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Neo-Calvinist Influence on the American Solidarity Party

You mention Neo-Calvinist influence in edit https://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=American_Solidarity_Party&oldid=728992192 I'm not familiar with Neo-Calvinsim. What influences are you aware of? Desmond —Preceding undated comment added 21:25, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you for your warm welcome. I would have appreciated the cookies more if you sent it with a glass of milk. :) HarrisOaferina 07:25, 22 January 2015 (UTC) Harris

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Thanks! :) Matthewrobertolson (talk) 00:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Crissy Moran edit

In this edit to the Crissy Moran article, you added a name "Presley" but you never mention previously who Presley is. Could you clarify this? Dismas|^(talk) 23:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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Theory of Pashtun descent from Rajputs

That was a redirect, you weren't restoring content. Bellew is mentioned in Pashtun people. Dougweller (talk) 12:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Your BS Kenny Britt Edit Removal

He's not a ram, that was a rumor. All I changed was marking him as a free agent, which he is. Source: check any football site. any. My edit stands, and I'm going to remake it. Stop spreading misinformation.

GD 66 b

I see you reverted my conversion of GD 66 b into a redirect. Please note that the object GD 66 b is a non-existent planet, as detailed in the article GD 66, which gives the history of the detection and the reasons why there is no evidence that this system hosts a planet. As such it makes no sense to have an article giving all the information as though this were a real object, it is misleading to readers who might come across it. (Certainly one of the researchers who is involved in this is rather amused that Wikipedia rushed to get an article about this planet up [1]) I'd nominate it for deletion but as an anonymous user this is impossible for me. 77.56.99.23 (talk) 20:38, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Alan Clark

Hi Anupam. First, congratulations on your dilligence in making extensive contributions to Wikipedia. Second, Alan Clark's infidelities were common knowledge in the UK during his lifetime, and interviewers sometimes pressed him on this matter. (There is a reference to his relationships with the Harknesses elsewhere in the article, and there are brief references to other such relationships in the diaries.) He never attempted to deny what he did. This aspect of his life is one of the things for which he is best remembered; I think that to make mention of his infidelities - especially after his death - comes well within the realm of what is accepted as fair comment within the North American and UK media.

In the strict legal sense, I don't think it's possible to defame the dead. It would be hard to write a meaningful account of the lives of Edward VII or the first Duke of Wellington without making a passing mention of their mistresses, and I think the same is true of Clark. If you think I've overlooked something please let me know. Kind regards, David H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.100.245.61 (talk) 21:32, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

God's Not Dead (film)

If you want to participate in the inclusion and exclusion of information in the article, I don't believe it's too much to ask that you participate in the discussion going on on the talk page. Your justification of 'improper synthesis' is both false and not conducive to the production of a good article. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 04:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

You are grossly mischaracterizing what was said in the article in order to argue the point. There was no original research done, there was no synthesis of information, there was simply the presentation of a claim, several sources which support that claim, and several additional sources for good measure. You are reading too much into the edit. Please participate in discussion 'before' blanking sections of the article or making demands upon others to do so. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 04:32, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

You are continuing to grossly misrepresent what was claimed in the article, what is contained in the sources, and what wikipedia guidelines are regarding the issue. Read WP:SELFSOURCE, pay attention to the notability and credible expertise of the atheist source cited, please perform a careful re-reading of the claims in question and please try to make a case for original research instead of simply repeating the phrase. I have already responded to you on the article's talk page. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 05:03, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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Inappropriate use of Twinkle

Hi Anupam, please be more careful when reverting valid edits, as you did here, without an edit summary. This inappropriate revert led to the above-linked WP:ANI complaint, as well as, seemingly, plenty of other stress. Remember, Wikipedia:IPs are human too; and also please try to use edit summaries where necessary. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 13:10, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for your support, but I am actually trying to stay out of editing Christian camps/schools for the foreseeable future.

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Thanks for the Barnstar

Hi Anupam, Thank you for the barnstar. With best regards! --Ganesh Paudel (talk) 08:32, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

Hey Anupam, thanks for this wikilove dose :) I created the article as some preliminary work for a 10-hour Wikipedia:WikiProject Miró/Global Challenge wikipedia editing party that will take place this Saturday. You'll be most welcome to take part if it sounds appealing to you. Cheers! --ESM (talk) 22:30, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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Contradiction

You are contradicting yourself if you subscribe to two denominations at once. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.95.123.216 (talk) 07:56, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

John Taylor and your kind words

Thank you so much for reviewing John Taylor, and for stopping by my page and leaving such kind words. Clare. (talk) 11:42, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Atheism

Hi Anupam. Once upon a time you thanked me for an edit in the article atheism. Currently it seems to me that an editor is trying to bulldoze through the deletion of the entire section dealing with state atheism. You might like to review the talk page. Ozhistory (talk) 12:01, 23 May 2014 (UTC)\

Ah I see that you are already involved. Sorry. Ozhistory (talk) 12:13, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar

Thanks for the anti-vandalism barnstar :-) I just wanted to let you know, the amount of vandalism made on South Asian related articles is extremely high. F.e, on the Pakistani people article it seems like a neverending story. It's very tiresome. (probably you know this all already)

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Another thanks for the barnstar

Thanks for the barnstar, Anupam. Well I see you have enough discussions to start archiving. Should I archive some older discussions for you? Jim Carter ^(talk) 11:06, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Patriarch of Smyrna listed at Redirects for discussion

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Notability tag on article Mazoni

Hi Anupam, i saw your notability tag on article i am creating, i want to inform you that i am working on the article and that this article is under major collaborative construction, its about a company that is rebranded and has been merged in january 2014, therefore its major challenge to find second party media links as of now, but i trying to find the good references and working on the article to make it better, i hope this clarifies any misunderstanding, so i request your to please reconsider your notability tag and give me time to bring the article in good light. thank you Salemandar (talk) 14:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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Jane Somerville

Hi Anupam. To say Jane Somerville does not meet Notability is a real insult. Please refer to the talk page. Picknick99 (talk) 08:37, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Jane Somerville

Hi Anupam, please don't worry about it. I was maybe just being a little impatient myself. It's just that I had only just written the page and not yet inserted the references. It's just that I've had a few negative experiences on here and it's made me a bit defensive. To be honest, I welcome constructive criticism. If you have time you could maybe take a quick look at a couple of my others about which I've had some slights disagreements over notability and references. They are Kevin Howarth and Simon Rumley. But only if you want to, please don't feel obliged. Thanks Picknick99 (talk) 18:21, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments - Pakistan

Hi Anupam!

Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September. The competition is all about capturing the cultural monuments and heritage sites of Pakistan and uploading these images on Commons to create an online repository which will be freely available to all.

Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.

