User:Jenhawk777

"Mainstream" scholarship is defined by critical method, and what is verifiable historically, not by perspective or personal belief. Methodological naturalism does not require philosophical naturalism.

"But should we not seek the truth? Yes, of course. Nonetheless, as Maher said, like the volunteer writers of Wikipedia, we also must focus on "the best of what we can know right now." That is a statement of intellectual humility, not of relativism. Complex topics and problems do not lend themselves to easy assessments of truth in real time. Through broad sourcing, the Wikipedia model in theory moves us to closer approximations of what is true."


 * "Historical development does not go to, it goes from." (Isabella Lazzarini)

Hello and welcome to my user page.  I agree with the very high priority Wikipedia places on neutrality. In the years I've been here, I have learned that my fellow WP editors are generally just as committed to upholding this standard as I am. It's really quite an amazing thing when you stop and think about it - millions of people setting aside personal beliefs and opinions to uphold a standard that goes against natural tendencies.
 * My Essay On Neutrality

For better—and for worse — we are all influenced by our culture, race, nationality, gender, and ethics. We are all historically situated. The good news is, that does not have to prevent neutrality and objectivity.

Take Olympic judges for example. They must overcome their national biases to be decent judges, and part of that is the presence of the other judges from whom they want the same thing. As historian Thomas L. Haskell explains, "even a polemicist, deeply and fixedly committed" can cultivate neutrality insofar as they are willing to enter in to even a little empathy, and seeing how others see.

How exactly?
 * I. Be wary of overconfidence.
 * "The more certain you are about an opinion, the more likely you are to employ confirmation bias... Sometimes the best time to expose yourself to opposing views is when you are most certain you already have all the information you need".
 * "When you find evidence that contradicts your opinion, don’t assume you must either reject the evidence or abandon your opinion. Instead, consider modifying aspects of your original theory."


 * II. Confront all data
 * Test Yourself by looking for contrary evidence.
 * Leave behind the way we might prefer things to be and deal with the way things are.
 * Pure detachment is not possible, but, as economist Robert Solow says, “Just because a perfectly aseptic environment is impossible doesn’t mean one should conduct surgery in a sewer.”


 * III. Use Wikipedia's just and reasonable  Method. 


 * Vet your sources.
 * Learn how to recognize if an author neglects facts, fails to acknowledge opposing arguments, or dismisses contradictory studies. Their bias doesn't excuse yours.


 * IV. Use the same standard for all
 * Seek Consensus Submit your work to the unsympathetic. Listen. Peer reviews are worth their weight in gold.


 * V. No Personal attacks
 * Don't make them, don't let others get away with them. Contact an admin when needed. This is our online home, and we must all maintain it.
 * However, we must also be willing to listen to criticism and carefully consider it. We don't have to automatically agree - or disagree - but we should at least check it out for the sake of our own learning and maturing.
 * Admitting error doesn't actually cost anything. All of us are more than any one mistake.


 * VI. Enjoy being here. This is a wonderful opportunity. A thousand blessings on Jimmy Wales!


 * Cheers to all my fellow Wikipedian's! and Happy editing! Jenhawk777 (talk) 21:06, 30 April 2024 (UTC)


 * These steps are taken from the work of Michael Licona, from the Forbes Coaches Council on leadership: 15 Steps You Can Take To Fight Unconscious Bias; and from The Business Journal's Tips for overcoming and neutralizing your confirmation bias.

And here's a FUN You tube video:



Contributions:
Ambrose

Augustine of Hippo (section on Coercion)

Battle of Frigidus

Bible

The Bible and humor My first DYK? article!

Bible and violence - the very first article I ever worked on here on Wikipedia - needs work now

Biblical criticism (my first GA article)

Christianity and paganism

Christian ethics

Christianization

Christianization of the Roman Empire as diffusion of innovation

Chronicle of Arbela

Conversion to Christianity

GAR of Devil in Christianity

My first creation (rather than addition) - Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman

Ethics in the Bible

created Evolutionary theodicy

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Francis Drake

Historical Jesus

History of Christianity

Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire

History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance

History of Christianity

Irenaean theodicy

Massacre of Thessalonica

Martyrdom of Pionius

Persecution of Christians

Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Persecution of Christians in the post–Cold War era

Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire

Problem of evil

Christianity in civilization Role of Christianity in civilization

Religious persecution

Religious policies of Constantine the Great

Religious responses to the problem of evil

Theodosius I

Tunica molesta

Women in the Bible

Reviewed: Tourbillion Bulgaria; My first GA review of someone else's article succeeded!
 * As a reviewer:

So did my second: Indonesian Christian Student Movement! 

Reviewed W. Sterling Cary a really well done article and passed it. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:01, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Reviewed John 3:16 failed

Reviewed Papyrus 45 passed

Reviewed Devil in Christianity passed

Reviewed Christianity: failed

Reviewed Michael Miller: failed

Peer review of Megan Phelps-Roper that subsequently went GA

Works in progress:
History of Christianity

Of interest:
need to create: New (Neo) evangelicalism

need to create: Primitive Christianity

need to create: volitional epistemology and moral ecology

need to create: Wayne Meeks; Charity in early Christianity; The Confession of St. Patrick;

need an article on the Christian enlightenment during the early modern period.

need to create an article on Moore's book. Lots of articles available on it.

