User talk:One Salient Oversight/ - archive 2

Workin' the ol' glory railroad
Thanks, OSO. I have been patrolling spirituality/new religious movements generally, and found myself sort of drawn over to this area through an "upbringing/family connection" interest; my own POV runs a little south of neutral on these guys, but I don't believe I have any lasting chip on my shoulder. I have been thinking of doing a little info-mining in the Church Growth Movement/Cell Church/G12 Movement area, since this is something family members are now talking about, unless laziness wins out. Now, to stir trouble: I would actually suggest rewording the category name into "Charismaticism and Pentecostalism," since that's a nice noun-form, but I've never actually seen the word "Charismatic" in any form but as an adjective. Anyway, pleased to make your acquaintance, I'm sure I'll be bumping into you further in this area, and I'll be back to confer with you as questions and issues develop. --Gary D 00:01, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Branham etc.
Yes, I understand how it seemed. It looks like I have stumbled into a controversy (outside Wikipedia) here. I certainly don't think Branham was anything special, I arrived there from the Timeline of unfulfilled Christian Prophecy page. The quote from Burgess and McGee (which both you and I found) seemed rather to overshadow the WCC thing. The sermon I looked at (and referenced), if anything contradicted it. "Gather the tares into bundles - Lutherian, baptist... are in the WCC" to paraphrase. Which would imply that that was one bundle of several. Cursory (I admit) research seemed to indicate that the "1977" element of his predictions was personal, not prophetic. To err is human (even if Brnham did it (in terms of facts) rather more than most). The references you gave seem to support this.

I have made some more edits to the Branham page, perhaps you could glance at them (some may underestimate his import).

Then I suggest re-inserting the "1977" under the "anomolies" section, as a prediction rather than a prophecy.

I see you are knowledgeable about the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements, can you confirm whether he was a major influence on the three movements mentioned in the article?

Is it possible to identify his seven prophecies and put them in the article? I find the "egg shaped car" rather amusing, but I couldn't (easily) find a definitive list of the prophecies. Rgds Rich Farmbrough 08:58, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Branham was instrumental in getting the Latter Rain Movement going in the 50s and 60s. It was so strange that the Assemblies of God declared it a heresy. Branham's teachings have been modified somewhat but are still being felt in the Charismatic and Pentecostal churches through things like Manifest Sons of God and Kingdom Now theology - the latter I believe has some major impact on how Christians in the US will vote at the next presidential election.


 * Thanks for dispelling any concerns I have. I'm fairly happy with the changes you are suggesting.


 * As far as his seven prophecies - I admit that I don't know a huge amount about the guy except some of the major stuff (including his denial of the Trinity). I suggest you search that South African website with a Google advanced search, looking for "seven prophecies" on that site.


 * Egg shaped car? I have no idea what this has to do with Branham but if it was received during one of his visions then I am not surprised. It might even make a good entry on the Timeline page if it is a prophecy. One Salient Oversight 10:06, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I've put somethng up about his prophecies. Number 5 is the car.  Also a reference to a site where they have extracted and highlighted (from his 1100 recorded sermons!) his prophecies. Rich Farmbrough 10:18, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the kind compliment on the Branham article, OSO! Now let's loop back to that other talk page, collect avnative, and "bring it on home" regarding the new category issues below. --Gary D 06:19, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

Proposal for a new category(ies) on Christian fundamentalism and Christian evangelism
Hey, OSO, I told you I'd be back to you sometime, only it turns out to be sooner than later. I think we need a new category to capture Christian fundamentalism and Christian evangelism. This came up as I had originally tagged Hell house with Category:Charismatic and Pentecostal Topics and someone threw that off, noting Hell houses were not an exclusively Pentecostal phenomenon. I am inclined to agree; this sort of thing is not really tied to "Spirit gifts" type of thinking at all. There are a number of common-thread articles that I think a new category could pick up, including, aside from Hell house, Christian fundamentalism, Jack Chick, Fire and brimstone, Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka), what I might be tempted to call the "darker side", though I'm sure there are adherents proud of all the above. The big question would be whether to put fundamentalism and evangelism together, as in Category:Christian fundamentalism and evangelism, or whether to keep them separate as two categories, Category:Christian fundamentalism and Category:Christian evangelism. Obviously, in either scheme we could plug in Category:Television evangelists as a subcategory. Let me know whether you would be in favor of one combined category or two separate ones. Thanks. --Gary D 07:34, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * I have never, ever, heard anything like the Hell house until I followed your link above. I class myself as a Born again Christian but I am constantly amazed as to the stupid things that get associated with Christian faith. Sheesh!!!


 * By the way, I think the correct term is Evangelicalism rather than Evangelism. The former is a proper noun, the latter is a verb.


