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The information you have provided is most valuable to me and your comments and offer of help are more that greatly appreciated and look forward to a continuance of all efforts in earnest towards a growing encyclopedia of knowledge for all. All Worlds (talk) 21:19, 23 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Copyright edit

Please read up on this policy page WP:COPYVIO. This is taken VERY seriously here. Heiro 02:26, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Reply


Avoiding copyright problems edit

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This might also help you: Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Please note that also it's marked an essay that it is something that those of us who enforce this policy (Administrators such as me) follow when deciding what action to take). Your efforts to avoid copyvio are appreciated. Dougweller (talk) 05:11, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Rooftops edit

Hi, I am sorry t revert, but I really tried to find a few solid WP:RS sources about the rooftop story and could not confirm it. Do you have a better source than the passing mention in that article? Thanks. History2007 (talk) 12:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

I will work on that and research more on it and get back to you as soon as I can. All Worlds (talk) 12:39, 25 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

The Amazing Book of Useless Information: http://books.google.com/books?id=zXKVsRH3PFsC&pg=PA15&dq=Pope+Nicholas+I++cockerel&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OQzAT-jDNYqk9ATu2dGcCw&sqi=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=cockerel&f=false page 15

The Naked Truth By J. R. Farrell http://books.google.com/books?id=lXWDZnersAAC&pg=PA91&dq=Pope++cockerel&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IBDAT9TtCo-m8gSSqKTDCw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAzhG#v=onepage&q=Pope%20%20cockerel&f=false page 91

American folk sculpture by Robert Charles Bishop Dutton, 1974 Tradition maintains that a ninth-century pope decreed every church should be capped by a cock, an emblem alluding to Christ's statement to Peter http://books.google.com/books?ei=fVzAT83dMJGE8ATb8NGoCw&id=IxjaAAAAMAAJ&dq=Pope++cockerel&q=Tradition+maintains+that+a+ninth-century+pope+decreed+every+church+should+be+capped+by+a+cock%2C+an+emblem+alluding+to+Christ%27s+statement+to+Peter page 44

Our Vanishing Landscape By Eric Sloane http://books.google.com/books?id=WhfIGc61EdsC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=pope+Nicholas++steeple+cock&source=bl&ots=_R7N1FjFcd&sig=zzVICjxFLGSnAU6q55G12S8hSzU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pGXAT8r8G4Sm8gSK6rGjCw&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=pope%20Nicholas%20cock&f=false page 96


  Civility Award
After our recent interaction, and having checked out some of your other interactions, I humbly award you the barnstar of civility. For not being offended by reversions and requests for citations and instead responding with sound research and a level head.DoctorLazarusLong (talk) 04:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)Reply


A kitten for you! edit

 

Thanks for finding a new source to use on Cafeteria Christianity.

Tom Morris (talk) 17:06, 21 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

  • You are more than welcome and will attempt to provide more sources as time permits.All Worlds (talk) 21:38, 21 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Bible edit

If you read the articles on the Psalms, the books Solomon was supposed to have written, Jeremiah, etc you see that their author ship is disputed, yet your edits don't reflect that and are thus a violation of our core policy WP:NPOV. If I don't beat you to it, could you fix it? You can copy material from other articles but you must put in the edit summary, with a wikilink, a link to that article and say you've copied it from there. You also need to start using WP:Edit summaries. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 05:03, 17 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

  • Will do, or rather will try. Original intentions you know were simply to cite references and sources. Thanks. All Worlds (talk) 08:32, 17 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks edit

For your gracious email. I see you are still having the sort of problems that new editors often encounter, but if you persevere and try to follow our polices and guidelines you will succeed I'm sure. Dougweller (talk) 09:05, 26 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Thank you for the help cleaning up that page. All Worlds (talk) 08:03, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Quotation marks edit

Thanks for your contributions! You don't need to put quotation marks around small snippets of text that you are referencing. Just paraphrase it as best you can. Editor2020 (talk) 15:32, 2 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Modifications in Cockfight edit

I presume you are one of the latest editors of the article Cockfight. I invite you to see if you agree with the content I added to the article today. Yours, --Cacucho (talk) 18:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

  • I have added a small amount of content and moved the pictures somewhat in relation to the appearance, but I think you have improved the article to represent an even more worldwide view of the page. Glad to have you here. All Worlds (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

I haven't figured this out yet, but James Crenshaw should NOT be deleted. He is one of the most prolific and prominent of current academic bible scholars. He has held named chairs at Duke and Vanderbilt. My university library shows 16 books by him, but that's not all there are. submitted by Michael Fox. MichaelVFox (talk) 19:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)Reply


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Nomination of Sacred cockfight for deletion edit

 

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