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Genesis creation whatever
Thank you for taking the semantic issues there seriously. It's heartening but all too rare to come across editors who understand that words have meaning and that meaning matters. Regardless of how it comes out (I'm betting on "no consensus," as always), discussing it with you is the kind of experience that makes editing here worthwhile to me.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 01:47, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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You are invited to join the discussion at Articles_for_deletion/Jews_and_Communism_(2nd_nomination). Thanks. MarkBernstein (talk) 21:33, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Matthew external link removal
What gives? Seems like wikihow would be ok.

50.242.132.209 (talk) 19:38, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * See WP:LINKSTOAVOID, numbers 10, 11 and 12. WikiHow is fine for what it is, but external links for a topic like the Gospel of Matthew (which is subject to much serious, academic literary, textual, and religious study) should just be links to the relevant primary texts and to mainstream, scholarly secondary literature and other such work on the topic, not to user-generated web content.    -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 05:30, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

thanks, take care [2] And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. [3] And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. [4] But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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 * The labs service has fallen far short of being reliable since we switched to it back in November. Do we need to explore other options? Is there a labs forum somewhere? Cheers. —Telpardec TALK  16:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The web service crashed. I'm thinking the access log became too large. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 19:08, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It seems to be working OK again. Thanks. —Telpardec TALK  19:44, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

robedbrim
YOU MAY USE ALL THESE INFO THERE

You cannot call Fist of all Islamic schools and branches as SUB-Denominations

 * list5 =
 * Sunni
 * Shia
 * khawarij

You cannot equate those listed above with the following tariqah/party/club/whatever the name you call

 * Ahmadiyya
 * Ibadi
 * Nondenominational
 * Quranism
 * Five-Percent Nation
 * Mahdavia

THIS TEMPLATE IS NOTHING BUT JUST AN INSULT TO 2 BILLION MUSLIMS
68.100.172.139 (talk) 21:05, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Sufi tariqah are NOT separate madh'habs
 * They are either sunni or shi'ite, therefore you CANNOT study them under Islamic schools and branches Approximately 90% of the overall Shi'ite population belongs to Imamiyyah.

68.100.172.139 (talk) 05:38, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

ISLAM IS DIVIDED INTO 3 MAIN SECTS
Five-Percent Nation, Mahdavia AND Ahmadiyya is not amongst them.... 68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:23, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1-Sunni 87-89%
 * 2-Shia 10-12%
 * 3-khawarij less than 1%

THE OTHERS ARE MISLEADING, less than 1% AND SHOULD BE WRITTEN DIFFERENT PLACES, THEY ARE LIKE Babism & Bahaism

 * Ahmadiyya
 * Nondenominational
 * Quranism
 * Five-Percent Nation
 * Mahdavia

YOUR TEMPLATE IS awkwardly PREPARED & ILL
68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

AHMADIYYA
This is something like Bahá'í Faith and Bábism which is not Muslim belief. Ahmadiyya is a NEW RELIGION with its own prophet...similar to Bahá'í Faith and Bábism which have their own prophet. Otherwise Judaism and christianity are supposed to be the same religion.. 68.100.172.139 (talk) 05:45, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * "Since its inception in 1889, the Aḥmadī movement has been one of the most active and controversial movements in modern Islam." — -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 05:58, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * IT IS A SUB*GROUP OF WHAT:

YOU CAN PUT IT SOMEWHERE ELSE with these Five-Percent Nation and Mahdavia..wherever they belong to!! otherwise YOU ARE CREATING new CATEGORIZATION???68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:33, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1-Sunni 87-89%
 * 2-Shia 10-12%
 * 3-Khawarij less than 1%

ISLAM IS DIVIDED INTO 3 MAIN SECTS
68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:28, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 1-Sunni 87-89%
 * 2-Shia 10-12%
 * 3-Khawarij + Druzes even less than 1%

IF YOU BELIVE THAT THEY ARE PART OF A MUSLIM COMMUNITY CLASSIFY THEM UNDER one of these

 * Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij

if you write ahmadiyya then YOU HAVE TO WRITE Alevi, Alawi, Druze, Nizari as well!!! 68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:41, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