 * I think your idea is a very good one. I was the one who started category:Charismatic and Pentecostal Topics so I suppose I should expand this idea a bit further. Although I think Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism are different but related, I think they are closer together than Evangelicalism and Pentecostals/Charismatics. Your suggested Category:Christian fundamentalism and evangelicalism is probably a good starting point. If lots of information gets included and a disparity exists then it can be split into two quite esaily in the future.


 * In the spirit of Wikipedia, I hearby dub you responsible for creating this category! One Salient Oversight 10:02, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Your wish is ever my command, sahib...and the red link goes blue! --Gary D 10:20, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * I have now, on my talk page, responded to your very kind comment. G'night. --Gary D 11:55, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * All the pertinent material regarding Pollinator has now been moved to and collected at Category talk:Christian fundamentalism and evangelicalism --Gary D 04:04, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Star Wars comment in Hubbert Peak talk
I removed the comment below. I have no idea what it has to do with the Hubbert Peak or why it was there. GuloGuloGulo 04:50, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

One more thing Mr Anonymous user. Natalie Portman's resemblence to Keira Knightley is actually an important thing to have in both articles. In The Phantom Menace we all thought that Natalie Portman played both Queen Armidala and Padme, her maidservant - who was dressed up as queen. We all thought it was just a matter of digital wizardry. The fact is that Keira Knightley played Padme dressed up as queen while Portman actually played the queen.

It all makes me want to become a Graphic designer in Ryde!

One Salient Oversight 00:21, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I Was Testing If You Were a Wacko
Sorry, my interest in and edit of your Kingdom Now theology article was my way of testing if you were a wacko. Since then I have determined you probably are not a wacko, though you are misguided regarding the inclusion of additional tar sands info into the peak oil page. Zen Master 06:35, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

*honk*!
Hey, I support an MTS worker. Where did you do your church work? - Ta bu shi da yu 11:35, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Actually, irony is a conservative white Anglo-Saxon Sydney Anglican from Berowra moving to Strathfield and getting mixed up with a independent Chinese church that bases their management model on Presbyterianism :) Incidently, one of my mates is now starting up a Chinese ministry in St Paul's right now. Sorry to hear the minister told you not to go into ministry (I hope he qualified it with "full-time paid" as I see every day as a Christian's ministry). Good to see you're in Newcastle now though. Might look you up one day. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:56, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Tar Sands
Sure OSO, I definitely want to resolve these issues in a reasonable manner. What didn't you like about my changes? See my most recent response on the Hubbert Peak Oil talk page, my tar sands changes may be the essense of our disagreement, a nomenclature disagreement. If your tar sands page issues are somewhat different from the Hubbert Peak controversy it might be easiest if we discuss it on the tar sands talk page? Zen Master 13:21, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Andy Bell
You've done a fair bit on Ride, and i'm trying to build up the Oasis bit. You couldn't Help me out with the Andy Bell page could you? Maybe just bung in anything you think is important. Cheers bud.--Crestville 22:09, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Interesting idea...
... could work. It could, however, also give rise to accusations of bias and pushing a POV. It's a tricky one! I was thinking of perhaps setting up a Wiki server that is strictly for Christians though. That would be cool. - Ta bu shi da yu 08:16, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Reply notification
Hi, I've replied to your comment at User talk:Matt Crypto. &mdash; Matt 22:38, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Stats
Sorry to dump these tables here; wasn't sure where else to put them! The first is hits for the month of October up to the 19th. The second is hits for November. The rest of the data (redirects and images) is as of today. I don't know of any place online where you can lookup this info, although it sounds like a good idea. It wouldn't be hard to set up if someone had the server space and inclination; maybe suggest this at the Pump? &mdash; Matt 09:22, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reply notification
Hi! I've replied at User talk:Matt Crypto.

Stats
Hi, finally got these done at User talk:One Salient Oversight/stats (except the categories, for some reason). I thought I'd mention that I think you've been doing some great work on these topics! &mdash; Matt 10:35, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I suspect that multiple hits from the same IP are counted individually, and IP-uniqueness isn't taken into account (unfortunately!) &mdash; Matt 11:19, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nomenclature Suggestion
Have you considered using the word "Renewal" as an umbrella term to cover the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Neocharismatic movements? In many forums of discussion (including PhD studies), this term is being used to encompass these three movements. I could plug it in to some of the pages that you have started; however, at this point I fear that I might really mess up some of the excellent work that you have already accomplished by tampering with things too much. It's just a thought. --Lightbearer7 18:38, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * The usage of the word "Renewal" is known to me but I was not aware that it was being used as an umbrella term. I'm in two minds about using the term, but if you're right that it is being used more often in academic circles then I suppose that's okay. I think it's important, though, to make sure that it is clear that it encompasses the P/C/NP movements. I've been struggling for months to come up with some form of clear definition for them all.One Salient Oversight 11:15, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

