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[edit] Greetings

Greetings, Andycjp! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you haven't already done so, please carefully read the following pages:

You can sign your name with ~~~~ (or just ~~~ to leave out the date stamp). If you have questions or doubts of any sort first see the help pages, then do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump and somebody will respond ASAP. Have fun! --Jiang 08:01, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Old Comments

You're welcome.  :) RickK | Talk 08:28, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hey Andy. What's your source on the Dubai human rights allegations? I will have to delete the human rights statement if you cannot show me who accused the Dubai emirate of violations against religious freedom. WhisperToMe 03:18, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Where is the URL link that the Barnabas fund is asserting this in? WhisperToMe 23:32, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Oh. Top banana. Thank you very much, Andycjp. best wishes --Tagishsimon. Edit the Onojo page, Essex boy!

Please use spaces after punctuation. Thanks. Dysprosia 08:04, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. You keep making POV changes to the Jesus article. There are different interpretations of the historical record, and it is not our job to draw conclusions about people's views in controversial issues. Please read up on the NPOV policy. Thank you. Fredrik 06:22, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

I had no intentions of disrespecting your opinions, they're most welcome in discussions on how to improve articles. I would actually agree with you that I see no strong reason to believe he never lived (putting me with group #3). Note, however, that "writing off his existence as a myth not being to take history seriously", as you say, is your point of view and not a fact. In a controversial issue (which this is), we may provide facts that demonstrate how a thing is unlikely, but we should not say that these people aren't taking history seriously. An important part of the NPOV policy is to present each view sympathetically and as "potentially true".

Since I'm not the only one who has reverted your changes, I suggest you put up a discussion on Talk:Jesus and argue for a modification and try to negotiate a solution that others will accept. Thanks! Fredrik 07:05, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

Andycjp, your edits are good, but please remember to put spaces after puncutaion. -- Crag 21:52, 2004 May 14 (UTC)

[edit] Poems

Please don't post poems. Even if they were out of copyright, they would be long on Wikisource, not here. RickK 06:23, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Waka

FYI: The formerly kanji-only chôka in the waka article now has the romaji version and an English-language translation. gK 23:34, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Your welcome.
I've taken a short break on editing the Waka article, but it still needs lots of work. There is still some editing of what is already there (although I've done some of it, I'm not a natural editor so I'm always missing stuff until I look at it again), plus there is still more that needs to be added to the Waka article.
Now someone has nominated the Japanese poetry article, which currently barely qualifies as a stub, for the next Wikipedia:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. To do that article properly it probably should be the Collaboration of the Month. ;-) Since I'm fairly new at the Wikipedia, I've just been trying to work on the smaller stuff, like fixing up the kigo article, which was originally only three short paragraphs.
Just curious -- where did you post the poem that User RickK complained about? [FYI: I just added a bunch of words to the List of English words with diacritics and he wants to complain that fräulein doesn't belong on that list. I purposefully added a few questionable entries so that people could delete those and feel happy, but I certainly didn't expect fräulein to be one of those deleted words.] gK 10:05, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] English disambiguation on User page

Hi. Please disambiguate English on your user page. For example, English. Thanks. RedWolf 20:49, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Creating Hebrew Bible / Jewish stubs

Good work on your recent articles. Instead of flagging them as just plain stub, can you flag as HeBible-stub? (Capitalization must be as shown here). This will route the articles into the correct stub category. Feco 06:10, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kigo

I've reversed your edit of kigo. Kigo (singular) is a Japanese word that has become a loanword in English; kigo (plural) are season words in any language used to signify a season in poetry. The article should probably have something at the beginning to indicate the Japanese origin of the word, such as: "Kigo (season word(s), 季語, kigo) are words or phrases..." BlankVerse ∅ 14:48, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It's nice to see that "kigo" is in the Oxford dictionary, especially in the Consise version (which just helps verified that it has become a loanword in English). On the other hand, from checking different dictionary definitions of "haiku", I would be cautious of any definition they had (although I haven't seen the definition for that particular dictionary). Every haiku definition that I've ever looked at has problems because they allow both for false positives (things that aren't haiku but "fit" the definition), and false negatives (poems that are generally considered haiku within the haiku community but don't fit the definition). BTW: I did a little more organizing of the Kigo article and I hope improved the into to clarify the status of the word "kigo". I have a couple of more headers that I'd like to add to the article, then I hope to put it through Peer Review and then nominate it for Featured Article status. If you want to make any comments, I would appreciate it. BlankVerse ∅ 18:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

re:Tanabata: I'm glad that you asked because it is another item that I need to explain. The Japanese seasons are roughly 1 1/2 months different from the Western seasons.

