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Contents
- 1 Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Expelled: No Intelligence Designed
- 3 Q.E.D.
- 4 August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter
- 5 ArbCom 2017 election voter message
- 6 Ichthus April 2018
- 7 Ichthus: May 2018
- 8 Ichthus June 2018
- 9 Ichthus: July 2018
- 10 ArbCom 2018 election voter message
- 11 PROD Hearing (person)
- 12 Happy birthday, Jchthys
Codex Sinaiticus[edit]
Thank you very much for your copyedit work in Codex Sinaiticus, though you made only one mistake. It has almost 4 000 000 letters. Even 1 Epistle of John has more than 4 000 letters. Article about Codex Sinaiticus has about 30 000 letters (probably). It was not mistake. In many books you can find information about value the text of the codex with comparision to other manuscripts (f.e. in books of Metzger, in external links). You can find it in many books, and until to discovering Uncial 0308 all scholars agreed in this case. It is nothing knew. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 01:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
- Good copy edit work. By the way, number of 4 000 000 was estimated by Tischendorf, and no other scholarch tried do the same after him. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 04:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Expelled: No Intelligence Designed[edit]
I've removed your prod tag. I created that redirect since there were multiple examples of this incorrect name being used apparently accidentally. As I discussed in the edit summary that created the redirect one example is this article. JoshuaZ (talk) 22:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
- I agree. It does read pretty strangely. The oddest thing is that most of the people using the incorrect title seem to be sources like that I linked to above which one would think would be more likely to be sympathetic to the movie. Given that the incorrect title seems to almost sound like a dig at the movie it is quite puzzling. JoshuaZ (talk) 15:41, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
I don't see any compelling reason to make it a soft-redirect but don't have any objection either. JoshuaZ (talk) 16:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- But we do that all the time with redirects anyways. Typos as well as common nicknames are routine for redirects. If someone for example writes the common misspelling [[[Machiaveli]] they get redirected to Niccolò Machiavelli. The existence of a redirect tells them that the title is wrong. JoshuaZ (talk) 17:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- Note: Wikipedia:Soft redirect gives many reasons for using one, and "to let people know they have the wrong title/spelling" is not one of them. Its almost always for cross-project redirects. KillerChihuahua?!? 18:51, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Q.E.D.[edit]
I have no difficulty with the disambiguation page. I just thought it was unsuitable to add my common use bit there since there are so many diffent meanings it would make little sense there.
I agree with you in principle that things should be to be taken to discussion, in practice I find (and Q.E.D is an example) that nothing happens if you put it to discussion, and then immediately things do when you edit something. So, I tend to just Be Bold and edit, intending always not to trample other editors' contributions, rather than discuss them, which in practice gets nowhere.
Of course that varies between articles. Some are very busy, some quiet; in the busier ones there may actually be an active discussion, and if so I will use it.
I have added some more changes to Q.E.D. I should be happy if you cast your eye over them. Although I do try to check very carefully, inevitably typing mistakes etc. creep in.
Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 19:34, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- BTW "Reliable sources must be cited". This is obviously not true, it is a destination not a journey. I think it better to go along that journey; if every article had to be perfect at its first attempt, Wikipedia wouldn't exist. Obviously one doesn't like those that derail the train, but to let it go on its journey is OK. Just my opinion. SimonTrew (talk) 19:43, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- If you look at previous revisions of the page, it appears that there used to be an entire section about jokes, such as ‘Quite Easily Done’, ‘Quite Enough, Doofus’, etc. It got out of hand, and one editor completely removed such non-technical references. I restored a brief remark mentioning such uses, but the editor claimed that instances of Q.E.D. being claimed as coming from ‘Quite Easily Done’ is not acceptable. However, I do think there is a legitimate place for these non-scientific uses; in fact, Q.E.D. appears to be rarely used nowadays. ¶ For your information, I believe that Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood has Friar Tuck using Q.E.D. after a pseudo-logical argument, like argal in Hamlet.—Jchthys 23:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe, but I didn't do that. I added a brief sentence, linking several other articles together, to say the expression was in common parlance to mean "done". I admit I didn't cite— one can only do so much at once, I was hurrying around trying to stretch a whole set of articles together into a coherent whole. I don't think that is the same as putting in joke definitions. If you haven't heard it used in speech, that's your opinion and needs discussion, it is quite common in my field-- to the extent people that wouldn't know what it means use it. That perhaps means it should be a separate page, but the way people use it is closest to the mathematical definiton than any other on Wikipedia. Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 00:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter[edit]
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From the Editor
Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.
The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.
Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.
Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.
Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.
Church of the month
This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.
Membership report
We would like to welcome our newest members, Thechristophermorris, Psmidi and Jchthys. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
Focus on...
THE
HISTORICAL JESUS
What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.
The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.
From the bookshelf
In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.
Did you know...
- ... that in 1951 Christianity was the second largest religion in the world with 500 million followers, compared to 520 million Buddhists, but by 2013 it had gained the top spot with about 2.2 billion Christians?
Calendar
This month we celebrate the feasts of St Lawrence, St Bernard, and St Augustine.
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Ichthus April 2018[edit]
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Project News
By Lionelt
Belated Happy Easter and Kalo Pascha! We're excited to announce the return of our newsletter Ichthus! Getting this issue out was touch-and-go for a while. Check out what's happening at the Project:
- There was a lively discussion about the Easter Did You Know nomination Christ the Lord is Risen Today
- RFC at Knights of Columbus regarding a question about having Prop 8 in the lead
- In anticipation of being nominated for Featured article, Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was put up for Peer Review by Ltwin
- The death of Billy Graham on February 21 was a profound loss for many. For the Wikipedia reaction see this discussion. Graham received a blurb.