An example of the emerging usage of the term "Renewal" may be found in Regent University's description of one of their Ph.D. programs. See external link:. Stanley M. Burgess, editor of the New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements also uses the term to embrace all three movements. However, I will probably use the term sparingly and with the P/C/NP(or NC) clarification that you noted due to the fact that the word "renewal" is so often used in a specialized sense in reference to processes of renewal within particular religious entities -- both inside and outside the P/C/NC movements. By the way, my preference for NC (Neo-charismatic) over NP (Neo-pentecostal) goes back to the fact that at one time the Charismatic movement was referred to as the Neo-Pentecostal movement. It's a choice many scholars have made for the sake of avoiding confusion.--Lightbearer7 17:42, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

File Size Too Large?
Have you noticed the warning that has started to appear on the edit page for "Criticisms of Charismatic and Pentecostal belief"? It says, "WARNING: This page is 36 kilobytes long. Please consider condensing the page and moving the detail to another article so it is not approaching or in excess of 32KB." I will attempt to create some new topic headings that will serve the purpose of responding to the criticisms; perhaps that will help a little. --Lightbearer7 19:03, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't think that's necessary just yet. The 32kb limit isn't all that strictly enforced. I think if the article grew to over 40kb we'd have to make some divisions though. Probably a split into Evangelical criticisms and other criticisms. What do you think? One Salient Oversight 11:18, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If the file size isn't that big of an issue, I'm in favor of leaving things as they are. However, I will attempt to be conservative in the volume of content that I add to the page. Linking to other responsive articles may still be a good practice for those of us who are responding in defense of the P/C/NC movements. You may have noted that I have already begun to do so with my link to an article entitled "Renewal Theologians". --Lightbearer7 18:01, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * No! No! No! Don't limit the size of any contributions. Seriously, the more information the better. One of the advantages of Wikipedia is there are no real size limits apart from the 32kb issue. If the article gets too big then we'll have to split it. Adolf Hitler is over 50kb and no one seems to be concerned. One Salient Oversight 01:45, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Why don't they have this

 * Why is it that many web pages have "open on new page" links? And why can't a web browser have an adjustment so that when you click on it, it opens a new tab?

Mozilla Firefox can do this to some extent with an extension called "SingleWindow". If a weblink or Javascript would normally open a new window, you can configure SingleWindow so that it loads as a tab; quite nifty. &mdash; Matt 12:58, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Syd Barrett images
I've resized the two albums a bit to take a little less space, and the last image because it was stretched a fair bit (the original pic is quite small). Oh, I was having a look at your user page, there's an extension for Firebird to open all new windows in tabs, and if you press on a link using the middle mouse button (the scroller button), it will do the same. \ wolfenSilva / 12:32, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello (Thanks for the Message)
G'day mate! Thanks for the message. I noticed you're from Newcastle. I'm from the Upper Hunter, and as such, we are pretty influenced by Newcastle somewhat, with most major things relating to us located there. I created the Newcastle, New South Wales category to tie together anything related to the city and its surrounds e.g. media (NBN), people (Jennifer Hawkins, the Johns Brothers), sport (the Knights etc) and the like. If you ever create an article relating to the city, feel free to use it. Anyhoo, thanks again for the message, and have a happy new year. BigDan 10:37, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)

Article stats
The developers haven't posted any new logs since last time, I'm afraid, which is a bit of a shame as the data can be quite useful. :( (I gather that processing the information puts a large strain on the Wikipedia servers). &mdash; Matt Crypto 00:22, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Solana
Cheers mate. Worth keeping this one on your watchlist, as I fear I am going to have trouble when I do start to edit, probably late today. SqueakBox 14:45, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Can you have a look at Talk:Javier Solana/Solana vandalism and POV and comment here if you have the time? --SqueakBox 03:51, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)


 * SqueakBox redirected the link to "Javier Solana/ Solana vandalism and POV", which I have now redirected again to Talk:Javier Solana/Solana vandalism and POV, since in belongs in Talk: space. -- Curps 01:13, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Have a look at Javier Solana. I have edited a lot including a large number of incorrect statements, and put the whole thing in a chronological order but please make sure she doesn't just revert back to her inaccurate version. I am going offline for a few days. I didn't like User:Cumbey's statement at the bottom of the talk vandal and POV page, and I don't think she will like these new edits, My interest in the article is political not new age, and it now looks like a political article, which I hope to better. I am going offline for a few days tomorrow. --SqueakBox 03:29, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Cumby left a letter on her User talk:Cumbey page which I hope means she is going to go away. --SqueakBox 05:05, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Have a look at my conclusion on the Special talk page. --SqueakBox 17:46, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)