User talk:Stettlerj

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Do Mennonites drive horse and buggy's? Scott 20:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Scientz here. Would you mind checking the argument at the bottom of Talk:Jesus regarding my attempt to create a page called Yehoshua ben Yosef. Just weigh in and tell me if I'm totally out of line here. Keep in mind, I haven't had a chance to finish the Yehoshua article due to constant deletes. 14:24, 1 November 2005, (EST)

odd page moves
Hello,

You made a rapid series of odd page moves of your own user and talk pages, and I blocked you. Can you explain what the purposes of those moves was?

To request unblocking, you can edit this talk page and add:

to it, which will alert other administrators. -- Curps 06:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, it was an indication that your account could have been compromised; someone perhaps could have guessed your password, or used your computer while you were away from it. So the prudent thing to do was to block.  I'll unblock (I hope I'm talking to the rightful owner of this account and not a possible impostor).  If you wish to change your username, you should contact a Wikipedia bureaucrat from the List of bureaucrats.


 * Simply moving your user page doesn't work, since a redirect is created from the previous page and anyone could simply following the chain of redirects. Also, simply moving your user page doesn't actually change your username; all your future contributions are still under your existing name. To actually change your username, contact a bureaucrat as described above. -- Curps 03:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok. thanks.

Weavertown AM Ch
Thanks for adding to Weavertown article! EdK 00:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Stettlerj, thanks for your comments on my talk page. I generally agree with you. The Mennonites I have experience of don't shun, and even the Old Orders round our area are much more moderate than Anacapa would like to portray. I would recommend that you said exactly what you said to me on the Talk:Mennonite page. It sometime happens that an editor arrives at a page with a very fixed idea about something, usually based on a strong (but sometimes very limited) experience they have had. Helping them see the wider perspective is generally helpful. DJ Clayworth 17:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

French language
Stettlerj, je ne comprende pas is the only French I remember. Seriously, your last comment on Excomm discussion is in French. Is there some automatic translation or do you know French fluently?

Also while I am here I cannot resist commenting on DJ's comments above. His POV is his POV. He has no idea how I see things. My experience is much less limited that he would have you believe. As I hope you can see from comments on my discussion page I am quite able to see the big picture here. I detest this kind of covert relational aggression behind my back and I will call him on it. Please also back me by calling him on it and refraining from making or listening to personal innuendos behind my back. The place to discuss POV's is on the appropriate discussion pages right out in the open so no one's character or POV is assassinated behind their backs. This precise issue is why I fight so hard about Anabaptist shunning. It is vicious! NO offense to you or any other nice Anabaptist. So far you seem to being up front with us all. I hope to see that continue and I promise to respect your reputation too Anacapa 03:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Psst
I'm trying to build support for this nomination in its last few days. Please check out this page. Pass it along. Nudge nudge. -- evrik 20:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting Vandalism
Stettlerj, thanks for reverting User:Tremo5775's vandalism to the Mennonite and Daniel (name) pages. In the future, I'd encourage you to leave a signed warning on the user talk page. In this case the Tawkerbot2 had already left a message before the user made the changes you reverted. I went ahead and left a second message since I think its useful to have a human do it too.

In case you haven't seen them, the vandalism warning templates make it easy to leave a simple but specific message. Thanks, mennonot 16:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

thank you for keeping a lid on User:Anacapa.
i was taking a wiki-break for about 6 weeks and thought i was never coming back, but i did come back. it is clear that Anacapa is using WP to grind an axe and is using WP for a soapbox and WP needs more people to stand up to her so that her denial of such is not enabled. BTW, i like your userboxes. i think i might be 3 times your age, but you're cool by me. Rbj 01:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

also, just FYI, i noticed that you tried to attribute Anacapa's unsigned comments. there is a nifty template for it:

and it comes out: —Preceding unsigned comment added by UserName (talk • contribs) 03:40, 27 April 2006.

