recieve that communion with God that is experienced there. In my opinion most who go to the temple get too caught up in the forms of the ordinaces rather than the communion and revelation that can come as you are close to God, as it is. But people tend to be closer to God when they adhere by certain teachings - such as not being immoral or drunk. Even those who attend could be more prepared, but leaders decided to draw the line at ten questions that determine "worthiness" which include a relationship with and belief in God, Faith in Christ, a belief in the restoration of the Gospel and continuing revelation, living a moral life, not smoking, drinking or the like, keeping legal obligations paying child support or alimony, keeping covenants with God, paying tithing and attending church meetings, living within the laws of your locale, and being honest. Nothing that other churches don't teach, but righteous living is seen as a prerequisite to have a certain level of communion with God.
I've never heard about "certain questions about doctrine could only be asked and answered in a certain room in the Mormon temple." But then I've only been a temple-attending mormon for nearly 15 years. :^) No, that is not true to my knowledge. I'd love to see evidence to the contrary if you can find it, but doubt it exists. I know that you are encouraged to talk to the temple president in his office or in the Celestial room if you have questions about the symbolism of the presentation of the ordinances, rather than in the hallways or outside the temple (again more of a cultural one-on-one learning thing). I'd be interested if you do find anything on it. The issue with some former Mormons sensational claims is that they aren't substantiated anywhere (examples I heard on my mission were that sex was had on temple alters, incidentlally which are only about a foot wide, or that the devil was worshipped there). Even the most obscure and strange mormon teachings are well documented in historical record and is pretty widely available. One of the "strange" things about Mormonism is that Joseph Smith received a revelation that records were to be kept of doctrine, teachings, minutes and so forth, so it is. And one can go to the church archives and request council of the twelve minutes or diaries outlining how the temple ordinances were recorded, or journals of those who detail their most sacred experiences. The church has a very open book historically. More recenly, many of the more recent records are not shown when requested (and some older ones), specifically if they are about someone who is still living (think U.S. privacy laws). In fact, the last time I went to the Church historical office, I saw that Jerald and Sandra Tanner, well-known anti-Mormons (who have been heralded for preserving in public some of the most obscure LDS historical records), had signed into the library to do research as well (and ran into her while there). Most of the older records that they would not allow you to have is because they are fragile, or in a few cases contain information (such as temple rites) that they would rather not have widely available (however you can access them at BYU special collections without a problem) - but that is a more recent policy, and the Tanners published most of those documents before the rule was enforced. All I'm saying is that I've not seen evidence of "secret teachings" or "document supression" by the church, but on the contrary, a very open book for those inquiring minds who want to know, and even for known enemies of the church who want historical data to back up their claims. I'd be interested if you do find anything that can be substantiated. - Visorstuff 23:30, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Sorry I haven't been able to participate in this conversation as much as I would have. The Mormon temples are not typical places of worship; we do that at our ward buildings. The temple is a place where individuals make covenants with God. We also commune with our Father in Heaven there, but that is a secondary to covenant making. Further, because we believe so firmly that there are required ordinances that mortals must obtain (i.e. baptism), we feel obligated to perform those ordinances on behalf of our ancestors. In this manner, all might be saved.
It is true that from any outsider's perspective, both of our religions would look whacky, wierd, strange, or even bizarre. However, given my numerous conversations with Catholic priests I have found great similarities. Our expressions of faith may differ slightly, but we have far more in common than what separates.
I suspect the language you use about about learning in one room of the temple is a misquote from language used in the temple. Wesley, do some reserach in the bible on new names. In the OT, new names were given to kings. Revelations would also be a good place to look as to who would receive a new name. Honestly, I don't know why we are asked to keep our temple experience sacred. Yes, spiritual experiences are to be valued as pearls and not shared inappropriately. What I do know is that it is enough for me to be asked not to, I will strive to be obiedient and honor that covenant. I appreciate your willingness to ask and hope you will continue to seek an understanding of temples; both from today and from yesterday. In doing so, you will gain an even greater understanding of some orthodox teachings. Storm Rider 18:11, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I do enjoy this quality of conversation; thank you. However, let me be clear; I respect, admire, and seek truth where ever it is found and regardless of the religion in which I find it. I am a Latter-day Saint because I have been a student of religion for the vast majority of my life. The differences between the fullness of the gospel in Mormonism and other religions, for me, is like eating meat versus drinking milk. They both feed and sustain, but one is simply more complete.
The mysteries the Mormonism attempts to address are just that. As you stated, the God/Man progression thing so often quoted, is just that a mystery. For me, I believe there is one Eternal God, our Father in Heaven. I personally don't believe he had a beginning and will not have an end. The principle being taught is that we are the creation of God and we have a purpose. We are meant to follow Christ, strive to become like Him, His spirit in our heart daily and manifest that Spirit in our choicese and actions. We are not meant to pass through this life, gain a set of wings, and then sing praises to God for eternity. That picture is belittling to God (It still boggles my mind when talking with some that they feel God created us for that purpose! Surely, He is not so insecure). He is God whether we worship him or not. There is more to eternity than I find taught in the majority of religions.
