Do you have or do you know where I could find floor plans for Kirtland Temple? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.65.226 ( talk) 17:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
My collection of work is enormous. Seriously enormous. Because of that one particular person and the way he conducts what is presented as official Wikipedia policy, I will not be contributing any more of my photography. I've been trying to figure this system out. I thought I might have found where I can make a positive contribution of some lasting good and that feeling is completely and utterly gone.
You question needs some serious answers. To wit: Ok, so if I am required to use the GFDL-self, then why have the other options available for upload?
If that option is left on the upload page, some other clue needs to be given that an automatic speedy delete is forth-coming. I was trying very, very hard to properly create a page because the very first page I created here was tagged as a speedy delete. Even with what I thought was paranoid caution for my second page, something turns out to have been done incorrectly. Lucky me, a jerk managed to come in and sour my entire attitude about contributing. Oh, and for what it's worth, the guy has some serious inability to read the printed word and yet has the unmitigated gall to inform other people that something was explicit or could not be more clear.
I'll massage other people's text. I'll proof-read or fact-check, but I'm done trying to contribute any real work. TeraGram 06:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Why did you remove the wikilink? You said yourself that "See also" should be used for wikipedia links, and as clearly stated in my comment on the PETA talk page, it's wiki convention not to use external links when we can use an inline link. Jean-Philippe 01:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Bytebear,
I have noticed your persistent deletion of a portion of the text at Temple (Mormonism), along with your assertions that the text you are deleting is POV.
Please note that such deletion is inappropriate and outside the bounds of the WP:NPOV policy. Deleting material under the guise of POV is specifically addressed in the FAQ: Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ#Lack_of_neutrality_as_an_excuse_to_delete. Specifically, the FAQ also addresses articles on religion and notes that there are specific guidelines as to what these types of articles should contain.
Please discontinue deleting text from the article, and I suggest you read the WP:NPOV policy carefully before asserting accusations of POV in error. Reswobslc 00:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious what the academic value is of including death penalties overview in this article? Is it to show that the temple ceremonies have changed? Is it that the information is sensational? Not to compare, but I'm looking at the Freemasonry pages, and not only don't they discuss their ceremony, but they don't discuss similar oaths. Why do we go into so much detail here, when other, similarly compared "secretive" ceremonies aren't even on wikipedia? Just curious what the point is of including it here, when wikipedia has declined to do it elsewhere? Is it that relevant to the end reader? -Visorstuff 18:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
It would appear you have an agenda that prevents you from acknowledging facts when they are your own. It is unfortunate, but it is what we risk when building a public encyclopedia; we will have bright people that attempt promote neutral writing and then we will have people with private agendas that are not interested in quality writing or facts. Storm Rider (talk) 21:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Seems to me this material is POV and thus should be omitted, not to mention there are more appropriate places to present such information. 66.151.81.244 21:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
By the way you state :"WP admins will support me on this one - every religion from Buddhism to Catholicism has people that want to whitewash the articles or to present a non-historical view of the way things are today - which is against the goal of an encyclopedia and is why Wikipedia has a specific policy to address it."
I am an admin. Consensus and this policy declare that one err on the side of documentation, not hearsay, and that sacred things (regardless of religion) be treated with respect. I think that teh appropriate links policy would state that the Packham link would be hearsay. Especially with such incorrect information such as the following paragraph to the throat-slitting one:
" The church when I left had no family home evening, no three-hour block of meetings, no correlation committee, no "Strengthening the Members" committee, no Blacks (they were called "Negroes" then).
Either Packham left the church prior to 1900, or he loses credibility about his knowledge of the church with this sentence. Facts: In 1915 President Joseph F. Smith instituted "Home Evening" [4]. Formal organization of a Priesthood Correlation Program occurred in 1908, and the first black I know of that was baptized into the church took place in 1830 (Elijah Abel was baptized in 1831, and held the priesthood, as did his children and grandchildren until the priesthood was extended to all worthy men).
Now all of that is irrelevant aside from finding credible sources (the Tanners are probalby the best for this one). I believe that you treat these articles with respect (thank-you by the way), but I think this argument about this detail explores the question on how much detail do we want to go into on these articles. The rest of the article is quite general, this is one of the first "details" given - and as such makes it look like a major part of the endowment - which it is not. I look forward to hearing more on your thoughts above. -Visorstuff 23:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
In order to gain a consensus concerning the issue at anti-Mormon, would you please comment here? -- uriah923( talk) 04:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Good catch on using the userspace transclusion on the no longer operating temples. -- Trödel 04:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
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For your tireless efforts to improve The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints article. Lethargy 00:31, 14 October 2006 (UTC) |
The POV being pushed is strictly the POV of the LDS church ... we all know that early church leaders were arrested for various cirmes; that would be a good reason to move out of those jurisdictions. I will not sit by idly and allow the LDS church's POV to be used in these articles. Duke53 | Talk 22:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC) p.s If the baptism stuff is covered elsewhere I propose that the whole section be deleted.
It would help if you would explain your reasoning for adding a merge proposal with the Controversies page. Thanks, Storm Rider (talk) 23:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok. So my vote is: No "controveries" section within an individual article, but put the controverial info where it belonds within the article. Separate articles for each issue so they can be addressed fully. List article for each of the separate controveries. Get rid of the "Controveries" article. Bytebear 03:08, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and if you want to see a really POV article, check out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Bytebear 03:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm having trouble with one of the paragraphs. By the way, thanks a TON for the work on it. It looks great! The problem paragraph deals with the support groups that are not affiliated with the Church. The way it read originally, it seemed as if one might imply that they are supported by the Church, when in fact they are not. Here is the original paragraph:
"The Church's opposition to homosexuality has spawned support groups for gay men and women like Affirmation and Gamofites. More recently, a small liberal branch of Mormonism has been established calling itself Reform Mormonism."
I rewrote it like this:
"The Church's opposition to homosexual relations has resulted in the creation of multiple LDS-oriented support groups not affiliated with the Church. These groups include both those dedicated to affirming gay identity, such as Affirmation and Gamofites, as well as those dedicated to helping those who wish to change such as Evergreen International."
The main reason for the change is that if we include information on the pro-affirmation groups here, it seems a balance to include information on pro-change groups. I'm ok with that. My problem is that it seems to start getting too long in proportion to the rest of the section. The rest of the family section doesn't go into significant detail about other programs. Again, reference above where I talk about how these groups aren't affiliated with the Church. Hope I don't sound critical of you. I think you're doing a great job. You can respond on my talk page if you'd like. :) Sylverdin 19:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I saw your ideas for shortening the article and I like them. I apologize that I can't give you more feedback on all of them, but I have worked on the family section. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it, but it looks good to me. Concerning the family section, I have a hard time putting it under "culture." The LDS teachings on family are an essential part of the beliefs section. In fact, the whole subject of the Church's World Wide Leadership Training last year was the family. I renamed it simply "family" and put Eternal Marriage and the Proclamation at the beginning. I think we need to keep those parts. I'm unsure about the rest of the section, so I left it alone. Maybe take out the part on same-gender issues. Or make a new article about it. FHE seems to fit, but maybe could be shortened. :D Sylverdin 22:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Do not edit quotes! I don't know where that 'rule' you quoted ("You cannot annotate a quote with bold! Clearly POV. let the quote speak for itself") came from but I copied the quote I cited exactly the way it is written ... by changing it you have changed what the ORIGINAL author intended. If you revert it again I will be reporting your action to the admins. Duke53 | Talk 01:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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I agree. If it turns into a revert-war, we'll need to set up mediation; otherwise, it looks like it's devolved into weirdness and sexism ("Lady"?) rather than a discussion of sources or of policy. Which really isn't worth the time of anyone involved.
I appreciate your support. It felt a lot better to see someone else's name in there. -- Masamage 05:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I reorganized the lists of frameworks. In doing so, I overwrote your table that you created. I'll put the table back in a minute. Sorry.
Tell me if this sounds like a dumb idea. I'm thinking that since many of the tables are getting more complicated, screen real-estate is needed. I'm thinking of shortening the displayed urls from something like http://www.oracle.com/technology/consulting/9iservices/jheadstart.html down to www.oracle.com. Is that a good or bad idea? -- Wdflake 01:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been selected as the November Mormon collaboration of the month. I look forward to working with you on it. -- uriah923( talk) 21:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bytebear, since there is no earlier version of Peter Pan than the 1924, I thought it's right to move it to (film), after naming conventions. That's a redirect page in need of cleaning. Is this a matter to discuss or ask administrators? It's no big deal for one film, but I find this problem more often with films. Hoverfish 00:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying this point. I had misunderstood the guidelines on this. Hoverfish 00:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
In case you don't see what I wrote on the talk page, I completely agree with you on the need to shorten The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints article. Here is what I wrote:
"I was about to say that the First principles and ordinances of the Gospel section be rewritten to be much shorter, but I see you beat me to it. I completely agree: this and the Plan of Salvation section need to be a lot less wordy, we should try to keep it as simple as possible and avoid deviating from what the sources state. I'm thinking we should use a sledgehammer rather than a chisel and completely rewrite these sections."
Not that I look forward to the task of rewriting this, but it is totally needed. -- Lethargy 23:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
no problem - you did a great job with that Infobox - the coding on that stuff requires concentration I usually don't get. I am on a crusade to make articles CJC's main article better like JS - and use proper sub articles -but it is difficult to know where to start. -- Trödel 03:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
dude - I love the maps - they rule! great job ! -- Trödel 13:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
the information in the software section you added is pointless. reading the top summary paragraph from the linked articles is enough. it's just pointless to add a bunch of information that doesn't need to be there. it's clutter. ColdFusion650 17:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Byte, could you look at the above article. In reading it I have found that it is basically the work of one editor that says he is a Mormon and a chaos magician. I am not too concerned about his personal interests, but I am concerned when he takes those interests and says that they are a significant interest within Mormonism. I would also encourage you to vote on the deletion vote. Thanks for your assistance. Storm Rider (talk) 23:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
For the Template, Columbus, OH and St. Louis are way out of place. (Columbus is in Missouri, St. Louis in Arkansas.) Naraht 09:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you left an extensive summary for your recent edit to Barbra Streisand and you took it from an article. The page is severely lacking references and it might be wise to mention this remark as a reference/note by adding:
<ref>name magazine, date / page, "Her Tony was a special "Star of the Decade" award. However, Streisand's Tony was honorary rather than one of the regular awards, so [it] is sometimes not counted"</ref>
Thanks for keeping an eye out on her page. It is quiet again, but there was some persistent vandalism on her page and nobody was watching her page. KittenKlub 08:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
love the new LA temple image -- Trödel
As a contributor to the different lists of temples, I was wondering if you could give some feedback concerning the addition several columns to the Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints page. thx
Also - I have created this temp page to list the differences in the parameters we are using - I think that we should try to use the same name for the same thing if we can. I am ok with your standard of dedication (instead of dedication_date). We also have discrepencies in how the parameters are passed. I require the person to put in the [ [, you don't and you do the image in a way that requires the "_" underscore character - See [User talk:Trödel/Snippets]] for a quick list of things I found. I am going to use hectares for the metric measurement of site size - rather than sq meters because it fits better in the column format. 1 hectare = 10,000 m2 or about 2.5 acres -- Trödel 22:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you tell me what purpose you plan on for this template? Would it be used on multiple pages? User:Zoe| (talk) 23:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I found this on another template:
{{!}} {{{height}}} ft ({{#expr: {{{height}}} * 0.3048 round 1 }} m) }}
I think we should use the same logic to convert feet to meters, so we can avoid two values. Other conversions should be done for acres, etc. Bytebear 22:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up on this article. I agree with your assesment and think the re-direct is appropriate. Vic sinclair 03:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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Great work on Temple Architecture (Latter-day Saints) and the geograhic images. Keep it up! As I know the work can sometimes be thankless, I just wanted to say, "Thank you!" -- Trödel 17:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC) |
Hi, my name is Sean Wolfington and i am new to Wikipedia. When i found that i had a page on the site i added truthful facts from my bio with out the intent of creating a "vanity" article. I did add content to other people's articles that linked to a film we made and now i know that is not allowed - i am sorry. I just read the "spamming" link you added to my page and now i realize that what i did was not right.
This excerpt explains what happened to me: "Some people spam Wikipedia without meaning to. That is, they do things which Wikipedians consider to be spamming, without realizing that their actions are not in line with building an encyclopedia. A new editor who owns a business may see that there are articles about other businesses on Wikipedia, and conclude that it would be appropriate to create his own such article. A Web site operator may see many places in Wikipedia where his or her site would be relevant, and quickly add several dozen links to it."
If you can i would appreciate your advise on what to do to avoid creating problems in the future. Thank You. Sean.
PS: I noticed that you write alot about LDS . We are screening our film, "Bella", to LDS leaders in Salt Lake City including Larry H Miller. I know this not relevant to my article but i want you to know that the film is legit and the reviews are real. The movie is beautiful and we hope it makes a positive impact on the world. I hope you get a chance to see it when it comes out.
I did not create the article, nor did my mother, close freind or relative. As i mentioned above... after i found the article written about me i added the information about the film. I did not realize that it was not allowed to add that information. I will remove it. Thanks for responding. Have a nice holiday. Sean.
I have been working on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Temples and have implemented the single data location for the Salt Lake Temple ( data) and the Los Angeles California Temple ( data). These both use an updated Infobox - see {{ Infobox LDS Temple}}, which implements the parameter naming standards as described in the WikiProject page. I plan to implement on the first 10 temples, but thought you might have some feedback on the style. I will be creating the list templates, hopefully, over the weekend and implementing them as well for the first 10 templates.
