Farewell

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JdH has left Wikipedia for good. Some of the reasons why you can find here here, here, and here, and there many more instances. At this point in time I can't afford to spend time and effort to go through yet another Mediation cycle.
Good luck to all of you, JdH 14:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Valentin Naboth

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I have translated the Latin in this article per your request. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 03:58, 10 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sorry

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Thanks for spotting my mistake with AWB. I'll be more careful in future. Edward (talk) 07:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Paul Ehrenfest

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Please stop adding inappropriate categories to Paul Ehrenfest. This article is about a scientist, and is intended to highlight Ehrenfest's scientific accomplishments. It is not about murder, suicide, and all that; it does not discuss it. I have spent a lot of time and effort to bring this article up to wikipedia standards, and I do not want it so see it corrupted by someone whose seems to have some kind of obsession with murder/suicide. Thank you for your cooperation, JdH (talk) 16:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

It does "discuss it": "Having made arrangements for the care of his other children, he first shot his younger son Wassik, who had Down syndrome, then killed himself." See my comments on the talk page there. And WP:OWN, while you're at it. Your repeated removal of valid categories could be viewed as disruptive editing; I suggest you stop. Good Ol’factory (talk) 20:33, 13 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
On more reason to quit. If you go back to the history of that article you will see that I practically wrote it all by myself. And now you accuse me of "disruptive editing"? It is unreal JdH (talk) 15:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Einstein pic talk page

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  Done - Avi (talk) 21:40, 6 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Cut and past moves

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Thanks for the information. See User talk:LouisPhilippeCharles/Archive2#Warning: Do not make cut and past moves for some background. (S)he no longer archives but now deletes sections from his/her talk page that (s)he doesn't like.[1]

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Talk:Princess Henrietta of England

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Going there.

Am trying in my spare time to edit the article & find myself stuck on this trivia-filled section.

After spending an hour reading through it last night, I gave up & logged out.

Bonne journée!--Frania W. (talk) 13:59, 9 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Justus Velsius

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Concerning the link on Born again (Christianity): This time it was removed because honestly I couldn't think of a way to describe it; I was confused when I tried reading the article again to get an idea what it was he taught. I gather you have done a lot of work on the Justus Velsius article, so perhaps I could ask you something: it seems the only place new birth is talked about in the Justus Velsius article is in the theology section, which doesn't have any sources as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem to be a major theme in that article... was it really that prominent a part of his theology? Did he influence later proponents of the idea? I'm just trying to figure out how significant the connection is...

Also, what is meant by justification through new birth, rather than forgiveness? Since there aren't references in that section, I can't find out... a statement like that needs some explanation and refs as well. Since you're working on that article, would you mind improving that section? (Of course, Christianity-related articles in general have issues with sources... much to my chagrin. Hope you don't feel singled out in that regard, especially since you've been working hard to source the rest of Justus Velsius)

If he was indeed a major forerunner of this idea, then he should not be in the See Also link, he should be in a new history section for Born again (Christianity), which you would be welcome to contribute to. He should also perhaps be mentioned in Justification (theology), since it seems like his stance on it would be interesting... which is why I hope you'll improve that theology section so I can understand what he meant by that :) - Thanks,

-- Joren (talk) 20:17, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Category:Images from Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive

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Hello. I see that you've restored the copyright claims on Category:Images from Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive. They were removed because these claims are meaningless. Indeed, the precedent of Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. establishes rather clearly that these images are in the public domain no matter how much effort the Library had to put in producing them. It's quite ok to restore some text that credits the library for producing these images but the current explanation is misleading and should be removed. Best, Pichpich (talk) 13:10, 24 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

 
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Windcatchers

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I've largely rewritten the article at Windcatcher, which I noticed you took an interest in and commented upon extensively on the talk page. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me whether it is now clear. I know the article is still unbalanced and poorly-sourced  , but is the mechanism comprehensibly explained? HLHJ (talk) 03:55, 4 August 2020 (UTC)Reply