User talk:Tryster

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Tryster! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Polly (Parrot) 02:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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[edit] Neil Patrick Carrick and related articles

Sir; while I appreciate that you are trying to improve the articles in question, there is a concern that some of the editors involved may have a conflict of interest with the articles. This means that they have opinions one way or the other about the article subject, and as such are strongly discouraged from editing said articles. I'm an administrator on this site, with the tools to block users and protect pages and the responsibility to do so when I feel that policies are being broken.

As such, I must ask that you have a read of WP:COI (just so you know the reasons the tags are up, as I don't know who has added personal information to the article). I'm very wary about any additions or retractions from the GGWO article, as Wikipedia has faced legal action from similar religious organisations in the past (Church of Scientology, anyone?) I'm vaguely against cult-ish churches as a rule (or rather, wary about articles on them), so I keep an eye on them. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 20:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The tags are there to suggest that there might be a conflict of interest, not that the articles may be unbalanced. You can write a perfectly balanced article, but the fact that you write (or used to write) for religious journals means that there is a chance that you could be biased. As such (I've read your work and it seems very neutral, but then again I'm not unbiased either), the article needs to be read by people who have no interest or knowledge of the subject matter. The tag is there to alert those users that the article may need to be looked at - I'm sure you understand (no hard feelings meant!) Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 18:50, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Greater Grace World Outreach

Please note that I recently performed some BOLD edits to Greater Grace World Outreach in hopes to help clarify and bring neutrality to the article, however there is still some major work that needs to be done since I do not have enough background information. I am simply coming in as an edit to help clean-up the mess. :) Please see my comments on the article talk page, along with some in-line comments in the article. Tiggerjay (talk) 18:06, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Greater Grace World Outreach

Thank you for your involvement with editing this page and your interest in having a consensus reached in this article so the block can be lifted and the article to be brought to some sort of consensus. I was brought in by a request on the Christianity Project page to have someone review the article. I have absolutely no former knowledge of GGWO, nor any particular bias. All I can tell you it in its current state, it looks like an absolute disaster (both the article, and the organization as a whole). My hopes is to help bring the interested editors to the table on the talk page to resolve the conflicts and have the page properly created/edited. Please take a moment to go over to the talk page and review my most recent postings. Also do no be alarmed as your earlier comments/posts were refactored and archived (there is a link available on the page to the archive). My post is only one of several which will hopefully help guide this page towards something everybody can agree is appropriate. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your identity

Tyster: It appears that you are also IP User: 71.65.13.229 when not logged on. For the sake of the dispute/edit war at GGWO, may I recommend that you always be logged on so it shows you edits as Tryster instead of 71.65.13.229. If an edit war develops again (I hope not), then you might get flagged or thought of to be a sockpuppet or using your IP address to hide your real identity. Again, this is simply a friendly suggestion. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I apologize I tend to have a lot of windows open and I often forget that I am not logged in. I will try to make a better effort of making sure I am.

Tryster (talk) 14:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 01:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GGWO

Tryster: Lets try to work on consensus among the gruop before you begin interjecting your ideas on what the article should look like. I moved your edits to the archive section for now. For the moment, lets concentrate on getting everybody on the same "goals" before we talk details and symantecs. Give it 24 hours and hopefully the editors will have responded by then. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:36, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Carl Stevens

Please be a bit more careful before you create redirects for common names. Carl Stevens has already been linked from other pages which are in regards to other people. As such, it is best to leave Carl Stevens as a disambiguation page. Additionally, realize that you left a broken link between GGWO and Carl H. Stevens Jr. since you omitted the Jr. portion, as such I created a Carl H. Stevens redirect for you. Tiggerjay (talk) 06:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fresh Prospective

Please take a moment while on your break to contribute to non-religious / non-christian / non-GGWO (or even related to GGWO) while you're on break. Spend your time contributing to anything else that interests you... It would be a great break and give you an opportunity to work on editing an article with like minded contributors. Tiggerjay (talk) 22:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GGWO Infobox

Tryster, I was intrigued by your edit here [1] which really added no information to the article except to define what GGWO might or might not be? Such as humanitarian efforts, if they aren't involved in any and/or you don't know, what is the purposes of stating this? Additionally the "3 or more" for the schools would be considered unreliable, since there is no accurate, reliable source for this information. However, instead of reverting your edit, I decided to post this question on your talk page first. Respectfully, Tiggerjay (talk) 16:03, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

If you note the polity was changed. Its very well known they are not congregational. It is obvious they have at least 3 of each of these kinds of schools. For as the rest it might make sense to hide those catagories. Tryster (talk) 04:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)