Also please let me know if the instructions are too technical. TIA -- Trödel 04:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I was disappointed to learn recently that you are taking credit for creating the floor plans of the Nauvoo Temple that I created some six years ago for my webpage on the Nauvoo Temple. Here is the link to the menu page of the original drawings on my Nauvoo Temple site for comparison. Clearly, you have simply copied my drawings, made a few minor changes, and then claimed them as your own, even posting them on the Wikipedia article Nauvoo Temple as the copyright owner. If you would have contacted me I would have gladly given you permission to use them, but now as the actual copyright owner I must ask you to remove them from this page, from the Nauvoo Temple page, as well as from any other Internet page where you may have used them.
Bytebear, on reflection I have decided to request that, rather than asking you to remove your drawings, you simply give me credit as the original source for them: something like, "This drawing is based on an original located at Nauvoo Temple, used with permission of copyright holder" in the copyright statement. I'm not really opposed to you using them, if you simply give me due credit.
Thank you. Upon rereading the above I find that I was unnecessarily harsh. Forgive me. I would point out that the drawings were based on my research some years ago, and with current knowledge (especially since the reconstruction of the Temple) I would draw some of them differently today, especially the fore attic area and the first floor. A good resource would be Don Colvin's Nauvoo Temple. Still, the drawings (both mine and yours) are good approximations. Best of luck!
Thanks for responding to my note. The issue on the article was partially resolved on Dec 24th but the notice you added to the article still remains on the article about me. The notice you added says "This article or section reads like an advertisement". I removed the reviews of the movie i made that i had added. Would it be possible for you to remove that notice? Thanks for taking the time to read this. Have a nice holiday. Sean.
Thank you for your input and thank you for your advice. Have a great new year. Seanwolfington 04:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
no problem - I have set up a page for monitoring the temple pages only as I am ignoring my watchlist for now - see Special:Recentchangeslinked/User_talk:Trödel/Task2. I am planning to use regex to convert all the data at the comparison list to the new format and then just copy and paste it in. -- Trödel 14:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Bytebear, you've done a great job with your solution to the fighting over the Disney templates — it is signs of a great mediator! ★MESSED ROCKER★ 00:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
You seem to be levelheaded and grasp the big picture. I am new to the wikipedian community (my reason for joining is here User:OfForByThePeople). You seem to be doing an excellent job at operating in a system dominated by partisan extremists representing various ideologies. Would you please take a look at my reasoning here Talk:Fox_News_Channel#Intro. I made a total of 3 entries. Thanks for looking out! ( OfForByThePeople 04:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
Thank you for your timely response. When people word things in a suggestive manner for one article, and then are unwilling to support using the same suggestive manner for the articles of opposition is wrong. Subconsious manipulation is just plain wrong. This is a very big flaw with Wikipedia which is being ignored. Feelings do not make facts. Thank you for looking out! ( OfForByThePeople 05:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
Please take a look at my revision to the introduction of the article. I believe we call all agree that this is fair. Thanks for looking out. ( OfForByThePeople 06:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
The various lists and maps you have made for the temples look nice and seem to have required a lot of work, congratulations on that. I do have one concern however with the methodology of wholesale adding an interactive map and a regional list to each individual temple page. While I can understand some benefit in having a map indicating the location of a temple on a map for each page, having the large map with links along with an entire list of links to other regional temples in each page seems to be a little unwieldy at best, as the maps are quite large and the lists can take up a lot of space. They seem well suited to the "List of Temples" articles, but on each page seem a bit cumbersome.
I am hesitant about running through all the articles and deleting them in spite of my opinion without asking you first (as it was your work and effort to include them in each article), as well I wish there were some way of getting some consensus on the subject without spamming the talk page of each article. Any ideas?
Thank you again for the creation of the maps, though, it's a job well done. Arkyan 09:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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I think you might want to re-craft your joke about surrendering to irrationality. Someone might get the impression that you mean it. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 01:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Bytebear: Do you have an email address I could contact you at. I would like to talk to you about your programming skills, which isn't really proper for a wikipedia talk page. Thanks! Phefner 05:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I just found that and sent it to you. Phefner 06:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Dude, I promised in my edit summary that I would explain on the template talk page, and in fact I have already done so. Give me 5 minutes to collect my thought and write them up! AnonMoos 07:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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Top 10 Largest Highly International Religious Bodies These are religious bodies in which at least 30% of their world membership live outside the "core country" (country with the largest number of members). Religious Body Number of Adherents Catholic Church 1,100,000,000 Sunni Islam 875,000,000 Eastern Orthodox Church 225,000,000 Anglican Communion* 77,000,000 Assemblies of God 50,000,000 Seventh-day Adventists 16,811,519 Jehovah's Witnesses 15,597,746 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 12,275,822 New Apostolic Church 10,260,000 Ahmadiyya 10,000,000 Bahai World Faith 6,000,000
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* Dalai Lama * Louis Farrakhan * Pope John Paul II * Mary Baker Eddy * * Billy Graham * Jerry Falwell * Mother Teresa *
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Is this enough evidence for you?
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Your temple map of the western United States places the Billings Montana Temple in Thermopolis Wyoming. The worldwide map also places it there. Just thought you'd like to know to correct the error. Great maps, by the way. Thanks for your work! Novel-Technology 13:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I have corrected the Template map of the Western US for you, to have Billings in Billings(or at least pretty close). The World LDS Temples graphic is still incorrect. Novel-Technology 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Would you please respond back to my e-mail...it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 17:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Please respond on my talk page. OfForByThePeople
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The pentagram is a rather minor symbol in the global history of Christianity (and is usually called a "pentalpha" in that context), and your edits led to discussion of detailed tangential issues of occultism etc. which have no real place in such a broad general overview article. That material could have a place on Wikipedia, but not in the Christian Symbolism article... AnonMoos 22:13, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Dude, you're displaying the same uncooperative behavior which so conspicuously previously turned a minor editing dispute on "Template:Christianity" into an pointless unnecessary semi-major foofaraw broo-ha-ha (as seen directly above on this page). Please don't place "POV vandalism" accusations in the edit summaries when you're already aware that it isn't any such thing. The material on Christian uses of the "pentalpha" is welcome on the Pentagram article, but it has no place in the Christian symbolism article, unless you can make some argument for its broad relevance of the whole topic of Christian symbolism over the global history of Christianity -- something which you don't seem to have even attempted to do, so far... AnonMoos
I don't know what your dispute is about nor on which side of it I am, but I do notice it's got a bit too heated at points. Just hold your right arm over your left and say to yourself "Calm, calm, calm" (works for me). Sam Blacketer 00:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I have placed some questions on the talk page of this template you created. Can you please join me for a discussion there? Thanks in advance. -- Robbie Giles 23:34, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
You are never going to come to any sastifactory conclusion by arguing the merit of undue weight across articles, not only that but you may even run into situations where the same editor will support the inclusion of some criticism on one article, and adamently reject the criticism on another article even when the context is exactly the same. They will even justify their actions by stating that you can't use another article's content for justification. This is not to say I don't agree with you, because I do. There is a far amount of hypocrisy with some editors on WP when it comes to controversal articles. I would rather emplore that you recognize that the undue weight is specific within the article itself under "positions of minority viewpoints" (this is NOT viewpoints of editors, but viewpoints of sources and references), of which in this case there are almost none. That and the self-referential nature of this issue should be enough for it to either be removed completely or greately reduced (as I have done a couple of times). Arzel 19:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the rename of "Doctor" Philastus Hurlbut's page, the man's given name actually was "Doctor," which has always caused confusion (this isn't mentioned in the stub article, but it is footnoted in the Mormonism Unvailed article...not yet referenced to a source). Hurlbut wasn't really a doctor at all. There are references to support this, but I'll have to look them up. However, the title of the article will obviously continue to cause confusion if we move it back to "Doctor Philastus Hurlbut." Perhaps we should move it to "D. Philastus Hurlbut?" Bochica 14:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello Byte, I appreciate your work on the Christianity article. I would encourage you to tread light with User:AJA; he is a good fellow, but he is extremely prickly when it comes to all things having to do with the LDS church. I my many interactions with him, I have consistently run into problems if the edit has to do even remotely with Mormonism. I have found discussion to be of little help; he has an obvious opinion and he is not interested in "your" (in the collective sense) opinion or position. What has worked best for me is when interaction is required, be direct concise, even blunt, and then move on. Eventually other editors will jump in an give an opinion and lead to a solution. Cheers. -- Storm Rider (talk) 22:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Re: our recent back-and-forths, I hope nothing I've said has offended you and I apologize if it has. I can get overly rhetorical sometimes and it may come across as a personal attack, but I do not intend that. I do understand your position more fully now and I'm glad you've provided some suggestions for discussion. Though I support the current (Mormon) / (Latter Day Saints) methodology, I will be OK with whatever the consensus is to your proposals on the MOS page. I'll back off there and let others comment. :) Rich Uncle Skeleton (talk) 03:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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In the Soarin' Over California article, the Redwood Creek leads to a disambig page Redwood Creek. Would you please fix the Redwood Creek link in the Soarin' Over California to the correct Redwood Creek? Thanks. -- Jreferee t/ c 00:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
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You recently commented on this image in IfD which I put up for deletion review because it was deleted after a its first "delete" vote: the vote of the administrator who deleted it. I felt consensus took a back seat to that administrator's personal bias. You might or might not agree, in any case take a look. Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_October_30#Image:Manti-1999.jpg Thanks Reswobslc 13:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry for tagging the revert of your edit as vandalism, I hit the wrong rollback link. However, please see the talk page and join in the discussion concerning the removal of the links rather than simply reverting as they were removed per WP:EL guidelines. -- Collectonian ( talk) 17:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
There never has been. The question is, "is there any reason not to include the image in the article?" The answer is, "no". It's that simple. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 13:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Byte. I looked on your user page after I replied on the Christianity talk page and I wanted to ask you something. Are you Mormon, or just very interested in the Mormon church? I'm just curious cause I thought that Mormons did actually believe in three separate Gods, as the other user charged against all Christians. I just wanted to clear up my understanding of that. Thanks! Carl.bunderson ( talk) 20:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
You are in danger of violating the three-revert rule on Plural marriage. Please cease further reverts or you may be blocked from editing. - Alison ❤ 06:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Ok - a few points here, too. You are revert-warring on the above article. One more revert on that page and your account gets blocked for a period of time. What you're doing now is disruptive and needs to stop. I appreciate your reporting this to WP:RPP but this is largely a content dispute here. The other editor will receive a similar warning. Stop now - Alison ❤ 06:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I agree with your last comment in the RfC on the Bill O'Reilly article. However, it appears that our position is not the policy of the project. I think there is an assumption that only significant notable events would be written into articles, so a policy stating that was never established. I'd be willing to assist in starting a process to see if WP:NOTE can be expanded to cover article content as well. But in the meantime, we really don't have a leg to stand on to keep additions like this out of the article. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 22:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Bytebear,
I reworked/reinserted the sentence that you removed at Holy of Holies (LDS Church). While a Holy of Holies at the Manti and SL Temples can be verified, talk of a Holy of Holies at other locations (such as DC) is apocryphal at best. I'd love for you to prove me wrong with something solid.
All the best, -- Rojerts ( talk) 23:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Please reply on my talk page. I re-reverted, comment clearly not made with the intention to improve the article. Removal on the basis of wp:talk. Thanks -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ ( talk) 00:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
My comment about the Strangites on Talk:Gordon B. Hinckley was meant as a joke, though it may not have come out that way. Ha, ha. My condolences at your church's loss (I assume you are LDS?). Is it quite devastating for church members when the president dies or does everybody pretty much take it in stride? I wasn't into LDS issues as much when the last president died, so I'm not too familiar with the popular reaction. Snocrates 04:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Less POV? Suggesting that "the main reason . . ." as stated is propaganda. I tried to make the edit fair, but reflective of the fact that only Mormons consider themselves to be Christians. That is a fact, not a point of view. I'll repost and let you have a chance to reflect before you change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tapols ( talk • contribs) 00:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Since I'm not a wiki expert, I didn't quite know how to respond so you'd see this. So, sorry for the duplicate from my page:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Isn't it interesting, Byte, that you can make/support assertions such as "This is primarily due to the fact that adherents to Mormonism claim that the movement is a restoration of the earliest Christian and Judaic doctrines" and yet don't feel the need to support YOUR statements with evidence, except that "we say so." The issue of whether Mormons (you?) claim to be Christian isn't an issue in my edits. The FACT is that Orthodox and Protestant churches DO NOT accept that Mormonism is a "denomination," rather that it is a completely different belief system. Mormons do not accept the Trinity as a core belief. It is exactly that CORE that unites Orthodox and Protestant DENOMINATIONS and precisely why they do NOT accept Mormonism as related.
It's not my POV, it is a fact. Whether or not 52% of "Christians" surveyed think so or not is equivalent to saying "52% of Mormons believe Polygamy is OK and should practice it," and then expecting the LDS leadership to say, "OK, fine. We'll do that then." That's not how it works, and you know it. Nor does asserting that "This is primarily due to the fact that adherents to Mormonism claim that the movement is a restoration of the earliest Christian and Judaic doctrines" accurately describe the FACT that traditional Christian churches -- from the LEADERSHIP OF THEM -- do not accept any relationship, spiritually, with the LDS church.
Before you start just deciding that someone is wrong on FACT, consider your own POV and the propaganda you're offering. I have tried to be fair with my statements to reflect FACT, not spun according to an effort to mainstream something that cannot and will not be mainstreamed because of core disagreement.
