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A cup of tea for you!

Hello, User:Vyselink. Thanks a lot for patrolling the JW pages. I know that these pages are often subject to criticism by fundamentalists. We have the same religious coincidences: I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and I am an agnostic. Darriellouiec4 (talk) 10:13, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Darriellouiec4 thank you very much. I try my best. Vyselink (talk) 13:55, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Russell and Adventism

Whilst I agree with your revert here, your edit summary isn't really accurate. Russell was very strongly influenced by Adventism, especially from 1870 through to 1877, and his contact with them could not legitimately be called 'extremely brief'. Even after his formal split with Barbour, Russell's end-times beliefs remained distinctly Adventist, as do the end-times beliefs of all resultant Bible Student sects (including Jehovah's Witnesses).--Jeffro77 (talk) 08:00, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

@Jeffro77: I agree. The influence of Adventism is clear on Russell and his beliefs, and my edit summary was definitely incorrect in using the term "extremely brief" in regards to his time with them. It was not my most thought out edit summary. Vyselink (talk) 15:21, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on

This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you voted on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Allow private schools to be characterized as non-affiliated as well as religious, in infobox?

Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

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• 15 June 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion.

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

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• 31 December 2015 RfC: RfC: Religion in infoboxes.

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

A federal question is an issue raised by a party, through their allegations, to invoke a federal court's jurisdiction; it is not raised by a court's opinion (see also Frankfurter's dissent commenting on dismissals in prior cases). So in the context of that article section, it was describing the State's argument that the case should have been dismissed because Gobitis's conclusive resolution of the issue meant no substantial federal question was raised by Walter Barnette's allegation that his children's First Amendment rights were violated by the school district's policy. Otherwise the passage makes no sense. If you like, we can rewrite it to say "plaintiffs" instead of "Barnette" to be less ambiguous. postdlf (talk) 13:07, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

I don't mind changing it to either plaintiffs or Barnett, as you make a valid point, just be sure if you are going to talk about Barnett you spell his name properly. It is Barnett, no ending "e" (as I'm sure you know, case names are often misspelled). How about this: "The state's principal argument was that the Barnett's raised no substantial federal question because Gobitis settled the constitutional questions raised by the flag-salute expulsions."

Also, unless I'm mistaken, I believe "Gobitis" should be italicized in that section, as it is referring to the case and not Walter Gobitas (again a misspelled case name). Vyselink (talk) 17:04, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

I changed it to "plaintiffs", and fixed the fmt of Gobitis. The Barnetts and John F. A. Sanford should have a special plaque at the Supreme Court Building dedicated to the victims of clerical errors. postdlf (talk) 23:17, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Fantastic. Vyselink (talk) 01:39, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

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