User talk:Archola

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Archola is busy in real life and doesn't respond swiftly to queries.

But I really am just busy and I will respond in time. Unlike a certain ex-friend of mine, I do not plan on being busy for six years ;)

Subpages:

• /Jesus Christ!
• Archive 1 (to April 24, 2006).
• /Archive 2 (to May 24, 2006).

Contents 1 Getting Biblical 2 Welcome to Wikipedia! 3 Please help on Ancient Egypt 4 Spicynugget 5 The Force, on your userpage 6 help with Cultural and historical background of Jesus 7 Christianity archive 8 Please help on William Shakespeare 9 Article Improvement Drive (WP:AID) 10 Drive-by Opinion Requested 11 Restorationism 12 Christian collaboration 13 Hi 14 Sophia 15 Just wondering 16 CKB 17 Took a long wikibreak ;) 18 Theology of Martin Luther 19 WikiProject Iowa 20 Non-standard cosmology 21 You helped choose Pluto as this week's WP:AID winner 22 Small minority 23 Jesus 24 Wither Martin Luther 25 Welcome

[edit] Getting Biblical

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Archola, welcome to Wikipedia!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alf 15:39, 28 August 2005 (UTC).

[edit] Please help on Ancient Egypt

Posted by Pruneau 18:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

[edit] Spicynugget

I've put him on a final warning as he's playing us for fools [1] Sophia 23:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Force, on your userpage

I like the metaphor you made with The Force and Christianity. But further reinforcing this is the fact that the Engrish term for "The Force" is "Presbyterian Church". OneGyT/T|C 20:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help with Cultural and historical background of Jesus

I ask you, as a colleague, friend, and as a Christian, to help me here [2]. Please review the recent edit history of the article. I did not think that using BCE and CE would be offensive to Christians, and the fact is the article has used these twerms for years. Moreove, I didn't think identifying the article as relevant to Jewish articles would be offensive to Christians. I appreciate your help, Slrubenstein | Talk 13:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Codex Sinaiticus has angered me, something I regret. But he has accused me of suppressing Christianity, which deeply offends me. Do you share this view? I as you honstly and as someone I consider a friend. Would you mind commenting here [3]? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 15:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I set out my own views, but I think John Kenney and FT2 represent most clearly two opposing approaches to the article. Do you agree with John, FT2, or see a third possibility? I think we need to sketch out basic options and then try to get a consensus. You should register your view here [4]. Slrubenstein | Talk 12:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christianity archive

Is there any way you can place the discussion on monotheism in a separate archive so we can direct editors who missed the discussion to the archive? It seems as if we have a few people come along every now and again that missed this debate and attempt to start it again by changing the intro. —Aiden 16:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please help on William Shakespeare

Posted by Pruneau^T 01:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID maintenance team.

[edit] Article Improvement Drive (WP:AID)

[edit] Drive-by Opinion Requested

Archie: I have a ... difficult user ... calling Uwe Siemon-Netto a hack and a journalist, not a scholar. Would you give a drive-by opinion on that at talk:Martin Luther and talk:On the Jews and Their Lies? If you decide to do this, I suggest you then run to a quiet place of harmony; the Jesus article.

--CTS Wyneken^(talk) 01:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Restorationism

The Restorationism article is in terrible shape. Amongst its many problems is a complete lack of citations. Do you have any online resources that you feel might help in a cleanup of that article? Everything from style and form to grammar needs attention; I'm willing to do a chunk of the work in cleanup, but I don't have the source background to do it right. Anything you can direct me towards would be appreciated. Thanks, -Kevin/Last1in 22:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christian collaboration

Hey there. In doing some web browsing, I noticed some of your edits on CKB. I'm a big fan of contributing to Wikipedia whenever possible, but for more detailed Christian information, Christian wikis fill the gap. Unfortunately, in my opinion, few of these wikis are using MediaWiki to its intended potential. What are your thoughts on collaboration across Christian wikis?

P.S. While a whois reveals that archola.com is still registered to you, the site is gone... A look on archive.org reveals that it probably wasn't being updated anyway. Your fellow Internet researcher, J. J. 17:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Thanks for the welcome. There were some articles I never got around to writing as I was so wrapped up in all the bureaucracy. Also I suddenly found some more info on Howard Grubb and Mars (I have a friend on the Mars Express Orbiter team and he e-mailed me some stuff) so decided to log on to add it. I had made a few minor edits as an anon when I was on holiday as when you've spent so much time doing something it's really hard to just stop dead. I do intend to keep very low key and only work principally on the science articles and avoid ALL conflict.

