User talk:GMB3

Proposed deletion of Gary M. Burge


The article Gary M. Burge has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Acalycine talk 07:21, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Gary M. Burge, November 2013.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Gary M. Burge, Willow Creek Community Church, 2013.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Gary M. Burge, Willow Creek Community Church, 2013.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Gary M. Burge, November 2013.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Gary M. Burge, November 2013.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Cindy ( talk ) 12:20, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Your inquiry
Hello,

I responded to your questions on my talk page.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  06:55, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Gary M. Burge
Hi GMB. Thank you for your post on my talk page. The good news is that you seem to have a basic idea on how to write a Wikipedia Biography, a not so common thing to understand for new users. The problem with the Gary M. Burge article is that only one of the seven sources in the article are independent of Gary M. Burge. Gary is the author of source 2, 3, 6, and 7, so those are not independent of Gary. Gary works for source 1 and 4, so those are not independent of Gary. You need to remove the information in the Gary M. Burge article that is sourced to sources 1-4 and 6-7. As for source 5, by Amstutz, you did not summarize what Amstutz wrote about Gary's life or Gary's written thoughts. There are six places in the Amstutz book where Amstutz mentions Burge. There are chronological beliefs/events in Gary's life set out in the Amstutz book that are fair game for the Gary M. Burge Wikipedia article, none of which appears to be in the Gary M. Burge Wikipedia article. For example, "In 2004 (or the correct date), Burge believed that a purpose of the Mosaic covenant, a biblical covenant between God and the biblical Israelites, was to make it clear to the Israelites what faith-obedience was needed to participates in the benefits of the promises to Abraham." That can be sourced to the Amstutz book. Think about it this way: the Amstutz book is an independent, reliable source. Amstutz knows much of Gary's work/life events, but made decisions to only include some of it in Amstutz's book. The work/life event selection by Amstutz about Gary M. Burge is the nuggets Wikipedia is after. Wikipedia is not interested in what Gary M. Burge thinks of himself or what Wikipedian editors think of Gary M. Burge. Instead, Wikipedia wants to capture the editorial decisions of independent, reliable source about a topic. Once you mined the Amstutz book for information about Burge, then you move on to the chronologically next independent, reliable source about Burge and mine that for information about Burge. Place all that independent, reliable source information in chronological order in a Wikipedia article, and you will have created a perspective of Burge that appears no where else - a representative survey of the relevant literature. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Your user name
Your user name GMB3 and edits to the Gary M. Burge raise the issue of WP:IMPERSONATE. GMB3, if you are Gary M. Burge, then you may need to prove you are who you say you are. You can do this by sending an email to info-en@wikimedia.org; be aware that emails are handled by a volunteer response team, and an immediate reply is not always possible. If you are not Gary M. Burge, then you should select a different user name, one that does not imply that you are (or are related to) a specific, identifiable, living person. -- Jreferee (talk) 11:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Hold the phone!
(Reply to your post). You came to learn more about how Wikipedia operates and you have! From the outside, Wikipedia looks like people merely write things and post them. However, it takes at least three months of participation in Wikipedia to 'get it'. Some of the big ones - No Wikipedian opinions/view (e.g., WP:Original Research) in articles, don't use anything source connected with the subject in the Wikipedia article - are completely opposite of what people think when they think writing. Isn't the best source of information about a person the person themselves? Everywhere else, yes; in Wikipedia, no (it's the worst! well, almost the worst). Also, you are allowed to write about yourself, you generally just can't make those post in Main/Article space (Wikipedia is divided into "namespaces" - see Namespace). Craig Blomberg (stub-class) and I. Howard Marshall (start-class) are not good examples to follow. The best are FA-class articles, but B-class articles are good enough. A good example is Steve Cuozzo (B-class), which I recently posted. If you are looking to run a group to help write Wikipedia biographies, I'm more than willing to help out to show them the steps needed to construct Wikipedia biographies. In fact, School and university projects is dedicated to what you propose: A project where your grad students write biographies that fit in Category:New Testament scholars. If you start such a project, let me know and I will be happy to help out. In the mean time, If you have a topic in mind for a New Testament scholar biography, I'd be happy to write it so you can get a better idea of what goes into a Wikipedia biography. -- Jreferee (talk) 03:21, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Gallica
In reply to this post, your 18:18, 30 December 2013 name change request was removed 04:00, 2 January 2014. The reply noted that the requested username is already registered, but you can usurp the name by filing a request at WP:CHUU. -- Jreferee (talk) 03:00, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Gary M. Burge does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! ukexpat (talk) 17:38, 19 January 2014 (UTC) ukexpat (talk) 17:38, 19 January 2014 (UTC)