Walter Ching

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Hi Walter,

Alecmconroy has also proposed the deletion of your picture Image:PerottetOpusDeisupernumerary.jpg. I would recommend to save the file and eventually put it into Commons. --Túrelio 14:55, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

commons:

If you need any help transferring images, just let me know! I am commons:User:pfctdayelise as well.

Hmm. I just had a look at your contribs and the images seem to be missing... what happened? :?

--pfctdayelise 04:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I actually meant if you need any help using commons, getting used to the commons system, etc, but I see that I didn't explain myself very clearly. Sorry. :)

I am quite busy these few weeks, but I will try and help if I get a chance. Happy editing, pfctdayelise 03:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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Images of the American HQ

Hi Walter, could you help us get some photos of the American Opus Dei Headquarters. This was discussed at the mediation. I'd appreciate your help. Thanks. Thomas 01:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Walter! Thanks a lot for your ideas on the photos. :) After more thinking, I am convinced that it still is the right way to go. The building is beautiful and it portrays Opus Dei's middle-of-the-world culture quite well. I asked for it from the US HQ itself and they gave permission quite easily. Thanks anyway! Thomas 02:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Opus Dei article history

Thank you for your query, and the answer is yes.  :) I went ahead and added in my best guess as to the IDs of the various article versions +/- 24 hours. If any are wrong, and you know which precise version that should be used, please let me know the diff, and I'll get the template updated for you. :) --Elonka 01:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I think I've got it fixed, please take a look when you have a moment.  :) Also, you had some good ideas on changing the template! Can I get you to post them at Template talk:ArticleHistory? That'd be the best place to get approval for them. Best, Elonka 06:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Smoe small misunderstanding on Talk:Opus Dei...

Hmm, honestly I do not understand about half of what you wrote, and from the other half I can easily infer you did not understand what I did. 1) as to your conditional apology, the premise is not true, so none needed. 2) if by "has been contrued", you meant by me (B4H), you would be wrong. Honestly. OTOH if you really meant "could too easily be construed in general", I would heartily agree and in fact that was my entire point. The next point adds good context: 3) I simply disagree there can be any nontrivial suppression of either kind you mention, or any other I can think of, in this type of project, unless the definition chosen is a logical consequence of Wikipolicy and structure itself, and thus an empty issue in the context of one article. Adding "glaring" evokes images of vandalous deletions and such. When your edits show to not be reversions of that type of thing, reactions can vary from "he really meant something quite less serious" (my reaction) to "It's what? ...better keep an eye on this guy!..." I hope you agree which respective faith assuming is good and which is bad. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 03:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

An addition: now I understand that last paragraph. 4) What I actually was intending to due was to contrast your good name with the most clearly not such so as to make the clearest possible false outcome in the absurdum type of argument, to contest your strawmen labeling. It wasn't a comparison at all. I am aware of that type of association fallacy but only conceived of it in the comparison sense, never the contrast sense. But yeah, if that's how you took it, my apologies whose retrospective acceptance I acknowledge. I only point out that there was an alternate good faith, albeit sloppy, interpretation.

By the way, if this helps, I want to point out that I think your edits to that article are quite good; I don't know much about the topic but was mildly involved in some disputes some time ago. My only critique would be that (I think) you tend to use stronger language than what is ideal sometimes. I point that out because maybe that's just you, since in a nutshell that was the point about your edit summary Talk page comments. But please note it is not a coincidence that AFAIR I haven't reverted any of it, so I consider the matter small. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 03:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I think you have a legitimate concern, but I guess we differ on how best to describe it, and that's OK if we both recognize it. But I do not wish to continue this type of hair splitting on usertalk pages; the effort is better spent on the articles. Thanks again, and let's carry on. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 20:14, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

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You deserve this

Hi Walter, :) I've just been given this and am passing it on to you, because you deserve it for all the work you've put in.

This user helped promote Opus Dei to good article status.

Hope you can continue helping in bringing the article up to FAC. Marax (talk) 01:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC) P.S. I took the initiative to place it as well in your userpage but you might want it moved elsewhere.

Truth article 'edit wars'

Hi; you've asked that edit wars stop on this article, though it is you who has re-instated the newer-version of text which is being argued over. Between an article at state 0 and it at state 1, if the large edits made to reach the second state are the ones in question, the article must be left in state 0 while the discussion consensus is reached (lest any nutjob be able to force an article to remain in a state containing falsehoods while they argue their point). Your edits are forcing the article to remain in state 1, from what i can see in history. (Please correct me if i'm wrong about that). (I'll watch this page, so you can reply here.) Quaeler (talk) 05:23, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Quaeler, state 0 is Marax's version of April 2008. It is a version running April to August 2008. Hundreds of Wikipedians scrutinized it and bearing excellent reasons accepted it for several months. Recently Kenosis changed it to state 1 - to a version of 2006 but whose reasons for being have been duly contested in numerous arguments. The talk page of Truth is an excellent page where you can appreciate the reasonableness of my edit and Marax's many arguments. I enjoin you with my whole heart to read Talk:Truth. You are most welcome and encouraged to join our discussion - to give reasons why you prefer state 1 or version 2006. I repeat - no arguments for version 2006, no reversion, no edit warring. Walter Ching (talk) 08:27, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks much for the information -- i now see that the situation is the opposite of what i supposed. Quaeler (talk) 11:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for this notification, Magog the Ogre. I have received a copy of the email sent by the authors of the image (Opus Dei Information Office) to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Kindly do inform me if the email they sent suffices. I will wait for your reply. Thank you. Walter Ching (talk) 03:10, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

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