User talk:Mennonot/archive1

Welcome to the Wikipedia

Here are some links I find useful

• Wikipedia:Policy Library
• Wikipedia:Cite your sources
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Brilliant prose
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Pages needing attention
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 20:33, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

No, I really don't

I reviewed your edits just now, and they all seem fine. Mostly just minor stuff, but helpful (adding links, etc...). Nothing advice-wise occurs to me specific to your edits thusfar. If you have any particular questions feel free to ask, but you seem to be doing great. Glad to have you, Sam [Spade] 20:43, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Be bold!

If you need any specific advice, I might be able to help, But I learn best by doing ;) Have you said anything in the article talk? I doubt you'd be answered, but if it were a more often used page it would be useful. In this case I'd just leave a note explaining after the fact, myself. Sam [Spade] 01:56, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Current events

I assume you blanked the page accidentally?! Lupo 09:57, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Yeah, sorry about that. I'm not sure how it happened. I think it had something to do with taking too long on a oft-edited page... mennonot 09:59, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Is there a way to link to a category without joining it?

Yes, use [[:category:Heretics]] for category:Heretics.

FLDS

Oops. Sorry. Thanks for explaining. If you haven't fixed, I will. Great to meet you. By the way, I have been trying to drum up some contributions from some FLDS members, but it is coming slowly. Tom Haws 17:36, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Resistance and struggle

I don't know what part of nonviolent resistance concerns any other means of "achieving one's goals" than by defeating one's opponents - through means other than violence. A couple of the sections, in fact, were more about using violence.

I didn't do a point for point count, but roughly half to 3/4 or the 'resistance' article was about resisting and overcoming. Wouldn't you agree than was more specific than just "achieving one's goals"? I'm studying a foreign language and learning piano. What part of achieving these goals has any relation to nvr? Uncle Ed 03:00, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Socialist church

The socialist church movement arose in late nineteenth century Britain. Although we don't yet have an article on it, I thought that it may be of interest to readers of the peace church article as another radical church-based movement. Warofdreams 09:28, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

• There are several sources for socialist or labour churches. Krupskaya's description of a visit is very negative but gives somthing of their flavour, and the footnote of this article on the labour church has some more detail, but the best resource is probably the 1911 encyclopaedia article. Hope you can write something from these sources, Warofdreams talk 09:57, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Bocholt meeting

Hi Tim. Thanks for the query on my talk page & blog mention. My source for the meeting is Jansma's book (see references at the foot of the page itself), pp.218-20 - his title, incidentally, translates as "Melchiorites, Münsterites and Batenburgers. A Sociological Analysis of a Millennial Movement from the 16th Century". It's a bit dry, but by far the most complete source on the Batenburgers and their kin; in fact Jansma is the only scholar to have made a thorough study of the movement. Unfortunately his work is only available in Dutch. I cannot say with any certainty whether his account is more correct than that of Williams. But, actually, I'm not surprised accounts differ, as quite possibly the sources themselves are in dispuite; the various sects had such different agendas to push. I'm going to update the Batenburgers article by qualifying my statement about lack of resolution. Mikedash 22:36, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Sources

For better or worse Wikipedia editors can't use personal experience in Wikipedia articles; that is what it known as original research. It's always best if you can find some reputable outside source to back up a statement. Jayjg ^(talk) 20:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

hi Tim,

i've been meaning to drop a line and say "hi" to you and was prompted by your recent edit to Mennonite. just FYI, i'm a mennonite "in exile" (i live to far from a Mennonite church to conveniently connect and my spouse is an Episcopalian). i'm still a member of Manhattan (NYC) Mennonite Fellowship. my other life is as an audio electrical engineer. r b-j 14:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't think I've seen another regular editor who is Mennonite. It's nice to know there are others around. Perhaps some day we'll have enough to have a committee or something :-) mennonot 22:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

anyway, i have to admit that i discovered your existence here at WP from reading some example in the Arbitration help pages. i can't find it now. looks like we both got into some disputed stuff that went to ArbCom. for me it was Bogdanov Affair. anyway, nice to meet you. if you're originally from North America, perhaps we can play the Mennonite game and find someone we both know. i would start with a guy named Merv Horst (the only other Mennonite i know who's been to London).r b-j 02:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