IF THEY ARE MUSLIMS THEY SHOULD BE WRITTEN TO APPROPRIATE PLACES
in your template: BIGGER COMMUNITIES AND MADHHABS ARE NOT SHOWN.....
 * Alevi & Alawi ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE 1% OF ALL MUSLIMS
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% OF ALL MUSLIMS
 * but SMALL GROUPS LIKE ahmadiyya ARE WRITTEN AS IF THEY ARE A MAJOR BRANCH OF ISLAM
 * THESE ARE WRONG AND MISLEADING, YOU NEED TO CORRECT THEM AND STOP PROTENCTING THIS TEMPLATE SINCE YOU DONT KNOW THE TOPIC68.100.172.139 (talk) 09:07, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

INSTEAD OF THESE BIGGER GROUPS LIKE Alevi & Alawi AND Druze & Nizari
You are putting less important and small communities LIKE as if they are MAJOR branches.... 68.100.172.139 (talk) 09:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Quranism
 * Five-Percent Nation
 * Mahdavia

Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij
68.100.172.139 (talk) 09:27, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Any group or sect which cannot be classified under one of these is not a part of Dīn of Islam.
 * If you believe that it is a part of Dīn of Islam, so place it under any one of these: Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij
 * In addition, Alevi & Alawi are a part of the Dīn of Islam and THEY HAVE 1% population, then place it into template clearly
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% of Dīn of Islam, so place it into the template
 * IF YOU CANNOT, I.E. YOU ARE NOT EXPERT ON THE TOPIC just stop it O. K.
 * No one is saying that they are major branches. You say that they are not part of the Dīn of Islam.  That's great, maybe they aren't.  We don't take a position on that.  It does not matter what editors say nor even what the truth is.  We just follow what reliable sources say; see the core policy WP:V.    That's a citation from a reliable source which says that Aḥmadiyya is a part of Islam. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 16:19, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

THEY SHOULD BE ON PROPER PLACES IN YOUR TEMPLATE
The following groups have larger populations...

Dīn of Islam

 * Alevi & Alawi - THEY HAVE NEARLY 1% population of Dīn of Islam, then place it into template clearly!!
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% population of Dīn of Islam, so place it into the template

EVEN THE FOLLOWING SECTS
HAVE more members than Ahmadiyya, BUT YOU NEVER MENTION ABOUT THEM IN THE TEMPLATE!!!
 * Bektashi –
 * Mustaali –
 * Dawoodi Bohra –
 * Sulaimani Bohra –
 * Alavi Bohra –
 * Hebtiahs Bohra –
 * Atba-i-Malak –
 * Atba-i-Malak Badra,
 * Atba-i-Malak Vakil.
 * ON THE OTHER HAND, MINORITY PARTIES LIKE Five-Percent Nation OR Mahdavia IS BEING PRESENTED LIKE / THE EQUIVALENT OF Sunni & Shi'ite
 * therefore your template is absolutely WRONG and should be CORRECTED

68.100.172.139 (talk) 19:38, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Which reliable sources say that those groups are parts of Islam and not parts of Shia Islam or Sufism?
 * Why is the template absolutely wrong?-- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 20:22, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

YOU HAVE TO CLASSIFY ALL SECTS UNDER ONE OF THESE:
 * Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij

WHY DONT YOU MENTION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:

Dīn of Islam

 * Alevi & Alawi - THEY HAVE NEARLY 1% population of Dīn of Islam, then place it into template clearly!!
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% population of Dīn of Islam, so place it into the template

EVEN THE FOLLOWING SECTS
AS YOU DID IN Ahmadiyya 68.100.172.139 (talk) 22:40, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Bektashi –
 * Mustaali –
 * Dawoodi Bohra –
 * Sulaimani Bohra –
 * Alavi Bohra –
 * Hebtiahs Bohra –
 * Atba-i-Malak –
 * Atba-i-Malak Badra,
 * Atba-i-Malak Vakil.
 * Why do I have to classify all sects under one of those three? Under which of those do you think Ahmadiyya should be classified?
 * And I'm not sure what your question is asking. All of those things are mentioned many times throughout the encyclopedia.  Are you asking why they are not included in this template?  There is no expectation that every sub-grouping be included in this template.  Shia Islam is included.  Those sub-groups are largely included in the Template:Shia Islam and the Template:Ismailism templates. The Bektashi order is included in Template:Sufism. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 23:09, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