- And... Order of Friars Minor--nominated by Chicbyaccident--is still waiting for a GA reviewer. Please help out if you can.
Achievements
In March the Project saw four articles promoted to GA-Class. They were the oh-so-irresistible Delilah (nom. MagicatthemovieS) (pictured), Edict of Torda (nom. Borsoka), David Meade (author) (nom. LovelyGirl7) and last but not least Black Christmas (2006 film) (nom. Drown_Soda). Black Christmas? How did that get in there lol? Congratulations to all of the nominators for a job well done!
Did You Know
Nominated by The C of E
... that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?"
Featured article
Nominated by FutureTrillionaire
Jesus (7–2 BC to 30–33 AD) is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and the awaited Messiah of the Old Testament. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that a historical Jesus existed, although there is little agreement on the reliability of the gospel narratives and how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the historical Jesus. Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Jewish preacher from Galilee, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman prefect, Pontius Pilate. Christians generally believe that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, performed miracles, founded the Church, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice to achieve atonement, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from which he will return. The great majority of Christians worship Jesus as the incarnation of God the Son, the second of three Persons of a Divine Trinity. A few Christian groups reject Trinitarianism, wholly or partly, as non-scriptural. In Islam, Jesus is considered one of God's important prophets and the Messiah. (Full article...)
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Ichthus: May 2018[edit]
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Project News
By Lionelt
Last month's auspicious relaunch of our newsletter precipitated something of an uproar in the Wikipedia community. What started as a localized edit war over censorship spilled over onto the Administrator's Noticeboard finally ending up at Wikipedia's supreme judicial body ArbCom. Their ruling resulted in the admonishment of administrator Future Perfect at Sunrise for his involvement in the dispute. The story was reported by Wikipedia's venerable flagship newspaper The Signpost.
The question of whether to delete all portals--including the 27 Christianity-related portals--was put to the Wikipedia community. Approximately 400 editors have participated in the protracted discussion. Going by !votes, Oppose deletion has a distinct majority. The original Christianity Portal was created on November 5, 2005 by Brisvegas and the following year he successfully nominated the portal for Featured Portal. The Transhumanist has revived WikiProject Portals with hopes of revitalizing Wikipedia's system of 1,515 portals.
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project
Achievements
Four articles in the Project were promoted to GA: Edict of Torda nom. by Borsoka, Jim Bakker nom. by LovelyGirl7, Ralph Abernathy nom. by Coffee and Psalm 84 nom. by Gerda_Arendt. The Psalm ends with "O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee." Words to live by. Please support our members and send some WikiLove to the nominators!
Featured article
Nominated by Spangineer
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of the rainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known as the Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence, both against their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Protestants to evangelize the Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 2, 1956, the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts culminated on January 8, 1956, when all five—Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. The deaths of the men galvanized the missionary effort in the United States, sparking an outpouring of funding for evangelization efforts around the world. Their work is still frequently remembered in evangelical publications, and in 2006, was the subject of the film production End of the Spear. (more...)
Did You Know
Nominated by Dahn
"... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?"
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Ichthus June 2018[edit]
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Project news
By Lionelt
Here are discussions relevant to the Project:
- Liberty University has an RFC regarding the university's relationship with President Trump; see discussion
- Is Genesis History? has an RFC regarding acceptability of movie reviews for inclusion; see discussion
- United States pro-life movement has a requested move to United States anti-abortion movement; see discussion
The following articles need reviewers for GA-class: Type of Constans nom. by Gog the Mild, Tian Feng (magazine) nom. by Finnusertop. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Stay up-to-date on the latest happenings at the Project
Did You Know
Nominated by Gonzonoir
... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
Featured article
Nominated by Cliftonian
The Mortara case was a controversy precipitated by the Papal States' seizure of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish child, from his family in Bologna, Italy, in 1858. The city's inquisitor, Father Pier Feletti, heard from a servant that she had administered emergency baptism to the boy when he fell sick as an infant, and the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition held that this made the child irrevocably a Catholic. Because the Papal States had forbidden the raising of Christians by members of other faiths, it was ordered that he be taken from his family and brought up by the Church. After visits from the child's father, international protests mounted, but Pope Pius IX would not be moved. The boy grew up as a Catholic with the Pope as a substitute father, trained for the priesthood in Rome until 1870, and was ordained in France three years later. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy captured Rome during the unification of Italy, ending the pontifical state; opposition across Italy, Europe and the United States over Mortara's treatment may have contributed to its downfall. (Full article...)
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Ichthus: July 2018[edit]
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The Top 7 report
By Lionelt
The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Top 7 most popular articles in WikiProject Christianity were:
- Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
- Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
- Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
- Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
- Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
- Michael Curry (bishop) – our article says that he upstaged Meghan at her wedding. Did you see her wedding pictures? All I can say is {{dubious}}
- Robert F. Kennedy – when informed that missiles were being installed in Cuba he famously quipped, "Can they hit Oxford, Mississippi?"
Did you know
Nominated by The C of E
... that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn "Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?
Our newest Featured list
Nominated by Freikorp
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events. Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or the destruction of the planet have been made since at least the beginning of the Christian Era. Most predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often standing for or similar to the eschatological events described in their scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ.
Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their lifetime, with percentages raging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. In the UK in 2015, the general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it would be artificial intelligence. Between one and three percent of people from both countries thought the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion. (more...)
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PROD Hearing (person)[edit]
I noticed you did some work on Hearing (person). I'm just letting you know that I have proposed this article for deletion.CircleGirl (talk) 21:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Happy birthday, Jchthys[edit]
Best regards, Redactyll Letsa taco 'bou it, son! 20:06, 21 February 2019 (UTC)