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Thanks

cheers for looking at the pages. Picknick99 (talk) 21:25, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar/Freedom Planet

Thank you! I'm not sure how you found the article, though, as it's currently an orphan and video games don't seem to be one of your major areas of interest here. Tezero (talk) 02:45, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Citations in articles about competition reality TV shows

Hi. Regarding these edits: [2], [3], [4], can you offer your opinion in this discussion? It is sorely needed. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 22:32, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Justin Bieber

Refresher on WP:BLP: "We must get the article right. Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources.... Biographies of living persons ("BLP"s) must be written conservatively and with regard for the subject's privacy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid: it is not Wikipedia's job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives..." Please don't add content that relies on rumor and hearsay. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 05:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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Iraqi People's Coalition

Thanks for deleting that. It was my bad - I thought I was just making an infobox template, and then once I realised what I'd done I was unsure how to mark it for speedy deletion. MrPenguin20 (talk) 10:48, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Page deletion

Hello

You recently messaged me saying that the page Founder Commodities meets the criteria for speedy deletion. I am sorry if it does and you may delete it if you want :/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetune (talk • contribs) 07:16, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Re: Page deletion

Thanks for the reply. I'll add some more sources and try to make it less advertise-y :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetune (talk • contribs) 07:26, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Hindu Kush

Salaam UserAnupam! Appreciate your concern. Simply, not a very frequent visitor, but enthusiastic about keeping the right thing up. Quick copy and paste from the Persian page of that same article, inadvertently left it that way. Though I took efforts to take the IPA character, surfing all the way to its page, to write the edit summary.

So I did not choose it intentionally. It is corrected though. The ball's in your court.

Cheers!

AzgsTalk 23:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azgs (talk • contribs)

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New disclosure requirements

Hi Anupam! Just as a quick heads up, as I assume you wouldn't be aware of this yet and that it may relate to some of your editing, recently the Terms of Use for Wikimedia projects was updated to require paid editors to disclose their clients when making edits for which they expect to receive compensation. You have a couple of options as to how - you can do this through your user page, in the edit summaries, or on the article's talk page - but some form of disclosure is now required. - Bilby (talk) 02:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Dentzz Dental Deletion

Hey Anupam, I am writing an article about Dentzz Dental Clinics. It is about Dentzz Dental Clinics in India. As far as possible, I have tried to stick to wikipedia's guidelines for writing an article. However, there may be some discrepancies in it. Your help in making it adhere to wikipedia's guidelines will be highly appreciated. Request you to let me know what content in the article makes it promotional in nature so that I can remove it. --Gadhiaharsh (talk) 12:35, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Social Darwinism

Hi Anupam, I just added a discussion topic about the article Social Darwinism, and I thought you might be interested in expressing your opinion. I'd appreciate it.--Goose friend (talk) 02:07, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Pakistani Cultural Heritage - Edit Drive

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Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you for the barnstar. It was very kind and much appreciated, and it's nice to see other people reading the articles I write! The Drover's Wife (talk) 07:31, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

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I appreciate your welcome. HaleAgnes (talk) 05:03, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate your welcome. HaleAgnes (talk) 05:04, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

???

Reads like an advertisement??? Watchmen Drum and Bugle Corps gives the bare-bones facts of a newborn organization. There is no attempt to sell anything, only to convey a bit of knowledge about the last of the currently active junior drum and bugle corps in North America to have an article in the Wikipedia. Yes, there may be issues with the article, but it is only a stub which still contains more accurate information than many new articles... As the organization ages and progresses, more information will be available to be added, and more references will be cited.

I had hardly posted this article and was searching for the appropriate stub tags, when you jumped in and tagged it for multiple offenses to your ideas of what is right and proper for inclusion in Wikipedia. I have now calmed down enough to refrain from throwing epithets in your direction, but come on... WikiProject Drum Corps was once a flourishing activity on Wikipedia, yet when people posted new articles only to have them almost instantly tagged and deleted for "lack of notability" and sundry other causes, several dozen editors became disenchanted departed Wikipedia in disgust. GWFrog (talk) 05:43, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

You, like several other are under the mistaken impression that Drum Corps International and the organizations that compete under its umbrella are one and the same. This is not now nor has never been the case, much as the teams within any athletic conference or sports league are independent from each other. Each drum corps is an independent organization, except for the four that sponsor more than one corps. Yes, I referred to the corps' webpage and to its Facebook page, but also to DCI, a separate entity, negating your argument that I have used only one source. I had fully expected to use an additional, independent source, but the articles I expected to see with mention of the corps have not yet been published and will be referenced as soon as available.GWFrog (talk) 07:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

Jeffrey Travis

Thank you for reviewing Jeffrey Travis. As for the tags, I'm knew to wiki and not sure what they mean. Could you let me know how I can fix the page for them to be removed? Thank you Baxter1989 (talk) 07:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Anupam, Many thanks for the barnstar. That's very nice of you. See you! -- CaTi0604 (talk) 07:38, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

• WHO's list of Essential Medicines[5]
• Neglected tropical diseases[6]
• Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

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IEG grant

CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
  (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [7]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
• Proofreading drives

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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Nomination of King Products for deletion

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Nomination of Mechanical Plastics Corp. for deletion

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Thanks for the honest welcome. I was interested in this because of current political propaganda running in Sri Lanka. But myself is little bit worried though; I need to ask you that is there any vulnerability towards wikipedia editor, by revealing their real identity? If not it's my pleasure to continue editing through valuable sources. Regards--Kalakannija (talk) 20:33, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the moral support about Article Dr. Syed Shahzad Ali Najmi. --Nida Farooqi (talk) 12:36, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello from Peaceful Peaceful

Sir, What do you think about article Shahzad Ali Najmi will it be delete or will it be include in Wikipedia?--Peaceful Peaceful (talk) 15:47, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For your contributions to reach a consensus at LeBron James. —Bagumba (talk) 20:20, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Please don't remove dispute tags while the dispute is ongoing

It's extremely bad form to remove tags while a dispute is ongoing. Much worse when there's a conflict of interest as you have. Please restore it and don't remove it until we have resolved the concerns. --Ronz (talk) 00:35, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 16:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations!

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Thank you for the Barnstar

Very appreciate your encouragement. JohnThorne (talk) 22:59, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

re barnstar

Thanks:)!!!!!!!:)--Old Time Music Fan (talk) 00:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

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Hindustani language edits

Anupam, can you review the edits made by 76.68.127.10 (talk · contribs) to Hindustani language and related articles? To me they appear to be typical POV pushing, but given your contributions to those pages, you are better positioned to judge and see if there is anything in them worth retaining. Thanks. Abecedare (talk) 23:12, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the confirmation and the source, Anupam. Hopefully the IP will stop edit-warring, or discuss, before they need to be blocked or the pages protected. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 17:10, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Did my deletion contest go through?