The traditional Japanese Lunar months are:

4 Feb - 5 Mar Early Spring 1st: Sociable Month (mutsuki)
6 Mar - 4 Apr Mid Spring 2nd: More-Clothes (kisaragi)
5 Apr - 5 May Late Spring 3rd: Growth (yayoi)

6 May - 5 Jun Early Summer 4th: Deutzia Month (uzuki) [u no hana, a common Japanese flower that booms at this time]
6 Jun - 6 Jul Mid Summer 5th: Swamp Month (satsuki) [rainy season]
7 Jul - 7 Aug Late Summer 6th: Waterless Month (minazuki)

8 Aug - 7 Sep Early Autumn 7th: Literary Month (fumizuki) [Letters Month - time to write letters to friends]
8 Sep - 7 Oct Mid Autumn 8th: Leaf Month (jazuki)
8 Oct - 6 Nov Late Autumn 9th: Long Month (nagatsuki) ["Month of the Longer Nights"]

7 Nov - 6 Dec Early Winter 10th: godless Month (kannazuki) [the time when all the Shinto gods withdraw to Izumo Province]
7 Dec - 4 Jan Mid Winter 11th: Frost Month (shimotsuki)
5 Jan - 3 Feb Late Winter 12th: Rushing About (shiwasu) [finising up old business and preparing for the New Year's celebration]

For Western countries in the Northern Hermisphere:

Spring: Mar 21 - Jun 21 Vernal (or Spring) Equinox to Summer Solstice (aka midsummer)
Summer: Jun 21 - Sept 22 Summer Solstice to Autumnal Equinox
Autumn: Sept 22 - Dec 22 September (Autumnal) Equinox (about Sept. 22 or 23) to the December (Winter) Solstice (about Dec. 22).
Winter: Dec 22 - Mar 22 Winter Solstice to Vernal (or Spring) Equinox

Traditional US Spring months are: March, April, May. For Great Britain, its February, March, April. [Oxford Univ. Dict.]
Traditional US Summer months are: June, July, August. For Great Britain, its May, June, July.
Traditional US Autumn months are: September, October, November. For Great Britain, its August, September, October.
Traditional US Winter months are: December, January, February. For Great Britain, its November, December, January.

Now I just need to condense this info down to something usable for the kigo article. BlankVerse ∅ 08:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've recently done a bunch of changes and additions to the Kigo article, and I think that it is getting close to where I will submit it to Peer review. Since you recently edited the article, would you take a look at the changes and make comments (or edits) on any further changes need to be done. BlankVerse ∅ 11:24, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Orange Range

I don't see how a veteran user could commit basic errors such as the ones in Orange Range. Please pay more attention to the articles you create. --Sn0wflake 04:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese COTW

Hi, if you have an interest, pleaee visit WP:JCOTW and vote, thanks. --Aphaea* 04:32, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to JCOTW, and thank you for your contributions! Arigato! --Aphaea* 08:32, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Short Story thanks

Thanks for reverting the short story page. I'm a newby and this is the first time I've encountered someone vandalizing a page I'd worked on. It helped to know that someone else agreed that's what the person was doing. --Alabamaboy 14:57, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax τεχ 05:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Wow, I don't normally get emailed... I've forgotten to write edit summaries as well, and sometimes still do, especially when section editing on talk pages :) Alphax τεχ 05:57, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "minor"

Could you only tick the "this is a minor edit" box when your edit doesn't add or remove new material? on Hythe, Hampshire, for example, a string of "minor" edits in fact produced a significant addition ([1]). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:38, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

That's OK — it's easily done. If you have your default set to "minor" I'd change it, though; it's better to make a minor edit without the "m" than to make a substantive edit edit marked "m". I don't really know why that option's there. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:36, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Karnataka

Hi, I noticed that you have recently edited the Karnataka page, The edit you have made has no relation to the economy of the state (under which you edit appeared) and you have not provided any references to the claim. Please create a new section and add the content to that section with references. --IMpbt 05:45, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bethany

That's not how wikipedia works. If you dont like it, please create an article on the community. Otherwise, leave it alone so someone else can. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:59, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Plymouth Brethren

Your recent edit to the Plymouth Brethren article indicates that women are not silent during Brethren Lord's Supper services. I believe this is not the case. Please join a discussion on the talk section of the article to support your edit. Otherwise, the edit may be retracted. Thank you.The Dogfather 30 June 2005 14:16 (UTC)

[edit] Terrorism

No, definitely not. I will never in my life be convinced that killing innocent people going to work is justified.Heraclius 01:45, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spiritualists=Occultists?