Add to Louis the Pious impact on church becoming less entangled with state


 * Frances Young
 * Early Christianity
 * The Bible and slavery
 * State (polity)
 * EPG model
 * First Great Awakening
 * Ulrich von Hutten
 * State church of the Roman Empire
 * Christianity and colonialism
 * Second Congo War
 * do this one first: Being and Nothingness
 * Peace and Truce of God - multiple issues
 * Albigensian crusade
 * Christian values is seriously bad - start class
 * Edict of Thessalonica has since been worked on by someone else; it looks better now
 * Christianity in the 8th century
 * Christianity in the Roman Empire
 * Christianity in late antiquity
 * Christianization of Europe


 * Persecution of pagans under Theodosius I - outdated scholarship
 * Wild animal suffering
 * Predation problem
 * Crisis of the Third Century
 * Damascius


 * Neoplatonism and Christianity
 * Pseudo-Dionysius
 * Roman polytheistic reconstructionism


 * Medieval technology


 * Christianity in the 1st century


 * Argument from nonbelief


 * Existence of God

Add to this one under Legacy: Apostles in the New Testament
 * Dorothee Sölle

Christianity in the 4th century

Christianity in late antiquity

From Gog:
 * Covenanters
 * National Covenant
 * Western Remonstrance?
 * Puritans

Ethics in religion

History of Christianity

Death penalty

covenant Covenant

Nativity Nativity

Judaizers Judaizers

Talk:Theodicy Theodicy

civil religion

atonement in Christianity Leviticus 18

Anti-Christian sentiment

Paul of Samosata

Criticism of atheism

Christian values

total rewrite has been suggested for Insider movement

added Toleration

Christianity and violence, my first bog of quicksand, doesn't look too bad.

Circumcellions imbalance

Supersessionism

Easter

Donald Guthrie (theologian)

Covenant (historical) needs citations

Spread of Christianity

Compadres
these are wonderful editors and people! I am so glad to have worked with them

Norfolkbigfish

Just Another Cringy Username editor capable of deleting what isn't necessary; helped on History of Christianity

Aza24 helps with music/arts

Wham2001 also corrects citations - man I love these guys, and I mean that literally!

AirshipJungleman29

Pbritti

P Aculeius

Czarking0

Avilich

Wehwalt

ActivelyDisinterested willing to help with correcting citations! YAY!

Extraordinary Writ

Mike Christie

Gog the Mild

Gerda

Farang Rak Tham

Josh

talk:Gråbergs

Andrewa

WikiProject Christianity

Mortee

Ermenrich

Buidhe

AlanM1

Nick Moyes

Gareth Griffith-Jones

PaleoNeonate

[]

Richard Keatinge

VR

User talk:RenanIL96

A. Parrot

Willbb234

do work in religion (also kind and helpful):

Josh Milburn semi-retired

WJ94

Midnightblueowl

Generalissima did the GA of history of Christianity

User talk:Werter1995 sources on H. of C.

User talk:Bishonen

User talk:Borsoka Middle Ages - lots of drama

User talk:AirshipJungleman29 Middle Ages

User talk:Generalissima

User talk:Seltaeb Eht Middle Ages

Help:
Ellipses require the placement of a "non-breaking space" before them: it's written with a & then nbsp and a semicolon

Avoiding common mistakes: first, know what they are.

Writing better articles

Simplified Manual of Style

Help:Table how to set up a table

Help:Shortened footnotes

The great and wonderful Teahouse! 

how to check images for copyright

] how to use multiple images

passing image review

alternative text for images

idea lab

rudeness

countering bias

MOS block quotes

how to do diffs

Wikitext

ANI

Dispute resolution

To include a pdf in a reference: Displays as: Aries, Myriam B. C. & Newsham, Guy R. (2008). "Effect of daylight saving time on lighting energy use: a literature review" (PDF). Energy Policy. 36 (6): 1858–1866. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2007.05.021. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
 * Include URL link to article, pre-print, or abstract.

Aries, Myriam B. C. & Newsham, Guy R. (2008). "Effect of daylight saving time on lighting energy use: a literature review" (PDF). Energy Policy. 36 (6): 1858–1866. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2007.05.021. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
 * Displays as:


 * If the linked document is PDF, but the extension is not .pdf or .PDF, you may add the parameter |format=PDF, which displays " (PDF)" after the link.


 * On a Talk page, when including references, place Talkref between double curly brackets at the end just before signing


 * Redirect: create the new page and add: #REDIRECT Article name  as the sole text on the old article

use: (two curly brackets) Copied|from= |from_oldid=|to= |to_diff= (two curly brackets)
 * splitting: remember to add an edit summary when copying content, have thought about which categories and external links you will need to add and what the new lead will look like, then just type the name of the new article somewhere, This is my new article name (like in your sandbox, or in to the search engine), and click on it, and you will see “you may create this page”, click on that, and create the page. Then copy your content in to there making sure the edit summary says, “copied from” the old article name with a live wikilink. You will need to have two different windows open in your browser ... the one you are copying from and the new article you are copying to. Try not to save the new article until you have added a proper lead sentence and categories so the new page patrollers won’t have you :). And don’t forget to add the references section. You can worry about deleting content from the old article after you have the new article working, but again, when you delete the content from the old article, be sure to say in edit summary, “content moved to” with a live link to the new article. Basically, you are just creating a new article and the only thing that is really crucial is that you follow WP:CWW by indicating in edit summary where you got the content. Then, don’t forget to tag the new article talk page with the Wikiproject tags that are on the old article. Heartfelt thanx to Sandy Georgia for interpreting WP instructions!

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