First time with wiki and I'm not sure what I'm doing. Working on the entry for Test Group (The Movie). Can I keep working on the article without fear of deletion? Thanks for doing your part in keeping this place in check.Krowface (talk) 18:56, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Anupam, on Richard Elmore's notability, I had already left a preemptive message on the talk page about meeting PROF5. If this is satisfactory, please revert your notability cleanup tag. czar ♔ 03:33, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for the barnstar...

also these articles aren't orphans, they are linked by a template included in hundreds of articles - just not updated immediately. Cheers...Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:27, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Tum aik harami hindu khanzeer ho behnchod mein nassli kashmiri Butt hoon, mujhey apni nassal ka tujh jaise neech zaat harami hindu sey ziada pata hai, tum behnchod kutti nassal ke dalle insaan ho

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A lunar calendar of the kind used by the ancient Greeks, like that still used by Jews, normally has 12 lunar months, but adds every few years an intercalary lunar month, making that year a 13-month year. In such a calendar it is nonsense to speak of a particular date as that fixed for the solstice: only after 19 years will the solstice return to approximately the same day of the same lunar month. Yet in the long quotation that you give, that book states: This arrangement became an administrative problem for the Roman Empire as it tried to coordinate the solar Julian calendar with the lunar calendars of its provinces in the east. While the Romans could roughly match the months in the two systems, the four cardinal points of the solar year--the two equinoxes and solstices--still fell on different dates. Even ignoring the Roman solar calendar, they fell in any lunar calendar on a different date each year from the year before, and the year after, and the year after that again! What stable lunar calendar date existed for comparison with that in the Roman solar calendar? It goes on: By the time of the first century, the calendar date of the winter solstice in Egypt and Palestine was eleven to twelve days later than the date in Rome. For one thing, Palestine had a lunar calendar and Egypt a very different solar calendar. An "Egypt and Palestine" date is nonsense. As far back as the time of Herodotus, the Greeks explicitly recognized the much greater accuracy of the Egyptian calendar for indicating the length of the real year. In fact the Greek calendar made only a very rough approximation to the length of the real year and for that reason had to be adjusted by adding a whole month every few years, to bring it a bit closer to the length of the real year. Both Greeks and Egyptians knew how to calculate the date on their respective calendars when the solstice was to occur, just as we can calculate the date on our calendar when the solstice will occur. You do know, of course, that in our calendar the December solstice, for instance, is sometimes on 21 December as in 2014 and sometimes on 22 December as in 2015. (I refer to UTC/GMT, of course. In India, it will already be 22 December even this year at the moment of the solstice.) Since the date of the solstice isn't quite fixed even on our solar calendar, what is this nonsense about a fixed date for it on a lunar calendar, on which it will appear not only on different days of the month but even in different lunar months in successive years? The book goes on: As a result the Incarnation came to be celebrated on different days in different parts of the Empire. The Incarnation, you surely know, is celebrated in March. I presume the writer meant, not the Incarnation, but the Birth of Jesus, which is celebrated in December, close to the date of the December solstice, a practice that began in the West and was only later accepted in the East. The imaginative The Western Church, in its desire to be universal, eventually took them both--one became Christmas, one Epiphany--with a resulting twelve days in between needs no comment except to say it is imaginative. Over time this hiatus became invested with specific Christian meaning. The Church gradually filled these days with saints, some connected to the birth narratives in Gospels (Holy Innocents' Day, December 28, in honor of the infants slaughtered by Herod; St. John the Evangelist, "the Beloved," December 27; St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, December 26; the Holy Family, December 31; the Virgin Mary, January 1). So, according to this book, what it declares to be a hiatus was filled only in the second half of the 20th century (Feast of the Holy Family, which is celebrated on 31 December only if that day is a Sunday)! And it makes this statement in relation to a Council of Tours held 14 centuries earlier! That council found no 12-day "hiatus" there (as it found no "hiatus" in the whole month of August, even for a single day), except perhaps for 1–3 January, since each day of 25-31 December and 4-6 January was already the feast of a saint, with 1-3 January devoted by earlier decisions (the "Fathers") to be days of penance, and declared by the Council of Tours itself to be days of fasting for monks. Esoglou (talk) 18:11, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Anupam!

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12th Night

Just wondering if you've read the talk page. Obviously we have to present both views on the date, but Natty disagrees. Dougweller (talk) 19:23, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

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Language-population update project

Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:46, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Cool. If you check the talk of the category page I linked to above, we're sorting the articles by population, as so far have done everything over 13,000 (about 2/3). One editor is doing nearly all the work, while I'm spending more time with AIATSIS and ethnic population citations right now. You might want to check whether they're online, or which chunk they're working on, so there aren't any edit conflicts. — kwami (talk) 21:11, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposal to move Methodism work group to child project

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A cheeseburger for you!

For showing a great patience and benevolence. :-) Ign christian (talk) 15:34, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

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At least there's someone who has noticed my articles. Thank you very much.Meher Mansion (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Invitation

Wikipedia 15 event in Hyderabad Sindh Pakistan.

Hi Anupam ,Aoa,I have created a Wikipedia meetup event to celebrate Wikipedia 15, and discuss about Wikipedia and Wikimedia foundation at Hyderabad Sindh, Pakistan.You are requested to coordinate me in organizing this event, all possible help and guidance is requested, Expecting positive and dignified role from you.You are invited to join physically for this event. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Hyderabad,_Sindh_Pakistan

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YahwehSaves

I'm not sure if you can facilitate, but I might also suggest keeping an eye on YahwehSaves, continuing to use 75.79.31.20 as a sockpuppet. I'm active-duty military, so I can't dedicate the time necessary to back-track/research all the uncited/unreferenced/original content edits made (Chesty Puller, George Armstrong Custer, Fergie Jenkins, "A" Device), some resulting in edit wars. He's been disruptive for years, I just don't have the time to pursue him anymore. Sorry for any inconvenience Bullmoosebell (talk) 02:27, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Easter egg

Hi there,

I think you almost total reversion at Easter egg was inappropriate, given the nature and scale of the work done. The article as I found it was in a very poor state, with huge WP:UNDUE on the alleged Christian symbolism (which is still there in parts I haven't finished]], poor referencing (almost all of aforementioned symbolism sourced from articles or books which don't meet WP:V standards.

I've reverted to my version, because I think we need to work from there if you have concerns over WP:SYNTH etc.

Large parts of the old article can't really stand.

Let's talk on the article talk page, but i'm pretty certain that this article needs the overhaul. OwainDavies ^(about)_(talk) edited at 08:02, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar

From the desert of southwest Arizona, thanks for the Barnstar. (I have given a couple in my "tour of duty".)Mmcannis (talk) 23:11, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar, coming a year to the day after my first contribution. Frankly, doing articles on Jesuit works around the world is the most pleasant thing one could retire to, so encouraging. Jzsj (talk) 23:11, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

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I moved "Captionbot" to it's Draft Page

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I found numerous sources and I just contacted the original author to fix the article. I also wanted to let you know about this since I added the sources in its talk page. Yoshiman6464 (talk) 03:15, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships

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United Methodist Issues

Hi! I am glad other contributors/users are working to help improve pages for denominations and provide accurate information. While much of the condensing you contributed was accurate, some of the wordage could be interpreted as one-sided or even offensive. First, trans* people do not refer to themselves with 'transgenderism' so that is not accurate or suitable. Secondly, official statements from Annual Conferences, Committees, and official agencies are official of the policies and positions of those Conferences and denominational organizations. For example, more than 18 Annual Conferences support same-gender marriage and that should be included in any discussion on differing views in the denomination. SeminarianJohn (talk) 08:17, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Also, you added a statement that states that the UMC does not give funds to LGBT causes and, while in a limited sense that is accurate, that does not also include information that congregations and conferences can, and do, give funds to those groups. While this is only one example, Foundry United Methodist Church regularly holds capital campaigns for Gay Pride.(Pride 2016 Foundry United Methodist Church) If a larger example can be found, do you think that could be included?