I won't fight over this, but there's a distinction between spiritualists, who believe that consciousness is separate from matter, and occultists, who believe in magical phenomena. While not mutually exclusive, the two concepts are independent. --Slac 22:59, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

You are of course right. There is a difference. Do we need to list both in the article though? Andycjp 6th August 2005
Nah. --Slac 01:35, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unless Jesus saves me?

As you said on your Talk page...this hints that you are not sure if he will or not! It *is* possible to know; but ask God, not the church for the answers. 1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. RossNixon 10:54, 14 August 2005 (UTC)


Or you could just use a bit of intelligence and stop believing in comforting fairy tales ;) Aaarrrggh 19:01, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tuner

Why'd you remove the links from this disambig page? Andre (talk) 04:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clothing edit

Andy, Genesis has no special status re the history of clothing. If we quote Genesis, we'd have to quote every single other "origin of clothing" myth. I removed your edit.

Now if you wanted to write a survey article on "Origin of clothing in all mythologies" that might be acceptable -- if you could find sources and it wasn't all original research. Zora 23:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Historical persecution by Christians

You might be interested in the Historical persecution by Christians article, and the dispute about the "Modern" section. Jayjg (talk) 16:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links to disambiguation pages

Thanks for the edits on the Pretty Cure page. Just a note to let you know that links like [[English]] go to disambiguation pages, so there is not much point adding them. You need to say [[English language]] These links are not really necessary anyway, since it's clear what "English" means in the context. The Wikipedia manual of style recommends not using them. --DannyWilde 07:17, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Amanatsu

Hi again, how are things in Moriya? I thought you might be interested in this "nihongo template" which could help with writing Japanese. You need to write {{nihongo|amanatsu|甘夏|}}, which produces

amanatsu (甘夏?)

The question mark is a link to a helpful page about Japanese. This is quite a new template but we're using it on more and more pages. --DannyWilde 02:55, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removing red links

You may want to weigh in on the discussion, where one of your edits was used as an example. Common Man 17:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please look at this page

If you are a supporter of Don Bosco, take a look at this page.

[edit] Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints.

You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!


I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 14:22, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for signing up ... this time around I was justb trying to fix an old mistake. --evrik (talk) 19:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Hi there! I reverted a change you made on the remorse article. You had wikified anglican in The Anglican, which appears to be a magazine. These kinds of words should not be wikified, as they are totally unrelated with the subject of the article. If there was an article about the magazine The Anglican, then that's fine, it should be wikified. Otherwise it's confusing for a reader who wants to know what this magazine is about to find himself on the Anglicanism article.

Similarly, your edits on Hard Rock Hallelujah (the Lordi song) were reverted (not by me). The words within a title (song, book, whatever) should not be wikified. For a start, the title of an article has no reason to be wikified, since (normally) there should be no better place to find all of the related information. Wikifying hard rock and Hallelujah is not helpful to the reader. The same thing applies to the song "My Heaven is your Hell": "Heaven" and "Hell" should not be wikified; if there is an article about the song, then the whole thing should be wikified. That's all for now!

Happy editing! IronChris | (talk) 18:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

thanks for the links in Post stroke depression article. neurobio 22:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

I noticed you have been adding a number of links to articles. However, the a number of your links are simply going to disambiguation pages (which is discouraged by policy). For example, look where Mary and Mark link to. What you need to do is find the correct page, such as Mark the Evangelist and link there. If you want to keep the original text, you just separate the actual page name from the original text with a horizontal bar, such as [[Mark the Evangelist|Mark]] which results in Mark. Hope this helps.--Andrew c 00:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I found a couple more sloppy links recently. Sardis is not the city in Ohio. A Gospel of the Nazoraeans article does exist, while a Nazareans article does not. Ruthenian is a disambig page, and titles are not supposed to be wikilinked anyway. Just another friendly reminder to be a little more careful when wikilinking. Thanks for your consideration.--Andrew c 01:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lazarus and Dives

I think a merge and redirect is in order. The content at The Rich Man and Lazarus is merely a repetition of the parable plus a bunch of tags. Also, that particular title is far less common than Lazarus and Dives (or Dives and Lazarus), which is attested by the fact that Ralph Vaughn Williams wrote a piece by the title (thereby increasing the number of searches). I'm no fan of tags and boxes and templates and other accoutrements of articles, so I'd recommend, if anyone is actually interested in those things, that they be copied over to Lazarus and Dives and then make the other article a mere redirect. There is no content to merge, because the content is already in the target article (albeit with a different translation and without verse breaks...which look kind of ugly anyway). Geogre 16:03, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Call for consensus on fan site list on Andy Murray page

Hello Andycjp,

You've probably noticed my (probably foolhardy) attempt to resolve the edit war on the Andy Murray page regarding fansites. The protagonists do not look about to resolve it among themselves, so I'd appreciate it if you and other regular editors could express your views on this part of the page, so that we can stop the war going forward, or at least block a protagonist who persists in it. Please come to the talk page here

The questions I've put are:

Please can I have the opinions of those who regularly edit this site:

1.Should there be a list of fansites?