It is true that Mormons take God at His word; all mortals are His children and He wants us to return to Him. I would never say that the God that hears both our prayers is different. I only know of one God; there is no other. Wesley, I dare say that each of us, John Paul II and any prophet that has ever lived, learned a great deal more when they came before the Savior. If our knowledge has no affect on our actions it is of little value. Who has to learn more is of little concern to me; that does not mean that we all should not be students of truth and seek it out. For me, I will continue to do as much work for the dead as possible to ensure that all are able to enter His kingdom. I am not content to rest while others perish as a result of my inaction. Thank you again, I really do enjoy reading your comments. You have a wonderful faith in Christ. Storm Rider 04:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
And a missionary to boot! I think I will have to provide you with a white shirt and name tag; Elder Wesley. The mystical side of Eastern Orthodoxy is both admired and, in fact, treasured. I have always appreciated both EO and C devotion to those who have already passed through this life. The LDS is view is that Baptism is a requirement; baptism for the dead is the avenue provided to offer that ordinance to those who have passed. It does not insure their salvation, only ensure that should they accept Christ in spirit prison as described in 1 Peter 3:19, the ordinance is done. I still believe in the Apostasy; were it not real so, there would not be the number of Christian churches we have today. It is true that I see no leg for any of the Protestant chruches to stand; they are all the creation of man. They have no authority. That does not mean that I do not value their many contributions to faith and grace.
As I lived in France for a few years, I took great pleasure in worshiping with Catholic congregations on occaision. I have no doubt that I would also feel a similar Spirit in an EO congregation. The Holy Sacrament is something of great worth to me. I look forward to each Sunday to partake of the bread and water as a way of renewing my committment to Christ and His gospel. I suspect that I believe the vast majority of which you believe, I just believe in more. Let's us continue to seek truth and recognize it where ever we find it. Storm Rider 19:51, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
12.158.58.139 17:27, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Firstly let me say that I am sorry to have to bother you.
Secondly, I wish to let you know that a recent VFD that you took part in has closed. The result was that 32 people voted to keep all individual bible verses as seperate articles, and 34 voted that they shouldn't (2 abstensions, and 3 votes for both). This is considered by standard policy not to be a consensus decision (although the closing admin stated that it was a consensus to keep them).
Thirdly, the subject has now been put to a survey, so that it may remain open until there is a clear consensus for what appears to be a difficult issue to resolve. You may wish to take part in this survey, and record a similar vote to the one you made at the VFD there. The survey is available at Wikipedia:Bible verses.
~~~~ 18:34, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
SimonP (the creator of the 100 or so gospel verse articles) has tried to claim that the votes for the "only notable verses" section would include most of the 30,000 verses of the bible because he sees them as notable. To avoid such a POV twisting of the votes, I have added a new section - [6] - for voting on whether the number of notable verses is more like 30,000, or more like 30. Would you care to vote there as well? ~~~~ 00:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm terribly sorry, but I don't have the time or energy to keep up with these votes, surveys, discussions, and on and on. It's important, but I'm going to sit this one out and focus what little wikitime I have elsewhere. However, I do appreciate your bringing this to my attention, and I am certainly interested in the eventual outcome. Wesley 03:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey, I just stumbled on this, and tried to cleanup and NPOV it. I saw your comment in the discussion. While I believe it is a salvageable article, I agree that there is not much meat there, and I wouldn't mind a merge to Holy Spirit...feel free to VfD if the Spirit (hehe) so moves you. -- MikeJ9919 05:55, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm not an expert on the issue, but that entire article has an anti-Albanian slant. Is it still even that relevant in historical terms? Perhaps it could me merged into a history of Kosovo or something related to the UN mandate. Tfine80 02:09, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
You may be interested in participating in this vote. KHM03 15:37, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps this project should be a more general Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity? This project is considered inactive at the moment as far as the header shows, and there are projects for other religions, but not Christianity... so I believe that this project would be more effective as one for the whole of Christianity or at least moved into a subproject. I will give this message to all the present membership list of this WikiProject. -- EmperorBMA| 話す 20:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
This is up for deletion. I would like to have it kept as he is a significant critic of The Two Babylons. Would you care to vote on the VfD? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:12, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
User:LucaviX vandalized my user page...I asked him to cease and desist but thought it best to also let some administrators know about it. Just FYI. Thanks. KHM03 09:25, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
You appear to be busy, lately; but I wonder if you have some advice on how to resolve the dispute over the use of the "Myth" category and sub-categories to describe Biblical accounts. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 16:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Your comments on the current discussion in Category talk:Christian mythology/Proposed compromises#A_new_suggestion would be much appreciated. Thanks. JHCC (talk) 14:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I am out of the country and will in transit for another nine days. If I can find a better internet cafe from which to work I´ll look at what is going on, otherwise it may have to wait a bit but do let me know how I can be useful, SR
It seems as though at least a few of the edits are for no other purpose than to annoy. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 19:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if I helped or not. It seems that I had a hand in giving Anon a reason to shake the dust off his sandals, which frankly, I'm not happy about. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 01:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that your User page wasn't vandalized. I am trying to help clean up the Wikipedians/Kentucky subpage. It has been replaced by Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky. Thanks! Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 20:18, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
Can you please check the edits (since 29 August) on Theotokos? I am unsure whether valid information was removed. Thanks. +MATIA ☎ 14:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
User:195.188.250.67 has done some pretty brutal vandalism at Jesus; just one to watch I think. KHM03 11:23, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
You may want to look at Binitarianism, which makes some interesting comparisons between this heresy and Eastern Orthodoxy. KHM03 18:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
That is a good job done
So you belong to the universal church :) (I'm tempted to say, "too" but that might bring much controversy). I should have known--though at first I was thinking you were Popish, as I am. In any case, with a name like Wesley, though...Haha--is it a nod to your denominational past? Sorry to be cryptic, I saw you on Talk:Christianity. I agree with "historic"... Pax et bonum, -- Dpr 03:41, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Ya, he might be one... I suggest that we don't add this category however. No current theologian or Christian leader will get in to that category (no matter what they do or say) because of their supporters and because of misinformed outsiders. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
