User talk:A.J.Chesswas

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[edit] Arthur Wallis

Thanks for starting this. It was something I was hoping to get round to. Will add some more later! Hyper3

[edit] Charismatic Restorationism

Just working out how to do this - is this the best way of replying to you, or should I have put it under your comment to me?

Anyway - I'm doing my PhD in ecclesiology within the British New Church Movement, currently writing up the history. My sources are: Jonathan Wallis Arthur Wallis: Radical Christian (East Sussex: Kingsway, 1991); Peter Hocken Streams of Renewal: The Origins and Early Development of the Charismatic Movement in Great Britain (Exeter; Paternoster, 1986); Andrew Walker Restoring the Kingdom: the Radical Christianity of the House Church Movement 3rd Ed (Guildford: Eagle, 1998); Joyce V Thurman, New Wineskins: A Study of the House Church Movement (Frankfurt: Lang, 1982) amogst others.

My background is Ichthus Christian Fellowship in London - hence the quibbling about Ichthus!

[edit] Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion

Hello! I noticed that you have identified yourself as an Anglican, and so I thought that you may be interested in checking out a new WikiProject - WikiProject Anglicanism. Please consider signing up and participating in this collaborative effort to improve and expand articles related to Anglicanism and the Anglican Communion! Cheers! Fishhead64 23:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealander-Israeli relations

I noticed you identified yourself as a Wikipedian in New Zealand. You may be interested in New Zealander-Israeli relations. Respectfully, Republitarian 23:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nice hairdo AJ!

Hi there, I have been reading your writings for a while. Didn't realise you were active on Wikipedia. Cool pic dude. Your new blog is massive. ~ Papeschr 03:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you. Bob 19:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

A tag has been placed on Placeblogger, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. mcr616 Speak! 21:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe you're a bit confused about the general Wikipedia policy regarding speedy deletion. First off, I didn't ignore your {hangon} tag, an administrator did beacuse the article you created was spam. Second off, I didn't delete the article. Only admins can delete an article. I just placed the {db-spam} tag because it was spam. If you have any questions about Wikipedia policy regarding speedy deletion, you can leave a note on my talk page or on an admins. mcr616 Speak! 22:42, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and when a site like Placeblogger has less than 1,000 hits, it's usually considered non-notable. I wasn't out to get you or Placeblogger. Thats just Wikipedia policy, and I'm sorry if it upset you. I wasn't trying to suggest that you were some crazy spammer. Placeblogger appeared to be spam, and was deleted by an admin. Hopefully, you can add helpful content to Wikipedia in the future. mcr616 Speak! 22:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Don Brash: Presbyterian

Hi AJ, No I can't confirm that, I think probably because I copied the infobox from the John Key article the religion was "Anglican" and I forgot to change it. You're right, he's probably more correctly Presbyterian, although his biography seems to imply he's agnostic. --Lholden 20:28, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] English people

Hi, as a New Zealander I thought you might be interested in commenting here. Thanks for any help. Talk:English_people#Request_for_comment Alun 09:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] J. D. Chesswas

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[edit] Disambiguation in Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship

Hi. I've been working on disambiguating links to Evangelical. In the course of this, I've made a couple of updates to Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship, on the assumption that the first occurrence of "evangelical" should link to Evangelism, but later uses should link to Evangelicalism.

Given that you are sole editor so far on that article, I'm happy to bow to your judgement on whether this was the correct way to disambiguate. If the first one really should have linked to "evangelicalism", please feel free to update that and remove the second link to that article. We just want to avoid in-article links to the Evangelical disambiguation page, because some readers won't necessarily understand which is the correct meaning of the word in that particular context. If you have any comments/questions, please feel free to post a reply here because I will see it.

Grace and peace, Paddles TC 06:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creationism

I see u have edited this article so i can assume it is in your interest field the neutrality of its contents. I do not speak en as a first language but i feel while reading the structure that atheists paint the creationists in some very narrow understanding as if they are all about some christian anti-science professors. it could be i am mistaken so i added a small tiny anecdote that the belief that life comes from a creator is traditional, they don't challenge this as fact bu they claim rightfully the wording is not good giving a very general picture as if all or most creationists are also traditionalist[1]. can u take care of this concern? here is my last edit concerning this request Thanks--יודל 22:16, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page.

Have you seen WP:UP#NOT? -- Alan Liefting talk 03:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I just wanted to stop by and tell you I love your userboxes.

  1. This user believes in logic.
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  3. This user prefers that the death penalty be used far more often.