I am happy to review the other page as you have suggested, however I am really not interested in debating you on it -- simply trying to have the facts reflected in a public forum. The thing that is really dismaying is that there seems to be an organized effort to "protect" the language on a public page that clearly reflects a bias. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tapols ( talk • contribs) 00:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
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While I agree with you, you do realize you do realize that your logic falls mostly on deaf ears. The current standard, which seems to repeat itself over and over, is as such. Controversal subject makes some statement that MM finds objectable on some level. MM transcribes the comment and pushes it out into the media hoping that someone else will comment on the issue. Often KO will repeat the issue which then garners additional commentary. Of course since the original comments by MM have already been presented to their biased point of view, the additional commentary is also presented with the same bias, and even when what MM says is refuted by presenting the original comments in their proper context, the issue still remains because it has now reached notability standards that some apply, and MM still gets to present their pov (even if it isn't directly linked to them anymore).
The end result is that MM gets their pov presented either way because of the way this system is gamed, and since organizations like MM use a shotgun approach (publish everything in hopes that something sticks) it is inevitable that something does stick, even if the actual controversal statements are so short lived in main stream media as to be forgotten by most in a short period of time. And what are we left with here? The extremes presented as a neutral view of the person and their actions, and it is all backed up by WP policy, and if you try to use wp policy, you are accused of policy shopping, as I see you have already been accused. The only real solution to this core problem, that I have found, is to present as much information regarding the original comments so that the reader can see the entire context of the senario, unfortunately it usually ends up as a bloated section describing a minor situation which is an extremely minor aspect of the subject being discussed, as I am sure you have seen. Arzel ( talk) 04:56, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear, I appreciate your efforts on the Spider Solitaire page to keep the 2 to 4 external links on the page. As stated and discussed there, they are clearly within the WP:EL guidelines and are useful to the Wikipedia readers. However I'd like to ask for your help in restoring these valid links on other Solitaire pages. User 2005 has also been removing these valid links on a few other Solitaire pages, despite objections. I have suggested these links be restored on the Talk:Pyramid (solitaire) page. I would really appreciate it if you could visit that page and voice your comments there as well as perhaps restoring the links that are indeed valid.
Thanks. Sembiance ( talk) 13:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw your name at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. I just spent the past few days moving all the California photo requests into County categories to make it easier for photographers to locate requests in the locations where they take photos. Please consider monitoring and adding your name to the list at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Los Angeles County, California as well as the other counties in So. Cal. GregManninLB ( talk) 21:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
You have suggested, ""Fox News Channel has a reputation for being conservative. Whether this label is warranted is continually under dispute," and a few people have agreed. However, why be so intentionally vague about what the other sourced POV is? To say the accusation that Fox is conservatively biased is "under dispute" could mean anything from 'others believe Fox News coverage is balanced' to 'others believe Fox News coverage is liberal', and we can't assume the reader has any familiarity with Fox. The sources report specifically on Fox News being seen as balanced or centrist by independent statistical observers, average news watchers, and politicians (even liberal democrats). I don't understand why we should be vague about exactly what the other POV is, especially since the critical POV is explicitly stated.
I think we're very close to a large majority consensus on finally fixing the wording in the lead to theNobleSith's suggestion, "Some observers of the channel say that Fox News promotes conservative political positions,[3][4] while others profess that Fox News engages in politically balanced news reporting. [5][6][8] FNC denies allegations of bias in its reporting.[10]" If we could come to agree on that I think it would pretty much seal a large majority and end this dispute for good. Jsn9333 ( talk) 18:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure at first about this template, but a few of these articles need some help to become npov. I thought shining a light on them might help make that happen. I'm open to other suggestions though. -- TrustTruth ( talk) 14:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Certainly did not include you. Though I think your misstatements and misrepresentations are calculated, I do not believe you troll. Sorry if you felt caught in the crossfire; I will say so publicly if you wish. Thanks. / Blaxthos ( t / c ) 01:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
In case you were unaware, usually we don't call the person provoked into explaining the same point over and over by an editor who clearly understands it and choses to reply as if they don't with what amounts to nonsense, a troll. Its usually the provoking editor who has nothing of substance to add or no real question to pose who is considered so. Of course, like I said on my talk page, you are welcome to your opinion. Just to clarify, however, I didn't call any editor a troll on the entry talk page, I simply said I didn't want to feed him anymore. I should also add that it is impolite to warn someone against making personal attacks when none have been made to date. Cheers. PelleSmith ( talk) 17:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I know this is a month late, and I am glad things have gotten a lot smoother (for everyone!), but please avoid canvassing to try and influence consensus. I hope this doesn't offend or otherwise stir up more drama; it's only intended as a friendly reminder. Thanks. / Blaxthos ( t / c ) 02:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Bytebear. Blaxthos is pushing his Liberal POV into the introduction to FoxNews. I have removed the POV bias. It is not relevant to the article's opening paragraph. Please respond on the FoxNews talk page 24.27.151.226 ( talk) 07:28, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
In response to your somewhat irritating note -- My mantra: Almost every good faith edit is valuable. Research, verify, rewrite --------------- but don't delete! I have been around the LDS project/articles for a long time. You can check the quality of my edits there and in other places. I generally will not remove good faith edits -- but I may move them, modify them, verify them, and correct them. I will, more than likely, revert when I see others delete without making similar efforts. As for this one ------ "king" is accurate in several senses, even though there are errors in this wording. JSmith had recently announced the priesthood concept of an "eternal kingship" and the oppposition newspaper took full advantage of the related political fallout. I agree that the topic is better covered in other articles -- but in my opinion there is no reason that a condensation of the edit, even a sentence, could not have been retained. WBardwin ( talk) 02:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Good work on Disneyland Park (Anaheim) to avoid the need for a {{fact}} tag... :) Tiggerjay ( talk) 02:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Bytebear. I saw your recent edit and wondered if it was appropriate, given that the main article has avoided expounding on Presley's many different spiritual explorations, because it would make the article very long. It now gives undue weight to Mormonism. It would be better too if a neutral reliable source could be cited to back up the claims, but I cannot find a mention in the mainstream biogs, like Guralnick, Hopkins, etc. Maybe this would be worth discussing on the Elvis talkpage? Rikstar ( talk) 08:57, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Seems someone is trying to do a piece on Porter Barry, producer of The O'Reilly Factor of FOX news. Please look at the Porter Barry Wikipedia article. Thanks. Bebestbe ( talk) 16:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
It is just as much the other memberss fault for my losing my "cool" on the topic as it is my own fault. The people pushed me until I blew up. But of course, secular websites would not recognize that.
Quote from someone I discussed this with...
Q: Are they not just as much at fault for my yelling/cursing as I am? Because I couldn't control myself, I know I am worse than they, but are they not also at fault because they pushed me until I go so upset?
A: While I agree with you on this, this is not the way the mods will see it, wherever you are posting or having this debate. They will only see you as highly "reactive" to their "innocent" questions.
Q: How should I react when I see Mormons telling people things like that? (that Mormonism is Christian according to seculars and Mormons) A: It's part of the Mormons' new PR campaign--claiming to be Christian so people won't realize just how weird they are. Of course, Mormons aren't Christians. And, if they tell this lie to others in your presence, you should consider speaking up (after first talking with your spiritual father about this--since getting into arguments, even over truth, might well be detrimental to your spiritual life.) The fact that all their support comes from themselves and the easily confused secular world is quite telling.
I'm very aware of Mormons, there are many of them where I live, and there are many of their "Holy Sites" as well... I know good Mormons that would never try to classify themselves as Christians because they realize the fact that more than 90% of Christians regard them as non-Christian. And some of them are even RLDS.
I gave up simply because it is much better for me to quit arguing with people that refuse to listen to reason and facts. Mormons are not Christian, and are polytheists. Not only this, but they also have nothing in common with our Lord and God Jesus Christ or his teachings. As one advised me to say... Talk to the Creed because the hand ain't listening... (joke) -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Nine Ways of Participating in Another's Sin: By Counsel; By Command; By Consent; By Provocation; By praise or flattery; By concealement; By partaking; By silence; By defense of the sin committed.
Yes I do know about Mormonism, as we have a book of Mormon, and i've read plenty about their theology. It doesn't really matter what many lax and modern Mormons believe, just as it doesn't really matter what many modern and lax Christians believe as they don't often have enough theological knowledge to know the facts about their faith. (it isn't that they are bad, they just don't know enough) Mormons believe in Jesus as a created being that is a god, and they believe in the Father as the God but who procreated with Mary to create Jesus. They also believe that humans can become gods themselves, sometimes they go as far as to say we become gods of planets. Mormons reject scripture and claim to have a new revelation and a restoration of what was true. This is exactly the same as Islam with rejects scripture and claims it's scripture is better, more accurate and a revelation/restoration. To be Christian, you HAVE to accept the Gospel, Epistles as well as the Old Testament Scriptures. Mormons believe in several places Christ could return to, whereas we know from scripture that place will be Jerusalem, and not Independence, Salt Lake City or any other location. In the course of the day, I could easily go to your Garden of Eden, your former one mile square town, your leader's jail, one of the temple returning sites of Christ... Etc... (yet we know the Garden no longer exists, and Christ will return to Jerusalem according to the scriptures) Mormons also believe/accept polygamy even if they don't always practice it.
I could go on and on. I know plenty about Mormonism, as I've said, there are Mormons all over the area where I live. Most aren't strict Mormons that accept original beliefs. But the fact remains that original Mormonism and actual Mormonism teaches these thing. According to yourselves, since Smith had this new revelation and is more correct, then none of you should have ever diverted from his teachings.
I must also mention that Mormonism cannot be heretical, because in Christianity, in order to be heretical, you have to be Christian to begin with, and Mormons are not considered Christian by Christians themselves.
Also, Mormonism is traditionally classified as a cult, not because it came from Christianity (which it didn't), but because of this:
Additionally, a "cult" is defined by group behaviour: a. mind control b. "new" revelation which no one is allowed to question c. isolation of members d. non-historical beliefs and practices that seemingly appear out of nowhere e. "magical" thinking ...the list goes on....From a secular point of view, Mormonism is defined as a cult for these reasons. Secularists could care less about what the Mormons teach theologically. They care about the mind-control, the isolation of members, the forced "polygamy" in some cases, etc....
Also, this is addressing the original discussion about Baptists, Catholics, etc... Because some person (who obviously doesn't know much about Christianity) claimed that Baptists believe Catholics to be a cult or heretics.
Their logic here is faulty at best. Firstly, no one ever argues that Catholicism is a cult, because : a) Catholicism has a verifiable, historical claim to Christian, Apostolic origins b) Catholicism doesn't have the ear marks of a cult, i.e. secret handshakes, charismatic qualities, and frankly, weird and untenable rituals that have no basis in Christian theology.
From the (Eastern) Orthodox point of view, Baptists are not a cult because they don't have any weird rituals and mind-control either, but they are also Trinitarians. We view them as being in error, and as being separated from us at best. But we do not go around calling Baptists heretics because a) they are Trinitarian b) Protestantism is a reaction to Roman Catholicism . The Baptist movement came about due to some legitimate feelings/reactions against Catholic abuse, not because someone had a "new" revelation about the "restored" gospel c) Baptists do not claim to be the "one true" Church founded by Jesus Christ
I know about Mormonism, and so do the Christians around me. Mormonism is not a part of Christianity, not even a part of non-trinitarian Christianity because of it's beliefs other than just about the Trinity. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 11:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear... Mormons believe that the Garden of Eden and where Cain slew Able is somewhere in Northern Missouri. Some Mormons ALSO believe that Jesus will return at the RLDS Temple in Independence, Some believe he will return at the temple at Far West, and some believe he will return at Salt Lake City. I've heard this even from practicing Mormons.
It sounds a lot like we have the potential to be like God. If you want to call it salvation, fine, but don't shortchange your potential.
You don't understand the Christian teaching/belief of theosis: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
Mormonism is not and never was a product of Christianity, not even Protestantism. Joseph Smith was not a Christian, be borrowed his beliefs from Christians, Muslims, Jews as well as popular Occult at the time, including some Masons. Smith was NOT inspired and never spoke with an angel, rather it was Satan or one of his minions, also as in the case of Mohammad.
Mormons cannot possibly be heretics or even a Christian cult because it didn't come from Christianity.
Even the beliefs you list cannot be Christian because they contradict even the most basic teachings of Christianity. Why do you even believe to be Christians when we were not called Christians until they named us such at Antioch? How can you possibly accept a title given to a people belonging to a Church that STILL EXISTS TODAY? http://www.antiochpat.org/ http://www.antiochian.org/ http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Antioch
I'm sorry, but I believe in the One holy catholic (universal) and apostolic Church. There is no other. It is the church that was preserved the Apostolic Teachings and the Apostolic Tradition. The Churches of Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch and Alexandria are all still a part of it even though Rome split off 1000 years ago. (to form the Roman Catholic Church)
Christianity is not some idea or some vague, grey belief that anyone can claim. It is a RELIGION in which, you actually have to be a part of and have to accept it's basic beliefs.
According to your own beliefs and theology, Mormons should NEVER even desire to be considered Christians since all Christians have departed from the truth. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 20:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I do not ignore Christianity between 100 AD and 400 AD, I uphold it, as the Orthodox Church upholds it. Orthodox always read from Early Christian fathers. I think you need to read some of:
St.
Justin Martyr (100-165):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.i.html (You can look through them w/ the table at the left)
Pope Clement I of Rome (Pope from 88-90 AD, he knew St. Peter):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ii.i.html
St.
Polycarp (69-155 AD, actually a disciple of St. John):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.iv.i.html
St.
Ignatius of Antioch (35-110 AD, another disciple of St. John):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.v.i.html
St.