You had some good things to say on the Jesus page. What do you think of my compromise for hte second paragraph? The other is intent on cluttering up the paragraph with every possible argument, but I think saying "arguably" fairly covers it without having to actually make the arguments. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Gator (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
re: your request for a serious scholar on the topic of does the NT call Jesus God? Raymond E. Brown In Theological Studies #26 (1965) p.545-73 he wrote the article entitled "Does the NT call Jesus God?" which can be summarized as follows: Mk10:18, Lk18:19, Mt19:17, Mk15:34, Mt27:46, Jn20:17, Eph1:17, 2Cor1:3, 1Pt1:3, Jn17:3, 1Cor8:6, Eph4:4-6, 1Cor12:4-6, 2Cor13:14, 1Tm2:5, Jn14:28, Mk13:32, Ph2:5-10, 1Cor15:24-28 are "texts that seem to imply that the title God was not used for Jesus" and are "negative evidence which is often somewhat neglected in Catholic treatments of the subject." Also: "Jesus is never called God in the Synoptic Gospels, and a passage like Mk 10:18 would seem to preclude the possibility that Jesus used the title of himself. Even the fourth Gospel never portrays Jesus as saying specifically that he is God. The sermons which Acts attributes to the beginning of the Christian mission do not speak of Jesus as God. Thus, there is no reason to think that Jesus was called God in the earliest layers of New Testament tradition. This negative conclusion is substantiated by the fact that Paul does not use the title in any epistle written before 58." And "The slow development of the usage of the title God for Jesus requires explanation. Not only is there the factor that Jesus is not called God in the earlier strata of New Testament material, but also there are passages, cited in the first series of texts above, that by implication reserve the title God for the Father. Moreover, even in the New Testament works that speak of Jesus as God, there are also passages that seem to militate against such a usage - a study of these texts will show that this is true of the Pastorals and the Johannine literature. The most plausible explanation is that in the earliest stage of Christianity the Old Testament heritage dominated the use of the title God; hence, God was a title too narrow to be applied to Jesus. It referred strictly to the Father of Jesus, to the God whom he prayed. Gradually, (in the 50's and 60's?) in the development of Christian thought God was understood to be a broader term. It was seen that God had revealed so much of Himself in Jesus that God had to be able to include both Father and Son." 209.78.22.90 22:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Wesley, I have just added a new section to Judaism and Christianity on "love." It is just a stup of a section, hopefully others will add more about the Jewish notion. But I know that my characterization of the Christian notion is at best wildly incomplete. When you have time, would you go over it and add whatever additional material, detail, nuance, explanation you think necessary? Slrubenstein | Talk 00:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Also, if you know other editors who are very knowledgable about Christianity, could you ask them to look at the section on love? I am very concerned about not misrepresenting, or doing justice to, the Christian point of view. Slrubenstein | Talk 17:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Wesley. I am glad I made an appropriate choice. However, I have added even more content on the Jewish notion of love and I think that more on the Christian notion is necessary to provide balance. I also added a long quote from Maimonides to the section on Heaven and Hell; in fact, I did a rewrite a week or two ago. I know the Jewish position is well-represented but again I am concerned that in the process the Christian view may appear misrepresented or at least underrepresented. So, take your time but I am glad you are considering adding more. Slrubenstein | Talk 21:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Is there anything like that? Or only the wiki portal (I don't remember the portal's wiki-link right now, but I've seen it somewhere). I'm looking for someone to help me at Talk:Theotokos#IN_NEED_OF_TRANSLATION. Thanks. +MATIA ☎ 19:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an article that was started (not by me!) in relation to Criticism of Christianity. When you have an opportunity, please take a look at it and give your take on the article talk page or make edits. I had redirected it to the "Criticism" page, but the original author didn't seem to care for that option. Any help would be great...thanks... KHM03 13:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I became aware of this user after he left a somewhat aggressive message on Doc glasgow's talk page; I immediately noticed that the user may be engaged in other overly aggressive behavior, anti-Semitism, and vandalism. I'm not asking for any action, but I might suggest this user be watched a bit. Thanks... KHM03 12:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
You're most welcome. Enjoy! :) — Preost talk contribs 01:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I pray you have a very merry Christmas and a truly blessed 2006. KHM03 19:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Would you mind taking a look at the fracas that's surrounded this article of late? It's finally been addressed in the talk page there, but there seems to be an unwillingness to do anything but continually re-add a massive pile of content (after it being reverted by multiple editors) without discussing it first. — Preost talk contribs 03:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for directing me to those; trying to fix Ancient Egyptian artiles is one of my main goals here. Most of the articles need a lot of work, a lot of the data is hopelessly obsolete, and in many cases erroneous like the Herrud thing. In the Osiris and Isis articles however, while the links to Jesus and Mary are a bit overemphasized, the articles are generally accurate. There are some very visible parallels between certain aspects of Egyptian and Christian deities. There just needs to be some NPOV there trying to present a bigger picture, which I'll try to add when I get a chance. Flyboy Will 05:59, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Str1977 11:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
I've made a lengthy suggestion at Talk:Mythology#Etymology and usage — some analysis and a suggestion. I would appreciate your input. Thank you. JHCC (talk) 17:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Wesley, I hope you had a good start into 2006. If you are free, could you have a look into the recent addition to Christianity by "86.137.164.37". Thanks, Str1977 14:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to participate in
WikiProject Christianity
The goal of WikiProject Christianity is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity available on Wikipedia. WP:X as a group does not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Christianity, but prefers that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented. |
A.J.A. 22:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Trouble is a-brewin' thereabouts and with many other articles edited by Nrgdocadams, who seems to have some deeply inaccurate ideas that he insists on visiting upon various theological articles, accompanied by quite a lot of use of ALL CAPS and such on Talk pages. Any chance you'd be willing to take a look? — Preost talk contribs 02:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, I was reading the "Saint" article and became a bit confused. In the Orthodox section it spoke of Glorification, but then used the term cannonization. Is that term interchangable among the EO? I would appreciate your thoughts, thanks and may our Father continue to bless you, Michael/ Storm Rider 04:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You wrote a message to me lecturing me on ettiquette, but you failed to notice that i had, in fact, provided copious, verifiable references (which were not original research of mine) for the author whose erroneous work I was criticizing.