I'd also spent so much time with the bad people that it was only when I stopped I realised how much I missed the good. Both times I've left it's been due to my inexperience in an on-line community - I've never even contributed to a message board. Each time I learn something valuable. The first time was that an on-line community can only take so much on trust and to not take it too personally when some checks are done. This time I've learned that I need to keep away from the power struggles and posturing in the admin world. After the Easter issues I thought I would like to be an admin to help out with the really serious problems that do come up which is why I got more involved. Now I realise that the admin world here is a far cry from the one I used to work in and that my ideas and values are out of place.

So am I back? Yes - in a very small limited way I am - and hopefully this time it will be for good. I was hoping no one would notice and was going to e-mail you quietly but am touched that you were still checking on me. However I am very unlikely to show my face on any of the contentious subjects! Sophia 10:03, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sophia

Damn, that sucks. What the hell happened? (Oh, Hi, by the way  :) •Jim62sch• 19:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Boy, that was dumb of me! I must've had a momentary brain cramp. Anyway thanks for responding, and I'm glad to see that Sophia is back, even in a limited capacity. •Jim62sch• 11:04, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just wondering

Whatever happened to Van Biesbroeck 8B? Arch O. La ^{Grigory Deepdelver} 02:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CKB

Those wiki's just sort of don't seem to have much point since there's so few editors, and it would take so many to make it all look good :/. Homestarmy 12:39, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

No, but relately is becoming an advertising farm, Nsandwich needs to close it down, random IP's keep adding in links to different articles trying to raise their google ranks and stuff. (though I haven't checked recently). Homestarmy 12:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Really? Is Nsandwich going to close Relately? That's not fair! I have just designed a new layout ;(

O well, I will just put the page to the Main page on CKB. --inky 01:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Took a long wikibreak ;)

Hello!

I took a long wikibreak from CKB/CW, and am refreshed and ready to do some work.

I just want to mention these points:

• When you and Nsandwich are no longer active, keeping CW alive was a labour. Because both me and Hayson are rather on the developer side, no one pushes the content. Please please please stay on CW.

• I am kind of offended by the big yellow cross logo. If you do love Jesus, then why would you set the thing that killed him as the logo, for the sake of declaring that "We are Christian!"? Maybe it's a JW thing.

• BTW I am currently migrating from Windows XP to Linux. So I won't be on until I can access the internet via Linux. Which will take about few days. :)

--inky 06:05, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theology of Martin Luther

Dear Archie: I've just created a new article under the above title to act as a main article for portions of the Martin Luther page. Since at the moment it is just an unceremonial dump of material from various places, I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look and give it some attention, if you have time. --CTSWyneken^(talk) 21:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Iowa

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in Iowa. Therefore, I was wondering if you would be interested in joining (proposed) WikiProject Iowa? If so, please add your name to "Interested Wikipedians" at Proposed WikiProject Iowa --Tim4christ17 03:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The WikiProject has been created. Feel free to join it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa.

[edit] Non-standard cosmology

Wow - us scientists can be just as dogmatic as any religious convert. I can see why it can come across as a belief system. I'm off to Mars. Sophia 07:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hope you are Ok Archie - I did e-mail but maybe it didn't reach you. Sophia 06:16, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I just e-mailed to check you were OK - hope you are "nice" busy at the moment. Will take a look at Pluto next week as I have more time then. Sophia 05:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Pluto as this week's WP:AID winner

Davodd 20:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Small minority

Good grief! --CTSWyneken^(talk) 11:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

Thanks for helping to improve the Jesus article.

I recently found that the Jesus article on Wikipedia is the first item that comes up when you search for "Jesus" on the world’s most widely used search engine, Google.

Please edit the Jesus article to make it an accurate and excellent representation of Him.

The Jesus article may be a person’s first impression of Jesus. It would be nice if their first impression was from a Christian or the Bible, but for so many in these new days it probably comes from the Internet. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thanks a lot.

Also, watch out to follow Wikipedia's Policies and guidelines. It is especially hard for the Three-revert rule and the Neutral point of view policy to be followed because of the nature of the article, but please follow these policies along with citing sources so that the article does not get locked from editing and can't be improved further. Thanks again. Scifiintel 17:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. Welcome back yourself ;) Arch O. La ^{Grigory Deepdelver} 16:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Scifiintel 05:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wither Martin Luther

Hi, Archie! Believe it or not, things are quiet over here. We've gotten the article down to fighting weight and we're in shooting range of FA quality. I've opened a discussion on the talk page about what is still needed in the article. I'd love to have you opine. --CTSWyneken^(talk) 14:10, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Welcome to WP Lutheranism. There should be at least another 4-5 folks who signed up as interested in the proposed project about a month ago. I think we should be able to get some good work done. I just got the page on-line today (about an hour ago), so if you see anything that needs tweaked, please jump right in. -- Pastordavid 20:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)