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The gospel

Just a reminder that rollbacks without explanations should be done to revert vandalism only. --NeilN 03:28, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Can you please explain why you made this revert? I am quite certain my version is correct. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 03:27, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

If you notice, I reverted myself right after. 03:29, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

My apologies. The 'Notifications' system can occasionally be misleading. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 03:33, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

No, it was my mistake. Editor2020 03:34, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

User:Fjjlee

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File:Christianity Branches.svg

I would suggest a change from "Assyrian Church" to "Church of the East" in view of the schism between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East. Esoglou (talk) 07:00, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

I didn't make the image, just changed the description. Editor2020 17:05, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

You are welcome brother :)

There are many verses from the Buddhist Holy Text "Tipitaka" which rejects the idea of God and ridicules it. There are many sources for that. But the hypocrites revert the changes. I hope we both can make a great contribution. with metta.

I hope you will refrain from quoting extensively from the Buddhist sutras. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:03, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Dear Joshua I am not going to paste whole Buddhist text or sutras on wikipedia. Just like you can give the verse from the Quran or Chapter no. Se we can give it too...but you should rather inform others. and yes Views of the Buddha( who is my spirit) should be quoted. Stalkford (talk) 15:27, 26 May 2014 (UTC) Much metta.

Thanks for the metta. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 15:32, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Historicity of the Bible

Why do you keep reverting changes?

Only 62.9% is subjective, it infers you think this is a small number. One could just as subjectively write "as much as 62.9%" removing the word 'only' adds neutrality.

Also, you are taking out of context. The blog article infers that evidence shows that "Biblical archaeology has helped us understand a lot about the world of the Bible and clarified a considerable amount of what we find in the Bible." (direct quote). You are using part of this quote to infer that it shows that the bible is historically incorrect. Using a quote starting with "but" shows you have only used part of a conjecture.

Please advise why you are classing these changes as vandalism as they are adding neutrality to the article. 203.26.178.133 (talk) 04:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

That line—"Biblical archaeology basically supports the historical veracity of the Bible"—is one of the three things that Enns wants people to stop saying (see the title of the article). Enns disagrees with that statement. You're using it as if Enns agrees; that's just a misuse of the source. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 03:17, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Understood, but my point is the article only classifies ONE issue where there is a strong consensus against validity whereas the line "Archaeological discoveries in the nineteenth and twentieth century have supported few of the Old Testament's historical narratives and refuted many of the others" infers that the majority are disputed. This is not in the article at all and a relevant source should be used to back this up or the actual quote used. "Biblical archaeology has helped us understand a lot about the world of the Bible and clarified a considerable amount of what we find in the Bible." This does not say that the majority of old testament narratives are disputed.

What about the 62.9%, the actual text this is pulled from states that "this result is quite amazing" using "only 62.9%" is taking the author out of context. 203.26.178.133 (talk) 04:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Sorry about the labeling but I had just reversed a few blatant vandals and was still in that mode. My apologies. I have no problem with the text as it now stands (with the complete quote provided). As far as the second change, if the source given uses "only", we should use "only". If not it should be deleted. Editor2020 16:14, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

The Source does not use "only", the source actually states that it's "quite amazing" that this high a percentage correlates. I've checked a lot of the sources in this article and there are many POV adjectives added that were not in the original source, I'll go through and update some of these.203.26.178.133 (talk) 22:10, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Please provide quotes if you do so. Thanks!Editor2020 01:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Biblical Mount Sinai

Have you reviewed the latest additions? I haven't had a chance yet - your contribution at Talk:Biblical Mount Sinai would be appreciated. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 06:52, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Josephus

Some material has been deleted from the Biblical Mount Sinai article which clarified two important statements made by ancient historian Josephus. (1) The general location where Mount Sinai was regarded to exist in his day (a mountain that lay between Egypt and Arabia) (2) That the mountain was "the highest of all mountains" in that area.

Also deleted was the fact that Mount Sinai is not one peak but a series of peaks (which the average person is not aware of) and Etheria's confirmation that it appears as one mountain but actually contains several peaks when entered.