THERE ARE BIGGER GROUPS/ SECTs than AHMEDISM
WHICH ARE NOT IN THE TEMPLATE WHY DONT YOU PUT OR LIST THEM IF AHMEDISM IS ANOTHER SECT PUT IT SOMEWHERE BUT IT ISNT THE EQUIV OF sunni more than a billion nor equiv of shi'ite more than a 100 million according to your logic?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.172.139 (talk) 23:25, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Alevi & Alawi - THEY HAVE NEARLY 1% population of Dīn of Islam, then place it into template clearly!!
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% population of Dīn of Islam, so place it into the template
 * WHY dont you put Gülen movement next to Ahmadiyya

Similarly you have a private template of Ahmadiyya
Similarly you have a private template of Ahmadiyya as well. Therefore you cant put them there otherwise you have to put Druze & Nizari ++ Alevi & Alawi as well they are on Ismaili template O.K. Ahmadiyya is on Ahmadiyya template do you understand?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.172.139 (talk) 23:36, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * No one is saying that "Ahmedism" is the "equiv" of Sunni. Members on the template are not determined merely by the size of the associated population.  I've never read a single reliable source about the Gülen movement, so I certainly wouldn't try to put it on this template.  No, I do not understand everything you've written. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 02:16, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

please See French Template for Ahmediyye and Others
Template:Islam (FRENCH) SO THAT you may perform the necessary corrections68.100.172.139 (talk) 01:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * What are the necessary corrections? And why are they necessary? -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 02:15, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

THE MAIN BRANCHES ARE

 * Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij

if you claim that it can NOT be put under one of these titles, then it is a new religion, but not islam.
 * Since you are able to put all the following groups like

Alevi, Alawi, Druze, Nizari, Assasins, Gulen movement under one of these THREE main branches, namely Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij, in a similar way, you can classify Aḥmadī movement under one of them. If you claim that it is so special and cannot be classified under one of the 3 main branches of Sunni - Shi'ite - Khawarij; then the members of these groups, namely Alevi, Alawi, Druze, Nizari, Assasins, Gulen movement CAN CLAIM that they are very special as well. In that case, the names of Gulen movement, Alevi, Alawi, Druze, etc. SHOULD BE written besides the Aḥmadī movement, this is my opinion.
 * After examining this Template:Islam (FRENCH) Template:Islam in French, I've seen that they moved Aḥmadī movement under NEW MOVEMENTS, you may prepare a similar section and place Aḥmadī movement, Din-e Ilahi, Khojas, Nation of Islam, Five-Percent Nation, Malcolm X, Mahdavia under the title of NEW MOVEMENTS IN ISLAM. French template listed all these groups under Courants non reconnus par l’orthodoxie:

SEE: Template:Islam (in FRENCH) 68.100.172.139 (talk) 05:08, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Aḥmadī movement,
 * Din-e Ilahi,
 * Khojas,
 * Nation of Islam,
 * Five-Percent Nation,
 * Malcolm X,
 * Mahdavia
 * It's not a question of what members of groups can claim. Members of groups can claim whatever they want.  It's not even a question of what reliable sources can claim.  It's rather a question of what reliable sources do claim.
 * No one is saying that the Aḥmadī movement is a "MAIN BRANCH OF ISLAM". You say that if I claim that it cannot be put under one of those three titles, then it is a new religion.  That's just original research and is not allowed on this encyclopedia. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 06:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

LOOKS ABSOLUTELY WRONG
yOUR Aḥmadī movement is just an equivalent of the following: And you are just missing them..THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE, YOU HAVE TO LIST THEM AS WELL..AS THEY DID IN Template:Islam (in FRENCH) you are just incorrectly copying from other sourses 68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:11, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Din-e Ilahi,
 * Khojas,
 * Nation of Islam,
 * Five-Percent Nation,
 * Malcolm X,
 * Mahdavia