Irenaeus (2nd Cent. - 202 AD):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.i.html
Do not also forget the Church fathers from the 2nd Century up to 325: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.i.html
Orthodox frequently often these Early Church Fathers and their writings. Orthodox see them as affirming the traditions and beliefs of the Apostles, and their teachings ARE consistent with those of the Councils and after the Councils. Orthodoxy takes the writings of ALL Saints and Church Fathers TOGETHER and never accept beliefs in the writings if they contradict the majority of other writings. (St. Augustine is used in the context and compared to other Saints, unlike in the West where he is looked at in near isolation from other writings)
Ever since Pentecost and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Christians have been ONE in belief, doctrine, tradition and practice. If you read the New Testament, you will always notice that Christ and the Apostles speak AGAINST heretics and false doctrines of people who believe in Christ but don't believe as they should. Read Revelation, John HIMSELF speaks against the Nicolaitans. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear... From 33 AD to 324 AD, the Popes didn't and couldn't ever burn ANYONE at the stake, as the Roman Empire was too busy killing Christians themselves and Christians were still underground and was still a group of believers being martyred. You also forget that the Pope was not the singular figure in Christendom EVER. From the first Pope up until the Great Schism, the Pope was one Patriarch among 4 others. All Patriarchs were EQUAL and had equal authority and could not step in and effect one another's jurisdictions or decisions. All decisions were made by agreement between the Patriarchs as well as local Bishops. [/br] Also, even in 400 AD, you didn't have Eastern and Western Branches, you didn't have those until the Great Schism in 1054 AD (which was finalized in the 1200s with the sack of Constantinople during the Crusades). Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Jerusalem all were their own jurisdictions, but were all united.
Of course, if we look at how Orthodox Christianity was spread to the world, it was anything but Christlike. Sorry, but I simply cannot believe that God and Christ set up the system of violence and torture that follows Orthodoxy.
Orthodoxy was spread through peace, martyrdom and preaching of the Gospel. You didn't have any forced conversions. The main violence that occurred was inflicted by the Byzantine Empire, however most of the time when it did these things, it was condemned by the Church. Once the Emperor was even physically denied entrance to the service by a Patriarch after he had thousands of people killed.
Here are a few instances of inquisition by the Orthodox Church on others: Old Believers after their schism from the Church Jews around the same time as above (until Tsar Nicholas ended the persecutions) Emperor Justinian had 30,000 people killed for opposing his power (however he was the Emperor of Byzantium, not a ruler of the Church) Theodosius I killed homosexuals and others, and he was the one who was barred entry into the service by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Persecution of those who rejected Chalcedon And yes we know Constantine did bad things and killed many... However he was baptised just before death, so they have no eternal bearing.
Remember, King David shed A LOT of blood and kept repenting for it. Yet we honor him as one of the greatest.
You seem to be equating "Catholic" with "Orthodox". However, Roman Catholic is in fact very different from Eastern Orthodox. The Eastern Orthodox Church IS the original Church. Roman Catholics split off from the Eastern Orthodox with the Great Schism.
The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is NOT a church of superheroes. It is a Church of sinners and hypocrites. It is the hospital for those that are sick of the soul AND body.
It ALSO remains to be the closest to Ancient Christianity as well as Judaism prior to the birth of Christ. You forget that historically the Churches worship was Liturgical, we see this in the Epistles as well as Revelation.
I'm not trying to convince you, nor do I care to convince you. You clearly are being taught this by others in your own faith even though it contradicts even secular records of history. Also keep in mind, you did not win this, and neither did I. We just simply have to agree to disagree. I simply have just been wasting time discussing this when I ought to be spending more time speaking to Eastern Orthodox Christians and focusing on continuing to try and do more than the Saints did, because I'm so much worse than them, that I will never be done repenting... -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:14, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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Why is YouTube not note worthy? The link showed well-established and recognised (although amateur) political commentator and an actual video clip from fox news where anyone checking the reference can watch the clip to verify the contents of the Wikipedia page edit. If an actual video clip from Fox news is not note worthy, then I don't know what is. Are you a supporter of Fox News? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.139.218.241 ( talk) 19:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
These questions may all be answered in those links you provided, but quite frankly Ive got better things to do than research, discuss and type up things about Faux News. I'm not from the USA, but in the last couple of weeks I have discovered what a propaganda machine Faux News is, and I was hoping that my 5 cents may be able to help even up the score a little. God forbid that the the Fox News-supported ticket ("You're fired!", "Dinosaurs were around 5000 years ago", "You can see Russia from my house", "I don't know the names of any newspapers or supreme court cases", "Its all about job creation", "You were raped but you have to pay for your own evidence kit and can't have an abortion") wins the election. Not sure on your background but with the wikipedia pages that you have been editing I hope that this crazy woman is not behind your motivation for saying that I have drawn my own conclusions within my edit, when I clearly did not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.139.218.241 ( talk) 19:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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Are you LDS? I am an RM, who is atheist now. Inclusionist ( talk) 19:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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What you revolutionarily suggested. Inclusionist ( talk) 19:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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Let's settle this here instead of filling the article to the brim. Soxwon ( talk) 23:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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Thank you for deleting my duplicate post, I must have hit the "save page" button twice. So, thank you for vigilantly fixing my mistakes. Cheers! Scapler ( talk) 22:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
This tired old liberal, partisan attempt at painting anyone who doesn't agree with them as somehow "fringe" is getting very old. If it's so absurd, why have they sepnt so much time attempting to refute it? I merely said so, and was happy to. Newguy34 ( talk) 02:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Commented, that's starting to get to be a little bit of a double standard IMO... Soxwon ( talk) 02:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Either go to [11] and add your comments to the investigation or apologize for the false accusation you made against me at [12]. Cheers. Duke53 | Talk 14:46, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Byte, move on. This conversation will profit you nothing. Of course, if this a serving as a few minutes of amusement, go for it. I must admit that I have done that in the past myself. Though it can be fun, Wikipedia is not the proper forum for it.-- Storm Rider 19:23, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I have responded on the talk pages of Talk:Glenn Beck and Talk:Cleon Skousen. I may not be able to put anything else forward until next week. -- Hardindr ( talk) 03:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
From what I can tell you are an intelligent and reasonable guy that should be an overall asset to the wikipedia community. The problems that I have seem to keep popping up when you start getting into political disputes on POV and other often contentious issues. It seem that your own political views cause you to make snap judgment calls which rarely seem to be helpful. The quality of your other work could suffer from this, and I hope you'll just stick to your non-political wiki-homes and keep up the good work. (sorry that this probably didn't get done right, but I have no idea what I'm doing trying to edit on wikipedia, so if this even comes out as something readable in the correct spot I'll be happy). no username, but my name is Brooks 74.61.145.211 ( talk) 09:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States&diff=307408163&oldid=307407354
What do you think of this? I think the original version is better, rather than DocKino (who was recently blocked for disruption). You probably know more about the LDS so I will leave it to you. User F203 ( talk) 19:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Is it just me or does it seem like Fox News articles are getting a lot of new and concentrated editors? I wonder if some organization or blog is directing people against this news channel and its hosts. Something smells fishy. Morphh (talk) 20:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Bytebear, I do think there is an organized effort. Ever since Beck said he thought Obama was a racist, there have been groups trying to get him fired from FNC. One notable example is Color Of Change, which was founded partly by Van Jones (who happens to be Obama's Green Jobs Czar). Wikipedia seems to be turning into a political battleground because FNC is a serious danger to the Obama agenda. Arzel ( talk) 03:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I'll see what I can come up with, but first I think it needs to be established why they should be moved. Soxwon ( talk) 02:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Patriot Missile33 is involved in an edit war again on Juice Plus. Can you have a look at the edit history and Talk page and offer some guidance for resolution. Thanks. Rhode Island Red ( talk) 04:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
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You might want to have your page semi-protected. Soxwon ( talk) 19:09, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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Re our last two edits. I wasn't trying to imply hypocrisy, just a change of view. Beck is a complicated guy. I saw these competing edits between that Jim guy and lobot guy over whether his political views (as stated by a Beck editorical) should be in there. It seems that some mention should be made regarding how his views crystalized over time; the abortion view is the best documented. I don't feel strongly either way on it.
-- Milowent ( talk) 18:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
You have been around long enough to know the common WP:BOLD practice. Knock it off. Attempt to fix it or go to the talk page. Cptnono ( talk) 02:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
in my last few edits. What do you think? ↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 19:38, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Interesting, IMO. ↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 23:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)"[ . . . ] Of course, just because Beck’s politics are Skousenian doesn’t necessarily mean they’re deeply Mormon. No intellectual tradition can be reduced to one individual — and in 1979, the LDS Church formally distanced itself from the Freemen Institute, which Skousen founded in 1971 to promulgate his half-baked ideas. (At the time, the LDS Church was led by Spencer Kimball, known for receiving the revelation that finally opened the Mormon priesthood to black men. For his part, Skousen accused critics of this notorious racial ban of using communist tactics.) ¶ But Skousen is hardly Beck’s only major Mormon influence. His understanding of present-day realities also reflects the paranoid anti-communism of Ezra Taft Benson, who served as secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration and later, from 1985 to 1994, as president of the LDS Church. (According to Mormon doctrine, each church president, at the time of his service, functions as a living prophet.) ¶ [ . . . ] ¶ Benson and Skousen were products of the Cold War’s heyday, in which Americans of all religious stripes were spooked by real and imagined manifestations of the Red Menace. But they also emerged from the distinct culture of Mormonism — which was shaped in its earliest days by violent conflict with the US government, and which still brings its own unique understanding to bear on key political concepts and institutions.
¶ [ . . . ] ¶ [ . . . ] ¶
“Anybody that’s going back to the John Birch era is going to discover Ezra Taft Benson,” Jan Shipps, an emeritus professor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and eminent non-Mormon scholar of Mormonism, tells the Phoenix. “To say he’s going in that direction because he became a Mormon is pushing it a little far.”
The prolific historian D. Michael Quinn, who grew up in the LDS Church, makes a similar point. Quinn — who was trained at Yale, and has taught there and at BYU — was excommunicated by the LDS Church in 1993 after pursuing several incendiary topics in Mormon history. He suspects that Beck’s conservatism led him to embrace the LDS Church, rather than the other way around. “The combination of Skousen and Benson would have been very attractive to him,” says Quinn. “I think he’s now sharing with America what originally attracted him to Mormonism.”
Even if Shipps and Quinn are right, though, that doesn’t mean that Beck’s faith is insignificant. [ . . . ]
Given there has been no discussion in talk, could you please explain from where you're getting justification for "consensus" in this edit? For years consensus has been that "liberal" is not an accurate or acceptable term in this article despite your best efforts; I'd like to know where this new consensus came from that decided it was acceptable for a category. // Blaxthos ( t / c ) 17:53, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
I have closed your RFC after 7 days with no objection to closure. Since this is a clear and near-unanimous rejection of your assertions, I hope that we've put to bed any lingering question as to the appropriateness of your campaign to call MMFA "liberal". Cheers. // Blaxthos ( t / c ) 19:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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Do you have or do you know where I could find floor plans for Kirtland Temple? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.65.226 ( talk) 17:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
My collection of work is enormous. Seriously enormous. Because of that one particular person and the way he conducts what is presented as official Wikipedia policy, I will not be contributing any more of my photography. I've been trying to figure this system out. I thought I might have found where I can make a positive contribution of some lasting good and that feeling is completely and utterly gone.
You question needs some serious answers. To wit: Ok, so if I am required to use the GFDL-self, then why have the other options available for upload?
If that option is left on the upload page, some other clue needs to be given that an automatic speedy delete is forth-coming. I was trying very, very hard to properly create a page because the very first page I created here was tagged as a speedy delete. Even with what I thought was paranoid caution for my second page, something turns out to have been done incorrectly. Lucky me, a jerk managed to come in and sour my entire attitude about contributing. Oh, and for what it's worth, the guy has some serious inability to read the printed word and yet has the unmitigated gall to inform other people that something was explicit or could not be more clear.
I'll massage other people's text. I'll proof-read or fact-check, but I'm done trying to contribute any real work. TeraGram 06:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Why did you remove the wikilink? You said yourself that "See also" should be used for wikipedia links, and as clearly stated in my comment on the PETA talk page, it's wiki convention not to use external links when we can use an inline link. Jean-Philippe 01:20, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Bytebear,
I have noticed your persistent deletion of a portion of the text at Temple (Mormonism), along with your assertions that the text you are deleting is POV.
Please note that such deletion is inappropriate and outside the bounds of the WP:NPOV policy. Deleting material under the guise of POV is specifically addressed in the FAQ: Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ#Lack_of_neutrality_as_an_excuse_to_delete. Specifically, the FAQ also addresses articles on religion and notes that there are specific guidelines as to what these types of articles should contain.
Please discontinue deleting text from the article, and I suggest you read the WP:NPOV policy carefully before asserting accusations of POV in error. Reswobslc 00:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm curious what the academic value is of including death penalties overview in this article? Is it to show that the temple ceremonies have changed? Is it that the information is sensational? Not to compare, but I'm looking at the Freemasonry pages, and not only don't they discuss their ceremony, but they don't discuss similar oaths. Why do we go into so much detail here, when other, similarly compared "secretive" ceremonies aren't even on wikipedia? Just curious what the point is of including it here, when wikipedia has declined to do it elsewhere? Is it that relevant to the end reader? -Visorstuff 18:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
It would appear you have an agenda that prevents you from acknowledging facts when they are your own. It is unfortunate, but it is what we risk when building a public encyclopedia; we will have bright people that attempt promote neutral writing and then we will have people with private agendas that are not interested in quality writing or facts. Storm Rider (talk) 21:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Seems to me this material is POV and thus should be omitted, not to mention there are more appropriate places to present such information. 66.151.81.244 21:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
By the way you state :"WP admins will support me on this one - every religion from Buddhism to Catholicism has people that want to whitewash the articles or to present a non-historical view of the way things are today - which is against the goal of an encyclopedia and is why Wikipedia has a specific policy to address it."