Nrgdocadams 08:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)Nrgdocadams.
Please take a look at the discussion going on here when you have a chance. I'm trying to work with a new editor who doesn't seem like he wants to work with me, regarding a particular link. Any help is welcome...feel free to let me know if I've acted inappropriately. Thanks... KHM03 01:20, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley.
We have worked together on Icon article, maybe you can look into my Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev? abakharev 12:02, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Please look at this when you can; it could use a touch of the East. Thanks... KHM03 20:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC) 14 Christianity's origins I am sorry, KHM03, that I have to contact you again but there's something brewing on Christianity, as exemplified in this edit: [1]. Currently, I reverted it again, but he will certainly return to reintroduce "fact". So please keep an eye on it. Cheers, Str1977 10:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I am sorry, Wesley, that I have to contact you again but there's something brewing on Christianity, as exemplified in this edit: [7]. Currently, I reverted it again, but he will certainly return to reintroduce "fact". So please keep an eye on it. Cheers, Str1977 10:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 10:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Since yours was the most recent comment on the Donatism article I thought it might be of interest to you, an article in Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 56(1): 56-74, entitled Six Constantinian Documents (EUS. H.E. 10, 5-7), that relate to the disposition of the Empire to the fledgling Church as well as to "the Donatist question." Thank you. L Hamm 20:14, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Thought you'd be interested in this. KHM03 02:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Based on ROHA's past behavior, it is my belief that he intentionally refuses to create an account so that he cannot be blocked effectively for 3RR violations. (See the history of both Adolf Hitler and Talk:Adolf Hitler, as well as other issues that he's caused elsewhere -- most notably, at Bob Dylan.) -- Nlu ( talk) 18:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd be glad to look at it. And it's very nice to have you drop by. Long time no see. Tom Haws 15:16, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley, thanks for asking. And you don't sound confrontational at all.
In the union negottiations between the Pope and the Eastern Church many issues were discussed: sabbath fasting, the make-up of the bread for the Eucharist etc. Most of these were matters of the rite and could be dealt differently in different parts of the world. This principle is the basis for the modern Eastern rite Churches. However, the issue of papal primacy could not be subject to such diversity, as cannot have and have not the a supreme jurisdiction invested with the Pope. The remaining issue is the Filioque.
As I have said, this had been gradually adopted in the West, based on different renderings of the Nicaean creed. The Pope had accepted it after the year 1000, but Photius of Constantinople had used it as a weapon in his fight against the Pope. Photius wanted to counter the notion, developed in the East, that the Roman Church had never erred and will never err - the basis of Papal infallibility; Photius wanted to provide one instance where indeed a Pope had erred and resorted to the Filioque, blowing it out of proportion and claiming that the Fq was heretical. (And he was quite succesful in this endeavour, to the detriment of unity).
Of course, in the union talks in the 13th and the 15th centuries the Pope could not possibly accept this view and hence he always insisted on the doctrinal correctness of the Fq. That didn't maan any judgment on whether it had been right and proper to include it, and it didn't mean that the creed without the Fq was deemed heretical (and hence the Eastern rites speak the creed without the Fq). What the Pope demanded of the Easterners was to accept the Fq as a non-heretical variation on the Nicaean creed. Photius had provided "who proceeds from the Father through the Son" as the opposing view to the Fq (without ammending the creed, of course). Now, the Easterners were asked to accept the equivalence of "through the Son" and "and the Son". The bishops at Lyons and at Florence did this, albeit out of political motivations, but the anti-Latin enmity created by Photius and of course increased by the sack of Constantinople 1204 had sunken so deep into Eastern sensibilities that the East wouldn't accept this agreement. Emperor and Patriarch were slain during the fall of Constantinople 1453 and the Turkish sultan appointed one of the agreement's opponents as the new Patriarch, sponsoring the anti-Western enmity among the Orthodox Christians.
So, to sum up, it's not that the Popes have insisted that the creed with the Fq is orthodox and the creed without is not. They have (and do) insist only on that the creed with the Fq is just as orthodox as the creed without it.
Papal jurisdiction is another factor of the division (and IMHO the real dividing factor), but it is another matter. The Fq, as a dogmatic-theological question, has always been much more suitable to raise controversies, as in such a question there can be no compromise.
Cheers, Str1977 11:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad to see someone actually took the plunge and added this to the article. I think this was becoming the main view of the discussion. Thanks. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page) 09:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:John1838 to see if it's all appropriate. Thanks... KHM03 18:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
John1838 reversed the blanking of his uerpage...just FYI. I listed the issue at WP:AN. KHM03 21:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I am doing a run off of 2000 articles from WP for a free download and want to include christianity but have hit the disputed notice. I am inclined to go back to http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Christianity&oldid=4704059 the old featured article form which was good but is there a more recent uncontencious version you would recommend? -- BozMo[[user_talk:BozMo|talk]] 13:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks -- BozMo[[user_talk:BozMo|talk]] 14:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I was asked to help Christianity with it's discussions on becoming NPOV... there is a debate on Talk:Hermeticism#Reason_for_reverting_Infinitysnake's_changes_2/22/06 on whether it should be stated that some scholars believed Hermes Trismegistus to be a real man. In my arguments I have noted the Christianity article, and I feel that the contributors of it may be able to give some view on how a religion article should be NPOV. I don't know if you will agree with me or not, but your help is requested.
