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ICHTHUS

January 2013

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 354 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Alliereborn, Iselilja, Peterkp, and Sosthenes12. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. 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.

From the Editor
Ichthus is one of the ways that the WikiProject Christianity’s Outreach department helps update our members. This newsletter is one of the ways we do try to help people keep up with the project. We would always welcome any input for things to be included in it or additional editors to keep it going. Please let us know if there are changes you would like to see in the format, or if there are any particular things you would like to see included. And if you have anything you would personally like to add, by all means let us know. The talk page of the current issue is probably the best place to post such comments.

With that, I wish you all happy reading!

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By John Carter

Church of the month

This image of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, Estonia by User:Poco a poco

was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!

Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. I am starting a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Christianity noticeboard#Future contests, and would very much welcome any input from interested parties in how to set it up, determine winners including how many winners, etc.

By John Carter

Featured content and GA report
Since the last report, the image in the "Church of the Month" section of this newsletter was promoted to Featured Image status.

Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40 by Gerda Arendt and others, Teuruarii IV by Lemurbaby, KAVEBEAR and others, and Peace on Earth (Casting Crowns album) by Toa Nidhiki05 and others, were all promoted to GA status.

Also this past month, the DYKs on the main page included St James' Church, Cardington by Peter I. Vardy, Bishop's Palace, Kraków by Poeticbent, Kippinge Church by Ipigott and Rosiestep, Trinitatis Church, also by Ipigott and Rosiestep, Steindamm Church by Olessi, St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton by Peter I. Vardy, Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, by Peter I. Vardy, Sonrise Church, by Aboutmovies, St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York), by Daniel Case, All Saints Church, Claverley, by Peter I. Vardy, and Church of the Holy Virgin Mary of Lourdes, by Poeticbent. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

Christian art

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
This image was created by User:Dcoetzee. Thank you, Dcoetzee!

Spotlight

The Spotlight this month turns to the the Syriac Christianity work group. The scope of this project includes the various traditions of Syriac Christianity, including the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and Saint Thomas Christians. One of these groups, the Assyrian Church of the East, is considered by scholars to have probably been, for several hundred years, the largest Christian grouping in the planet, with its numerous members in Central Asia and Eastern Asia. Numerous texts, traditions, and practices unique to these groups exist, including the Jesus Sutras and the belief of the Assyrian Church of the East that the bread they use in the preparation of their Eucharist uses the same basic yeast as that used in the bread of the Last Supper itself. Sadly, given the linguistic barriers to much of the content relative to these groups, and the comparative lack of notoriety they have in the Western world, much of this content does receive less attenion, and thus less development, than much other content. There is a large amount of extremely valuable historical material here still waiting to be adequately developed by editors with an interest in the topic, and I personally very much hope that we can draw more attention to these topics, and the content related to them.

By John Carter

Calendar
This coming month (mid-January through mid-February) includes The Presentation of Christ in the Temple or Candlemas and the Conversion of Paul. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Saint Agnes, Saint Francis de Sales, Saints Timothy and Titus, Thomas Aquinas, John Bosco, Saint Agatha, Paul Miki, [{Saint Scholastica]], and Saint Anskar.

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ICHTHUS

April 2013

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 357 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Thomas Cranmer, Mr.Oglesby, and Sneha Priscilla. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. 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.

From the Editor

We apologise for the hiatus in the publication of this newsletter due to unforseen circumstances leading to the wikibreak of John Carter, and so I have taken over as acting editor, and have taken this opportunity to move the publication date to the start of each month as planned, to better reflect on the previous month and look ahead to the next. This issue covers the period of time from mid-January to the end of March.

Since the last issue we have seen the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis. This has received much coverage both in the world media and on Wikipedia. While there is still much work to do, several quality articles have been written and the editors involved are thanked for their efforts.

This month we look ahead to Easter and the celebration of God's love for mankind through the crucifixion and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ. With that, I wish you all happy reading!

P.S. Please click here to add the new Christianity noticeboard to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects.

By Gilderien

Church of the month

This image of the Church of Saint Ildefonso, Portugal by Poco a poco was recently promoted to Featured Image. Thank you and congratulations for the great image!

Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. I am starting a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Christianity noticeboard#Future contests, and would very much welcome any input from interested parties in how to set it up, determine winners including how many winners, etc.

By John Carter

Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;

Grade I listed churches in Cumbria was promoted to Featured List status, thanks to Peter I. Vardy, and the image above of the Church of Saint Ildefonso was promoted to featured picture status.

Martin Luther King, Jr., by Khazar2, was promoted to GA status, as well Third Epistle of John by Cerebellum.

Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included St Mary's Church, Cleobury Mortimer by Peter I. Vardy; Marion Irvine by Giants2008; Margaret McKenna by Guerillero; Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity by Epeefleche; St Edith's Church, Eaton-under-Heywood by Peter I. Vardy; Vester Egesborg Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; Undløse Church by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St Martin's Church, Næstved by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, and Dr. Blofeld; St. Peter, Syburg by Gerda Arendt and Dr. Blofeld; Østre Porsgrunn Church by Strachkvas; Church of Our Saviour (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) by Nyttend; Dami Mission by Freikorp; Mechanicsburg Baptist Church by Nyttend; Acheiropoietos Monastery, by Proudbolsahye; T. Lawrason Riggs, by Gareth E Kegg; McColley's Chapel, by Mangoe; Oświęcim Chapel, by BurgererSF; Second Baptist Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio), by Nyttend; Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn, by Yakikaki; Old Stone Congregational Church, by Orladyl Heath Chapel, by Peter I. Vardy; St. Joseph's Church, Beijing, by Bloom6132; Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, by Rodw; and St. Michael's Catholic Church (Mechanicsburg, Ohio) also by Nyttend. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

Christian art

Complete recording

Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, a cantata by the German composer J.S. Bach, was promoted to GA this month and was written by Gerda Arendt. Many thanks for her continuing work in the area of early 18th Century Church music.

Spotlight

The Spotlight this month turns to the the Jesus work group. The scope of this project includes the life and teachings of the central figure of Christianity, Jesus Christ and aims to write about them in a non-denominational encylopædic style. Top-priority articles include Jesus, Christ, Resurrection of Jesus, and Holy Grail, whereas High-priority articles include Aramaic Language, a former FA, as well as Sermon on the Mount, Lamb of God, and Passion (Christianity). The workgroup has also published two books, covering Christ's final days and the Parables of Jesus. The workgroup has two GAs, Nativity scene, and Jesus in Islam, but unfortunately the flagship article, Jesus was delisted in 2009. It is also responsible for three WP:1.0 articles, and the WikiWork of the project is 4.56, which indicates the "average" article is between Start and C class.

By Gilderien

Calendar
This coming month (end-March through end-April) includes Easter Sunday in Western Christianity and both Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Saint George, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Saint Stanislaus, James, son of Zebedee, and Benedict the Moor.

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May 2013

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 363 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Pleonic, MJWilliams1998, Iloilo Wanderer, Jkadavoor, Sir Ian and McBenjamin. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. 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.

From the Editor

This month we hear the news that the Bible is to be made into a film after outstanding success of a biblical miniseries on the History Channel, and we have seen the release of Iraqi Pastor Ali Hamzah from his confinement in Iraq.

After last month's spotlight on the Jesus work group, the flagship article, Jesus, was nominated for Good Article status after much work from FutureTrillionaire and History2007, and provisionally passed by the reviewer, although they have requested a second opinion. Our many thanks for the hard work that has gone into restoring this article to a quality piece of work.

This month the second largest denomination of Christianity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, celebrates Easter and the death and resurrection of the Son of God Jesus Christ.

P.S. Please click here to add the new Christianity noticeboard to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects.

By Gilderien

Church of the month

Wells Cathedral was this month promoted to GA status. Rodw has appealed for any help project members can give to improve this article for a FA nomination.

Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content. By John Carter

Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;

Featured report; Madonna in the Church, by Ceoil, Truthkeeper88, and Johnbod was promoted to Featured Article status. Crucifixion and Last Judgement was promoted to featured picture status, after nomination by Crisco 1492.

Wells Cathedral, by Rodw, Robert of Ghent, by User:Ealdgyth, Christianity in Medieval Scotland, by Sabrebd, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, also by Sabrebd were promoted to GA status.

Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included Lectionary 311, by Leszek Jańczuk; Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, by Gerda Arendt; Whalsay Parish Church, by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Dr. Blofeld; Interpretatio Christiana, by Altenmann; First Congregational Church, Salt Lake City, by Orlady; Church of King Charles the Martyr, Royal Tunbridge Wells, by The C of E; First Church in Albany (Reformed), by Daniel Case; Pope Anastasius II, by AbstractIllusions; Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma, by Dr. Blofeld, Ipigott, Rosiestep; Colan Church, by Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Ipigott; Notre Dame Cathedral, Papeete, Bloom6132, Church of St. Wenceslaus (New Prague, Minnesota), by Elkman; St. Joseph Catholic Church (San Antonio, Texas), by Gilliam; Doubting Thomas, by Johnbod; Robert of Ghent, by Ealdgyth; and Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, by Peter I. Vardy. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!

Christian art

This depiction of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement was painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck and promoted to Featured Picture this month.

Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT

This month, we turn our attention to the Encyclopedic articles sub-group, which aims to provide "a collection point for lists of articles contained in other reference sources relating to Christianity, which could serve as a basis for developing our own content". Created by John Carter, it is primarily a list of links, red or otherwise, for subjects which have an article in the reference works listed therein. This serves as a very useful list if any project members are "stuck for what to do" and there remains lots of potential for articles developed from this list.

By Gilderien

Calendar
This coming month (end-April through end-May) includes Easter Sunday for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Matthias the Apostle, The Venerable Bede, and Empress Helena.

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ICHTHUS

June 2013

From the Editor

Since its formation in 2006, WikiProject Christianity has come a long way. A significant number of new articles have appeared on a wide range of topics, and the quality of some key articles has seen dramatic improvement. Yet, by the very nature of the open, crowd-sourced development environment in which we operate, as the number of pages in the project has increased at times our attention has been naturally diluted. We should of course strive for quality everywhere, but we should remember that this newsletter is called Ichthus.

Starting this month we will start a "Focus on" series, where we will try to "bring Jesus back" and focus on him. For five consecutive issues we will focus on one aspect of the study of Jesus. The goal of this series is to inform our members of what the project contains and highlight those articles which have reached quality and stability.