2.Should it be ordered

a) alphabetically
b) by site's popularity or quality
c) by some other factor

3. If by popularity/quality how to judge this?

Thanks RobbieC 21:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nazareth article edit.

In the Nazareth article, "A contrary view" section (regarding Frank Zindler), whoever wrote Zindler's first point misrepresented him, as is shown by a quote of his words which I have inserted. This makes your single sentence addition to the section incorrect. It read: "However, his first point is clearly wrong as Nazareth is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew." You would have been right, but not your correction is inapplicable and I have deteted that sentence. Thank you for your understanding.Renejs 06:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grace (prayer)

I'm interested in your detagging and edit summary on this article.

When applied to praying, rather than a "state of grace", Grace is an English word, not a Christian one. --Dweller 14:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religious Geography?

It is more correctly termed 'the geography of religion' not 'religious geography' the two are very different things - one is the study of religion across space and places, the other is the use of geography to posit a certain religious bias - something which is not a branch of academic human geography - I will revert your edits --Cooper-42 11:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 15:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Catholicism

Hi Andy. Would you be interested in the WikiProject Catholicism? --WikiCats 03:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Welcoming Congregation" restructuring

Please see my comment on reorganization of the "Welcoming Congregation" topic (replying there). Thanks! --Haruo 07:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christmas tree - format error

Hi Andy - one of the new lines you've added has a formatting error:

((Adam is))  a type of the one who was to come. (v. 14)

I'm not sure what it is supposed to say, could you check it over, please. Thanks, MPF 17:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abscess

Thanks for helping with abscess article. However, I think the link to statistical significance should remain as such an not be split into two links to statistical and significance. Check out statistical significance and I think you will see it is more on target. OK if I revert that one change? Thanks Badgettrg 12:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links within quotes

Please "Avoid linking from within quotes" – see WP:MOS#Quotations – dave souza, talk 17:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sinn Sisamouth

Hi. What is the source for the information you've added to the Sinn Sisamouth article? Is seems like it is just tacked on, rather than being incorporated into the article. Parts of it duplicate what is already in the article. Mostly, it reads like fancruft and is not very helpful. Some of it can be used, but it needs to be incorporated with what's already there. If you can provide a link to the information, I'd be grateful. Thanks. — WiseKwai 20:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I must've misread the history logs somehow. I feel now that I have come off sounding harsh and pointing an accusatory finger at you. I've been impolite, and for that I am deeply sorry. Thanks for your contributions. — WiseKwai 16:50, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Berber mythology

Hi Andycjp, I would like to thank you for correcting my English used in that article. I tried to write nice English, but i already knew i failed. I read on your userpage that you teach English, by the way :). I remarked that you added "supposedly" to the claim that Antaios was a son of Posedion and Gaia. Do you refer to the statement of Pindar sayying he could be ... In fact, there are other stories considering him as the son of Poseidon. Posedion is important in the myth. Because Antaios used to gader the skulls of the foreingers killed by him to build a temple for his father Antaios. His mother Gaia was more important in the story. Gaia was the earth goddess. Antaios was undefeated as long as he could reach the earth (his mother). Heracles defeated him, because he lifted, and subsquently he couldn't reach his mother (the earth). For this reason, i think it is better to remove "supposedly". You had a comment on st Mark. Do you think there was something wrong?! You can know that better than me. If you have any comment, i would like to know it. Thanks again for the corrections. Best regards!Read3r 16:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] leviathan/greeks

Just to note that "of the greeks" is a direct quote (though its not in quote marks) [2]. I wrote it that way to preserve Hobbes words, which I like William M. Connolley 15:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lazarus and Dives RFC

An RFC has been filed to determine whether or not the position of the Jesus Seminar should be included in Lazarus and Dives. Your comments would be most welcome. --Joopercoopers 22:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible renaming of Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints

It has been suggested that the above named project be renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian saints. Please express your opinion on this proposed renaming, and the accompanying re-definition of the scope of the project, here. John Carter 16:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boredom

Your changes at Boredom were excessive, and I've reverted them. Making too many links is not a good thing either. Reviewing some of your edits, you do this sometimes. Other times you make needed corrections. Please pardon if I say I can't figure out what's going on. This is good, this is not. Color me confused... Shenme 05:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of 50 Pence

You recently removed my {{notability}} tag on 50 Pence with no explanation but "britpop," so I've re-inserted it. Could you explain what you meant? \sim Lenoxus " * " 03:24, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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