Need some help

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Want to create few pages will you help me

I want to create few pages about some authors and news websites here in kashmir will you help me in that Kashmirlife142260 (talk) 06:12, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

I am new to Wikipedia i have created three pages which are published now i want to create these page People are searching these pages every where Famous Websites 1. Kashmir Window 2. Kashmir Dispatch 3. Jandk Now 4. The Authint

And few pages for famous journalists 1. Aamir Ali 2. Aabid Nabi 3. Firdous Kashmirlife142260 (talk) 06:19, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Try to create a Magazine page but the page is blocked

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Riley Steele has married Andrea Diprè

Riley Steele (her real name is Brittni Anne Palmer) has married on Novembere 12 2015 Andrea Diprè in Van Nuys (Los Angeles). The evidences are in these two YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QEDzFihzQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSmQ6V2_A5I Where can I send you the copy of the marriage certificate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.17.111.169 (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2016 (UTC) https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:Official_registered_marriage_certifiate.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.17.111.169 (talk) 23:43, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello i would like to thank you for your act of kindness and generosity in awarding me The Writer's Barnstar i'm happy to see someone's appreciating my work. Cheers! BineMai 10:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Anupam, thanks for the barnstar. I've been working on Roman "limes" articles and hope to further expand Limes Britannicus in the near future. May also move onto some theological articles in due course. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:43, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for the barnstar. I have been wanting to work on Christian perfection for years but never got around to it. Happy editing. Ltwin (talk) 20:41, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

coauthors is deprecated

I saw this edit you made to Alcohol withdrawal syndrome where you added a cite template with a |coauthors= parameter. Please note that that parameter has been deprecated for years and should no longer be used. Most of the time, numbered author names like |last1=/|first1=, |last2=/|first2= should be used instead. If this was come automated editing tool that you used to add the reference, please tell me which one so I can ask its maintainer to update it. Jason Quinn (talk) 11:19, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Dear User:Jason Quinn, thank you very much for fixing my talk page and for the message. Yes, I simply click on "Cite" and then click on "Book" or "Website". The "Coauthors" parameter is there. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 16:58, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Anupam. I moved your message here to keep the discussion in one place. Thank you for your reply. I see now. You are using the old style cite toolbar. I thought those had been fixed already to remove some deprecated parameters. Guess not. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:23, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Scapular of Our Lady of Walsingham

Hi there, I was wondering whether you have any sources (including informal/anecdotal) on the Scapular of Our Lady of Walsingham aside from the ones you give in the article. The reason I ask is that your sources do not support the present tense of the article.

I myself am a member of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham and, contrary to the claim in the article, the Society does not invest one in the scapular on joining. Indeed, I cannot find any evidence to suggest that this scapular is still in use - all mentions of the scapular's existence seem to date from the early 20th century. The more recent sources you give in the article do not mention the scapular, so the article violates WP:SYNTH to a large extent.

If I am right and this scapular is extinct, the article ought to be rewritten to reflect this. It would also be worthwhile to find out when it fell out of use and why, and to incorporate this information into the article.--Newbiepedian (talk · contribs · X! · logs) 03:21, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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Hey hope you are doing well. There is a page is being considered for deletion: List of Christian Nobel laureates, If you interested to give your opinion.-- Jobas (talk) 20:03, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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Switchblade Jesus

We are sorry we deleted the Speedy Link on top before we read your post, that was a complete and honest mistake. But please don't remove the page, we're trying to build up our City's reputation and entertainment. If by the grace it stays can you please correct the name to say Switchblade Jesus with Jesus as capitalized like Switchblade. Shattered Sun is one other band here and they are allowed to have theirs up, we are just trying to build more.

Thank you for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HRTokeNstuff (talk • contribs) 00:45, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the Barnstar

Very appreciate the Barnstar. It encourages me to uphold the high quality of information in the Wikipedia. Peace. JohnThorne (talk) 22:40, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

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Declined speedy deletion nomination of To the Wind and On To Heaven

Hello Anupam. Speedy deletion work is important and I do appreciate the effort. I would just ask that you please review the criteria carefully because accuracy is also important. On that issue, I have declined your speedy deletion nomination of To the Wind and On To Heaven as an article that does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the topic under CSD A7. That criterion did not apply because the article was about an album, and A7 only applies to articles on real persons or groups, individual animals, organisations, web content and organised events. Albums come under A9, but that also did not apply because it is only for articles on musical recordings where none of the contributing recording artists has an article. Adam9007 (talk) 04:15, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Santa Claus

Santa Claus was created either by Irving's A History of New York (1809) or by Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" (1821).[8] Either way, that's well before Dickens. Pandas and people (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Please Someone deleted Gülbahar (Kösem Sultan's sister) and Yasemin (Kösem Sultan's sister)

A lot of Greek source has got information about Kösem sultan's 3 siblings. Gülbahar Yasemin, Peter. Please, Do not delete the correct information page. Instead of you change Mahfiruz Hatun's Vandalism page. Someone(Keivan.f) obsessed me. It changes everything with source. If Vandalism continues, I'll exit from wikipedia. I spend time. Someone always changes. I know Greece, Turkish, English. If you know, please do more anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sulmerruhtan (talk • contribs) 07:40, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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Your file mover request

Hi there! I noticed that you requested the file mover right, but in your reason for doing so, you seemed to describe page moves. Did you mean to request the page mover right? – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:46, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate

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Regards. GSS (talk|c|em) 07:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2

Hello Anupam,

A HUGE backlog

We now have 815 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.

Hitting 17,000 soon

The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.

Second set of eyes

Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.

Abuse

This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and

1. this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
2. this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
3. This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election

Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.

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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections

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New Page Review - newsletter No.3

Hello Anupam,

Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.

Still a MASSIVE backlog

We now have 815 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
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I have unreviewed a page you curated

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Re-initiating INCOTM

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Re-initiating INCOTM

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 files

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Your Vote

Respected Sir

Can I have your vote here. [9] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.50.67.36 (talk) 12:40, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4

Hello Anupam,

Since rolling out the right in November, just 6 months ago, we now have 815 reviewers, but the backlog is still mysteriously growing fast. If every reviewer did just 55 reviews, the 22,000 backlog would be gone, in a flash, schwoop, just like that!

But do remember: Rather than speed, quality and depth of patrolling and the use of correct CSD criteria are essential to good reviewing. Do not over-tag. Make use of the message feature to let the creator know about your maintenance tags. See the tutorial again HERE. Get help HERE.

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Need some help

Hi, I am new on Wikipedia and I am creating a page about a film director Lom Harsh. I need your help in creating this page bcoz it deleted by two times. Plz suggest or help in creating this page. Ankitkmwt (talk) 28 june 2017 —Preceding undated comment added 07:47, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
• Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.

