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Please consider moving your comment at talk:Religion in Germany to the "Pie chart" section. Thanks JimRenge (talk) 00:46, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an existing list of GSUSA councils? Thanks!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:31, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it has been hard finding an official list that is easy to copy. The Find a Council page (www.girlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/join/council-finder.html) has a list under a drop down menu but that list is pulled from a script which is listed at www.girlscouts.org/councilfinder/ajax_results.asp?short=yes I did some neatening and have (short names):

One could use this in combo with (for full names) Category:Local_councils_of_the_Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA --Erp (talk) 15:27, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'm on it next weekend!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:38, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've put up new maps for GS Virginia and Georgia and will be putting up one for Tennessee soon. --Erp (talk) 02:55, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone else tend to GSUSA council info? I'd love to see some of that expanded. --evrik ^(talk) 23:20, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you know how to fix the spaced ndashes in the Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet infobox? Thanks! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 16:08, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I did the same as you before: moved it, in this case to the navbox. Thanks. --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 16:26, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I know you put down citation needed at the end of the article. I'm just speaking from personal experience with the LAPD posts. I volunteer with an explorer competition in California. We had the LAPD cadets come to our comp. for several years. In 2012 or 13 they notified us they were not coming back unless we got different insurance. The LAPD told us the LAFD were in the Caryeastwood (talk) 07:20, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately personal experience alone can't be used as a reference. It can be used as a pointer that proper references do exist and should be hunted down. Note that insurance might have been an issue if the BSA insurance did not cover non-BSA participants or was considered insufficient; it need not have had to do with BSA policies on gays and god. Note also explanations can get mangled when passed person to person. --Erp (talk) 13:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

re special:diff/763849717 you mentioned:

"possibly because you wanted to link to an article on digital penetration which is solely about the consensual act and that plays down that this particular digital penetration was not consensual"

That appears to be an oversight, I figured it was common sense that people knew that sexual acts were sexual assault if not consented to.

I just made this edit adding a source showing that digital penetration without consent is considered sexual assault from ~12-13 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=764094538&oldid=760713940

With that now present, is it still objectionable to link to the article when describing what happened? Ranze (talk) 01:38, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I monitor links to a number of websites which are, by robust consensus, entirely inappropriate as sources. That job is made harder when sandboxes and user pages include links. Making the link list shorter saves time when looking for new citations to inappropriate sites that then need to be removed. These links ar eof no benefit in sandboxes and drafts because if those pages ever became articles, the links would have to come out. Guy (Help!) 06:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@JzG: True but it would help to have a more expansive explanation in the edit comment. "Predatory" for someone encountering it for the first time is not very informative and my understanding is that editing someone else's sandbox without invitation is not polite; perhaps "source marked as from a predatory journal, see x" would be more helpful. Note the surrounding text had already mentioned it and the others as possibly unreliable (this sandbox is more a collection of notes from a while back that went no where due to no reliable sources, I now marked for my own record that this particular one is unreliable). --Erp (talk) 14:50, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There was a wikilink, though, in the template. And that is pretty much what the template says. Guy (Help!) 15:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for trying to fight the good fight-that guy is a POV pusher...--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 22:58, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

True but he does sometimes seem to have some good points; he does seem to have been correct in some of the Masinissa entry. It takes time to learn to evaluate one's own biases (and we all have biases) and also to properly document. Given that the ancient kingdom of Numidia corresponded somewhat to modern coastal Algeria (though it also covered part of modern Tunisia) and that Masinissa united and then ruled Numidia for some 54 years, it is not a surprise that he seemingly plays a large part in the Algerian national mythos (think George Washington in the US mythos). Ideally articles about Algeria need a critical mass of editors that can read French and/or Arabic (due to modern Algerian history much of the research is likely to be in one or the other of those languages). Unfortunately also the French wikipedia version of the article is also lacking citations. On couscous it looks like there is an edit war going on in the French version of the article also on the same issue. I can't read Arabic so I'm not sure what is going on in that version of the article (though less editing)--Erp (talk) 01:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thought I'd give you a headsup about this if you weren't watching that page. IMO it's a bit like editing the page on California to say "usually considered part of the US", but in any case, I think text like that in the intro on a European country's page really should come with some citations about why it's not sometimes considered a European country. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:17, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Iceland#The_back_.26_forth_minor_edit_war_about_what_continent_Iceland_is_in.2C_and_what_a_continent_is is relevant to your interests. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:02, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

at National Statuary Hall Collection it don't work. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 05:10, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't believe you removed SGI and SUN. Do you know what you're doing here? Dicklyon (talk) 05:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I went a bit too fast through the last section of the alphabet. SGI, SUN, and Yahoo! now back. However I do think the list should be more of significant examples rather than exhaustive. --Erp (talk) 05:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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It has nothing to do with the Christian Encyclopedia or any theological seminary. Straight from the About Me page https://thearda.com/about/about-the-arda

Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world. The ARDA is generously supported by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, Chapman University, Pennsylvania State University and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

ARDA Advisory Board Renata Curty (UC Santa Barbara) Joel Herndon (Duke University) Nathaniel Porter (Virginia Tech) Ruth Tillman (Pennsylvania State University) Andrew Tyner (Center for Open Science)

ARDA Affiliates US Religion Census Baylor Univeristy World Religion Database at Boston University which is part of Brill publishing https://www.worldreligiondatabase.org/ Foorgood (talk) 20:03, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Erp. Sorry if I invade your talk page, but take a look here where I demonstrate, based on academic critique, the links between, and unreliability of, the aforementioned sources.--Æo (talk) 20:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AEO is conflating ARDA with the World Christian Database at Gordon Theological Seminary when it has NOTHING to do with it.The opinions about the World Christian Database affiliated with Gordon Theological Seminary I can agree with but the World Religion Database is affiliated with Boston University and published by Brill which is a top reliable source NOT the seminary. The bottom line is that ARDA is completely SEPARATE from both of them because ARDA is part of Penn State University as noted here https://thearda.com/about/faqs#q1. They have the same independence and reliability as PEW.Foorgood (talk) 20:59, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Here are multiple sources that call ARDA and the World Religion Database "Reliable", including the Oxford handbook and Cambridge University: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254728/, https://books.google.com/books?id=xoI8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA346&dq=arda+is+a+reliable+source+religion&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjzO-x_IP7AhU2jokEHWfyDdEQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=arda%20is%20a%20reliable%20source%20religion&f=false, https://books.google.com/books?id=SgJiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT183&dq=world+religion+database+reliable+source+religion&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8gev1_IP7AhU_lokEHafjAO84FBDoAXoECAkQAw#v=onepage&q=world%20religion%20database%20reliable%20source%20religion&f=falseFoorgood (talk) 22:33, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please, Foorgood, keep the discussion on a single page (my talk page). Erp can intervene there if she wants. Æo (talk) 23:17, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RSN discussion+RfC outcome

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 395#Association of Religion Data Archives and World Religion Database (Gordon-Conwell's WRD/WCD/WCE+ARDA & Pew-Templeton's GRF) — permanent link; deprecation RfC — RfC permanent link — RfC closing summary:

There is no consensus to deprecate these sources. That said, rough consensus did develop to use them with in-text attribution and to prefer the use of stronger sources.

Hello Erp,

If you will need to cite it, hereinabove is the outcome of the RSN discussion + deprecation RfC about Gordon-Conwell's WRD/WCD/WCE+ARDA & Pew-Templeton's GRF, closed by Firefangledfeathers.--Æo (talk) 01:58, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello. If you actually read my edit and verified the source, you would have seen that it was not a joke edit. Chuck Tingle was actually sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. As he is a notable figure in the queer community, I would appreciate this edit restored. 2600:1700:3190:BEE0:5187:8BC6:B960:C4E9 (talk) 19:49, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I would also note that the tumblr reference is self-published material and does not count as a reliable source for Wikipedia so could have been reverted on that grounds. I would suggest adding Chuck Tingle with a reliable reference (e.g., announcement by the Sisters) and also mentioning in the edit summary what you are doing. Add it also to his wikipedia entry. Erp (talk) 21:35, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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You have reverted my edit on the Religion in Switzerland page. Did you revert because the figures weren't yet combined with the two previous years? Or was there some other explanation? If it is the first one, do you know if (and when) the statistics bureau intends to do this? 2A02:1810:BC3A:D800:2C98:387B:A549:4647 (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted because they weren't documented by the source; in a addition, a change in figures should be accompanied by a change in source even if only the access date. I also combined certain categories that didn't show on the pie chart. Erp (talk) 01:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]