ACCORDING TO YOUR TEMPLATE, ISLAM IS A PART OF Aḥmadī movement
YES ISLAM IS A PART OF THESE THINGS: BECAUSE YOUR TEMPLATE JUST GIVES THEIR NAMES AS ISLAM...THAT JUST SHOWS YOUR INADEQUACY IN THIS AREA, BECAUSE ONLY THESE REPRESENT ISLAM GO AND READ A LITTLE BIT OF THIS Template:Islam (in FRENCH) 68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:17, 10 July 2014 (UTC) YOU ARE ASKING ABSCURD QUESTIONS AND EVEN THIS SHOWS YOR INCOMPETANCY IN THE AREA IF YOU ARE GOINGTO PREPARE IT DO IT PROPERLY YOU ARE NOT THE ONE WHO WILL DECIDE ON THIS JUST LESS THAN 0,1% OCCUPIES YOUR TEMPLATE: THIS CAN YOU TELL ME WHO ARE THESE GUYS AN WHY SHALL WE LEARN ABOUT THEM??? 68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:22, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Aḥmadī movement,
 * Nation of Islam,
 * Five-Percent Nation,
 * Mahdavia
 * Aḥmadī movement,
 * Nation of Islam,
 * Five-Percent Nation,
 * Mahdavia
 * Aḥmadī movement,
 * Nation of Islam,
 * Five-Percent Nation,
 * Mahdavia

otherwise delete sunni
we have a template for sunni as well you can delete it since totally abscurd!68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

you have to put these as well because I m telling you
The following groups have larger populations...

Dīn of Islam

 * Alevi & Alawi - THEY HAVE NEARLY 1% population of Dīn of Islam, then place it into template clearly!!
 * Druze & Nizari ARE NOT SHOWN WHICH ARE MORE THAN 1% population of Dīn of Islam, so place it into the template

EVEN THE FOLLOWING SECTS

 * Bektashi –
 * Mustaali –
 * Dawoodi Bohra –
 * Sulaimani Bohra –
 * Alavi Bohra –
 * Hebtiahs Bohra –
 * Atba-i-Malak –
 * Atba-i-Malak Badra,
 * Atba-i-Malak Vakil.68.100.172.139 (talk) 08:30, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

ahmadism SHOULD BE PLACED UNDER OF OF THESE GROUPS
68.100.172.139 (talk) 20:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Five-Percent Nation, Mahdavia & Aḥmadī movement

 * Quest:WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THESE THREE GROUP-SECT SO YOU LISTED THEM SEPARATELY?
 * Quest:WHAT WAS YOUR CRITERIA NOT TO PUT ANY OTHER GROUPS LIKE Din-e Ilahi, Alawi, Khojas, Druzes, Alevi, and Gulen movement?
 * ANSWERS: Because it is completely RANDOM because you are incompetent on the subject of discussion!!

ahmadism SHOULD BE PLACED UNDER OF OF THESE GROUPS

 * EVERYTHING IS RIDICULOUS ON THIS TEMPLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!68.100.172.139 (talk) 22:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Five-Percent Nation, Mahdavia & Aḥmadī movement

 * QuestION:WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THESE THREE GROUP-SECT SO YOU LISTED THEM SEPARATELY?
 * QuestION:WHAT WAS YOUR CRITERIA NOT TO PUT ANY OTHER GROUPS LIKE Din-e Ilahi, Alawi, Khojas, Druzes, Alevi, and Gulen movement?
 * ANSWERS: ........Write Your Answers Here                    

These are my answers (Dont copy and dont repeat them ) just give your answers
you already failed!

ahmadism SHOULD BE PLACED UNDER OF OF THESE GROUPS
68.100.172.139 (talk) 22:52, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I m the person who prepared french template
in case of help dont hesitate to ask me but you should make the necessary corrections instead of getting angry
 * you dont also have to ask the same quest again and again
 * just do necessary corrections you know what yor mistakes are68.100.172.139 (talk) 23:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
 * If you're discussing the template, just keep it to the template talk page. That's why I'm not responding here.
 * For the record, I haven't been angry in years. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 00:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