Technology update:

• Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
• The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
  • User:The Earwig/copyvios.js adds a link in your side toolbox that will run the current page through

General project update:

• Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.

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A cup of coffee for you!

Thank you! CASPER 11:32, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your move and preventing me from looking stupid for more than a few minutes. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 03:00, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Your editing history (number of highest edits) is very moving to me. It shows your engagement with the world and the faith. Your thank you to me on my talk page means about ten times more to me than a thank you from Jimbo Wales. The Very Best of Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 03:15, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.

Technology update:

• Rentier has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.

General project update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
• Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
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Thanks and need for sources

Hi Anupam, Many thanks for your help at Criticism of Protestantism!! As regards those who believe in the real presence I had to tweak it a bit, given some research I did in the net, and also since your sources didn't really say "majority". The source I got is not really that good but it actually says "most". I suggest we keep on looking. Thanks. Marax (talk) 12:12, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Anupam, thanks again for all your help, and your latest note. :) The present numbers come from Gordon-Conwell, which I believe has great prominence among Protestants and therefore, in my opinion, abides by the wp reliable sources: http://www.gordonconwell.edu/academics/Faculty.cfm Hope this is ok. Marax (talk) 05:50, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!

Technology update:

• The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: T175225

General project update:

• On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
• Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
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The Shina language and Devanagari

Hi! In this addition to Shina language you cite Cardona's book for the use of the Devanagari script for the language. I've had a look at the book (to be precise, the 2003 version, which afaik should be identical in content to the 2007 reprint that you cite), and I wasn't able to verify that. On the page cited (947) there's no discussion of Shina at all: the page is about passives in Kashmiri. There is a little paragraph elsewhere (p. 823, which according to the index is the only passage that discusses the writing system of Shina) and the only thing it mentions in connection with Devanagari is that it was proposed in the 1970s by Rajapurohit for the Darsi variety. Is there any way you could double check this was the exact book you meant to cite there? Many thanks! – Uanfala 22:08, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Eucharist ordering

Hi Anupam, Just for you to understand my edit. The starting sentence on the eucharist was the abandonment of apostolic succession because it links up with the previous last sentence of the previous section on apostolic succession being abandoned.

Also as I wrote in the edit summary, the whole article is on criticism, thus a reader looking for this won't understand why the first paragraph on the eucharist is just an exposition of various doctrines on the eucharist.

Thanks. Marax (talk) 08:13, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Startup Grind for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Startup Grind is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Startup Grind until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DGG ( talk ) 20:24, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Methodist faith and works

Hi Anupam, I just checked the article on Methodism and it actually says: They are "justified by faith alone" - and this is based on the works of Wesley himself. Works of piety are points emphasized but sola fide is still the ruling principle. Marax (talk) 10:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Anupam, thanks for your reply. I think we need to summarize this quote, since the sola fide section is quite long.

Faith is necessary to salvation unconditionally. Good works are necessary only conditionally, that is if there is time and opportunity. The thief on the cross in Luke 23:39-43 is Wesley's example of this. He believed in Christ and was told, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." This would be impossible if the good works that are the fruit of genuine repentance and faith were unconditionally necessary for salvation. The man was dying and lacked time; his movements were confined and he lacked opportunity. In his case, faith alone was necessary. However, for the vast majority of human beings good works are necessary for continuance in faith because those persons have both the time and opportunity for them

I propose:

Faith is necessary to salvation unconditionally, since the good thief was saved even without though he didn't have time to do any good works. Good works are necessary only conditionally, that is if there is time and opportunity, which is true for the vast majority.

Thanks. Marax (talk) 11:47, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
• We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.

Technology update:

• Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.

General project update:

• The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for the encouragement and the barnstar! I really appreciate the enthusiasm. :) Owlsmcgee (talk) 07:37, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Newsweek Australian current affairs tv show

Hi Anupan, hi I'm not sure if this is the right place to talk to you but I just saw that you have marked Newsweek page for deletion as there is no content. I'm still working on updating and wondering if you could give me a bit of time to add some content. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Sarah. Seand75 (talk) 08:18, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

@Seand75: Three and a half hours later, there's still no content. If you haven't even started writing the content, there's no point creating the page. Once you've at least written a stub, then you can feel free to re-create the page. — Smjg (talk) 09:55, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Anupam and Smjg for your help. I have added some more information. Next time I will make sure I create a draft first. Sorry about the delay. I'm still new to using Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seand75 (talk • contribs) 15:12, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

New Page Patrol thanks you.

		The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
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Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Anupam. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
• Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

• If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

• A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
• Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

• ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
• The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
• To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Thank you for the Christianity Barnstar!

Thank you for the Christianity Barnstar for me! I'm so happy that you appreciate my works. I'll gladly work hard for WikiProject Christianity, it's our beloved religion. :) - With love, Rantemario (talk) 10:04, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Syed Moiz Balkhi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Syed Moiz Balkhi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Moiz Balkhi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Störm (talk) 05:17, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1^st and run until January 29^th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

• The total number of reviews completed for the month.
• The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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Bhat surname reverts

Hi Anupam thanks for the cookies you sent. I wanted to say that the origin of Bhatts in Punjab is a bit mixed up. Can you mention that the Punjab is divided between Indo-Pak and the Bhat Rajputs live in India? DarSahab (talk) 15:50, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

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Welcome

You are most welcome.. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:32, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Anupam, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

The NPP backlog at the end of the drive with the number of unreviewed articles by creation date. Red is older than 90 days, orange is between 90 and 30 days old, and green is younger than 30 days.

Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
• We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!

New Year Backlog Drive results:

• We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update:

• ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
• Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

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Supporting Indian Wikipedia Program resource distribution

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and

(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.

• Apply at: Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program#Apply for support
• Last date for submitting applications is 11th February 2018, 11:59 IST.

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Bhat

Hi Anupam, can you take another look at this edit? Your edit summary says you were restoring the lead, but a lot of the body was also changed and, as far as I can see, the new content is a lot worse. The citations seem clobbered as well. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 22:08, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Dear User:Kautilya3, thank you for your message on my talk page. If you look at the talk page history, the edit diff you linked only provides my initial restoration. I then tidied the rest of the article, including restoring deleted content, here. Anupam^Talk 01:04, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, before you started editing there was a claim about the "Dogra Hindu regime" sourced to Rekha Chowdhary. Your edits somehow changed it to "Dogra Hindu rulers" sourced to somebody called Arvin Bahl, published by Atlantic. In the latest version, Rekha Chowdhary is completely gone, and three other sources have come in which don't have anything to do with the content. Moreover, the dubious claims are repeated in the Punjab section too. The best version seems to be the one before you got involved. Is there any reason why we can't go back to it?

This is supposed to be a list page, basically. Contentious aspects of Kashmir history should not be buried in here. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 06:24, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Catholic sisters pipe or article?

