User:Paulmnguyen/Archive2010c

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I saw on your userpage that your were interested in joining a Canon Law WikiProject. Please join "my" WikiProject Canon Law. Thanks and may God bless you and your vocation (I'm discerning the priesthood)! CanonLawJunkie (talk) 23:57, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

GOCE Backlog Elimination Drive Wrap-up
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Contemplative Prayer
I've reverted the change on the Contemplative prayer article, because the link is self-published research/material. The link DOES reference potential verifiable sources, so if you believe the Wiki article is missing something in regards to Contemplative Prayer, please consider editing the article to include it. In the past, this article (and similar religious articles) have been targets for malicious "discernment ministry" link attacks (which are also - similar to your link - articles about the subject, but primarily original research). As an editor of this article (and similar ones), I've tried to be consistent in the way that WP:V, WP:EL, WP:NOR and WP:NOT are applied, both in the case of proponents and opponents of the article's subject.--Lyonscc (talk) 14:15, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip - I added a piece sourced in the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the views section. I see what you mean about the nature of my previous source. Paulmnguyen (talk) 16:15, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I was just reading through some info on WP:CATHOLICISM and found an article tag that refers to the Catholic Encyclopedia (the source that I reinstated in Contemplative prayer). According to the Wikipedia article on Catholic encyclopedia, it is a proper (though obsolete; the Catechism of the Catholic Church takes its place today) Church document from 1913, and is therefore ultimately verifiable, because it once stood as an authoritative reference for the Roman Catholic Church. It probably should have been cited more specifically than it was when I first edited the article, but it is not "self-published research/material" as you first warned. The fact that it is hosted on NewAdvent.org is a result of the digitization's origin as a personal project, as indicated in its article. Again, I'm learning how Wikipedia works and what flies and what doesn't, so I greatly appreciate you looking out for the quality of content here. Thanks! -Paulmnguyen (talk) 01:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, excellent! You are correct - it was the site host, etc. which made it appear to be self-published.  Just wondering (since I'm not an expert in Catholicism) - if the Catholic encyclopedia is obsolete and replaced by the Catechism, should we try to use references from the latter source in the article, rather than the former one(since the latter is current practice)?  Blessings.--Lyonscc (talk) 12:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe so; it is just as well that I sourced that article in the Catechism now. -Paulmnguyen (talk) 12:55, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
I just wanted to thank you for taking your time to copy edit the "Ni Es Lo Mismo Ni Es Igual" article. And thanks for that big change on that sentence structure. Magiciandude (talk) 05:21, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * You're very welcome! Paulmnguyen (talk) 22:08, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks from the GOCE
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39th Infantry Division (United States)
Thanks so much for the work on this article. I really appreciate the time that you spent working on it.Damon.cluck (talk) 01:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem. Between my initial sweep and Diannaa's much finer-toothed comb, you're in pretty good shape. -Paulmnguyen (talk) 01:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikify Drive
Since you signed up for the September 2010 GOCE event, I wanted to invite you to participate in a similar event: the September 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. In case you didn't know, "Wikification" is the process of formatting articles using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and adding internal links to material. Barnstars will be awarded to participating editors. Thanks!

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GOCE drive has begun
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Welcome to WikiProject Catholicism!


Hello,, and welcome to Wikiproject Catholicism! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Catholic Project Wikipedian! If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can see a list of open tasks, and come to the Project talk page, where you can join in our discussions about Catholic-related articles. We can always use help with the project itself, and on main project pages such as Catholic Church which are sometimes subject to vandalism and poor content changes. Feel free to discuss anything on the project, but please remember to sign all your comments, and help us to make all of the many Catholicism-related articles much better. Again, welcome, and happy editing!

Theoria
Thank you for your work. I am no expert and the article is based on the sources given- primarily Vladimir Lossky's Vision of God. LoveMonkey (talk) 22:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem! The article was tagged for copy-edit and we're having a drive this month to clean up all the articles that have been tagged since 2008 - an editor kind of gave up on a first pass because the content was so difficult to get through, so I decided to put in some extra effort to reorganize it; he's since come back to refine it further. If you think you might be up for some copyediting, check out the Guild - it can be fun and you can start with short articles to get some practice (the Theoria article, at over 4000 words, is pretty daunting if you're just starting out). Cheers! Paulmnguyen (talk) 23:25, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmmmmmm............
I'm not going to "tattle" or anything like that, but I noticed you gave yourself credit for Puran Bhagat......although you admitted it needed a major re-write and "wasn't ready" for copyedit. Admittedly, you worked on it......that's for certain. Do you think that's terribly ethical? Granted, we're just getting barnstars.....not cash payments or anything.....but still.............Buddpaul (talk) 03:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess I shouldn't have put it down as counting on my drive credit. Removing the copyedit tag because it needs major rewrite (or for any valid reason) would reduce the backlog, which is the actual goal, so maybe I should have an article count but not the word count for this one? I don't mind dropping it entirely - I see your point in my efforts there being misleading. Had it been a significantly longer article that needed major rewrite, I would have done that and copy edited it (as in Theoria). Thanks for the tip! -Paulmnguyen (talk) 12:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

GOCE newsletter
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Hugo von Hohenlandenberg
Dropping you a line in case you don't have this watchlisted - or in case your watchlist is so huge you don't notice :-) I've retranslated the section, using the latest version of the German article and at one point adding material from a related article that the German one refers readers to, but that we don't have. Hidden comments at all points of change. Hope this version is adequate. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! That was a great help! -Paulmnguyen (talk) 01:23, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

More shiny stuff

 * Thank you! It was my pleasure to help out. –Paul M. Nguyen (chat&#124;blame) 19:12, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Ack! Sorry about that!
Re:Natural Language Support Object: Actually, I'm not at your level of software knowledge, just looked liked it was. Which is why in my edit summaries I say 'apparent' reference(s), not 'definite', whenever I remove unreferenced tags. That said, if you want to correct that edit, it's ok by me, since my edits on Wikipedia are most decidedly not written in stone. As for orphan tags, I usually don't touch them, unless they're typoed.(I think that one was in parentheses, not bracket..hmm, not sure about that, I'll look it up in the revision log and get back to you on that. :-> As for putting the article up for deletion, I leave that up to you. My expertise is in removing uncatgory tags and/or grammar fixing & I usually put up empty categories for deletion, articles not so much. Anyhoo, like I said, will check out the article and get back to you soon. Alvin Seville (talk) 23:52, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

The October 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive is about to begin!
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Canon law and clergy sexual abuse questions
Please see TalK:Catholic sex abuse cases, where I believe some input from someone directly knowledgable about canon law would be appreciated. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 16:03, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I am not actually that knowledgeable about Canon Law to answer those questions at this time. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. –Paul M. Nguyen (chat&#124;blame) 00:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, I understand, believe me. Thanks for the response. :) John Carter (talk) 00:57, 30 September 2010 (UTC)