Talk:Jonathan Skinner

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Columns by Skinner within the last 12 months per Lexis/Nexis[edit]

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Western Daily Press, December 28, 2005 Wednesday, Pg. 12, Unravelling mystery of code of life Argues from a scientific background that the nature of the universe (particularly the ubiquity of the golden ratio is evidence for intelligent design of the universe.
Western Daily Press, February 7, 2006 Tuesday, Pg. 12, Value systems on collision course Comments on the Mohammed cartoon controversy.
Western Daily Press, March 7, 2006, Does God have a place in politics Comments on Tony Blair's statement that God would judge him for the Iraq invasion. (1 letter to the editor)
Western Daily Press, January 17, 2006, Religion is not a source of evil Rebuttal oif BBC special featuring Richard Dawkins. (results in 4 letters to the editor, 3:1 against Skinner)
Bath Chronicle, November 30, 2005, notice of Skinner's book and date of upcoming lecture.
Western Daily Press, December 3, 2005, book review.
A column in the Bristol Post on Sept 1, 2005 about teen sex provoked a strong reaction from a pregnant teen charity.

He has other columns going back at least to 2001 on a wide range of cultural issues including pornography, the clash between Muslim sensibilities and freedom of speech, fighting AIDS in Africa. In 2001 and 2002, some columns in the Bristol Post identified him as an expert on the Middle East and he wrote about the Iraeli-Palestinian conflict from his Biblical perspective.

Other mentions in media[edit]

Bath Chronicle, June 17, 2005, mentioned in an article about town festivities commemorating 60th anniversary of end of WWII.
Bath Chronicle, July 26, 2004, local church leaders oppose plans to double the size of the Bath Half-Marathon, an annual event scheduled in 2005 for Palm Sunday. Quoted as one of several prominent church leaders in town.
Western Daily Press, July 13, 2004, quoted in article about public reaction to Pop Idol winner making lewd gestures on TV.
Bath Chronicle, March 20, 2004, quoted in a story about The Passion of the Christ.

Thatcher131 20:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bad faith with the AfD[edit]

The AfD was a no consensus due to many new and inconsistent users voting keep. It was recently uncovered at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of TRACS members that a banned user User: Jason Gastrich (banned according to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich) has been using a personal website to send people to wikipedia to keep all Christian related articles despite the reasons for deleting them. Many susepct users voted keep in votes Michaelwmoss (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) in both AfDs and others have openly admitted being sent by outside groups to keep the articles.[1] However, a Gastrich supporter hints that he was sent to AfDs by Gastrich yet refuses to clarify his answer.[2] This is deceitful and in violation of wikipedia policy. Arbusto 20:35, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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But I don't see why people would have to be persuaded to keep the article...the evidence that was provided was all legitimate and valid and almost certainly certified his notability. I certainly didn't use any sort of underhand persuasion to sway votes. I've read all the evidence and certainly believe that the criteria for inclusion of biographies have been met. Abbyemery 21:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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