User talk:Mbecker1749

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your work on von Hofmann and Elert. We really appreciate your contributions! Runner1928 (talk) 16:10, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Suspected copyright violation
I have removed some text that you added to the wikipedia article Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann. You can see a more detailed explanation of why I have deleted it on Talk:Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann

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If you do not think that the text I deleted is under an external copyright then please explain why you think that to be true at Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems, and do not reinstate the text unless there is a consensus on that talk page that the text is not under an external copyright.

-- PBS (talk) 21:53, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Matthew Lee Becker (May 19)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Calliopejen1 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:17, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Matthew Lee Becker, from its old location at User:Mbecker1749/sandbox/Matthew Lee Becker. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Sulfurboy (talk) 20:16, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Expulsion of Matthew L. Becker from the LCMS (June 25)
 Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Expulsion_of_Matthew_L._Becker_from_the_LCMS Articles for creation help desk] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Chris troutman was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Wikipedia is not here for Matt Becker to salvage his reputation online. It appears this is an autobiography with an eye to whitewashing the erstwhile preacher's apparent heresy in his community. The citations are Becker's publications, which fail [{WP:SPS]]. You have the writing of Lilly Fowler which isn't enough for WP:GNG and you have sources like these congregations telling the subject to repent. I don't see a real claim of notability.

Chris Troutman ( talk ) 01:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

How is the content of this entry different from the following entries?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tietjen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Benke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminex

The national coverage of the expulsion of the subject of this entry was not merely reported on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch but also in other news outlets, including the Washington Post and the Christian Century, as indicated in the draft. The dissent group that the subject helped to found is referred to in two scholarly books. The entry is not an autobiography nor is it an attempt at "whitewashing" the subject's reputation. The entry provides factual data about a significant event within the history of a major US Protestant denomination (the 10th largest in the US). Nor is the subject an "erstwhile preacher." He is a tenured professor who teaches at a prominent liberal arts university in the mid-western United States, and who holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the University of Chicago. He was twice elected secretary of the largest geographical district of the LCMS (comprising more than 65,000 people in more than 260 congregations). If the entry merely relayed information about an internal dispute within a tiny sect in the US, it wouldn't have been as widely reported as it was, e.g., on the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in the Washington Post, in the Christian Century, on the front page of the Lutheran Forum Letter, and in Christian News. The controversies concern matters that are disputed in many conservative Christian denominations today, namely, six-day creationism and the ordination of women. The citations are not merely from the subject's publications but from other sources. The several districts from across the country that submitted resolutions against the subject represent more than 300,000 people from more than 1,000 congregations, not merely a few "congregations."

Your draft article, Draft:Expulsion of Matthew L. Becker from the LCMS


Hello, Mbecker1749. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Expulsion of Matthew L. Becker from the LCMS".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 01:56, 27 December 2020 (UTC)