From this month until November we will focus on the historical Jesus, a topic which has been the subject of much discussion on article talk pages, as well as the general media. This is an important topic, and we have a good set of well referenced articles on that now. Then, starting in December we will focus on Christ, and the spiritual and theological elements that the title entails. Following that the review of the life and ministry of Jesus in the New Testament, his miracles, and parables will take place. And each month the "Bookshelf" will mention a book that fits the theme of the month.

We hope you will enjoy this journey as we present a new aspect of Jesus each month. And given that as the number of project pages increases, the ratio of those watching the pages declines, we hope that more of you will watch some of these central pages that help define this project.

Church of the month

The current building of All Saints' Church, Winthorpe in Nottinghamshire, England which was completed in 1888, is at least the third version of the church, which dates back to at least the early 13th century.

Good articles and DYKs
The article Jesus received the good article mark last month, as did Cleeve Abbey. A number of churches were featured on the main page in the DYK section in May, namely St. Lamberti, Hildesheim, Karja church, Braaby Church, St Patrick's Liverpool, Vlah Church, Freerslev Church, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, Mata-Utu, St. Michael's Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska), St. Lamberti, Hildesheim, Karja church, Braaby Church, St. Pierre Cathedral, Saint-Pierre, Mont Saint Michel Abbey, St Patrick's Church, Liverpool, Vlah Church, St Catherine of Siena Church, Cocking, Catedral Nuestra Señora de La Asunción, Roholte Church, Notre Dame Cathedral, Taiohae, Leicester Abbey, Caracas Cathedral, Caldey Abbey, King's Mead Priory, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Hong Kong) andAll Saints' Church, Winthorpe, as well as the hymn What Wondrous Love Is This.

Focus on...

THE
HISTORICAL JESUS

Did Jesus exist? Did he walk the streets of Jerusalem? The Historicity of Jesus article answers these questions with a firm affirmative. Historicity does not discuss if Jesus walked on water, but if he walked at all. The issue was the subject of scholarly debate before the end of last century, but the academic debate is almost over now. As the article discusses, virtually all academic opposition to the existence of Jesus has evaporated away now and scholars see it as a concluded issue. The discussion is now just among mostly self-published non-academics.

In 2011 John Dickson tweeted that if anyone finds a professor of history who denies that Jesus lived,he would eat a page of his Bible (Matthew 1 he said). Dickson's Bible is still safe.

The article discusses the ancient sources that relate to Jesus and how they fit together to establish that he existed. The evidence for Jesus is not just based on the Christian gospels, but by inter-relating them with non-Christian sources, and the fact that they all "fit together". Moreover, the existence of Jesus is not supported just by Christian scholars and in recent years the detailed knowledge of Jewish scholars and their discoveries (e.g. Shlomo Pines' discovery of the Syriac Josephus) has proven highly beneficial. We encourage you to read and follow the article, for the existence of Jesus is central to the existence of Christianity.

From the bookshelf

Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence by Robert Van Voorst, 2000 ISBN 0-8028-4368-9

Just a few years after its publication, Van Voorst's book has become the standard comprehensive text for the discussion of ancient sources that relate to Jesus and his historicity. This detailed yet really readable book has received wide ranging endorsements - Blomberg and Harris separately referring to it as the most comprehensive treatment of the subject.

Did you know...

• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the initials "S. D. G.", for Soli Deo Gloria, at the beginning and end of all his church compositions to give God credit for the work, and that Handel at times did the same?

Calendar
The coming month includes days dedicated to the honor of Beheading of John the Baptist, Saints Peter and Paul, the Nativity of John the Baptist, and Saint Barnabas.

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ICHTHUS

July 2013

From the Editor

Welcome to the July 2013 issue of Ichthus. We focus on the chronology of Jesus, as well as looking back at the project content improved over the last month.

WP:X has gained another Featured Article, Gospel of the Ebionites, by Ignocrates. The Gospel of the Ebionites is the name scholars give to an apocryphal gospel that supposedly belonged to a sect known as the Ebionites. It consists of seven short quotations discovered in a heresiology known as the Panarion, written by Epiphanius of Salamis, and its original title remains unknown. The text is a gospel harmony composed in Greek, and is believed to have been written during the middle of the 2nd century.

St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn was promoted to Good Article status, as was two other welsh churches, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, and St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch.

The main page also featured several DYK hooks for articles in our project, namely Bob Fu, List of places of worship in Tandridge (district), Catholic Press, Garendon Abbey, St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey), Pargev Martirosyan, Praskvica Monastery, Heather Preceptory, St. Augustin, Coburg, Longleat Priory, St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, Christianization of Moravia, Christianization of Bohemia, Repton Abbey, St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Medingen Abbey, Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, St. James on-the-Lines, and Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.

Church of the month

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is part of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev in Ukraine. It is a functioning monastery that dates back to the Middle Ages.

Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 367 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Newchildrenofthealmighty, Evenssteven, Kerna96, and FutureTrillionaire. 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

When did Jesus live? When did he die? How do we know? We do, in fact, have excellent information about the time intervals for the life and death of Jesus. As in other people who lived and died in the first century, this gives an approximate date range, but still, give or take 3-4 years and we have pretty good estimates confirmed by a number of really diverse sources, ranging from inscriptions in Delphi to Roman and Jewish sources. The Chronology of Jesus article discusses how a wide variety of Christian, Jewish and Roman sources are used to establish the time-frame for the life and death of Jesus.

And all of his data fits together. For instance, the chronology of Paul had been discussed based on the Book of Acts long ago, then the Delphi Inscription is found in the 20th century in the Temple of Apollo. And guess what.. it confirms it and totally dates his trial in Corinth, which helps reaffirm the date of the crucifixion of Jesus. The same date range is independently estimated from the writings of Josephus on the Baptist's death. And it fits Isaac Newton's astronomical models for the crucifixion date as well as the independent lunar calculations of Humphreys. As that article shows, all these dates just fit together.

From the bookshelf

Chronos, kairos, Christos: nativity and chronological studies edited by J. Vardaman, E. M. Yamauchi 1989 ISBN 0-931464-50-1

This two volume book (with a very apt title) is gem-filled with scholarly research. Paul Maier's article in the first volume is a classic study on the chronology of Jesus and provides a useful summary of a number of issues.

Did you know...

• ... that the Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch who in 1894 originated the story that there was evidence at the Hemis monastery that an adult Jesus had traveled to India, later confessed to fabricating his evidence?

Calendar
This month (July) contains the feast days of Mary Magdalene, and James, son of Zebedee.

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ICHTHUS

August 2013

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

Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching by Maurice Casey 2010 ISBN 0-567-64517-7

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?

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Whatever your opinion might be, if you had time, I would be interested in it over at the Jesus' silence on homosexuality page. If not, thanks anyways. Scott P. (talk) 00:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Thanks for the thanks. I'm working on getting the The Kitchen God's Wife up to par. There's a lot of critical writing on the book and I think with some work we could get it up to at least 'Good Article' status. Given your area of interest, any input from you would be much appreciated. Sotakeit (talk) 07:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! Would you care to review my FA nomination for the article Of Human Feelings? The article is about a jazz album by Ornette Coleman, and the criteria for FA articles is at WP:FACR. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Cheers! Dan56 (talk) 20:58, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This user is Pushing POV and removing sourced information on the page "Jews", he ignores the sources and has an agenda. Guy355 (talk) 11:33, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone else just posted a warning on his page over edit warring. I have a feeling he'll be getting several other warning messages as he keeps going.... Aristophanes68 (talk) 12:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you should look at what he wrote to me on his page, it's kinda chilling, but trying to shut him up would probably do more ill than good, kinda like giving him a point. Guy355 (talk) 15:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Anti-semitic_conspiracy_theorist_user_not_here_to_build_an_encyclopedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:03, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Or not, he was blocked almost immediately. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:09, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:32, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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could you please stop listing Louis C.K. as a recognized Mexican American. He is not a recognized Mexican American figure in the Mexican American community because it is not known or mentioned enough about his background to the public. please and thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luna323 (talk • contribs) 06:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1: He talks about it on national talk shows, so it's out there for the public. 2: You need to bring the issue up on the talk page. Any changes to the collage should be discussed with the other page editors first. Best, Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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May I seek your help and guidance ?

I would like to create and populate entries for TimesJobs.com and SimplyMarry.com

But they keep getting removed...

Please guide me - I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

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Hi AseemS. I'm not sure what process you were using to create those pages. We have the Wikipedia:Articles for creation set up so that you can get feedback from more experienced editors. Were you creating the pages there? Also, I see that we already have TimesJobs, but I don't see that SimplyMarry.com was every created. If you haven't tried the Articles for creation page, see if that helps. Best, Aristophanes68 (talk) 02:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

His changes were so massive I took him to WP:ANI#New editor with multiple problems, restoring copyvio, changing Yahweh to YHWH in perhaps 50 articles, etc. His changes included changing quotations and deleting a mention of "the Canaanite god YAHWEH" replacing it with YHWH, a major content change. I've a lot of work to do cleaning up. Dougweller (talk) 14:27, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You undid an edit and claimed that the edit did not have a source. It clearly had a source, and was the long standing version of the page. If you want to persist, I will go to the edit warring page and report your actions because you are making false statements to restore vandalism. 172.243.186.198 (talk) 00:28, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clearing up the confusion. Aristophanes68 (talk) 02:15, 24 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I edited the page, because the page was sorted by lastname, typically in Indian names will be referred with First Name and not like USA Last Names. So, the Categories was sorted with last name. So, while editing other director sort mode, I have edited this one too. Vaidyasr (talk) 17:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. You might want to leave a note to that effect on the talk page, and maybe also in the article itself, using the brackets to keep it hidden in the coding. Cheers, Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for some excellent work on World Congress of Families. This article was severely neglected before the incident yesterday, and it's looking so much better now. Elizium23 (talk) 13:16, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Could you please delete Crowned Marian Images in the Philippines?