KV 06:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Last January, you added an NPOV tag to Eastern Orthodox view of sin. I think at least some of your concerns have been addressed since then. Would you mind stopping by and commenting on what still needs to be addressed before removing the NPOV flag, if anything? Thanks, Wesley 13:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Wesley, wondering if I can ask a favor. Things have gotten quite heated at Talk:Joseph Smith, Jr. between User:Bcatt and a number of Mormon editors (we have moved a portion of the discussion to my talk page). I've tried to step in and help guide the discussion, but because I am a Latter-day Saint adherent, I am being accused of treating her differently than Mormon editors and abusing my administrative status (see my talk page) - both which I take very seriously.
Whenever I've tried to guide the discussion (which I have not been a part of for the bulk, except to try to help guide), she seems to have blown up at me, as if I am mastermining and encouraging discrimination about her. For example, a few months ago I suggested that she and Storm Rider work out their uncivility and take a break from the page, but she though I was being harsher on her than him (he took a break, she didn't). When I suggested we find out who the sock puppet is on the JS Jr, she said that I was holding double standards for LDS editors, and "engaging in questionable practices due to [my] bias." I don't know what I did to make her over-react like that, as my interaction with her was very limited up until that point, although she does have a history of controversy and antagonism towards personal beliefs (ie politics, philosophy and religion)(see her user boxes). As a non-Mormon admin who is trusted in the Wikipedia community, could you go to the talk page, read through and offer suggestions? In addition, and personally, I'd appreciate a critique of my handling of the situation and her. I do take these accusations seriously, as you know. Thanks in advance. - Visorstuff 16:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I saw some of the things thou writest on wikipedia, and I thought thee to be the 1st neutral Eastern-Orth wikipedian I found. I am writing articles upon liturgy on Romanian-, French- and Waloon-speaking wikies. Personally I am Anglican (of Lutheran soteriology and high liturgy), through Eastern-Orth, Armenian, and Byzantine-Cath backgrounds. I would maybe to talk with thee. Prithee, send me an e-mail to gandul_curat@}yahoo.com. Thankful, Waelsch (George) 00:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wes, could you please have a look into this request [8] ? Cheers, Str1977 (smile back) 14:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley,
Thank you for your welcome. I look forward to contributing. I appreciate your reason for removing my link on the Jesus Prayer as it appears as a blog when viewed from the front page. May I ask you to reconsider? I'm suggesting this because the core of the site is not a personal blog, but information on how to make a prayer cord and pray the Jesus Prayer. My experience is that this is information which many people value, as, unless they are firmly located within the Eastern Orthodox tradition, this information is very hard to find. Others outside the tradition value the cultural adapatation of the knotted prayer cord as an option alternative to the Chotki.
I've therefore re-inserted the link avoiding the blog, and with a clear entry page to information about the Jesus Prayer and knotted prayer cords, and the blog page now being only one button among the others focussing on the Jesus Prayer. I trust this is in keeping with the spirit and aims of Wikipedia. Best wishes, Andrew Goodmanco 23:19, 20 March 2006 (UTC) (goodmanco) (If this is the wrong place for this message, please forgive me and delete.)
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Joseph Smith, Jr., and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. —This unsigned comment was added by Visorstuff ( talk • contribs).
Nsandwhich and the rest of us are aware of OrthodoxWiki, and have in fact imported several articles under the terms of the GFDL license. Ditto Theopedia, AnglicanWiki and, of course, Wikipedia. If you know of others, though, it might help. Thanks for taking the time to write. Grigory Deepdelver of Brockenboring Talk TCF 22:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC) (Still known on CKB as "Archola."
Sorry for the silly question, but why do some of my edits show up as red letter, those with square brackets and most show up blue after being saved? I would prefer they all show up as blue and have not red edits, but I don't recognize anything that I am doing that causes it; it just seems to be random occurence.
Btw, Strang is not looked upon as a resource because he was a only a recent convert at the time of Smith's death (just over a year). Strang latter provided a letter purportedly from Joseph that said he was to be the next prophet. The problem is that it was proven to be a forgery. He did have some high profile members that intially followed, but most fell away rather quickly. Having said this, the statement you have found is acceptable to reference. However, I think it should be a qualified reference.
I feel like my behavior interacting with Bcatt has greatly harmed our WIKI relationship. If I have lost your confidence, I apologize. I did not treat her well nor was my behavior in keeping with one who strives to be a disciple of Christ. That is my cross to bear and obviously shows my lack of discipline. I hope a warmer interaction can be returned. God's blessings be upon you. Storm Rider (talk) 17:31, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a section in this article called Origins of Christian mythology which I have been trying to find out why it is there. It seems to be a particular theory about the origins of Christianity rather than Christian mythology. I noticed you edited the section - do you have any idea why it is there, or of there is somewhere better it could go? DJ Clayworth 17:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints.
You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! |
I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.
Thanks! -- evrik 18:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Seems the page has been posted to an exmormon bulletin board, which has generated a lot of interest from exmormons (which is good - you know I've tried to recruit some in the past to help edit those pages). It seems they have many issues with the info added in by previous exmormons and by the Mormon editors. Wondering if you can help guide discussion as an editor from a different religion?