Thanks for eliminating the Brothers (Catholic) page that I created; I realized my mistake and went back to delete it, and found that you had already taken care of it. But may I ask you, what would you think of my creating a redirect for "Catholic sister" to Nun#Distinction between a nun and a religious sister? Catholic sisters today do not like to be called nuns; the distinction has become so wide that I considered creating a separate page for Catholic sisters and moving some of the material on them from "Nun" to there. With the "sister" category overtaking that of "nun" in the modern Catholic church, would you think it helpful to have a separate article on Catholic sisters? Jzsj (talk) 19:57, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Arif Nizami, Azhar Abbas (journalist)

Arif Nizami, Azhar Abbas (journalist) are up for deletion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Azhar Abbas (journalist) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arif Nizami. Can you please help in improving these articles and defect deletion attempt.--Spasage (talk) 14:38, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Project Tiger Writing Contest

In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:

• Sign up at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Participants
• List of the articles can be referred at: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest/Topics
• Submit/report your articles/contributions at: https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-en
• For more details, rules, FAQ etc. kindly refer: Wikipedia:Project Tiger Writing Contest

Looking forward your participation, all the best. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) at 22:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC).

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Anupam, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Ichthus April 2018

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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Can you say something at the POV check of Talk:Criticism of Protestantism.

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Thank you very much, Anupam, for your kind words. I also do hope you had a great Easter celebration and since we have 50 days of Easter, let me also greet you Happy Easter. Thanks for your help and comments. Marax (talk) 03:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

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Dear Anupam, I have found no trace of the BMJ citation in the National Geographic article you reference in Friday the 13th. Maybe in a different article?

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The City And The City (TV series)

Please stop messing about with this page. Your latest is now the second time my work has been lost in an edit conflict. The In Creation tag is there for a reason; please respect it. Thank you. Swanny18 (talk) 21:23, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

And again: Are you going to let me write this, or are you going to do it your bloody self? Swanny18 (talk) 21:29, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Reply to talk page message: As a new page reviewer , then you should be aware of the NPP guideline that says you should wait at least 15 minutes before editing a new page, to avoid this very problem. That is what the In Creation tag is for. And I think it is just as rude to trash someone else's work, not once but twice, without explanation. So, can I get on, or are we going to be edit scuffling over this all night? Swanny18 (talk) 21:35, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

To respond to your guideline-bombing of my talk page, and to be clear (as you seemed oblivious as to what the offence was): My reference to your “trashing my work” was that, after adding the section, then previewing and correcting it for a couple of minutes, my work was then lost when I came to save it to the article, due to in an edit conflict caused because you had added half a line of text to the page. And this happened not once, but twice, the second time after I'd asked you to stop. Would you welcome someone leaning over your shoulder to add a bit to a report/essay/letter/poem/doodle/shopping list you were writing, while you were still writing it?

Second, the 15 minute delay just being “with respect to tagging an article for deletion”; that's a bit WP:WLlegalistic, isn't it? It stands to reason that a page with only one paragraph on might not be finished, especially if the editor has taken the precaution of posting one of the “hang on a bit” templates: and anyway the In Creation template suggests up to half-hour, not just 15 minutes.

So, this was me asking everyone to refrain from editing while I'm working, and this was you telling me to bugger off (twice!); which of us was being uncivil there?

And no, I don't think I own the page; after I'd finished what I was doing you (and anyone else) were welcome to do what you like with it.

Also, I am familiar enough with article categorization, thanks, as you would have seen had you waited half-an-hour or so.

As for assuming good faith, I can do that; but I'd also like to assume common sense, particularly from someone who's been entrusted with reviewing new pages. The only reason to be looking at a new page three minutes after it's been posted is to see if it needs immediate attention (attack pages, copyright violations, etc) otherwise it is only common sense to leave it alone until it is finished before chipping in with what is missing. And I can't see any reason at all for ignoring a hang-on-a-bit request (outwith those circumstances) if it is still within the time frame.

I'm sure you have your own view of this matter, and hold out very little hope that you will take note of this, but if we are going back to the days of New Page Patrollers playing Splat-the-Rat with articles, then it needs saying. Swanny18 (talk) 01:21, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks for looking at the heresy list article. Just as an FYI, I did change your addition citing Benedict XVI: the book was written in 1993, long before the person of Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI. Normally sources make the distinction, and the book was published under that name originally. Most of the time the reprints include the Benedict name as a marketing tactic by the publisher, not as an actual change of authorship status. Not a big deal, but wanted to let you know in case you come across any pre-2005 Ratzinger. TonyBallioni (talk) 04:37, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Lutherans and images

Hi, I think the line you are pushing in various articles misrepresents the equivocal attitude to images than Lutherans have had, going back to Luther himself. It is as easy to assemble hostile remarks by Luther on images as positive ones, and the plain fact is that Lutheran churches saw almost as big a clear-out of pre-Reformation Catholic art as Calvinist ones, with any replacement of works very slow and patchy. You should also be careful about attributing theological positions to large groups of the population in the 16th century. Although the lay public took a much greater interest in such things than even regular church-goers do today, most uneducated people could not have articulated clearly their thoughts on such matters. General sources on these issues should be treated with some caution - recent work by specialists will typically be much more nuanced. This is an interesting article on Lutheran attitudes at various periods, which gives a more balanced perspective. Also this. Johnbod (talk) 13:25, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Ichthus: May 2018

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May 2018

Project News
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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.

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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!

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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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"... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?"

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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018

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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

The following articles need reviewers for GA-class: Type of Constans nom. by Gog the Mild, Tian Feng (magazine) nom. by Finnusertop. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

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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?

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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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The Right Stuff June 2018

June 2018

FROM THE EDITOR

The Right Stuff Returns

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Fellow members, I'm pleased to announce the return of the newsletter of WikiProject Conservatism. And considering the recent downsizing at The Signpost the timing could not be better. The Right Stuff will help keep you apprised of what's happening in conservatism at Wikipedia and in the world. The Right Stuff welcomes submissions including position pieces, instructional articles, or short essays addressing important conservatism-related issues. Post submissions here.

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ARBITRATION REPORT

Russian Agents Editing at American Politics?

By Lionelt

After a series of unfortunate events largely self-created, bureaucrat and admin Andrevan was the subject of an Arbitration case for conduct unbecoming. Prior to the case getting underway Andrevan resigned as bureaucrat and admin. A widely discussed incident was when he suggested that some editors he described as "pro-Trump" were paid Russian agents. This resulted in a number of editors from varied quarters denouncing the allegations and voicing support for veteran editors including Winkelvi and the notorious MONGO.

Editors who faced Enforcement action include SPECIFICO (no action), Factchecker atyourservice (three month topic ban ARBAPDS), Netoholic (no action) and Anythingyouwant (indef topic ban ARBAPDS). (Discuss this story)

IN THE MEDIA

Breitbart Versus Wikipedia

By Lionelt

Breitbart News, in response to Facebook's decision to use Wikipedia as a source to fight fake news, has declared war on our beloved pedia. The article in Haaretz describes the Facebook arrangement as Wikipedia's "greatest test in years" as well as a "massive threat" to the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Breitbart's targeting of Wikipedia has resulted in an "epic battle" with respect to editing at the Breitbart article. The article has also recently experienced a dramatic increase in traffic with 50,000 visitors according to Haaretz. There is no love lost between Breitbart and Wikipedia where editors at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard have criticized the news websites unreliability and have compared it to The Daily Mail. (Discuss this story)

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Liberty and Trump and Avi, Oh my!