I am an admin. Consensus and this policy declare that one err on the side of documentation, not hearsay, and that sacred things (regardless of religion) be treated with respect. I think that teh appropriate links policy would state that the Packham link would be hearsay. Especially with such incorrect information such as the following paragraph to the throat-slitting one:
" The church when I left had no family home evening, no three-hour block of meetings, no correlation committee, no "Strengthening the Members" committee, no Blacks (they were called "Negroes" then).
Either Packham left the church prior to 1900, or he loses credibility about his knowledge of the church with this sentence. Facts: In 1915 President Joseph F. Smith instituted "Home Evening" [4]. Formal organization of a Priesthood Correlation Program occurred in 1908, and the first black I know of that was baptized into the church took place in 1830 (Elijah Abel was baptized in 1831, and held the priesthood, as did his children and grandchildren until the priesthood was extended to all worthy men).
Now all of that is irrelevant aside from finding credible sources (the Tanners are probalby the best for this one). I believe that you treat these articles with respect (thank-you by the way), but I think this argument about this detail explores the question on how much detail do we want to go into on these articles. The rest of the article is quite general, this is one of the first "details" given - and as such makes it look like a major part of the endowment - which it is not. I look forward to hearing more on your thoughts above. -Visorstuff 23:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
In order to gain a consensus concerning the issue at anti-Mormon, would you please comment here? -- uriah923( talk) 04:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Good catch on using the userspace transclusion on the no longer operating temples. -- Trödel 04:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
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For your tireless efforts to improve The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints article. Lethargy 00:31, 14 October 2006 (UTC) |
The POV being pushed is strictly the POV of the LDS church ... we all know that early church leaders were arrested for various cirmes; that would be a good reason to move out of those jurisdictions. I will not sit by idly and allow the LDS church's POV to be used in these articles. Duke53 | Talk 22:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC) p.s If the baptism stuff is covered elsewhere I propose that the whole section be deleted.
It would help if you would explain your reasoning for adding a merge proposal with the Controversies page. Thanks, Storm Rider (talk) 23:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok. So my vote is: No "controveries" section within an individual article, but put the controverial info where it belonds within the article. Separate articles for each issue so they can be addressed fully. List article for each of the separate controveries. Get rid of the "Controveries" article. Bytebear 03:08, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and if you want to see a really POV article, check out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Bytebear 03:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm having trouble with one of the paragraphs. By the way, thanks a TON for the work on it. It looks great! The problem paragraph deals with the support groups that are not affiliated with the Church. The way it read originally, it seemed as if one might imply that they are supported by the Church, when in fact they are not. Here is the original paragraph:
"The Church's opposition to homosexuality has spawned support groups for gay men and women like Affirmation and Gamofites. More recently, a small liberal branch of Mormonism has been established calling itself Reform Mormonism."
I rewrote it like this:
"The Church's opposition to homosexual relations has resulted in the creation of multiple LDS-oriented support groups not affiliated with the Church. These groups include both those dedicated to affirming gay identity, such as Affirmation and Gamofites, as well as those dedicated to helping those who wish to change such as Evergreen International."
The main reason for the change is that if we include information on the pro-affirmation groups here, it seems a balance to include information on pro-change groups. I'm ok with that. My problem is that it seems to start getting too long in proportion to the rest of the section. The rest of the family section doesn't go into significant detail about other programs. Again, reference above where I talk about how these groups aren't affiliated with the Church. Hope I don't sound critical of you. I think you're doing a great job. You can respond on my talk page if you'd like. :) Sylverdin 19:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello! I saw your ideas for shortening the article and I like them. I apologize that I can't give you more feedback on all of them, but I have worked on the family section. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it, but it looks good to me. Concerning the family section, I have a hard time putting it under "culture." The LDS teachings on family are an essential part of the beliefs section. In fact, the whole subject of the Church's World Wide Leadership Training last year was the family. I renamed it simply "family" and put Eternal Marriage and the Proclamation at the beginning. I think we need to keep those parts. I'm unsure about the rest of the section, so I left it alone. Maybe take out the part on same-gender issues. Or make a new article about it. FHE seems to fit, but maybe could be shortened. :D Sylverdin 22:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Do not edit quotes! I don't know where that 'rule' you quoted ("You cannot annotate a quote with bold! Clearly POV. let the quote speak for itself") came from but I copied the quote I cited exactly the way it is written ... by changing it you have changed what the ORIGINAL author intended. If you revert it again I will be reporting your action to the admins. Duke53 | Talk 01:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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I agree. If it turns into a revert-war, we'll need to set up mediation; otherwise, it looks like it's devolved into weirdness and sexism ("Lady"?) rather than a discussion of sources or of policy. Which really isn't worth the time of anyone involved.
I appreciate your support. It felt a lot better to see someone else's name in there. -- Masamage 05:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I reorganized the lists of frameworks. In doing so, I overwrote your table that you created. I'll put the table back in a minute. Sorry.
Tell me if this sounds like a dumb idea. I'm thinking that since many of the tables are getting more complicated, screen real-estate is needed. I'm thinking of shortening the displayed urls from something like http://www.oracle.com/technology/consulting/9iservices/jheadstart.html down to www.oracle.com. Is that a good or bad idea? -- Wdflake 01:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been selected as the November Mormon collaboration of the month. I look forward to working with you on it. -- uriah923( talk) 21:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Bytebear, since there is no earlier version of Peter Pan than the 1924, I thought it's right to move it to (film), after naming conventions. That's a redirect page in need of cleaning. Is this a matter to discuss or ask administrators? It's no big deal for one film, but I find this problem more often with films. Hoverfish 00:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying this point. I had misunderstood the guidelines on this. Hoverfish 00:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
In case you don't see what I wrote on the talk page, I completely agree with you on the need to shorten The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints article. Here is what I wrote:
"I was about to say that the First principles and ordinances of the Gospel section be rewritten to be much shorter, but I see you beat me to it. I completely agree: this and the Plan of Salvation section need to be a lot less wordy, we should try to keep it as simple as possible and avoid deviating from what the sources state. I'm thinking we should use a sledgehammer rather than a chisel and completely rewrite these sections."
Not that I look forward to the task of rewriting this, but it is totally needed. -- Lethargy 23:11, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
no problem - you did a great job with that Infobox - the coding on that stuff requires concentration I usually don't get. I am on a crusade to make articles CJC's main article better like JS - and use proper sub articles -but it is difficult to know where to start. -- Trödel 03:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
dude - I love the maps - they rule! great job ! -- Trödel 13:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
the information in the software section you added is pointless. reading the top summary paragraph from the linked articles is enough. it's just pointless to add a bunch of information that doesn't need to be there. it's clutter. ColdFusion650 17:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Byte, could you look at the above article. In reading it I have found that it is basically the work of one editor that says he is a Mormon and a chaos magician. I am not too concerned about his personal interests, but I am concerned when he takes those interests and says that they are a significant interest within Mormonism. I would also encourage you to vote on the deletion vote. Thanks for your assistance. Storm Rider (talk) 23:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
For the Template, Columbus, OH and St. Louis are way out of place. (Columbus is in Missouri, St. Louis in Arkansas.) Naraht 09:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you left an extensive summary for your recent edit to Barbra Streisand and you took it from an article. The page is severely lacking references and it might be wise to mention this remark as a reference/note by adding:
<ref>name magazine, date / page, "Her Tony was a special "Star of the Decade" award. However, Streisand's Tony was honorary rather than one of the regular awards, so [it] is sometimes not counted"</ref>
Thanks for keeping an eye out on her page. It is quiet again, but there was some persistent vandalism on her page and nobody was watching her page. KittenKlub 08:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
love the new LA temple image -- Trödel
As a contributor to the different lists of temples, I was wondering if you could give some feedback concerning the addition several columns to the Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints page. thx
Also - I have created this temp page to list the differences in the parameters we are using - I think that we should try to use the same name for the same thing if we can. I am ok with your standard of dedication (instead of dedication_date). We also have discrepencies in how the parameters are passed. I require the person to put in the [ [, you don't and you do the image in a way that requires the "_" underscore character - See [User talk:Trödel/Snippets]] for a quick list of things I found. I am going to use hectares for the metric measurement of site size - rather than sq meters because it fits better in the column format. 1 hectare = 10,000 m2 or about 2.5 acres -- Trödel 22:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you tell me what purpose you plan on for this template? Would it be used on multiple pages? User:Zoe| (talk) 23:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I found this on another template:
{{!}} {{{height}}} ft ({{#expr: {{{height}}} * 0.3048 round 1 }} m) }}
I think we should use the same logic to convert feet to meters, so we can avoid two values. Other conversions should be done for acres, etc. Bytebear 22:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up on this article. I agree with your assesment and think the re-direct is appropriate. Vic sinclair 03:42, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
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Great work on Temple Architecture (Latter-day Saints) and the geograhic images. Keep it up! As I know the work can sometimes be thankless, I just wanted to say, "Thank you!" -- Trödel 17:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC) |
Hi, my name is Sean Wolfington and i am new to Wikipedia. When i found that i had a page on the site i added truthful facts from my bio with out the intent of creating a "vanity" article. I did add content to other people's articles that linked to a film we made and now i know that is not allowed - i am sorry. I just read the "spamming" link you added to my page and now i realize that what i did was not right.
This excerpt explains what happened to me: "Some people spam Wikipedia without meaning to. That is, they do things which Wikipedians consider to be spamming, without realizing that their actions are not in line with building an encyclopedia. A new editor who owns a business may see that there are articles about other businesses on Wikipedia, and conclude that it would be appropriate to create his own such article. A Web site operator may see many places in Wikipedia where his or her site would be relevant, and quickly add several dozen links to it."
If you can i would appreciate your advise on what to do to avoid creating problems in the future. Thank You. Sean.
PS: I noticed that you write alot about LDS . We are screening our film, "Bella", to LDS leaders in Salt Lake City including Larry H Miller. I know this not relevant to my article but i want you to know that the film is legit and the reviews are real. The movie is beautiful and we hope it makes a positive impact on the world. I hope you get a chance to see it when it comes out.
I did not create the article, nor did my mother, close freind or relative. As i mentioned above... after i found the article written about me i added the information about the film. I did not realize that it was not allowed to add that information. I will remove it. Thanks for responding. Have a nice holiday. Sean.
I have been working on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement/Temples and have implemented the single data location for the Salt Lake Temple ( data) and the Los Angeles California Temple ( data). These both use an updated Infobox - see {{ Infobox LDS Temple}}, which implements the parameter naming standards as described in the WikiProject page. I plan to implement on the first 10 temples, but thought you might have some feedback on the style. I will be creating the list templates, hopefully, over the weekend and implementing them as well for the first 10 templates.
Also please let me know if the instructions are too technical. TIA -- Trödel 04:08, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I was disappointed to learn recently that you are taking credit for creating the floor plans of the Nauvoo Temple that I created some six years ago for my webpage on the Nauvoo Temple. Here is the link to the menu page of the original drawings on my Nauvoo Temple site for comparison. Clearly, you have simply copied my drawings, made a few minor changes, and then claimed them as your own, even posting them on the Wikipedia article Nauvoo Temple as the copyright owner. If you would have contacted me I would have gladly given you permission to use them, but now as the actual copyright owner I must ask you to remove them from this page, from the Nauvoo Temple page, as well as from any other Internet page where you may have used them.
Bytebear, on reflection I have decided to request that, rather than asking you to remove your drawings, you simply give me credit as the original source for them: something like, "This drawing is based on an original located at Nauvoo Temple, used with permission of copyright holder" in the copyright statement. I'm not really opposed to you using them, if you simply give me due credit.
Thank you. Upon rereading the above I find that I was unnecessarily harsh. Forgive me. I would point out that the drawings were based on my research some years ago, and with current knowledge (especially since the reconstruction of the Temple) I would draw some of them differently today, especially the fore attic area and the first floor. A good resource would be Don Colvin's Nauvoo Temple. Still, the drawings (both mine and yours) are good approximations. Best of luck!
Thanks for responding to my note. The issue on the article was partially resolved on Dec 24th but the notice you added to the article still remains on the article about me. The notice you added says "This article or section reads like an advertisement". I removed the reviews of the movie i made that i had added. Would it be possible for you to remove that notice? Thanks for taking the time to read this. Have a nice holiday. Sean.
Thank you for your input and thank you for your advice. Have a great new year. Seanwolfington 04:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
no problem - I have set up a page for monitoring the temple pages only as I am ignoring my watchlist for now - see Special:Recentchangeslinked/User_talk:Trödel/Task2. I am planning to use regex to convert all the data at the comparison list to the new format and then just copy and paste it in. -- Trödel 14:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Bytebear, you've done a great job with your solution to the fighting over the Disney templates — it is signs of a great mediator! ★MESSED ROCKER★ 00:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
You seem to be levelheaded and grasp the big picture. I am new to the wikipedian community (my reason for joining is here User:OfForByThePeople). You seem to be doing an excellent job at operating in a system dominated by partisan extremists representing various ideologies. Would you please take a look at my reasoning here Talk:Fox_News_Channel#Intro. I made a total of 3 entries. Thanks for looking out! ( OfForByThePeople 04:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
Thank you for your timely response. When people word things in a suggestive manner for one article, and then are unwilling to support using the same suggestive manner for the articles of opposition is wrong. Subconsious manipulation is just plain wrong. This is a very big flaw with Wikipedia which is being ignored. Feelings do not make facts. Thank you for looking out! ( OfForByThePeople 05:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
Please take a look at my revision to the introduction of the article. I believe we call all agree that this is fair. Thanks for looking out. ( OfForByThePeople 06:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
The various lists and maps you have made for the temples look nice and seem to have required a lot of work, congratulations on that. I do have one concern however with the methodology of wholesale adding an interactive map and a regional list to each individual temple page. While I can understand some benefit in having a map indicating the location of a temple on a map for each page, having the large map with links along with an entire list of links to other regional temples in each page seems to be a little unwieldy at best, as the maps are quite large and the lists can take up a lot of space. They seem well suited to the "List of Temples" articles, but on each page seem a bit cumbersome.