The average reader misreads Josephus as referring to Mount Catherine when he was more than likely referring to "Mount Sinai" as a whole.

Mount Katherine and Jebel Musa are both much higher than any mountains in the Sinaitic desert, or in all of Midian.

The above facts contribute reason for consideration of the traditional Mount Sinai as a suggested location for the alleged original.

When I first came upon this article it gave great weight to fringe theory locations and gave space to wild theories of plasma phenomena, etc. When I first read the article I felt I was reading an article which was saying: "Mount Sinai cannot be in the southern Sinai Peninsula but it seems like it might be in these other locations." The traditional site has for decades been broadly supported by scholarship and meets the test of notability but undue weight was given to newer, untested ideas. CWatchman (talk) 18:08, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Please add back anything you feel is necessary, as long as you have references. Editor2020 18:13, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Supersessionism

Dear Editor2020, I noticed your edits on Category:Supersessionism. The result is that we have this once again categorized both under Category:Christianity and antisemitism and its immediate parent category Category:Religious antisemitism. I would suggest removing the latter as this is a specific Christian topic. Kind regards, 22:13, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

You are correct. I will fix it. Editor2020 03:22, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

ahem

https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Bible&diff=613215935&oldid=613190933 some discussion and respect would be appreciated. --Tznkai (talk) 01:37, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

No disrespect intended. Per wp:brd, now is the time for discussion on the article's Talk page. Editor2020 15:54, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm glad none was intended, since a blithe "not an improvement" is usually taken to be a rude dismissal of the efforts of others. Would you please explain your reasons, on the talk page, for not only thinking that my changes were not an improvement, but also why they were so unhelpful you reverted instead of attempting to integrate the changes? I quote the aformentioned essay: "Revert an edit if it is not an improvement, and it cannot be immediately fixed by refinement. Consider reverting only when necessary. It is not the intention of this page to encourage reverting. When reverting, be specific about your reasons in the edit summary and use links if needed. Look at the article's edit history and its talk page to see if a discussion has begun. If not, you may begin one (see this list for a glossary of common abbreviations you might see)." (emphasis added) --Tznkai (talk) 17:09, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Replied on my talk page.--Tznkai (talk) 17:29, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks to you also. --Lagoset (talk) 08:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Arguable either way

I went back and forth a few times before re-reverting. I think there's only one syllable there, and I remember "plug" from when I was a kid back in the 60s. While "pluck" makes sense in a food context, it was very common to use "plug" to imply shooting or stabbing someone (as common then as "capping" someone is now). May well be an "each his own" situation. Gee, I don't see why a flash conversion of an .mpeg file of DVD rip of an 80 year old movie isn't dispositive. However, definition 24 here (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plug) where it speaks to removing a core or piece seems more in line with scalpel use.Zooks527 (talk) 10:39, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

I listened over and over, but can't say for sure. It could be "plug", so I'm not going to revert. Editor2020 17:09, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Language of Jesus

Dear Editor2020, I noticed you reverted a categorization in the article Language of Jesus. It concerned the category "Jesus and history". Please note that this category is not just about the historicity of Jesus:

• "Topics range from the culture and history of the Early first century Palestine and surrounding areas, through discussions of archaeological, textual and/or historical evidence supporting or denying Jesus' existence as an actual historical figure, to ancient texts describing figures similar to the traditional figure of Jesus."

I would think that Language of Jesus would be one of the best fitting articles in this category, don't you agree? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:06, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

I don't think so, but if you add it I won't raise a ruckus. (By the way, thank you for all your work on reducing the amount of overcategorization in the religious categories.) Editor2020 17:13, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

You're very welcome, in fact you're pleasantly surprising me here because I had no idea that anyone would consciously notice this :-) Marcocapelle (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Sidurisadvice.com

Would you take a look at my post to Future Perfect here please? Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 09:38, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Hebrew Roots