That's really funny that you saw my name through arbcom. I had no idea my name was turning up on arbitration pages. After reading your comment I googled Mennonot and arbitration and got 79 results. After some digging I discovered that an edit by me was used as an example on the template that is stuck on people's page's when gathering evidence. After some digging I found the original template. The edit itself was a minor and random one and I've never personally been involved in arbitration. I guess it's completely random that I got used. I guess it's all in the spirit of open souce. :-)

As for the Mennonite game, I don't recognise the name Merv Horst, but I've only been here in London for two years or so. I'm originally from Goshen, Indiana. If you've got Manhattant ties, do you know Nekeisha who is now in Elkhart?mennonot 23:38, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

yeah, Nekeisha is married to Andy Baker and they came to MMF just after Phyllis and i and kids moved to VT. even though we're 5 hours away, we try to get down ("down" for us, it's upstate NY for the MMFers) to the retreats and keep in touch. i can identify a little with Andy's and Nekeisha's theopolitics (i might be described as a middle-aged left-leaning long-haired hippie), but it seems to me that they take no prisoners and i would rather be taken more seriously so i'm a little more pragmatic. but i still have some idealism, i was a Howard Dean volunteer (and even got to introduce the Guv to a town hall meeting during the NH primary). there's a lot of stuff i would like to see different, but i'm not quite a Jesus-anarchist. being in Elkhart/Goshen, have you met, or do you know John Rempel (former MMF pastor and MCC UN liason and now teaching at AMBS)?

also, tell me what's going on in London. it's a curiousity. r b-j 00:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Athanasius

I still haven't had time to look into the Athanasius claims. Recognize however that the Mennonite views on the nature of Christ, as much as the Reformed (which I am), Catholic, Orthodox, or anyone else, come from Athanasius. Evan Donovan 03:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

I hear you. Problem is, some of the Christians I admire most have deeply problematic parts of their theology and practice (Augustine's urging of force against the Donatists, Bernard of Clairvaux's support of the Second Crusade, Luther's support of the nobles in the Peasants' War, not to mention his antisemitism or violent opposition to your theological predecessors, Calvin's tacit support of executions for heresy). I try not to become a hero worshipper of anyone, recognizing that if I were to somehow become historically significant in the Church, people would be able to find similar inconsistencies and sins in my own life.

Lancaster County is a good place. I'm always glad to find others who were born there. I don't really feel in some ways like a native though. Evan Donovan 05:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Athanasius II

Just a typo. Thanks for noticing. Good luck w/ your Wiki and real life work. Kudos on the photos. By the way "emperor" may have been misspelled on your user page. God's peace, Dpr 05:20, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Community

Thanks for joining the Community project, Tim. To answer you're note there, I suppose the best classification we have so far is a simple flat list that appears on the Community_(disambiguation) page. That's actually something we need to work on. Maybe a table of the diffierent types of communities like the list being used on the Community of practice article. At any rate, Welcome to the Community Builders Task Force! Just chime in on the discussion page there, and we'll see if we can get some things rolling :) -- CQ 16:58, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia Anti-war project, push to get a featured article b4 Xmass

February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, an article which is part of the WikiProject Anti-war of which you are listed as a member, has been recently rated A-class by the Version 1.0 Editorial team (see here) This means that it is considered to be of good quality. The Anti-war project has yet to achieve a featured article but with a little pushing I feel we could get this article up to FA standards. To this end I have put the article up for peer review, if you could help make this a brilliant article that would be much appreciated. Please give your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/February 15, 2003 anti-war protest/archive2 or on the article's talk page. Fingers crossed for a FA before Xmass.--JK the unwise 13:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Thanks for your vandalism revert at this page. I just wanted to tell you that whehn you revert blatant vandalism (such as breaking the code, blanking text, or adding "hi mom!"-type comments) you don't need to explain yourself in the article's talk page. People will usually check the diffs so the edit would be enough. On the other hand when you make controversial changes to the content of an article then further explaining yourself in talk pages is highly appreciated.

I say this to save you time. Edit summaries are your friends! Let me know if you need help in anything around the wiki. Happy editing. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 16:34, 27 December 2005 (UTC)