ANI notification (no troubles)
I mentioned you at ANI, in regards to the IP spamming on your and Dougweller's talk pages, as well as a template talk page and general... confusion on his part. Ian.thomson (talk) 00:38, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

New mail
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Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Noticeboard. John Carter (talk) 15:40, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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Equating COI editing to driving while intoxicated and potentially killing people is entirely inappropriate. Please do not restore the image.--v/r - TP 03:53, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * this all seems somewhat past, although the sting is still lingering. Atethnekos i am a bit surprised by your behavior.  Granted that TP was aggressive and grumpy.  Nonetheless, as a philosopher and someone who participates in DR, surely you can step back and see what is going on.  TP feels stigmatized for having admitted paid editing and feels hounded across WP for doing so.  Its a sensitive thing.   Maybe you were unaware of the drunk driving ad campaign underlying "friends don't let friends..." and just thought it was kind of funny, tongue-in-cheeky.  You've been made aware that the joke stung somebody.  By the person whose feelings it hurt.   Instead of actually hearing the other guy you just stuck to your rights.   Which you are free to do.  Is that really who you want to be?  Jytdog (talk) 03:57, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit surprised too. I disagree with so many things you've said here, I guess I just don't understand things well at all.  For example, you link to .   Well, what does that comment have to do with me?  If I'm to assume good faith—and I always try to—I would assume that that is not talking about me. Because then it would be saying that I was equating COI editing with drunk driving, when I had already expressly communicated that I was not comparing COI editing with drunk driving.  In that case the comment would be merely gainsaying my testimony about my own intentions without an argument as to why that testimony is false, and doing so without being forthright about it, and doing so when the case was already closed. Well, that's not a good faith assumption.  So I don't assume it.  I just assume that I don't know what that comment refers to.
 * Maybe that gives some insight into my the general principles behind my behaviour? This probably doesn't answer your question or concerns.  I am of course willing to elaborate.  There's just so much I could say in response to your comment here, I'm just afraid of saying too much at once.  But I can give you a specific response to any part of your comment or to any other questions. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 08:21, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You did make it clear that it wasn't your intention to equate COI editing with drunk driving. I never said it was.   But as you must know, once you say or write something, others will interpret it as they will.  TP (and others) have explained that the phrase "friends don't let friends X" has its roots in a 40 year old and ongoing public education campaign about drunk driving and and that other uses arise from, and get their charge from, that campaign.  Hopefully you are a big enough person to see that it is not a far leap for someone - especially someone who feels stigmatized over paid editing - to interpret the words in the framework of the drunk driving campaign.  Now there are countless examples of people saying things that unintentionally hurt other people - this happens all the time.   The question is, now that you know that your words hurt somebody what do you do?  That is the character question here. Not your intention when you said it but rather what you do now. Jytdog (talk) 11:52, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't deny that it is not a far leap for someone to do that. I don't know if it is a leap at all.  Here's maybe an example: An editor objects to someone's behaviour and says, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".


 * Do I deny that it is a far leap for someone to interpret those words in the framework of stoning women to death? I wouldn't deny that; that's actually one thing of which I myself think when I hear that phrase, since that's in which its roots are.


 * Could someone think that it's possible that the editor meant in some sense to compare the behaviour being decried and stoning women to death? Well, that's pretty harsh, but I suppose someone could do that.  In that case, one could ask if that was what was meant.  If the editor then responds that that was not what was meant, then I would think that the misunderstanding should thereby be sufficiently resolved.


 * Now, could someone not just think that it is possible that that is what was meant, but go farther and conclude with an assertoric statement that that is what was meant? That's, I would say, very harsh, but, again, someone could still do that.  If the editor then responds and says that that is not what was meant, and then shows many examples from well-reputed, peer-reviewed, academic publications (etc.) having equivalent usages of the phrase which show that it is normal in mainstream, English-language civil discourse, then I would think that the misunderstanding should thereby be sufficiently resolved.