This entire page was reformatted, reorganized, and titled by me in 2012. As can be seen on the talk pages, this effectively ended the discussions and issues going on between the various contributors. There has been other contributions to the article since that time but there has not been any significant format changes since 2012 by anyone. Obviously you disagree. This page is organized for content. That is not to say it is complete. If you have specific recommendations, please let me know and I will make them.Mikeprescott (talk) 17:17, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Please see Misplaced Pages:Ownership of articles. Editor2020 17:34, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Editor 2020, I am very happy for your edit in the WP page Marxism and religion. I wished to post a thank you note to you, but I could not understand how exactly I would do this. I humbly request you, maybe venturing beyond my authority, that you may please keep this page under watch. This page has been subject to vandalism before. And yes, thousands of students every year do visit this page on Marxism. Strangely though, after the fall of USSR Marxism is being taught with more critical attitude across almost all the universities in the world (especially in countries like UK, USA, India, Egypt, etc.). Please, if possible, make this page a place of secure edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arghyan Opinions (talk • contribs) 02:12, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Editor2020, this is my new account. My old account was Jerm729, but I changed it because of too many issues with other users in discussions. The reason why I am telling you this because I believe your editing skills are always in a progressive state of...well...progression. Your edits in biblical articles I have never had an issue with, and I really appreciate your editing on biblical articles and Misplaced Pages in general. -- Cheers -- JudeccaXIII (talk) 04:48, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Editor2020 17:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Judeo-Christian topics

Dear Editor2020, the CfD about Judeo-Christian topics in which you participated has been closed with a decision to keep the category. Apart from that, what is your opinion about my statement in this discussion that the category has been polluted with many articles that do not seem to belong there? Very specifically, would you mind if I would try a cleanup - or do you just entirely disagree with this statement? Marcocapelle (talk) 21:15, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Please feel free to attempt a clean-up, paying attention to the actual meaning of Judeo-Christian, "a set of beliefs and ethics held in common by Judaism and Christianity". Editor2020 01:54, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

For now, I removed this category from 3 out of 4 child categories and removed the category from 4 out of 8 articles (this count excludes the lead article which I obviously left untouched). Personally I feel I've been very conservative. On the other hand, I'm curious if any reverts will happen. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:35, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Angel Moroni

And he replaced the link after I posted nicely to his talk page about wikilinks. I've now warned him for edit warring. Dougweller (talk) 20:54, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Epic of Gilgamesh

My apologies for reverting your edits. The ip just before your edit was the one evading a block. Your edits got caught in an edit conflict as they weren't there on my edit screen. Sorry 'bout that, Vsmith (talk) 01:33, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Editor2020 01:35, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Era nomenclature

Can be a bit tricky as WP:ERA isn't explicit about what it means by "established", but this one started as BCE and a few quick checks shows no changes, just the addition of a few BCs presumably as people edited without thinking about the whole article. So I've edited it so hopefully it is all now BCE and AD (not that we really need all those BCEs as usually it is pretty clear). Dougweller (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

I think that that is more appropriate for this article. thanks. Editor2020 02:34, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

greetings

hello. I do appreciate your hard work and edits and clean-ups and careful scrutiny of WP articles, especially Biblical and Religious and Philosophy type articles. Most of your edits and mods I agree with, and I consider very good, or I am ok with, as you notice. Not all obviously, but most. But I was a bit curious about something. I was wondering if you sometimes might be following me around a little bit. Or if you have me on your "watch list" or something. (I think I might have asked you this some time in the recent past.) The reason I ask is because I've noticed that you have edited articles RIGHT AFTER I have (or at least very soon after), even in articles where you have no real history prior, in editing. Like recently the "Hades" article, as one of a number of examples. If so, why? Just wondering. Let me know. Thanks. Gabby Merger (talk) 20:05, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Nope, but evidently we have similar interests. I was editing long before you came along. Look at my contributions list and you'll see that I edit a lot of pages. I do tend to visit them when a change has been made, maybe that's it. Editor2020 02:41, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

ps. Just a quick check, but it looks I edited Hades as early as Feb 6, 2011. But let me know it you have figured out how to follow someone. Editor2020 02:48, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

revert on Muslim

Dear user, I reverted this unsubstantiated edit , which you have undone. The 10-20% figure is a general figure of Shias and 1% of Ahmadis, per source.--Peaceworld 19:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for the thank

Sigehelmus (talk) 01:34, 17 July 2014 (UTC)