By Lionelt

President Donald Trump Speaks at Liberty University Commencement Ceremony

There are several open discussions at the Project:

• There is an RFC regarding Liberty University and its relationship to President Trump; see discussion
• Activist and commentator Avi Yemini is listed at AFD; see discussion

Recently closed discussions include Anti-abortion movements which was not renamed, and an RFC at Trump–Russia dossier. (Discuss this story)

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

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Ichthus: July 2018

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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
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[[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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Revertions of Editor2020

Hi, I see that you praised reversions made by Editor2020 here. I wanted to ask you how do you see his recent reversion of my editing Reverted edits by Quodvultdeus Have I done something so wrong that without even a word he just reverted it? What do you think?--Quodvultdeus (talk) 14:26, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you. Let's hope it is not a warlike attitude. I am waiting for Editor2020's reply. Anyway, such incidents as this do not encourage.--Quodvultdeus (talk) 16:20, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

The Right Stuff: July 2018

July 2018

DISCUSSION REPORT

WikiProject Conservatism Comes Under Fire

By Lionelt

WikiProject Conservatism was a topic of discussion at the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incident (AN/I). Objective3000 started a thread where he expressed concern regarding the number of RFC notices posted on the Discussion page suggesting that such notices "could result in swaying consensus by selective notification." Several editors participated in the relatively abbreviated six hour discussion. The assertion that the project is a "club for conservatives" was countered by editors listing examples of users who "profess no political persuasion." It was also noted that notification of WikiProjects regarding ongoing discussions is explicitly permitted by the WP:Canvassing guideline.

At one point the discussion segued to feedback about The Right Stuff. Member SPECIFICO wrote: "One thing I enjoy about the Conservatism Project is the handy newsletter that members receive on our talk pages." Atsme praised the newsletter as "first-class entertainment...BIGLY...first-class...nothing even comes close...it's amazing." Some good-natured sarcasm was offered with Objective3000 observing, "Well, they got the color right" and MrX's followup, "Wow. Yellow is the new red."

Admin Oshwah closed the thread with the result "definitely not an issue for ANI" and directing editors to the project Discussion page for any further discussion. Editor's note: originally the design and color of The Right Stuff was chosen to mimic an old, paper newspaper.

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ARTICLES REPORT

Margaret Thatcher Makes History Again

By Lionelt

Margaret Thatcher is the first article promoted at the new WikiProject Conservatism A-Class review. Congratulations to Neveselbert. A-Class is a quality rating which is ranked higher than GA (Good article) but the criteria are not as rigorous as FA (Featued article). WikiProject Conservatism is one of only two WikiProjects offering A-Class review, the other being WikiProject Military History. Nominate your article here. (Discuss this story)

RECENT RESEARCH

Research About AN/I

By Lionelt

Reprinted in part from the April 26, 2018 issue of The Signpost; written by Zarasophos

Out of over one hundred questioned editors, only twenty-seven (27%) are happy with the way reports of conflicts between editors are handled on the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard (AN/I), according to a recent survey . The survey also found that dissatisfaction has varied reasons including "defensive cliques" and biased administrators as well as fear of a "boomerang effect" due to a lacking rule for scope on AN/I reports. The survey also included an analysis of available quantitative data about AN/I. Some notable takeaways:

• 53% avoided making a report due to fearing it would not be handled appropriately
• "Otherwise 'popular' users often avoid heavy sanctions for issues that would get new editors banned."
• "Discussions need to be clerked to keep them from raising more problems than they solve."

In the wake of Zarasophos' article editors discussed the AN/I survey at The Signpost and also at AN/I. Ironically a portion of the AN/I thread was hatted due to "off-topic sniping." To follow-up the problems identified by the research project the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team and Support and Safety team initiated a discussion. You can express your thoughts and ideas here.

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

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June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

• New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
• Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
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User:Ibn Juferi and Menj sock puppet investigation

Hi Anupam, I recently noticed that a user named Ibn Juferi has been re-adding the Bismika Allahuma link to the article Nabeel Qureshi (author). Since this was something convicted sockpuppeter Menj often did I was wondering if it was worth investigating and adding to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Menj. Thanks Inter&anthro (talk) 01:52, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Anupam. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. The conflict of interest guideline (see WP:PAY) strongly discourages paid contributors from directly editing articles. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:50, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Anupam, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

• The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

• There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

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• A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

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• Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
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• The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

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Hello. Your removal of "stray mark" had rendered the talkpage to this status. I have corrected it now :) Also, kindly consider about archiving your talkpage. Also, I have addressed the issue of your talkpage as well. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 22:21, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Question about talk page for new disambig

Hi Anupam,

thank you for reviewing my newly created Gramme (disambiguation)! I also noticed you created a talk page for that article. As far as I understand the documentation Template:WikiProject Disambiguation (see footnote 1 there), this talk page should not have been created? I've created a lot of disambig pages recently, therefore I'm interested in this topic.

--Cyfal (talk) 22:08, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Anupam, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

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• Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

• ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
• There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Anupam,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Anupam,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

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I liked your picture, and assume you took it yourself. It is too bad they deleted it. If you are able to upload it and somehow fix the copyright tag on it so they don't delete it again, that would please me.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 07:04, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Hindu–Muslim unity

Hello! Your submission of Hindu–Muslim unity at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! RRD (talk) 10:50, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Looking for help

Hi,

I was looking for some small help. I created a new article en:Kithaab-a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages. Looking for your possible help in translating the article en:Kithaab to your language. If you are unable to spare time yourself then may be you like to refer the same to some other translator.

Thanking you , with warm regards

Bookku (talk) 16:25, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

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Intentional Use of Quotation Box

Thanks for your clean-up work on the In God We Trust page. However, I wanted to say that your edit here [10] eliminated a quotation box that I had intended to use- no error. Was I using it wrong? Thanks for any advice or pointers you can give me. Geographyinitiative (talk) 11:19, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

You are Welcome Sir. That user Blamen1 is in the talk page but another Blamen2 has deleted the Minahan source from the article. Blamen2 got indefed. Seems sock puppetry. This Blamen2 also deleted the complaint here. Can a non-admin do that?

Fylindfotberserk (talk) 09:27, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

That Blamen2 was Nsmutte also imitating Bonadea who pointed it out on Fylind's complaint.

But, I was hoping you could have a relook at Minahan at least once. Reporting some details also reported by others can't correct the flaws. I think you already know about his wrong characterization of Arab & Ghaznavid invasions, plus timelines not backed up by historical facts.