I am hesitant about running through all the articles and deleting them in spite of my opinion without asking you first (as it was your work and effort to include them in each article), as well I wish there were some way of getting some consensus on the subject without spamming the talk page of each article. Any ideas?
Thank you again for the creation of the maps, though, it's a job well done. Arkyan 09:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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I think you might want to re-craft your joke about surrendering to irrationality. Someone might get the impression that you mean it. — Mark ( Mkmcconn) ** 01:18, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Bytebear: Do you have an email address I could contact you at. I would like to talk to you about your programming skills, which isn't really proper for a wikipedia talk page. Thanks! Phefner 05:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I just found that and sent it to you. Phefner 06:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Dude, I promised in my edit summary that I would explain on the template talk page, and in fact I have already done so. Give me 5 minutes to collect my thought and write them up! AnonMoos 07:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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Top 10 Largest Highly International Religious Bodies These are religious bodies in which at least 30% of their world membership live outside the "core country" (country with the largest number of members). Religious Body Number of Adherents Catholic Church 1,100,000,000 Sunni Islam 875,000,000 Eastern Orthodox Church 225,000,000 Anglican Communion* 77,000,000 Assemblies of God 50,000,000 Seventh-day Adventists 16,811,519 Jehovah's Witnesses 15,597,746 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 12,275,822 New Apostolic Church 10,260,000 Ahmadiyya 10,000,000 Bahai World Faith 6,000,000
Greatest Historical Religious Figures
(Steven A. DeVore and Richard Linford, InteliQuest Learning Systems; URL:
http://www.4iq.com/people1.htm#list)
(Listed chronologically)
* Abraham * Moses * Lao-tzu * Buddha * Confucius * Jesus Christ * Apostle Paul * Saint Augustine * Muhammad * Thomas Aquinas * Martin Luther * John Calvin * Joseph Smith * Gandhi
Henry and Dana Thomas Great Religious Leaders List Jesus Christianity Moses Jewish prophet Isaiah Jewish prophet Zoroaster founder of Zoroastrianism Buddha founder of Buddhism Confucius founder of Confucianism John the Baptist prophet and contemporary of Jesus Christ St. Paul Christianity Mohammed Prophet of Islam St. Francis of Assisi early Christian theologian John Huss Bohemian Christian reformer; founder of Czech Hussites Martin Luther primary founder of Protestantism Loyola theologian and founder of Jesuits Calvin founder of Calvinist branch of Protestantism George Fox founder of Quakers John Wesley founder of Methodist movement Swedenborg founder of Swedenborgianism Brigham Young 2nd prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science Gandhi Hindu reformer and Indian political leader; mother was a Jain
Greg Bear's List of History's Major Prophets
* Zarathustra (Zoroaster) * Jesus * Mohammed * Shabbetai Tzevi * Al Mahdi * Joseph Smith * Brigham Young
Time Magazine's Person of the Century Poll Elvis Presley 624,574 Yitzhak Rabin 599,557 Adolf Hitler 516,408 Billy Graham 470,477 Albert Einstein 443,630 Martin Luther King Jr. 381,462 Pope John Paul II 372,015 Gordon B. Hinckley* 255,026 Mohandas Gandhi 163,940 Ronald Reagan 81,262
Famous Contemporary Religious Leaders
Special "Millennium Month" Christmas Eve and New Years Eve Guests On the Larry King Show (CNN), December 1999
GO Network's "Famous Religious Leaders and Figures" Leaders listed on the GO Network web portal's Religious Leaders and Figures directory page (as of 21 March 2000; URL: http://www.go.com/WebDir/People/Famous_people/Religious_leaders_and_figures):
* Dalai Lama * Louis Farrakhan * Pope John Paul II * Mary Baker Eddy * * Billy Graham * Jerry Falwell * Mother Teresa *
The only two lists that don't include Smith, Young, Eddy or Hinkley are polls done by Christian pastors or ministers:
Some Major American Protestant Leaders (Bynum) As listed by Pastor E. L. Bynum, Tabernacle Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas.
Some Major Christian Leaders and Writers (MisterPoll) List of individuals from the "Christianity Poll," done by Mister Poll ( http://www.misterpoll.com/3611932490.html):
Most Ubiquitous Religious Bodies: The religious bodies on this list which are most likely to have a church, mosque, or congregation near you (in most countries in the world) are:
* Catholic Church * Sunni Islam * Baha'i Faith * Jehovah's Witnesses * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Seventh-day Adventists
Is this enough evidence for you?
Bytebear 02:06, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Your temple map of the western United States places the Billings Montana Temple in Thermopolis Wyoming. The worldwide map also places it there. Just thought you'd like to know to correct the error. Great maps, by the way. Thanks for your work! Novel-Technology 13:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
I have corrected the Template map of the Western US for you, to have Billings in Billings(or at least pretty close). The World LDS Temples graphic is still incorrect. Novel-Technology 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Would you please respond back to my e-mail...it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 17:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Please respond on my talk page. OfForByThePeople
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The pentagram is a rather minor symbol in the global history of Christianity (and is usually called a "pentalpha" in that context), and your edits led to discussion of detailed tangential issues of occultism etc. which have no real place in such a broad general overview article. That material could have a place on Wikipedia, but not in the Christian Symbolism article... AnonMoos 22:13, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Dude, you're displaying the same uncooperative behavior which so conspicuously previously turned a minor editing dispute on "Template:Christianity" into an pointless unnecessary semi-major foofaraw broo-ha-ha (as seen directly above on this page). Please don't place "POV vandalism" accusations in the edit summaries when you're already aware that it isn't any such thing. The material on Christian uses of the "pentalpha" is welcome on the Pentagram article, but it has no place in the Christian symbolism article, unless you can make some argument for its broad relevance of the whole topic of Christian symbolism over the global history of Christianity -- something which you don't seem to have even attempted to do, so far... AnonMoos
I don't know what your dispute is about nor on which side of it I am, but I do notice it's got a bit too heated at points. Just hold your right arm over your left and say to yourself "Calm, calm, calm" (works for me). Sam Blacketer 00:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
I have placed some questions on the talk page of this template you created. Can you please join me for a discussion there? Thanks in advance. -- Robbie Giles 23:34, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
You are never going to come to any sastifactory conclusion by arguing the merit of undue weight across articles, not only that but you may even run into situations where the same editor will support the inclusion of some criticism on one article, and adamently reject the criticism on another article even when the context is exactly the same. They will even justify their actions by stating that you can't use another article's content for justification. This is not to say I don't agree with you, because I do. There is a far amount of hypocrisy with some editors on WP when it comes to controversal articles. I would rather emplore that you recognize that the undue weight is specific within the article itself under "positions of minority viewpoints" (this is NOT viewpoints of editors, but viewpoints of sources and references), of which in this case there are almost none. That and the self-referential nature of this issue should be enough for it to either be removed completely or greately reduced (as I have done a couple of times). Arzel 19:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Regarding the rename of "Doctor" Philastus Hurlbut's page, the man's given name actually was "Doctor," which has always caused confusion (this isn't mentioned in the stub article, but it is footnoted in the Mormonism Unvailed article...not yet referenced to a source). Hurlbut wasn't really a doctor at all. There are references to support this, but I'll have to look them up. However, the title of the article will obviously continue to cause confusion if we move it back to "Doctor Philastus Hurlbut." Perhaps we should move it to "D. Philastus Hurlbut?" Bochica 14:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello Byte, I appreciate your work on the Christianity article. I would encourage you to tread light with User:AJA; he is a good fellow, but he is extremely prickly when it comes to all things having to do with the LDS church. I my many interactions with him, I have consistently run into problems if the edit has to do even remotely with Mormonism. I have found discussion to be of little help; he has an obvious opinion and he is not interested in "your" (in the collective sense) opinion or position. What has worked best for me is when interaction is required, be direct concise, even blunt, and then move on. Eventually other editors will jump in an give an opinion and lead to a solution. Cheers. -- Storm Rider (talk) 22:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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Re: our recent back-and-forths, I hope nothing I've said has offended you and I apologize if it has. I can get overly rhetorical sometimes and it may come across as a personal attack, but I do not intend that. I do understand your position more fully now and I'm glad you've provided some suggestions for discussion. Though I support the current (Mormon) / (Latter Day Saints) methodology, I will be OK with whatever the consensus is to your proposals on the MOS page. I'll back off there and let others comment. :) Rich Uncle Skeleton (talk) 03:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
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In the Soarin' Over California article, the Redwood Creek leads to a disambig page Redwood Creek. Would you please fix the Redwood Creek link in the Soarin' Over California to the correct Redwood Creek? Thanks. -- Jreferee t/ c 00:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
You recently commented on this image in IfD which I put up for deletion review because it was deleted after a its first "delete" vote: the vote of the administrator who deleted it. I felt consensus took a back seat to that administrator's personal bias. You might or might not agree, in any case take a look. Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_October_30#Image:Manti-1999.jpg Thanks Reswobslc 13:14, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry for tagging the revert of your edit as vandalism, I hit the wrong rollback link. However, please see the talk page and join in the discussion concerning the removal of the links rather than simply reverting as they were removed per WP:EL guidelines. -- Collectonian ( talk) 17:51, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
There never has been. The question is, "is there any reason not to include the image in the article?" The answer is, "no". It's that simple. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 13:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi Byte. I looked on your user page after I replied on the Christianity talk page and I wanted to ask you something. Are you Mormon, or just very interested in the Mormon church? I'm just curious cause I thought that Mormons did actually believe in three separate Gods, as the other user charged against all Christians. I just wanted to clear up my understanding of that. Thanks! Carl.bunderson ( talk) 20:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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Ok - a few points here, too. You are revert-warring on the above article. One more revert on that page and your account gets blocked for a period of time. What you're doing now is disruptive and needs to stop. I appreciate your reporting this to WP:RPP but this is largely a content dispute here. The other editor will receive a similar warning. Stop now - Alison ❤ 06:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I agree with your last comment in the RfC on the Bill O'Reilly article. However, it appears that our position is not the policy of the project. I think there is an assumption that only significant notable events would be written into articles, so a policy stating that was never established. I'd be willing to assist in starting a process to see if WP:NOTE can be expanded to cover article content as well. But in the meantime, we really don't have a leg to stand on to keep additions like this out of the article. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 22:05, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Bytebear,
I reworked/reinserted the sentence that you removed at Holy of Holies (LDS Church). While a Holy of Holies at the Manti and SL Temples can be verified, talk of a Holy of Holies at other locations (such as DC) is apocryphal at best. I'd love for you to prove me wrong with something solid.
All the best, -- Rojerts ( talk) 23:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Please reply on my talk page. I re-reverted, comment clearly not made with the intention to improve the article. Removal on the basis of wp:talk. Thanks -- Ļıßζېấשּׂ~ۘ Ώƒ ﻚĢęخ ( talk) 00:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
My comment about the Strangites on Talk:Gordon B. Hinckley was meant as a joke, though it may not have come out that way. Ha, ha. My condolences at your church's loss (I assume you are LDS?). Is it quite devastating for church members when the president dies or does everybody pretty much take it in stride? I wasn't into LDS issues as much when the last president died, so I'm not too familiar with the popular reaction. Snocrates 04:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Less POV? Suggesting that "the main reason . . ." as stated is propaganda. I tried to make the edit fair, but reflective of the fact that only Mormons consider themselves to be Christians. That is a fact, not a point of view. I'll repost and let you have a chance to reflect before you change. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tapols ( talk • contribs) 00:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Since I'm not a wiki expert, I didn't quite know how to respond so you'd see this. So, sorry for the duplicate from my page:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Isn't it interesting, Byte, that you can make/support assertions such as "This is primarily due to the fact that adherents to Mormonism claim that the movement is a restoration of the earliest Christian and Judaic doctrines" and yet don't feel the need to support YOUR statements with evidence, except that "we say so." The issue of whether Mormons (you?) claim to be Christian isn't an issue in my edits. The FACT is that Orthodox and Protestant churches DO NOT accept that Mormonism is a "denomination," rather that it is a completely different belief system. Mormons do not accept the Trinity as a core belief. It is exactly that CORE that unites Orthodox and Protestant DENOMINATIONS and precisely why they do NOT accept Mormonism as related.
It's not my POV, it is a fact. Whether or not 52% of "Christians" surveyed think so or not is equivalent to saying "52% of Mormons believe Polygamy is OK and should practice it," and then expecting the LDS leadership to say, "OK, fine. We'll do that then." That's not how it works, and you know it. Nor does asserting that "This is primarily due to the fact that adherents to Mormonism claim that the movement is a restoration of the earliest Christian and Judaic doctrines" accurately describe the FACT that traditional Christian churches -- from the LEADERSHIP OF THEM -- do not accept any relationship, spiritually, with the LDS church.
Before you start just deciding that someone is wrong on FACT, consider your own POV and the propaganda you're offering. I have tried to be fair with my statements to reflect FACT, not spun according to an effort to mainstream something that cannot and will not be mainstreamed because of core disagreement.