of course, you get the UserName and time from the history page and that might take some effort to figure out who and when they edited the unsigned comment. just thought you'ld like to know. Rbj 04:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I think when we stand up to Ana. it is the best way to handle her/him. After he/she started editing I stopped editing anything for almost a month and figured he/she'd have been kicked out, forgot about it by then. When I came back, I looked at how other editors handle her on the other pages and the only way to deal w. is by not letting ana. dictate. It is important that the information remain truthful, their are school children doing projects on Mennonites etc. Stettlerj 15:58, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Stettlerj, you normally don't have to respond on the talk page when someone initiates a conversation on yours. they normally should be watching your talk page until they think the conversation is "over". this way we have context and word flow.
 * BTW, i think your practical joke is a riot.
 * i was just examining the history of Excommunication and it looks like to did a decent edit to it that Anacapa wiped out. if there are points that you think should be wiggled in, do so.  also i invite you to clean it up.  as DJ or someone noted, there is entirely to much space taken for Anabaptists.  the only way i can think of to reduce space would be to remove the Amish, Menno, Hudderite subsections and do a brief description of the historical practice, what might happen in a "mainstream" church, and some mention of what some of these more fringe groups might occasionally do.  including the ugly.  do to the article what you think best.  the worst that can happen is it gets reverted, but not likely by me. Rbj 20:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Thank-you very much.—Argentino (talk/cont.) 18:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

The Amish
Hi there. I have been working on the Amish article quite a bit lately, with the goal of getting it to feature status. You have provided a number of helpful comments, and I would like to encourage you to add more material to the article. Do you have accurate, recent population estimates? I enjoy editing the writing, but don't really want to go back to library and check out Hostetler's and Kraybill's books again. If you want to rewrite any parts of the article I will be glad to polish them. Thanks. Wachholder0 15:03, 1 June 2006

Rusty Plow Award
Thank you for your recent thoughts on the Amish article. I hereby bestow the Rusty Plow for your contributions. Wachholder0 02:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey
I thought I had a new message but then when I clicked it the joke article came up, that is funny. Seadog--fly on....littlewing 14:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Questions on Pennsylvania Dutch words
Hello again. Recently you answered a question about the word "Grossvatihaus" in the Amish talk page, a word which I believe I stumbled across on David E. Yoder's webpage. Would "Daadihaus" or "Grossdaadihaus" be a more appropriate or more commonly utilized term? Should we include both? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Wachholder0 14:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Amish Tax Burden and Benefits
I am curious why you detagged my request for verification of the statement in the Amish article, to wit: The Amish therefore likely pay more in tax than the value of the benefits they receive. This statement is by no means obvious, nor a commonly known fact. Given its shades of NPOV, and the fact that it is essentially empirical in nature, the statement must be verified before inclusion (on at least NOR and POV grounds). I am restoring the tag, pending compelling reasons to remove it, if those prove to be forthcoming. 64.5.98.6 23:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Withdrawn. 64.5.98.6 23:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't have any idea what you are talking about. Stettlerj 00:01, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

your user page...
... is hilarious. I love it. Tvoz 21:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Request for help.
I am requesting your help in making the Northkill Amish Settlement page more encyclopedic. Reidhoch 15:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Dutch
Hi.I noticed you wrote "see Don Yoder, Pennsylvania German expert" in an edit summary for that article on November 30. If you have a proper reference could you add that to the article to prevent further deletion. Thanks.--Caranorn 23:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Pennsylvania
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Thanks and I hope you join up!  Cbrown1023   talk   04:34, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Amish‎ GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Amish‎ and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are several issues that need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left this message on your talk page since you have significantly edited the article (based on using this article history tool). Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix with the assistance of multiple editors. I have also left messages on the talk pages of a few other editors and several related WikiProjects to spread the workload around some. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

April - National Contribution Month
Good day Stettlerj,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Amqui (talk) 00:47, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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