Valter.wolf

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December 2018

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Nimrod, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 15:54, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

You clearly haven't read the article as you seem to think you are reverting the idea of some writer. The WP:LEAD summarises the article, and these possible identifications are well sourced from multiple authors. Doug Weller talk 15:56, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

You've been reverted by 3 editors, it's time to stop deleting and use the talk page

Further deletion is likely to get you blocked. Doug Weller talk 12:32, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Contrary to what you wrote on my talk page, the above isn't a threat, it's a warning about cause and effect. But thanks for using the talk page. Doug Weller talk 07:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Josephus isn't a reliable source for Nimrod

Besides not being a contemporary, we treat him as a primary source. Our articles should in the main be based on reliably published secondary sources. See WP:Verify and WP:RS. If you think the sources we are using fail our criteria you can go to WP:RSN. Doug Weller talk 17:27, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Nimrod again, pls remove the misleading info

Hey, you are not really using any sources for that paragraph, you took that from your guts. Those "editors" that message me also failed to give any source for their claim in the article. It sounded to me more like their opinion than actual historical data. So no one can state that Nimrod is any kind of "conflation". On the country, even Britannica says that there is a resemblance between Nimron and Gilgamesh (see links belos). Further, if Joshephus is "not a reliable source" then neither are you at all, so that misleading piece of information you added should be definitively removed!

Some links:

"There is a resemblance between Nimron and Gilgamesh" https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nimrod

"What Josephus says here is precisely what is found in the Gilgamesh epics" http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2006/10/30/Who-Was-Nimrod.aspx

"Identifying Nimrod of Genesis 10 with Sargon of Akkad by Exegetical and Archaeological Means" https://www.academia.edu/2184113/_2013_Identifying_Nimrod_of_Genesis_10_with_Sargon_of_Akkad_by_Exegetical_and_Archaeological_Means

Etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valter.wolf (talk • contribs) 01:33, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

• I don't know who posted this, but alright--"resemblance" isn't much, and the other two are not reliable sources. (Do you know what Academia is?) Drmies (talk) 14:53, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
  • @Drmies: that was written by this editor. He's posted to Talk:Nimrod now. He's posted to my talk page saying I threatened him and confusingly saying something about not being able to associate Nimrod with a historical figure, despite the fact that the Creationist he cites in the last link above says Nimrod was Sargon. Doug Weller talk 07:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019

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Thank you. Doug Weller talk 07:34, 6 January 2019 (UTC)