We now have the List of Images with Canonical Coronation which is more precise, complete in detail with regards to other images from other countries. Thank you. TreasureIslandMediaBoss (talk) 01:57, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have been populating it, yes. I thought that was the goal, based on my discussion with Stepheng3 yesterday. I don't know what's going on with it otherwise. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:38, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. StephenG's comment sounded like he thought you were about to diffuse it instead. Just double-checking. Aristophanes68 (talk) 13:50, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Upon further discussion with other parties, it seems that diffusion is the goal after all. So yes, I'm removing it. It appears we've gotten it all straightened out. I'll be doing some more work on the category tree fairly soon. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:31, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The editor who created The Game of Silence included most of his own Amazon review in the article, and I don't know if he holds the copyright to that material, or if it's Amazon's property. Where can I find the answer to this problem? Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 16:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

His Amazon review is not a reliable source anyway; content copy-pasted from there is not appropriate for that reason alone. Furthermore, for content published before we'd need evidence that the Wikipedia editor is indeed the original author; a similarity in user names is not enough. The copyright rests with the author, not with Amazon; the terms of use specify that Amazon is only granted a non-exclusive license for reviews. Huon (talk) 17:44, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll restore the copy/paste tag. Aristophanes68 (talk) 18:11, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aristophanes68, I looked over your comments on * MOOC Dari course, audio, assignments, G+ hangouts and media sources , after looking at external links "AGAIN(15x's so far)", I do not see any violations that allow you to delete the link I posted. The Site is a MOOC, with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/deed.en_US. clowningar Please reverse your deletion — Preceding undated comment added 19:11, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I only deleted it because it had just been deleted the day before. You might want to start a talk-page discussion that describes what the link is, which might help prevent future deletions. Best, Aristophanes68 (talk) 19:18, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So if you see someone run off a cliff you follow? LOL I'm unsure where to post a conversation so other people don't go running off a cliff, cause it seems to be a good idea at the time. Hey I was born on April Fools. User talk:clowningar

You should also realize that your focus on getting an article about World Mentoring Academy accepted into Wikipedia may give the impression that these links are a conflict of interest. Aristophanes68 (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And of course it's easy to see that most of your links have been reverted by other editors as well, so you may want to figure out a better way to convince people that it's not spam, advertising, or conflict of interest. Aristophanes68 (talk) 19:45, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Native American poets and Category:Native American novelists would be non-diffusing of the unmarked Category:American poets and Category:American novelists, where the distinction between the category and its parent is "Native vs. other ethnicity", but they are supposed to be diffusing of Category:Native American writers, where the ethnicity aspect is common to both categories and the distinction is in the specific type of writing instead of the identity marker. I realize the current situation can be a bit confusing, but hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just have a feeling this will affect all the ethnic US writer cats as well, since I've been deliberately keeping everyone in the parent cat as well as the subcats. Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:34, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry, didn't know it was the exact content replicated from Wikipedia. StanTheMan87 (talk) 11:44, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Aristophanes,

I noticed that you took an interest in ethnic literature in American. I was trying to create a wikipedia article about Mochi Magazine, an online publication for Asian American young women. As a PHD in literature, I feel like you have strong writing and analytical skills. Would you have any advice on how to write a good draft for this magazine?

Maybe it's a stretch from the normal articles you would edit, but thought it would be worth asking. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mochi_(magazine)

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@Boydstra: You're very welcome! This is exactly how you respond to folks' talk pages, and go ahead and get used to always using the 4 tildes to sign your name (if not, an automated bot will do it for you....). I hope you find Wikipedia a good place to contribute! Cheers, Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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When I edit on my phone, the app shows that I'm logged in, but the edits don't show my account name and don't save to my account's watchlist. Is that the case for everyone, or do I need to do something to get my edits attributed to my account? Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:54, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This may be an issue for the village pump or possibly for Help talk:Mobile access, but I expect you'll need to provide a little more context. What app are you using, for example? Huon (talk) 13:42, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was the standard Wikipedia mobile app: Wikipedia Mobile from Wikimedia Foundation. Aristophanes68 (talk) 03:52, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Aristophanes68. In this category you created, all listed entries as shown are for plays, as you originally had, except these three listed below, which are not plays, as they're musicals. All three were (very wrongly) recently added to the category, by the way.