I am happy to review the other page as you have suggested, however I am really not interested in debating you on it -- simply trying to have the facts reflected in a public forum. The thing that is really dismaying is that there seems to be an organized effort to "protect" the language on a public page that clearly reflects a bias. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tapols ( talk • contribs) 00:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
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While I agree with you, you do realize you do realize that your logic falls mostly on deaf ears. The current standard, which seems to repeat itself over and over, is as such. Controversal subject makes some statement that MM finds objectable on some level. MM transcribes the comment and pushes it out into the media hoping that someone else will comment on the issue. Often KO will repeat the issue which then garners additional commentary. Of course since the original comments by MM have already been presented to their biased point of view, the additional commentary is also presented with the same bias, and even when what MM says is refuted by presenting the original comments in their proper context, the issue still remains because it has now reached notability standards that some apply, and MM still gets to present their pov (even if it isn't directly linked to them anymore).
The end result is that MM gets their pov presented either way because of the way this system is gamed, and since organizations like MM use a shotgun approach (publish everything in hopes that something sticks) it is inevitable that something does stick, even if the actual controversal statements are so short lived in main stream media as to be forgotten by most in a short period of time. And what are we left with here? The extremes presented as a neutral view of the person and their actions, and it is all backed up by WP policy, and if you try to use wp policy, you are accused of policy shopping, as I see you have already been accused. The only real solution to this core problem, that I have found, is to present as much information regarding the original comments so that the reader can see the entire context of the senario, unfortunately it usually ends up as a bloated section describing a minor situation which is an extremely minor aspect of the subject being discussed, as I am sure you have seen. Arzel ( talk) 04:56, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear, I appreciate your efforts on the Spider Solitaire page to keep the 2 to 4 external links on the page. As stated and discussed there, they are clearly within the WP:EL guidelines and are useful to the Wikipedia readers. However I'd like to ask for your help in restoring these valid links on other Solitaire pages. User 2005 has also been removing these valid links on a few other Solitaire pages, despite objections. I have suggested these links be restored on the Talk:Pyramid (solitaire) page. I would really appreciate it if you could visit that page and voice your comments there as well as perhaps restoring the links that are indeed valid.
Thanks. Sembiance ( talk) 13:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I saw your name at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. I just spent the past few days moving all the California photo requests into County categories to make it easier for photographers to locate requests in the locations where they take photos. Please consider monitoring and adding your name to the list at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Los Angeles County, California as well as the other counties in So. Cal. GregManninLB ( talk) 21:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
You have suggested, ""Fox News Channel has a reputation for being conservative. Whether this label is warranted is continually under dispute," and a few people have agreed. However, why be so intentionally vague about what the other sourced POV is? To say the accusation that Fox is conservatively biased is "under dispute" could mean anything from 'others believe Fox News coverage is balanced' to 'others believe Fox News coverage is liberal', and we can't assume the reader has any familiarity with Fox. The sources report specifically on Fox News being seen as balanced or centrist by independent statistical observers, average news watchers, and politicians (even liberal democrats). I don't understand why we should be vague about exactly what the other POV is, especially since the critical POV is explicitly stated.
I think we're very close to a large majority consensus on finally fixing the wording in the lead to theNobleSith's suggestion, "Some observers of the channel say that Fox News promotes conservative political positions,[3][4] while others profess that Fox News engages in politically balanced news reporting. [5][6][8] FNC denies allegations of bias in its reporting.[10]" If we could come to agree on that I think it would pretty much seal a large majority and end this dispute for good. Jsn9333 ( talk) 18:51, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
I wasn't sure at first about this template, but a few of these articles need some help to become npov. I thought shining a light on them might help make that happen. I'm open to other suggestions though. -- TrustTruth ( talk) 14:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
Certainly did not include you. Though I think your misstatements and misrepresentations are calculated, I do not believe you troll. Sorry if you felt caught in the crossfire; I will say so publicly if you wish. Thanks. / Blaxthos ( t / c ) 01:46, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
In case you were unaware, usually we don't call the person provoked into explaining the same point over and over by an editor who clearly understands it and choses to reply as if they don't with what amounts to nonsense, a troll. Its usually the provoking editor who has nothing of substance to add or no real question to pose who is considered so. Of course, like I said on my talk page, you are welcome to your opinion. Just to clarify, however, I didn't call any editor a troll on the entry talk page, I simply said I didn't want to feed him anymore. I should also add that it is impolite to warn someone against making personal attacks when none have been made to date. Cheers. PelleSmith ( talk) 17:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I know this is a month late, and I am glad things have gotten a lot smoother (for everyone!), but please avoid canvassing to try and influence consensus. I hope this doesn't offend or otherwise stir up more drama; it's only intended as a friendly reminder. Thanks. / Blaxthos ( t / c ) 02:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello Bytebear. Blaxthos is pushing his Liberal POV into the introduction to FoxNews. I have removed the POV bias. It is not relevant to the article's opening paragraph. Please respond on the FoxNews talk page 24.27.151.226 ( talk) 07:28, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
In response to your somewhat irritating note -- My mantra: Almost every good faith edit is valuable. Research, verify, rewrite --------------- but don't delete! I have been around the LDS project/articles for a long time. You can check the quality of my edits there and in other places. I generally will not remove good faith edits -- but I may move them, modify them, verify them, and correct them. I will, more than likely, revert when I see others delete without making similar efforts. As for this one ------ "king" is accurate in several senses, even though there are errors in this wording. JSmith had recently announced the priesthood concept of an "eternal kingship" and the oppposition newspaper took full advantage of the related political fallout. I agree that the topic is better covered in other articles -- but in my opinion there is no reason that a condensation of the edit, even a sentence, could not have been retained. WBardwin ( talk) 02:42, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Good work on Disneyland Park (Anaheim) to avoid the need for a {{fact}} tag... :) Tiggerjay ( talk) 02:40, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Bytebear. I saw your recent edit and wondered if it was appropriate, given that the main article has avoided expounding on Presley's many different spiritual explorations, because it would make the article very long. It now gives undue weight to Mormonism. It would be better too if a neutral reliable source could be cited to back up the claims, but I cannot find a mention in the mainstream biogs, like Guralnick, Hopkins, etc. Maybe this would be worth discussing on the Elvis talkpage? Rikstar ( talk) 08:57, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Seems someone is trying to do a piece on Porter Barry, producer of The O'Reilly Factor of FOX news. Please look at the Porter Barry Wikipedia article. Thanks. Bebestbe ( talk) 16:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
It is just as much the other memberss fault for my losing my "cool" on the topic as it is my own fault. The people pushed me until I blew up. But of course, secular websites would not recognize that.
Quote from someone I discussed this with...
Q: Are they not just as much at fault for my yelling/cursing as I am? Because I couldn't control myself, I know I am worse than they, but are they not also at fault because they pushed me until I go so upset?
A: While I agree with you on this, this is not the way the mods will see it, wherever you are posting or having this debate. They will only see you as highly "reactive" to their "innocent" questions.
Q: How should I react when I see Mormons telling people things like that? (that Mormonism is Christian according to seculars and Mormons) A: It's part of the Mormons' new PR campaign--claiming to be Christian so people won't realize just how weird they are. Of course, Mormons aren't Christians. And, if they tell this lie to others in your presence, you should consider speaking up (after first talking with your spiritual father about this--since getting into arguments, even over truth, might well be detrimental to your spiritual life.) The fact that all their support comes from themselves and the easily confused secular world is quite telling.
I'm very aware of Mormons, there are many of them where I live, and there are many of their "Holy Sites" as well... I know good Mormons that would never try to classify themselves as Christians because they realize the fact that more than 90% of Christians regard them as non-Christian. And some of them are even RLDS.
I gave up simply because it is much better for me to quit arguing with people that refuse to listen to reason and facts. Mormons are not Christian, and are polytheists. Not only this, but they also have nothing in common with our Lord and God Jesus Christ or his teachings. As one advised me to say... Talk to the Creed because the hand ain't listening... (joke) -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Nine Ways of Participating in Another's Sin: By Counsel; By Command; By Consent; By Provocation; By praise or flattery; By concealement; By partaking; By silence; By defense of the sin committed.
Yes I do know about Mormonism, as we have a book of Mormon, and i've read plenty about their theology. It doesn't really matter what many lax and modern Mormons believe, just as it doesn't really matter what many modern and lax Christians believe as they don't often have enough theological knowledge to know the facts about their faith. (it isn't that they are bad, they just don't know enough) Mormons believe in Jesus as a created being that is a god, and they believe in the Father as the God but who procreated with Mary to create Jesus. They also believe that humans can become gods themselves, sometimes they go as far as to say we become gods of planets. Mormons reject scripture and claim to have a new revelation and a restoration of what was true. This is exactly the same as Islam with rejects scripture and claims it's scripture is better, more accurate and a revelation/restoration. To be Christian, you HAVE to accept the Gospel, Epistles as well as the Old Testament Scriptures. Mormons believe in several places Christ could return to, whereas we know from scripture that place will be Jerusalem, and not Independence, Salt Lake City or any other location. In the course of the day, I could easily go to your Garden of Eden, your former one mile square town, your leader's jail, one of the temple returning sites of Christ... Etc... (yet we know the Garden no longer exists, and Christ will return to Jerusalem according to the scriptures) Mormons also believe/accept polygamy even if they don't always practice it.
I could go on and on. I know plenty about Mormonism, as I've said, there are Mormons all over the area where I live. Most aren't strict Mormons that accept original beliefs. But the fact remains that original Mormonism and actual Mormonism teaches these thing. According to yourselves, since Smith had this new revelation and is more correct, then none of you should have ever diverted from his teachings.
I must also mention that Mormonism cannot be heretical, because in Christianity, in order to be heretical, you have to be Christian to begin with, and Mormons are not considered Christian by Christians themselves.
Also, Mormonism is traditionally classified as a cult, not because it came from Christianity (which it didn't), but because of this:
Additionally, a "cult" is defined by group behaviour: a. mind control b. "new" revelation which no one is allowed to question c. isolation of members d. non-historical beliefs and practices that seemingly appear out of nowhere e. "magical" thinking ...the list goes on....From a secular point of view, Mormonism is defined as a cult for these reasons. Secularists could care less about what the Mormons teach theologically. They care about the mind-control, the isolation of members, the forced "polygamy" in some cases, etc....
Also, this is addressing the original discussion about Baptists, Catholics, etc... Because some person (who obviously doesn't know much about Christianity) claimed that Baptists believe Catholics to be a cult or heretics.
Their logic here is faulty at best. Firstly, no one ever argues that Catholicism is a cult, because : a) Catholicism has a verifiable, historical claim to Christian, Apostolic origins b) Catholicism doesn't have the ear marks of a cult, i.e. secret handshakes, charismatic qualities, and frankly, weird and untenable rituals that have no basis in Christian theology.
From the (Eastern) Orthodox point of view, Baptists are not a cult because they don't have any weird rituals and mind-control either, but they are also Trinitarians. We view them as being in error, and as being separated from us at best. But we do not go around calling Baptists heretics because a) they are Trinitarian b) Protestantism is a reaction to Roman Catholicism . The Baptist movement came about due to some legitimate feelings/reactions against Catholic abuse, not because someone had a "new" revelation about the "restored" gospel c) Baptists do not claim to be the "one true" Church founded by Jesus Christ
I know about Mormonism, and so do the Christians around me. Mormonism is not a part of Christianity, not even a part of non-trinitarian Christianity because of it's beliefs other than just about the Trinity. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 11:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear... Mormons believe that the Garden of Eden and where Cain slew Able is somewhere in Northern Missouri. Some Mormons ALSO believe that Jesus will return at the RLDS Temple in Independence, Some believe he will return at the temple at Far West, and some believe he will return at Salt Lake City. I've heard this even from practicing Mormons.
It sounds a lot like we have the potential to be like God. If you want to call it salvation, fine, but don't shortchange your potential.
You don't understand the Christian teaching/belief of theosis: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Theosis
Mormonism is not and never was a product of Christianity, not even Protestantism. Joseph Smith was not a Christian, be borrowed his beliefs from Christians, Muslims, Jews as well as popular Occult at the time, including some Masons. Smith was NOT inspired and never spoke with an angel, rather it was Satan or one of his minions, also as in the case of Mohammad.
Mormons cannot possibly be heretics or even a Christian cult because it didn't come from Christianity.
Even the beliefs you list cannot be Christian because they contradict even the most basic teachings of Christianity. Why do you even believe to be Christians when we were not called Christians until they named us such at Antioch? How can you possibly accept a title given to a people belonging to a Church that STILL EXISTS TODAY? http://www.antiochpat.org/ http://www.antiochian.org/ http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Antioch
I'm sorry, but I believe in the One holy catholic (universal) and apostolic Church. There is no other. It is the church that was preserved the Apostolic Teachings and the Apostolic Tradition. The Churches of Jerusalem, Constantinople, Antioch and Alexandria are all still a part of it even though Rome split off 1000 years ago. (to form the Roman Catholic Church)
Christianity is not some idea or some vague, grey belief that anyone can claim. It is a RELIGION in which, you actually have to be a part of and have to accept it's basic beliefs.
According to your own beliefs and theology, Mormons should NEVER even desire to be considered Christians since all Christians have departed from the truth. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 20:56, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
I do not ignore Christianity between 100 AD and 400 AD, I uphold it, as the Orthodox Church upholds it. Orthodox always read from Early Christian fathers. I think you need to read some of:
St.
Justin Martyr (100-165):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.i.html (You can look through them w/ the table at the left)
Pope Clement I of Rome (Pope from 88-90 AD, he knew St. Peter):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ii.i.html
St.
Polycarp (69-155 AD, actually a disciple of St. John):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.iv.i.html
St.