Most importantly Minahan was characterizing Nuristaini faith, not that of the Kalash for which you used him. Blamen1 (talk) 10:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

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Nomination of 2019 Balochistan attack for deletion

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DYK for Hindu–Muslim unity

On 23 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hindu–Muslim unity, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh called the events of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857 a testimony to Hindu–Muslim unity? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hindu–Muslim unity. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Hindu–Muslim unity), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Need for your Panjabi expertise. Can you verify which language this is: Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan

Hello there Anupam, I saw on your page your Panjabi language expertise. Can you verify this Documentary about the Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan made by an Afghan Sikh Journalist for Sangat Televison UK. It has subtitles but I just want to be sure. Btw the Sikh director is from Kabul so therefore he speaks only Dari (Persian) and even with the local Jalalabad (Pashto) population he spoke Farsi. Singh, Pritpal (Director) (January 20, 2013). MISSION AFGHANISTAN [Documentary on Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan] (Motion picture). Afghanistan: Sangat Television (UK). This link is of one of the institutes who funded the Documentary, the documentary can be watched there: Mission Afghanistan- Documentary on Hindus and Sikhs of Afghanistan What language is the Hindu lady in Kabul using on 13:00, the old man in Jalalabad 17:30 and the shopkeeper in Kabul on 21:17. The rest is clear to me. It would be great if you could do this help, many thanks. Casperti (talk) 02:42, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Blamen1/Kalash article

This Blamen1 guy seems to be in such a hurry. It has been only like 10 days and he's started deleting the Minahan part again. An RfC also runs for atleast a month. I told him that in his talk page. Do you think an RfC can settle this once and for all? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 11:16, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Indian Pariah Dog

Hello Anupam. Thanks for your excellent contribution to the Indian pariah dog article. I wonder if you have a better quality photograph the can replace the last one ("Young Indian pariah dog pictured in May 2018 near the northeastern town of Karimganj in India") as it appears a bit dull. The rest are fine. Thanks. Rasnaboy (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Some changes for Kamal

Hi I need to add a few changes for Kamal Rashid Khan.

1. He participated in the reality show, Bigg Boss in 2009. This goes at the top after it says about Kamaal Rashid Khan is an Indian film actor, producer and writer.[3]
2. later at the botton I want to add: Template:Bigg Boss 3 with {{}} and Category:Bigg Boss contestants.
3. And a section called:

We need a table like this

==Television==

Year	Shows	Role	Channel	Notes
2009	Bigg Boss 3	Celebrity Contestant	Colors TV	Ejected, Day 19

this should go under filmography.

Please put

at the bottom and also add Category:Bigg Boss contestants as well.

Thanks--DannyS712 (talk) 21:31, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

References

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Anupam,

News

• The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

• Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
• {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
• A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
• There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

• NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

• Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
• copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
• The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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Pooja Bose move

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DYK for All India Azad Muslim Conference

On 9 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article All India Azad Muslim Conference, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that opposed the partition of India? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/All India Azad Muslim Conference. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, All India Azad Muslim Conference), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Mary in Islam

Sorry I haven't replied to your e-mail before, but I had some computer problems. I haven't edited the article "Mary in Islam" because I couldn't really find sources strong enough to withstand the objections that I knew others would have to including that one the article... AnonMoos (talk) 08:42, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Composite Nationalism and Islam

Hello, Anupam. I notice that there has not been a follow-up review at Template:Did you know nominations/Composite Nationalism and Islam. I am willing to help you move this forward. I noted a couple questions on the template for you. Please comment there when you are able. Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 02:18, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

Hello Anupam,

WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

• Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
• Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

• A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
• There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
• What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

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On 24 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Composite Nationalism and Islam, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1938 book Composite Nationalism and Islam by Hussain Ahmed Madani argued that different religions do not constitute different nationalities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Composite Nationalism and Islam. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Composite Nationalism and Islam), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Ichthus June 2019

ICHTHUS

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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We're looking for writers to contribute to Ichthus. Do you have a project that you'd like to highlight? An issue that you'd like to bring to light? Post your inquiries or submission here.

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Brenda Longfellow

Thank you!LorriBrown (talk) 19:17, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Troika Pharma

Hi Anupam, Thank you for your contribution in Troikaa Pharmaceuticals. Can you help to make this page much better according to Wikipedia Guidelines.FilmiKeeda420 (talk) 05:48, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Maglavit Monastery

Hi. Can you take a look and move it to the mainspace if it's ok for now. Draft:Maglavit Monastery.--MSClaudiu (talk) 06:54, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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WMF at work on NPP Improvements

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Is this Anupam Jha from Kota. Would like to reconnect, over a cup of tea u say? :) Bansalitsme (talk) 14:45, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

I did wait for Consensus no one said any thing

Hello Anupam I did not remove the sources I added one and rewrote it?, the Sources were still there when I made my edit.

I was Following https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD,_revert,_discuss_cycle

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Ichthus July 2019

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The Top 6 Articles

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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.

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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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Merger proposal

Hi, I think the Act of Faith (Christian) article you recently created should be merged into Profession of faith (Christianity) because the Act of Faith is form of Profession of faith.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 04:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Backlog

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Coordinator

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This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Anupam,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 815 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Coordinator

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Christian perfection

Hi. I was reading the article Christian perfection and came across a couple phrases or sentences that didn't make sense, both added by you in the last couple of years. First, in this edit, I wonder whether the phrase "Perfect love, as Christian perfect is often called" is right. Did the source say perhaps "as Christian perfection is often called"? I can't check your reference.

Second, in this edit, I don't understand the sentence:

Irenaeus wrote about the spiritual transformation that occurred in the believer as the Holy Spirit is to "fit us for God."

It doesn't seem to be grammatical. Can you tell me what you meant? Should it perhaps say:

Irenaeus wrote that the spiritual transformation occurring in the believer was a work of the Holy Spirit to "fit us for God."

Thanks. Please Ping me when you answer. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 11:11, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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Ichthus December 2019

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The Top 3 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

The Top 3 most popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Dolly Parton - an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: " I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."
2. Harriet Tubman - an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and made some missions to rescue enslaved people, using the network of antislavery activists and Underground Railroads. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout, spy for the Union Army.
3. 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.

Did You Know?

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

• ... that St. Charles College in Louisiana was the first Jesuit college established in the southern United States?
• ... that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?

Featured article

Nominated by Stalinsunnykvj

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...)

Bible Verse

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

Romans 12:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

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Charles Dickens – British novelist, journalist, editor, illustrator and social critic.

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Ichthus January 2020

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The Top 3 Articles

By Stalinsunnykvj

The Top 3 most-popular articles about People in WikiProject Christianity were:

1. Pope Benedict XVI – retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation.
2. Pope Francis – the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
3. Dolly Parton – an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. Quotations related to Dolly Parton at Wikiquote: "I just depend on a lot of prayer and meditation. I believe that without God I am nobody, but that with God, I can do anything."

Did You Know?

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• ...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
• ...that the Golden Madonna of Essen is the oldest preserved sculpture of the Virgin Mary?
• ...that the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons"?
• ...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?

Featured article

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Сретение Господне ("The Meeting of the Lord"), a depiction of Simeon recognising Jesus at the Temple, from a fifteenth-century Novgorodskye School Russian icon.

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...)

Bible Verse

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

Psalm 20:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

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~ Jacques Ellul

French philosopher, sociologist, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist.
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Welcome back.

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Hey! Welcome back Anupam. Well done! Happy New Year! -- Kautilya3 (talk) 20:10, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

I also came to say welcome back! :D –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 04:39, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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