Cheers! Reinistalk 08:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect Disco to Discovery

Somebody tries to mock the name. Please comment for speedy deletion[2]. Thanks.--יודל 19:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page guidelines

Please read Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines with respect to this edit. -- Alan Liefting talk 21:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Alan you'll have to be more specific. I'm not a mind-reader.A.J.Chesswas 03:16, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Little context in Blokes and Sheds

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[edit] Belated support

I see Blokes in Sheds has now been deleted. Pity. I felt the book said something significant about the Kiwi male psyche. Koro Neil (talk) 15:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Cross (editor)

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[edit] History section, Hot Springs National Park

Hi - just reverted your addition. The included "Poop Reservation" comment was the initial trigger for the revert. Also note that the source you used and linked to is a commercial promotional site and not a WP:RS. Cheers, Vsmith 03:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alan McMahan Speedy Delete

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[edit] Happy Holidays

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[edit] Userpage box

Thanks for contributing such a large number of articles. Since you've got so many there, perhaps you could put them into a box like this

Which means they're all there, but don't take up such a large amount of space. You can see my userpage for an example of how it appears Cheers Mostlyharmless (talk) 03:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

No worries. I've put a second box around your bio info, and made them 200px for ease of reading. If you don't like the change you're very welcome to revert it back. Cheers, Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:46, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Done. Cheers, Mostlyharmless (talk) 22:40, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
No way around the contents section being where it is, unfortunately - Mediawiki generates that table automatically.. The only way to remove it is to remove the headings, (and perhaps to remove some of the superfluous information? Do we really need to know everything about you and your family? Do we really need to know every article you've edited?). Cheers, Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Response from Koro Neil

Hi A.J. You left a comment on my talk page a couple of weeks ago, and I answered you there. Recent contact with other Wikipedians indicates that perhaps I should have answered here, although I find it slightly muddling getting a response without immediately seeing what it's a response to. It often looks like a response to the thing immediately before it, when it's more likely to be a response to the response. Anyway, for what it's worth, I reproduce here my response (to your response to my response to the Blokes and Sheds deletion) slightly changed. Koro Neil (talk) 00:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi A.J. Good to hear from you. I first spotted you as a contributor to pages on places in Taranaki. I grew up in Waitara, apart from the first 19 months, when I lived in Midhirst. Although my parents were not churchgoers, I went to St John the Baptist Anglican Church as a child, but (ironically) became a Baptist at 16. However, the greater part of my Christian walk has been as an Apostolic, first in Christchurch, then here in Dunedin. But I don't really see my shift to the North East Valley Baptist Church in 2001 as a return. I have recently started taking services once a month in the Owaka Presbyterian Church, 110 or so km south of here. I also preach once, or occasionally twice a month in our own church. Interesting position for me, as the two churches are at different ends of the conservative evangelical spectrum.

Is there such a thing as an unorthodox Anglican? I mean, does anything count as unorthodox in Anglicanism? Oddly, I find that my shift from inerrantism doesn't stop God from speaking to me through Scripture. For example, there are things to be learned about the church if you're allowed to see the divide between Paul and James as possibly bigger than that between Protestantism and Catholicism. That's once you've sorted out that the two men gave different meanings to the words faith and works. So far as I can see, if you sorted out the church into Christians by Paul's definition or James's, you'd still end up with only one group of people. The Book of Jonah has a very "Once upon a time" feel to it, but if it's fiction, then it's divinely inspired fiction. Do I really believe that we may suffer because God has taken a bet with the devil? No, but the Book of Job says deep things about our human condition, and teaches us not to judge.

Not sure where I am these days on the Calvinism thing, except basically not. I was a moderate Calvinist (C.H. Spurgeon/Francis Schaeffer) for many years. Both hyper-Calvinism and an extreme Pelagianism sometimes seem to me to be valid these days. I even have the odd mystic moment of seeing them as really the same thing. I am a very great fan of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.

Boethius65 is a very close friend of mine. He shares with us a Taranaki upbringing (Eltham) and a Christian faith. He lived in Dunedin for quite a number of years, but moved a few years ago to Tokoroa.

Keep in touch. Koro Neil (talk) 00:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AUK

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[edit] GPS location for Tahora

Hi, I'm trying to add the GPS coords for Tahora, Otago but am struggling to find it on a map, and wondered if you could assist. According to Catlins River Branch it should be approximately 2km towards Glenomaru from Owaka, about 46°26′01″S 169°39′51″E / -46.433539, 169.664268. I've looked on the NZTopoOnline map but don't see it near Owaka. Thanks, XLerate (talk) 09:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gordon Cullen

Hello

I've understood that you originally created the page on Gordon Cullen - my grandfather! I was wondering whether this means you have control over the page (I am rather new to Wikipedia!) and if you are, whether I could sieze control of it from you. It's just that we, the Cullen family, would like to add some more details and photographs to it - to make it a stronger page as a whole!

Regards

PriceCullen

PriceCullen (talk) 15:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Charismatic Wikipedians

I've proposed to rename the user category Category:Charismatic Wikipedians. Since you are listed a member, you may be interested in participating in the discussion.--Tikiwont (talk) 13:38, 11 June 2008 (UTC)