Ignatius of Antioch (35-110 AD, another disciple of St. John):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.v.i.html
St.
Irenaeus (2nd Cent. - 202 AD):
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.i.html
Do not also forget the Church fathers from the 2nd Century up to 325: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf02.i.html
Orthodox frequently often these Early Church Fathers and their writings. Orthodox see them as affirming the traditions and beliefs of the Apostles, and their teachings ARE consistent with those of the Councils and after the Councils. Orthodoxy takes the writings of ALL Saints and Church Fathers TOGETHER and never accept beliefs in the writings if they contradict the majority of other writings. (St. Augustine is used in the context and compared to other Saints, unlike in the West where he is looked at in near isolation from other writings)
Ever since Pentecost and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Christians have been ONE in belief, doctrine, tradition and practice. If you read the New Testament, you will always notice that Christ and the Apostles speak AGAINST heretics and false doctrines of people who believe in Christ but don't believe as they should. Read Revelation, John HIMSELF speaks against the Nicolaitans. -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Bytebear... From 33 AD to 324 AD, the Popes didn't and couldn't ever burn ANYONE at the stake, as the Roman Empire was too busy killing Christians themselves and Christians were still underground and was still a group of believers being martyred. You also forget that the Pope was not the singular figure in Christendom EVER. From the first Pope up until the Great Schism, the Pope was one Patriarch among 4 others. All Patriarchs were EQUAL and had equal authority and could not step in and effect one another's jurisdictions or decisions. All decisions were made by agreement between the Patriarchs as well as local Bishops. [/br] Also, even in 400 AD, you didn't have Eastern and Western Branches, you didn't have those until the Great Schism in 1054 AD (which was finalized in the 1200s with the sack of Constantinople during the Crusades). Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Jerusalem all were their own jurisdictions, but were all united.
Of course, if we look at how Orthodox Christianity was spread to the world, it was anything but Christlike. Sorry, but I simply cannot believe that God and Christ set up the system of violence and torture that follows Orthodoxy.
Orthodoxy was spread through peace, martyrdom and preaching of the Gospel. You didn't have any forced conversions. The main violence that occurred was inflicted by the Byzantine Empire, however most of the time when it did these things, it was condemned by the Church. Once the Emperor was even physically denied entrance to the service by a Patriarch after he had thousands of people killed.
Here are a few instances of inquisition by the Orthodox Church on others: Old Believers after their schism from the Church Jews around the same time as above (until Tsar Nicholas ended the persecutions) Emperor Justinian had 30,000 people killed for opposing his power (however he was the Emperor of Byzantium, not a ruler of the Church) Theodosius I killed homosexuals and others, and he was the one who was barred entry into the service by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Persecution of those who rejected Chalcedon And yes we know Constantine did bad things and killed many... However he was baptised just before death, so they have no eternal bearing.
Remember, King David shed A LOT of blood and kept repenting for it. Yet we honor him as one of the greatest.
You seem to be equating "Catholic" with "Orthodox". However, Roman Catholic is in fact very different from Eastern Orthodox. The Eastern Orthodox Church IS the original Church. Roman Catholics split off from the Eastern Orthodox with the Great Schism.
The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is NOT a church of superheroes. It is a Church of sinners and hypocrites. It is the hospital for those that are sick of the soul AND body.
It ALSO remains to be the closest to Ancient Christianity as well as Judaism prior to the birth of Christ. You forget that historically the Churches worship was Liturgical, we see this in the Epistles as well as Revelation.
I'm not trying to convince you, nor do I care to convince you. You clearly are being taught this by others in your own faith even though it contradicts even secular records of history. Also keep in mind, you did not win this, and neither did I. We just simply have to agree to disagree. I simply have just been wasting time discussing this when I ought to be spending more time speaking to Eastern Orthodox Christians and focusing on continuing to try and do more than the Saints did, because I'm so much worse than them, that I will never be done repenting... -- KCMODevin ( talk) 01:14, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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Why is YouTube not note worthy? The link showed well-established and recognised (although amateur) political commentator and an actual video clip from fox news where anyone checking the reference can watch the clip to verify the contents of the Wikipedia page edit. If an actual video clip from Fox news is not note worthy, then I don't know what is. Are you a supporter of Fox News? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.139.218.241 ( talk) 19:42, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
These questions may all be answered in those links you provided, but quite frankly Ive got better things to do than research, discuss and type up things about Faux News. I'm not from the USA, but in the last couple of weeks I have discovered what a propaganda machine Faux News is, and I was hoping that my 5 cents may be able to help even up the score a little. God forbid that the the Fox News-supported ticket ("You're fired!", "Dinosaurs were around 5000 years ago", "You can see Russia from my house", "I don't know the names of any newspapers or supreme court cases", "Its all about job creation", "You were raped but you have to pay for your own evidence kit and can't have an abortion") wins the election. Not sure on your background but with the wikipedia pages that you have been editing I hope that this crazy woman is not behind your motivation for saying that I have drawn my own conclusions within my edit, when I clearly did not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.139.218.241 ( talk) 19:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
As a significant contributor to the List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region page, I wanted to be sure you knew that I've implemented a version of this page using the data templates that are used for the other temple lists/pages at User:Trödel/Sandbox3. I plan to replace the current geographic list with this change later this week. -- Trödel 01:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Are you LDS? I am an RM, who is atheist now. Inclusionist ( talk) 19:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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What you revolutionarily suggested. Inclusionist ( talk) 19:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
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It was worth it. I made my point. Bytebear ( talk) 19:27, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
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Let's settle this here instead of filling the article to the brim. Soxwon ( talk) 23:39, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
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It has reached the point on the Obama talk page that arguments just need to run out as time passes, and the news cycle changes. I have enjoyed reading your engagements of drive-by editors regarding the bias of the article, but I also believe that it is not a winnable argument. Let not your heart be troubled, I think it time to let the talk page run its course and then be archived. Just my thoughts, happy editing to you. Keegan talk 05:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for deleting my duplicate post, I must have hit the "save page" button twice. So, thank you for vigilantly fixing my mistakes. Cheers! Scapler ( talk) 22:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
This tired old liberal, partisan attempt at painting anyone who doesn't agree with them as somehow "fringe" is getting very old. If it's so absurd, why have they sepnt so much time attempting to refute it? I merely said so, and was happy to. Newguy34 ( talk) 02:00, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Commented, that's starting to get to be a little bit of a double standard IMO... Soxwon ( talk) 02:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
Please do not WP:EW to insert your preferred version of this article. You are up at WP:3RR, [5] [6] [7] which means that any further reverts will be a blockable violation. The edits you are trying to insert do not follow the sources, and differ in a numbers of ways from the consensus approach to describing the Obama / Ayers controversy. Also, you seem to be aware you are edit warring. [8] It is not good to edit war regarding Barack Obama, the subject of article probation. Wikidemon ( talk) 03:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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Either go to [11] and add your comments to the investigation or apologize for the false accusation you made against me at [12]. Cheers. Duke53 | Talk 14:46, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Byte, move on. This conversation will profit you nothing. Of course, if this a serving as a few minutes of amusement, go for it. I must admit that I have done that in the past myself. Though it can be fun, Wikipedia is not the proper forum for it.-- Storm Rider 19:23, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I have responded on the talk pages of Talk:Glenn Beck and Talk:Cleon Skousen. I may not be able to put anything else forward until next week. -- Hardindr ( talk) 03:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
From what I can tell you are an intelligent and reasonable guy that should be an overall asset to the wikipedia community. The problems that I have seem to keep popping up when you start getting into political disputes on POV and other often contentious issues. It seem that your own political views cause you to make snap judgment calls which rarely seem to be helpful. The quality of your other work could suffer from this, and I hope you'll just stick to your non-political wiki-homes and keep up the good work. (sorry that this probably didn't get done right, but I have no idea what I'm doing trying to edit on wikipedia, so if this even comes out as something readable in the correct spot I'll be happy). no username, but my name is Brooks 74.61.145.211 ( talk) 09:14, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=United_States&diff=307408163&oldid=307407354
What do you think of this? I think the original version is better, rather than DocKino (who was recently blocked for disruption). You probably know more about the LDS so I will leave it to you. User F203 ( talk) 19:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Is it just me or does it seem like Fox News articles are getting a lot of new and concentrated editors? I wonder if some organization or blog is directing people against this news channel and its hosts. Something smells fishy. Morphh (talk) 20:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Bytebear, I do think there is an organized effort. Ever since Beck said he thought Obama was a racist, there have been groups trying to get him fired from FNC. One notable example is Color Of Change, which was founded partly by Van Jones (who happens to be Obama's Green Jobs Czar). Wikipedia seems to be turning into a political battleground because FNC is a serious danger to the Obama agenda. Arzel ( talk) 03:06, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Sure, I'll see what I can come up with, but first I think it needs to be established why they should be moved. Soxwon ( talk) 02:34, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Patriot Missile33 is involved in an edit war again on Juice Plus. Can you have a look at the edit history and Talk page and offer some guidance for resolution. Thanks. Rhode Island Red ( talk) 04:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Glenn Beck. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Onorem ♠ Dil 18:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Glenn Beck. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. Multiple editors continue to support the inclusion of well cited materials, yet you have removed it at least four times today, constituting a breach of 3RR. ANy more today will be taken to the 3RR incident board. ThuranX ( talk) 19:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
You have edit warred on no less than 7 occasions in less than 24 hours [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]. This is completely unacceptable and you were warned for it above.
I know that other editors are warring as well, and I am looking into that now and there will likely be an additional block or two. But that does not excuse your edit warring, which seems to be the most egregious. -- Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 20:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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You might want to have your page semi-protected. Soxwon ( talk) 19:09, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
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Re our last two edits. I wasn't trying to imply hypocrisy, just a change of view. Beck is a complicated guy. I saw these competing edits between that Jim guy and lobot guy over whether his political views (as stated by a Beck editorical) should be in there. It seems that some mention should be made regarding how his views crystalized over time; the abortion view is the best documented. I don't feel strongly either way on it.
-- Milowent ( talk) 18:30, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
You have been around long enough to know the common WP:BOLD practice. Knock it off. Attempt to fix it or go to the talk page. Cptnono ( talk) 02:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
in my last few edits. What do you think? ↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 19:38, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Interesting, IMO. ↜ (‘Just M E ’here , now) 23:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)"[ . . . ] Of course, just because Beck’s politics are Skousenian doesn’t necessarily mean they’re deeply Mormon. No intellectual tradition can be reduced to one individual — and in 1979, the LDS Church formally distanced itself from the Freemen Institute, which Skousen founded in 1971 to promulgate his half-baked ideas. (At the time, the LDS Church was led by Spencer Kimball, known for receiving the revelation that finally opened the Mormon priesthood to black men. For his part, Skousen accused critics of this notorious racial ban of using communist tactics.) ¶ But Skousen is hardly Beck’s only major Mormon influence. His understanding of present-day realities also reflects the paranoid anti-communism of Ezra Taft Benson, who served as secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration and later, from 1985 to 1994, as president of the LDS Church. (According to Mormon doctrine, each church president, at the time of his service, functions as a living prophet.) ¶ [ . . . ] ¶ Benson and Skousen were products of the Cold War’s heyday, in which Americans of all religious stripes were spooked by real and imagined manifestations of the Red Menace. But they also emerged from the distinct culture of Mormonism — which was shaped in its earliest days by violent conflict with the US government, and which still brings its own unique understanding to bear on key political concepts and institutions.
¶ [ . . . ] ¶ [ . . . ] ¶
“Anybody that’s going back to the John Birch era is going to discover Ezra Taft Benson,” Jan Shipps, an emeritus professor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and eminent non-Mormon scholar of Mormonism, tells the Phoenix. “To say he’s going in that direction because he became a Mormon is pushing it a little far.”
The prolific historian D. Michael Quinn, who grew up in the LDS Church, makes a similar point. Quinn — who was trained at Yale, and has taught there and at BYU — was excommunicated by the LDS Church in 1993 after pursuing several incendiary topics in Mormon history. He suspects that Beck’s conservatism led him to embrace the LDS Church, rather than the other way around. “The combination of Skousen and Benson would have been very attractive to him,” says Quinn. “I think he’s now sharing with America what originally attracted him to Mormonism.”
Even if Shipps and Quinn are right, though, that doesn’t mean that Beck’s faith is insignificant. [ . . . ]
Given there has been no discussion in talk, could you please explain from where you're getting justification for "consensus" in this edit? For years consensus has been that "liberal" is not an accurate or acceptable term in this article despite your best efforts; I'd like to know where this new consensus came from that decided it was acceptable for a category. // Blaxthos ( t / c ) 17:53, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
I have closed your RFC after 7 days with no objection to closure. Since this is a clear and near-unanimous rejection of your assertions, I hope that we've put to bed any lingering question as to the appropriateness of your campaign to call MMFA "liberal". Cheers. // Blaxthos ( t / c ) 19:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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Oh, what year? I own a 1997 mustang and my husband has been driving it. I've driven it some, but having a 2 year old...
I have to have a car that she can get in and out of. 72.148.31.114 ( talk) 07:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Per wp:CANVASSING, this is a neutrally worded notice being sent, without any type of "selection" bias, to everyone that edited fairly recently the MOS page about how to term the Latter Day Saints denominations on Wikipedia in the belief that your various and collective expertise or expertises, if that's a plural, can help us improve its wording, if possible. a bit. The most pertinent section is here. And the issue is to what degree the terms "Mormon church" and "LDS church" relate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in specific, and to what kind of sourcing should be used to document this. Thanks, if you find time and the interest to look into the matter and offer your opinion or commentary.-- Hodgson-Burnett's Secret Garden ( talk) 23:08, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
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