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
• Matilda the Musical

If I may add, all these entries are indeed stage shows, but the three musicals should be removed from the rest of the plays, as they are not such. Just letting you know. --Plain Jane Doe (talk) 15:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I was always frustrated by the different trees for plays and musicals, especially when it came to categorizing the librettists and composers. I couldn't find a good solution, so I hope you and others can find a good way to get parallel cat trees for musicals and plays. Aristophanes68 (talk) 21:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) You may be interested in the discussion currently going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Theatre regarding this. The general sentiment so far is nesting the categories for musicals within the categories for plays to aid with navigation while still distinguishing musicals and straight plays. ~ Rob^Talk 21:51, 5 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thanks for reverting the vandalism by Dickrichards62. I thought you should know, though, that the version of the page you reverted to, an edit by 2001:8003:620F:1B00:5861:E7E5:6517:7A22, was also an instance of vandalism. That IP user has been going through the category American people of African descent and deleting articles from it, despite the people in question being uncontroversially African-American. (I'm going through and manually reverting their vandalism now.) Just a friendly reminder to check that the version you're reverting to really is the last good version. Again, thanks for your good work reverting the other vandal's edits. —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 23:16, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Sorry about missing that! Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:05, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there Aristophanes. I was trying to delete the extremely offensive sentence written into the article on St Catherine of Siena, which makes the wild and baseless claim that St Catherine wore a ring made from Christ's foreskin. I am very familiar with Catholic saints and mystics, and the letter (#221) which you reference in support of this claim, makes absolutely no reference to a foreskin. It says: "Well seest thou that thou art a bride, and that He has wedded thee and every creature, not with a ring of silver, but with the ring of His Flesh." This is a very common theme and type of saying found in the Catholic mystics, and indeed in numberless writings of Catholic saints and authors of works on the spiritual life. The same theme is actually found in many Catholic prayers and in the Catholic mass! It concerns Christ having purchased our souls with His saving death on the Cross, where He offered the Holocaust of His body and blood. The sacrifice of His life - His flesh - then becomes the means by which He weds us spiritually. He calls it a ring because it acts the same as a ring...it is the sign of His faithful love for us which binds us to the covenant in His blood...the covenant which springs from the offering up of His flesh, and blood, and soul...His whole sacred humanity, as the ransom for our sins. See how in the context of His sacrificial love, which is like a spiritual espousal, His flesh is like an outward token..like a ring, which binds us and stands for our union. We receive His body, blood, soul and Divinity in Holy Communion. The union which also involves His flesh in the Eucharist is of the same theme, because Christ wants us to be united to Him in the truest and fullest manner, and wants to purify, sanctify and deify us to fit us to participate in His Divine Life for all eternity. The author Caroline Walker Bynum is just wrong. Being knowledgeable doesn't grant discernment per se, and her voice on this matter is a tiny minority. There have been many mystic brides (saints) of Christ who have had spiritual espousals with Christ, who's rings were also invisible. I assure you that I understand the subject very well, having studied many saints and mystics. I am very familiar with these themes. I ask to please remove that reference and just go with what is commonly (and rightly) recorded about this subject, rather than what one modern author says about it, which is a novel and weird interpretation of a text, and finds no equivalent in the life of any saint or mystic in two thousand years. Thankyou for your time. Sharbel23 (talk) 02:34, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I think you're looking for me, Sharbel23. Take it to the Catherine of Siena talk page, please. Altenmaeren (talk) 22:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I did study guidelines and understood that it is over my powers to do this. Article in question is Barbora Žagarietė https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbora_%C5%BDagariet%C4%97 and its English title is misleading, as it sounds like person's surname, this last part. But it is not surname, it really indicates her place of origin, according to Lithuanian custom, what is not correct in English. Only few exceptions, like, Aquinas, but generally in English generally people are not called smth like "Assisian", his English name is Francis of Assisi. (If this Barbora girl were more known in English speaking world, we might name English article "Barbara of Žagarė", but as this is not the case, it's better to stick with her name's original Lithuanian spelling, Barbora.) I tried to contact creator of the article, Dyglys, via his talk page in Lithuanian, but he has not answered. If You or some other smart editor could rename the English article to Barbora of Žagarė, I could do other editing in text.

Btw, it's very confusing to have several userpages (should be at least six in my case, and I might happen to edit smth Estonian on pages in language I'm not fluent in and cannot create userpage in same) for one user in multiple languages. Is there some trick or project how multilingual editors could easily arrange their many userpages into one? Like, if I have created my userpage in one language, and then I edit an article in other language, there would appear kinda automatically or semi-automatically some link or thing in my that language userpage...? Or that what is now brownish link of not yet created userpage could be blue link to existing userpage in language it exists in? So that I could have one or two master-pages, e.g. Estonian for my people and English for the wide world, and my all other third languages userpages would direct to the latter? BirgittaMTh (talk) 11:22, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi you recommended this article Dr. Philipp Aeby for reorganization to comply with layout guidelines. I have read the layout guidelines and looked at the structure of other similar pages, but can't understand what you think needs changing... Can you help me understand? Any advice very much appreciated, thanks! Rvanreig (talk) 09:08, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You added the mother-category Category:Musical groups by genre. I believe, that this is not optimal, as Category:Choirs is subcat to Category:Vocal ensembles, which itself is already subcat to Category:Musical groups by genre.
So this way, it's like we have Category:Choirs two times inside Category:Musical groups by genre, which feels redundant. What are your thoughts? CN1 (talk) 21:44, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Thanks!! Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:46, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure you mean well, but when the talk page already has a project banner format, adding the novels tag above and not even an assessment is a bit short, I have added into the box structure - something you might want to watch for. cheers JarrahTree 03:19, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's something I haven't figured out how to do with AWB yet--it allows you to automatically put things at the top or at the bottom, and there's supposed to be a feature that automatically sorts the templates in the correct order, but I can't seem to get it to work. Apologies. Aristophanes68 (talk) 05:50, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

nah dont apologise - project tagging is always a thankless task, I am sure someone will come along with a solution to your awb problem. JarrahTree 06:29, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re your edit to the talk page for Herman Makkink. He was a sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator, not, so far as I know a novelist. what gives? Verne Equinox (talk) 17:18, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I realize that you changed the beginning around quite a bit. However, just for clarification, textual criticism is the study of variant wording in manuscripts in an attempt to establish the original wording. Source criticism is study and identification sources in the manuscript (like E, J, P, or D in the Penteteuch or Q, M, L in the Synoptics).