They've made some good progress, but its all ancedotal, and studies don't back up all of what they are saying (The internet exmo community is tight-knit, but not large or representative of the majority of those who leave the church. Some studies say that as high as 1-3 percent of those who leave fit this mold, of the 8-12 percent who either want nothing more to do with the church or officially leave it). Right now, they exmormons don't want a reference section [9] [10], [11] about themselves and I can't seem to add in any referenced material to the text without it being deleted, and can't seem to include references from the reference section into the article [12]. My fear is that it will end up only ancedotal information.
Last thing, is from your point of view, how should we approach them about the difference between Mormonism, the LDS Church, and the Latter Day Saint movement, per the academic naming conventions we've adopted here on the wiki? They've already removed every reference to other Mormon denominations...They equate Mormonism with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and academically, they are very different things. Can you help? - Visorstuff 19:31, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know about a christianity wiki that was recently started and has now moved to it's own server. Because of your interest, I think you would be a valuable member of our team and I'd love to have your contributions.
We are just about ready to go live!
As soon as we finalize the CPOV policy, I think we're ready to "go public" with this project and invite the world! We can submit to DMOZ and Google and start getting some real active hits on that site.
Please take a look and see if this project is something you would like to get behind. the URL is: ChristWiki
-- nsandwich 04:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wesley,
It has been a long time since we last communicated. I am now retired from Wikipedia, and have left a farewell message at my old user page.
There are very few people on WP whom I would definitely want to be sure had read this message; you are one of them.
In Christ,
JHCC
I am a relative newbie on Wiki. As my username suggests, I am interested in Religious History. I have made major edits to the article named above. As you were one of the major contributors (and you also voted to oppose it as a featured article), I'd like to ask you to take a look at it now. You can compare it with the version when you last edited it (last month). Your opinion is welcome. Thanks. RelHistBuff 11:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I recommend that you archive your talk page, as its gotten very long. -- ☆ TBC ☆ 02:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I've added some comments over on Talk:Mary, mother of Jesus concerning Calvin's view. If you have any further input, I'd welcome it!
Grace and peace, jrcagle 17:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Codex Sinaiticus has angered me, something I regret. But he has accused me of suppressing Christianity, which deeply offends me. Do you share this view? I as you honstly and as someone I consider a friend. Would you mind commenting here [13]? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 15:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed that you have been a contributor to articles on Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion. You may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand Anglican-related articles! Cheers! Fishhead64 21:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind looking into the Diocese of Sourozh article? There's an anonymous editor who doesn't quite seem to get the point of NPOV. — Preost talk contribs 21:22, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking of nominating User:Storm Rider for Adminship. He's done a good job at keeping a level-headed conversation going on controversial religious topics, I believe. He would be a good asset to the religious corner of the wiki. Would you support that action based on your work with him? Please let me know on my talk page. - Visorstuff 19:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I just wanted you to check out Anonymous_P2P#Views_on_the_desirability_of_anonymous_P2P and see if you had anything to add. rearden9
Hi, I was looking through the article on Pontius Pilate and I'm trying to find sources for his being venerated in the Coptic and Ethiopian churches. Quickly perusing the page history, it looks like you added that. I believe you, I just want something to verify it, as one of my friends doesn't really believe it, and I want something more than an unsourced WP statement for it. Thanks! Carl.bunderson 06:59, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I've noticed that you've edited articles pertaining to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I wanted to extend an invitation to you to join the WikiProject dedicated to organizing and improving articles on the subject, which can be found at: WikiProject Eastern Orthodoxy. This WikiProject was begun because a need was perceived to raise the level of quality of articles on Wikipedia which deal with the Eastern Orthodox Church.
You can find information on the project page about the WikiProject, as well as how to join and how to indicate that you are a member of the project. Additionally, you may be interested in helping out with our collaboration of the month. I hope you'll consider joining and thank you for your contributions thus far! — Preost talk contribs 18:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Wesley. Some time ago, I had trouble with a very aggressive edit warrior, who was finally banned for six months after an arbitration case, and who didn't come back when his ban expired. The problem related to the reporting of a case where a dying Catholic woman was given Holy Communion for the last time. She was unable to receive a particle of the Host, as her mouth was too dry. (I'm talking of Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube was removed.) So the priest placed a drop of the Precious Blood on her tongue.
When I came to the article, over a year ago, it said that she couldn't be given bread, so the priest put a drop of wine on her tongue. I changed that to "host", and "consecrated wine". In real life, I avoid speaking even of "consecrated wine", as it carries an implication that it's still just wine, even though it's "holy" wine. Generally Catholics, even orthodox ones, are uncomfortable talking about "the Blood" or "the Precious Blood", so they get round it by saying "received from the Chalice". Anyway, "from the Chalice" wasn't appropriate in the case of Terri Schiavo, and "Precious Blood" would have been completely POV. My aim was to find a wording that would not affirm or deny Catholic doctrine. So I just left it as "consecrated wine", which is capable of an orthodox interpretation. I was a relatively new user, and my change was accepted without question.
Some months later, after I had had various disagreements with this user (not directly, but by siding with other people with whom he was in dispute), an anon came along, put "bread" into the article, and disappeared. I reverted, and the editor, now realizing that I had objections to "bread" put it back again and again and again, saying that it was not at Catholic encyclopaedia. He insisted that we needed to have it, because people wouldn't know what "host" meant, so I created the article Host (Holy Communion), and wiki-linked the word. He kept on reverting, saying that a wikilink wasn't enough, even though that article had a lot of very technical words wikilinked ( defibrillated, intubated, tracheotomy, anoxia, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, and thalamic stimulator, etc.) with no definition given in the article itself. I insisted that I was not trying to affirm Catholic doctrine on Wikipedia, by saying that she was given the "Precious Blood" since her tongue was too dry to receive the "Body of Christ". I felt "host" was neutral, since it doesn't imply that transubstantiation does or does not really happen. Eventually, other people arrived with input, we reached a compromise, and that editor was banned from Wikipedia.