 * I think that that last case is equivalent to what happened here. You add to this that I now "know that [my] words hurt somebody".  This is news to me.  From what I can tell, the objections said nothing about being hurt.  They said rather that my comment was "a polemic statement meant to piss people off", that there was a "major ad campaign against drunk driving and [I've] tailored it to COI editing" , that it is has an "obscene" meaning and that I "intended that meaning all along" .  Those objections said nothing about what the objector felt, but only about what I meant and what I intended (the objector supposedly having greater insight into those than me, which is false).  Now, if what you're saying is true, then I apologize:  I never meant to hurt anyone. Even if no one was hurt by my comment, I would avoid the phrase in similar contexts in the future.  If what you're saying is true (and I don't deny it), then I would be even more careful in such avoidance of the phrase.


 * Also, I would have no problem with someone replacing the sentence with one with a similar meaning like "Someone who actually wants to help another person should not enable that person to do something which is destructive, including editing with a COI." I'm not sure if changing at this point would be helpful or could be done within the WP:TPG, so I wouldn't try it myself; but, again, I'd be completely fine with such a change.


 * The principle though that users' comments can be edited by others merely on the basis that they contain phrases that are supposedly or actually hurtful when those phrases are part of normal, civil discourse within academia, is a bad principle. Especially when done so without even an indication on the page that the comment was edited by someone else. It harms any rigorous grounding for determining what is civil and what is not, and this would exacerbate the problem of intractable disputes about civility. -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 18:59, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * You are making this way more complex than it needs to be. This is not abstract and theoretical; it is just a messy interaction typical of humans.  You said something intended to be witty and what you said hurt someone's feelings. That person expressed their hurt in anger, as humans tend to do. You have reacted defensively, as humans tend to do.  The simple  thing for you to do is strike the comment and say:"hey sorry, didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings".  It is a simple thing. You of course are under zero obligation to do so and are free to be any kind of person you want to be.  Good luck to you, however you choose to proceed. Jytdog (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Just want to add here... thanks for your patience in engaging with me.  I said this in my first post above, but let me say it again to be sure.  Editing for pay is a topic that raises intense emotion at WP.  You probably know that.  What you may not know is that about a year ago, TP mentioned casually on Jimbo's talk page that he wrote an article for pay and had someone else post it.  Some editors immediately jumped on him for that (especially as he is an admin) and he feels that they have been harshly hounding him about it ever since. (I have heard this from several editors who have edited for pay - when they have disclosed their paid edits, some other editors have reacted harshly, personally, and sustainedly.... paid editing is evil in some editors' eyes and they pursue paid editors with some vengeance.)  It is a very emotional issue here.  TP can in general at times be harsh, and on this issue, (in my eyes) I have seen him act well, and act badly/harshly.  Again, in my view, he mostly reacts badly when he feels he is already being judged harshly before the other person has even engaged with him and instead are engaging with an "evil paid editor".  So yes he took your witty post very personally and very negatively and yes he deleted it.  In my eyes, that was an over-reaction out of hurt and built up frustration and anger at other people. I think he could have handled that much better.  So that is the background for his behavior, as far as I can see it.  Perhaps you didn't know all that.


 * Your "friends don't let friends" comment was indeed sustained at ANI and is still on the Talk page and you are totally within your rights to keep it there. You are the "winner".  Now...  I am sure you have seen lots of disputes at DR where neither party did a great job explaining clearly where they were coming from and neither party tried very hard to hear where the other guy was coming from. And where neither party is willing to do the simple things it takes to move forward and leave the dispute behind.   I hope this longer explanation was more helpful to you in understanding where TP is coming from (at least as far as I understand it). again, I came and wrote on your Talk page to say "hey, this is a festering thing and you could make it go away by simply striking (like this ) your comment and making a "hey sorry didn't mean it that way" apology in your edit note.  That's all. Is the comment itself so important to you?  Jytdog (talk) 21:16, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hi. Please read up on  WP:OUTCOMES before nominating  articles for deletion. You may  be able to  yourself and other editors some work. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:29, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
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 * The bibleversefinder tool hasn't worked for a month or so. Are you going to become active again, or do we need to pass the torch to someone else to maintain that tool? Also I have written a patch to the script to link to the new site for the NAB version. Cheers. —Telpardec TALK  11:22, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
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 * There was an email at WP:OTRS asking why the tool is still down. –Fredddie™ 00:41, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
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