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In the interests of full disclosure - I have been on Wikipedia since 2014 at least, using this name, having accomplished a number of edits. The other day, I had to log into Wikidata and my username came up with about 6 edits and no user page or talk page. I really like my username and since it showed as available (?), I took it. I decided that I would live with the lost edits.

My question - I do not feel comfortable using Citation templates and archiving references. Can you give me any suggestions of what I can do to increase my comfort and learn more about this part of editing?

Thank you for whatever help and/or advice you are able to give me.Bobdog54 (talk) 22:19, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. When you add the categories for period to the articles, could you please consider taking them out of the redundant categories? For instance, if you place Vasile Alecsandri into "19th-century Romanian poets", consider placing him also into "Romanian male poets", but taking him out of "Romanian poets", where he is now clutter. I mean, if the purpose of the subcats isn't to narrow down, but only to add articles to more and more levels from the same tree, I don't know why we're doing this. Dahn (talk) 13:54, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This California IPIP hopper is, well, odd. Some might call him a nut job. He thinks he is part of an Afghan Royal Family working with the Mossad, and edits numerous articles linking various people to Saul, etc. His last edit to anomiebot even has Mossad in the subject line. He tried to sic Anonymous on me to harass me, but of course that didn't work. Doug Weller talk 14:06, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I live in Cuba and my English is not well, but I am very happy of yours contributions of Achy Obejas article, but i consider that is necessary to include references about Cuba in this article, because Obejas visited Cuba in several opportunities and her novel Ruins is developing on Cuba. Maybe is possible that you work at this? I have many information, but in Spanish. For example, Obejas was the person that contribute of the monetary prize of short stories at La Gaceta de Cuba, and shi say that shi is a Cuban person. Well, a kiss for you. 200.55.166.34 (talk) 17:11, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Aristophanes68,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Home of the Brave (play) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. MorbidEntree - _{(Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)}(please reply using ((ping))) 04:54, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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it was nice to be welcomed, belatedly or not, as it's always nice to feel appreciated. the links in your welcome are also extremely useful, but i have a question that i didn't find an answer for there, to wit: though my command of spanish is nothing to get excited about in general, i've spent more than 5 years in southern mexico and have a knowledge of local slang (especially cusswords) that is somewhat impressive. ¿is there a way that i can offer this expertise to the wikipedia community, both the spanish and english ones? i recently read an edition of rosario castellanos' "balun canan" that was printed in spain, and a number of the footnotes that attempted to explain her mexicanisms were just plum wrong. thanks again, Potholehotline (talk) 04:54, 28 January 2017 (UTC) Potholehotline (talk) 04:54, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Aristophanes68, I'd also like to thank you for your welcome, a personalized one no less. As at least a few of our interests coincide, I believe you'll be seeingmy edits again, though mine are mostly minor for now at least. Thanks again. Codexor (talk) 17:57, 29 January 2017 (UTC)Codexor[reply]

You seem like a very nice wiki guy. The thing is, I have been struggling to upload/update images but i couldn't figure it out. Do you know how? :D Wandrative (talk) 13:02, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I have indeed been on the site for a little bit but just caught the bug. Thanks for the links as well since there's quite a learning curve the deeper you go, huh? Are there places in particular that have succinct recommendations on editing? Like a CliffsNotes version, haha? Otherwise, I've just been following the be bold mantra. =P

Oh and here's some "Thanks for the welcome cookies" fries (since i heard you like Micky D's). =)

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Hello

It was a long time since I asked for your help, but here I am again. I'm asking the same thing to several other administrators about the same matter at hand. (I might be so annoying, but hey! Im Christian and I like boys! Thats quite a nice trait to share right?) About four months ago, the article Goguryeo has been protected due to vandalism, disruptive editing, and edit warring. After a couple of weeks after the protection was broken, two new editors started to vandalize the same article. To introduce you to the situation: they edited out the statements to misrepresent the cited sources, multiple credited sources were entirely removed, and original research has been included to substitute the removal. The two editor(s) in question are: User:Zanhe and User:Koraskadi I have been reverting the article back to the last editorial completed by User:Failosopher since the breakout of the situation.

The content that has been subject to this event are these two qualities:

1- "Goguryeo (고구려; 高句麗; [ko.ɡu.ɾjʌ], 37 BCE–668 CE), also called Goryeo (고려; 高麗; [ko.ɾjʌ]), was a Korean kingdom[4][5][6]"

The two editors mentioned above are constantly removing the bolded word; which goes against these three supporting articles cited.

"Koguryo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved October 15, 2013.

States that Goguryeo as one of the three Kingdoms of Korea

Byeon, Tae-seop (1999) 韓國史通論 (Outline of Korean history), 4th ed, Unknown Publisher, ISBN 89-445-9101-6.

Emphasizes Goguryeo as one of the most powerful Korean State that arose throughout history

"Complex of Koguryo Tombs". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2013-10-24.

The current article simply talks about its geographical location. However, the article stated that Goguryeo was Korean when it was retrieved.

2- "Goguryeo has been described as an empire by many scholars", "Goguryeo was a powerful empire and one of the great powers in East Asia"

Phrases in relation to the bolded word are getting removed alongside their supporting citations. This is a completely clear example of vandalism.