Having been through that, I want to tread carefully. I've just seen lots of "bread"s and "wine"s in the article Coeliac disease. I fixed the Catholic part, and after some hesitation did a little bit of changing of the Eastern Orthodox part, but I wonder would you mind taking a look. As far as I know, Orthodox Christians don't use the word "host", which refers to a small, round, flat bread, usually with a cross on it, probably completely different from what you would use. For an NPOV wording, the article shouldn't deny or affirm any religion. Keep in mind that even if Orthodox Christians allow the use of the words "bread" and "wine" after consecration despite their belief in the Real Presence — and I don't know if they do use those words — it would still contradict Catholic teaching to use the word "wine" when referring to the consecrated species at an Orthodox liturgy, as Catholics believe that Orthodox have a valid Eucharist. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 10:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley could you check out SIL International, edit and offer some recommendations. Rearden9 15:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
You seemed to want it. Care to comment? -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 09:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Wesley, for your thoughtful response to my question on terminology for the Eucharist. On a different matter, I thought I would direct you to new discussion about Giovanni, in case you have missed it. Jayjg has now confirmed through checkuser that Professor33, NeoOne, and CleanSocks are all sockpuppets of Giovanni33. [14] [15] Giovanni has now come as close as I think he can come (without losing face) to admitting sockpuppetry. He has agreed here that it doesn't pay, and has asked to be unblocked on certain conditions which, if enforced, would make the use of sockpuppets completely futile. I've made a proposal here, at the Incidents Noticeboard. Also, this section of Danny's talk page gives a summary of this history and contains links to all or nearly all the places where it has been discussed. The blocking admin has indicated that he will consider unblocking early, and I'd be happy with that, but I think we need to work out the conditions that Giovanni agrees to first. Assuming that the sockpuppetry stops, I'd also be happy with removing the puppeteer tag from his own user page, in order to help him to make a clean start, free from any unnecessary humiliation. Don't feel you have to get involved, but if you have time, a comment at the noticeboard would be welcome. I'm hoping to have this sorted out as soon as possible, because I need to go on wiki-break to finish some writing. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 07:02, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, thank you for coming to help on the Christianity page regarding mercy. I always appreciate your contributions. God bless you. Storm Rider (talk) 20:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Wesley, please look at the Christianity talk page. You know my thoughts on historical Christianity and I hope you know of my deep abiding respect for both the Eastern Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church, but I am Latter-day Saint by the direction of our Father. My claim to be a disciple of Christ, weak though I am, is sacred to me. I reject any group to deny the label of Christian to any other group regardless of how backwards we might feel of their respective doctrine. Your measured and wise counsel would be helpful. Storm Rider (talk) 06:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
This is a note for members of the Eastern Orthodox Project: Since the project's main page has been converted to a portal-style box format, each of the boxes is actually its own page (you can see the page outside its box by clicking the 'Edit' link on any often the section boxes on the project page, which takes you to the edit page for its contents). Because of this, updates to individual box contents will not necessarily show up on editors' watchlists, if you've only got the main project page watched.
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Wesley, I have missed your comments of late. Where have you gone? If you have the time, please review the comments about cults on the Talk:Christianity article. I firmly believe the article is best served by simply addressing the beliefs and doctrines within Christianity. I resist the need to place judgements on the groups outside the mainstream. You have aided in this discussion in the past, I look forward to it again if at all possible.
I read a fabulous quote recently by John Calvin; I hope you appreciate it as much as I did:
A wonderful thought. Peace, Storm Rider (talk) 22:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Loremaster and I would appreciate it if you would look over the Ebionites article and provide suggestions to get it ready for nomination as a featured article. We recently finished incorporating the suggestions of Slrubenstein from peer review. Slrub suggested you would be a good person to work with to further improve the article and get a diverse perspective. Ovadyah 11:24, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Ebionites article passed GA. We are having a 2nd round of peer review to get it ready for FA nomination. Your perspective on changes needed to make it FA quality would be appreciated. Ovadyah 16:20, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Could you deal appropriately with this guy? He is a vandal. Rearden9 17:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
It has been suggested that the above named project be renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian saints. Please express your opinion on this proposed renaming, and the accompanying re-definition of the scope of the project, here. John Carter 17:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello Wesley, can I get your input on some external links at Shunning and Excommunication at Talk:Shunning#External_links. Regards, -- Jeff3000 02:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I added a note on the Eastern Orthodoxy Portal noteboard that this article is suffused with the church's POV and comes across as the private project of a HOCNA priest who appears to believe that he owns the page and can remove anything which does not fit that POV. Collaboration from others could improve the article immensely; please feel free to jump in or alert others. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.23.217.123 ( talk) 23:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
Things getting out of hand. Recent Example to the orthodox wikiproject articles to only have people by consensus deny history- documented -truth and Greek cultural words and heritage under the guise of consensus to be allowed to hijack,steal and pervert/corrupt. There is no excuse for abusing people's cultural heritage. Please help me with the revert warring on the article icon. The bias and abuse is really getting outrageous and out of hand around here. Another example- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Historical_persecution_by_atheism Wikipedia has decided that people like Nobel peace prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn are liars engaged in anti-atheistic bigotry. This is getting really really out of hand. LoveMonkey 03:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm unhappy with your decision to undelete this article. Wikipedia should not have copyrighted material hanging around. There is nothing to stop the article's creator (or anyone else) from using that source to create a new article that is not a copyvio. Speedy deletion of copyvios is completely in accordance with process. I would prefer it in future if you would contact me on my talkpage first before undoing my deletion of pages. Failing that, deletion review is available as a forum for opinion from other Wikipedians. WjB scribe 01:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Wes the only info I copied was the name and date given to the papyrus as well as the measurements. It's discovery location, none of that information can be copyrighted. It was a skeleton article. As for being sensitive to copyright check out some of my recent articles that I created on the ancient churches and monasteries in Asia Minor, Turkey. Unlike Andrew c who's last creation seems to be [16] LoveMonkey 16:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The Ebionites article has been nominated for Featured Article. You are invited to show your support or suggest further improvements to the article. Ovadyah 08:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
I ahve interacted with you enough to understand your position and trust me I know you were not saying you thought JW's are Christian. Personally I don't beliee any other religion claiming to be Christian (other than JW's) espouses true Christian beliefs and fell that their doctrines are dangerous and heretical. SO we are at an impasse with regard to faith. However we do share the desire to be objective (I think) when dealing with people of other faiths. That is why I support an inclusiveness to the article. If I were not being objective I would argue that only JW's could be considered Christian. George 23:01, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I on the other hand don't take such a soft view: I don't take kindly to people I know being called heretics.
This I copy from the current Nontrinitarian talkpage:
Jesus prays to God, John 17: 1-3
has faith in God, Hebrews 2:17, 18,Hebrews 3:2
is a Servant of God, Acts 3:13; 4:27,30
does not know things God knows, Mark 13:32; Rev1:1
holy spirit does not know either is taught by the Father, John 8:27
worships God, John 4:22
calls God his God Rev 3:12
is in subjection to God, 1 Cor 15: 28
has God for his head, 1 Cor 11:1
is exalted by God, Acts 5:31; Phil 2:9
is given authority by God, John 17:2,3
is given life by the Father, John 6:57; John 5:26
is given kingship by God, Luke 1:32,33
is given judgment by the Father, John 5:27; Acts 10:42
is given lordship by God, Acts 2:36
has reverent submission, fear, of God Hebrews 5:7-10
and is made high priest by God Hebrews 5:10
Johanneum 05:44, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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Nice to have you watching and contributing at Hebrew Bible. I think progress is really happening there. Dovi is thoughtful and polite. I am learning a lot about the Jewish perspective on things while discussing matters with him. Please feel free to disagree with me at the page if you think I'm misrepresenting Christianity. I'm trying to be very neutral and academic about things. Alastair Haines 22:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Wesley, it is good to see you editing again. How have things been? Hope all is well. -- Storm Rider (talk) 03:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
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Wesley, please spend a few moments review the article, Satanic ritual abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and make a comment on the title. I am looking for an objective party to comment. Thank you. -- Storm Rider (talk) 15:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Would you consider contributing to this? Slrubenstein | Talk 01:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
You are welcome! It is good to hear from you, and happy New Year, Slrubenstein | Talk 12:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Can you comment on this discussion? Slrubenstein | Talk 20:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments and contributions at Binding of Isaac. About 3 weeks ago, I proposed to change the name of the article to "Sacrifice of Isaac" at Talk:Binding of Isaac#Name of this article, but so far haven't seen any response. I plan to go ahead and rename the article on March 20, 2008 unless there are objections. I invite you to visit the article and submit any comments you have on the matter. Thanks! -- Bryan H Bell ( talk) 17:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Wesley, I would appreciate your attention to the discussion concerning Mary that's taking place on Mormonism and Christianity. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 19:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I have created the Theos Kyrios and Christos anesti pages as I thought they should exist in Wikipedia, can you help me (or contact any other Orthodox in Wikipedia - I'm new here so I don't know any other users) so we could expand them? Moreover, I've linked some references to these pages but I can't find any other articles that mention them, so I'd be glad if you could help me there, too. -- K kokkinos ( talk) 08:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I noticed your edit to the Launchpad article today. There's some information about the Soyuz component at:
— Sladen ( talk) 17:52, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind checking the St. Mark article? I saw you made initial entry and I cannot find sources for the traditions you wrote about. I've searched, but can't find any sources (my library is mainly Roman Catholic). If you have any sources for these traditions, could you please insert them. I put "Citation needed" flags on these traditions. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I know it's been a long time since you started this article, but could you please check out the Traditions section? Thanks very much. Jason3777 ( talk) 03:09, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I think there was considerable discussion as to how to represent Christian views at the Jesus article; just wanted to make sure you know about this recent edit. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:20, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I've just proposed merging Unification Church and antisemitism (which you worked on) into Divine Principle. Please join in the discussion, if you like. Steve Dufour ( talk) 15:41, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
I found your old user page while checking out some old edits. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 11:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
Wesley, I am a new user and have uploaded my first page on Ian McCormack. Immediately it was tagged for deletion, despite having numerous sources and plenty of links. I have addressed many of the issues brought against it (many of them good points) but the steam roller seems to be going on. If you could take a look at it and see what you think - if there is anything that ought to be changed, etc. If you think it is a reasonable article would you please supposrt it. Thanks, ChildrenOfLight ( talk) 19:11, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
"Anyone who does not float in this inundation is most condemned. Such a person cannot be delivered for millions of kalpas.
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The kalpa is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.17): sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ. One day of Brahmā is called a kalpa. A yuga, or mahā-yuga, consists of 4,320,000 years, and one thousand such mahā-yugas constitute one kalpa. The author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta says that if one does not take advantage of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he cannot be delivered for millions of such kalpas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.132.67.37 ( talk) 05:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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