신형식 (2003). 高句麗史. Ewha Womans University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9788973005284. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

이덕일; 박찬규 (2007). 고구려 는 천자 의 제국 이었다. 역사의아침. ISBN 9788995884973. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

Roberts, John Morris; Westad, Odd Arne. The History of the World. Oxford University Press. p. 443. ISBN 9780199936762. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

Gardner, Hall. Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 158–159. ISBN 9780230608733. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

Laet, Sigfried J. de. History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century. UNESCO. p. 1133. ISBN 9789231028137. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

Walker, Hugh Dyson. East Asia: A New History. AuthorHouse. pp. 6–7. ISBN 9781477265178. Retrieved 20 November 2016

All these sources explicitly describe Goguryeo as an empire or have been described to have developed into an empire. In fact, the main thesis of the first two articles is about Goguryeo being an Empire. The same sources also state that Goguryeo is Korean, but they were not cited for the quality mentioned above for the current editorial.

The editorial that I have been reverting back into was the protected version; which was constructed by a series of discussions and debates with various editors and administrators including us. Something has to be done about the vandalists or the article in question. For the greater good, I ask you for your help once again, but I will decrease the burden by asking many others. Thank you. Wandrative (talk) 17:57, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ICHTHUS

April 2018

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

Hedy Lamarr as Delilah

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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May 2018

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 Watch

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...)

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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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Hello! I made a proposal on the talk page for List of Asian-American writers. You've done great work with the list, and I'd love to hear/read your thoughts! Megs (talk) 22:29, 11 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2018

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

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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 Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

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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July 2018

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:

1. Elizabeth I of England – legendary monarch who ushered in the Elizabethan Era over the dead body of her half-sister (#5)
2. Henry VIII of England – on his deathbed the last words of the king who founded the English Reformation were "Monks! Monks! Monks!"
3. Martin Luther King Jr. – can't wait to see the new US$5 bill featuring the "I Have a Dream" speech
4. Seven deadly sins – surprisingly "original research" is not one of the Seven deadly sins
5. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC)
6. 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))
7. 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

[[File:|200px|The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. ]]

The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling.

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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June 2019

The Top 6 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

The sad news was the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Louis XIV of France – a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France. He did say, "Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
2. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
3. Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
4. Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
5. Martin Luther King Jr. –
   " There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the United States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war."
6. Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.

Did You Know?

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?

Featured article

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland

Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral is a Gothic Revival three-spire cathedral in the city of Cork, Ireland. It belongs to the Church of Ireland and was completed in 1879. The cathedral is located on the south side of the River Lee, on ground that has been a place of worship since the 7th century, and is dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patron saint of the city. It was once in the Diocese of Cork; it is now one of the three cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Christian use of the site dates back to a 7th-century AD monastery, which according to legend was founded by Finbarr of Cork. The entrances contain the figures of over a dozen biblical figures, capped by a tympanum showing a Resurrection scene. (more...)

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July 2019

The Top 6 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

A suicide attack on July 11th claimed by Islamic State (IS) near a church in the Syrian city of Qamishli shows that Christians remain a major target of the terror group. The Top 6 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Henry VIII of England – King of England, He was an accomplished musician, author, and poet; his known piece of music is "Pastime with Good Company". He is often reputed to have written "Greensleeves" but probably did not. He had six marriages.
2. Elena Cornaro Piscopia – was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. In 1669, she translated the Colloquy of Christ by Carthusian monk Lanspergius from Spanish into Italian.
3. Mary, Queen of Scots – arrested for Reigning While Catholic (RWC), Mary was found guilty of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I of England in 1586, and was beheaded the following year.
4. Bob Dylan – American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist.
   " Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
5. Elizabeth I of England – The Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor who ushered in the Elizabethan Era, reversed re-establishment of Roman Catholicism by her half-sister.
6. Billy Ray Cyrus – Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, he is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia.

Did You Know?

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj
... that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?

Featured article

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Eric and Leslie Ludy were 21 and 16 respectively when they first met, English professors suggest that older singles are unlikely to gather hope from their story.

When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships is a 1999 book by Eric and Leslie Ludy, an American married couple. After becoming a bestseller on the Christian book market, the book was republished in 2004 and then revised and expanded in 2009. It tells the story of the authors' first meeting, courtship, and marriage. The authors advise single people not to be physically or emotionally intimate with others, but to wait for the spouse that God has planned for them.

The book is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters. Each chapter is written from the perspective of one of the two authors; nine are by Eric, while Leslie wrote seven, as well as the introduction. The Ludys argue that one's love life should be both guided by and subordinate to one's relationship with God. Leslie writes that God offers new beginnings to formerly unchaste or sexually abused individuals. (more...)

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Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The book is divided into five chapters, which Dickens titled "staves". A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man. (more...)

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Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.

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A Song for Simeon, is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-English poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed to the Ariel poems series of 38 pamphlets by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer. "A Song for Simeon" was the sixteenth in the series and included an illustration by avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poem's narrative echoes the text of the Nunc dimittis, a liturgical prayer for Compline from the Gospel passage. Eliot introduces literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is a negative portrayal of a Jewish figure and evidence of anti-Semitism on Eliot's part. (more...)

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May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose.

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