User:Garzo

Hallo all! My name is Gareth Hughes. I am an Anglican priest in my thirties, living in Oxford, England. I am studying Syriac at the Oriental Institute in the University of Oxford. I am most interested in working on articles about language and linguistics, and religion and spirituality. I have been a Wikipedian since 23 November 2004, and an administrator since 21 October 2005 (RfA). My greatest achievement here so far has been writing the Aramaic language article to featured status. Wikiblessings! Gareth Hughes (garzo.co.uk | facebook).	Thoughts, meditations and quotations And how does the light creep into the eye? No one has grasped it: just as our Saviour who dwelt in the womb. — St Ephrem the Syrian. This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because we fear punishment, like slaves; not to do good because we expect repayment, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by enforcing some business deal. On the contrary, disregarding all those good things which we do hope for and which God has promised us, we regard falling from God’s friendship as the only thing dreadful, and we consider becoming God’s friend the only thing truly worthwhile. — St Gregory of Nyssa. Only that which is turned to love in our lives can see salvation. — unknown.
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Current projects

Projects subpage	The main page for drafting material for articles
Lala subpage	For working on languages and linguistics
More-tea subpage	For working on religion and spirituality
Elephant subpage	For working on all sorts of other bits and pieces
My Wiktionary user page
My Wikicommons user page
My WikiTravel user page
My Wikicities user page

• WikiProject Anglicanism – Tasks
• WikiProject Countering systemic bias open tasks

On the boil

• History of Eastern Christianity in Asia and Nestorianism in China.
• Polishing up Syriac language (expanding the grammar section).
• Collaboration on Arabic literature, Arabic poetry and Arabic epic literature.
• Biblical Aramaic and the Aramaic of Jesus need a lot more work done on them.
• Syriac Christianity could do with expansion.
• Bardaisan article needs moved and reworked.
• Members of the covenant needs completed.
• Doctrine of Addai or Teaching of Addai needs a proper treatment.
• Improve articles on Jacob of Nisibis, Jacob of Serugh, Narsai, Philoxenus of Mabbog, Babai the Great (other Babais), Isaac of Nineveh, Jacob of Edessa, Ishodad of Merv, Dionysius bar Salibi/Jacob Bar-Salibi, Jacob Baradaeus, Joshua the Stylite, Barsauma, Peter the Fuller, Ibas, Rabbula, Yahya ibn `Adi, Severus of Antioch, Ishoyahb (two of them) – see my list at /projects#Syriac literature

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Simmering

• Writing a more complete article on the Syriac Orthodox Church.
• Giving a hand with Barnabas.
• Different approaches to categorizing Semitic languages.

• Grammatical tense in a horrible state, perhaps Tense (linguistics) is needed, but do we also need a Tense (phonetics)? The dumping ground for source material about tense from the world's languages is at Grammatical tense/multilingual sources.

Back burner

• Taking a look at List of dialects of the English language.
• Church of England needs some attention: it reads more like a history book.
• Holidays and festivals (fancy one?).
• Likewise for Grammatical aspect.
• English grammar - proof that speaking it doesn't mean you know how it works.
• Ephrem the Syrian could be reread and reworked.
• Articles on Neo-Aramaic languages (I've written the articles, but it'd be good to do the rounds once more).
• Lots of little tweaks around Ancient Egypt and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• Some work on the UN observances.
• Helping to edit a fair Assyrian article (and maybe Chaldean): there is a lot of poitical POV here.
  

Stuff

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Past projects

Created the article on the Book of Steps. Created the article on Sebastian Brock. Created the article on Narsai. Completely rewrote the article on Jacob of Serugh. Created the article on Avokaya language. Expanded articles on the Lak and Godoberi languages. Expanded the articles on dean (religion) and Very Reverend. Created the article on Anglican ministry. Created the article on Episcopal Church of the Sudan. Created the article on Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil. Created the template {{Province of Wales}}. Created the article on Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de las Americas. Created the articles on Province of Armagh (with {{Province of Armagh}}) and Province of Dublin (with {{Province of Dublin}}). Started the article on Katharine Jefferts Schori (corrupt page history). Started the article on Stephen Sykes. Started the article on Michael Turnbull. Started the article on Bernard Mizeki. Started the article on Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. Started the article on Gogo language. Created the article on The Parson's Handbook. Created the article on hat tax. Added image to Common Worship. Created the article on Revelations of Divine Love. Created the article on Mary Sumner. Created the article on the Mothers' Union. Expanded the stub article Abuna. Added image to Ash Wednesday. Created article on Neo-Aramaic languages. Created article on West Semitic languages. Created article on Central Neo-Aramaic. Expanded the article Judeo-Aramaic language. Added Semitic causatives to the causative article. Created article on Central Semitic languages. Created article on East Semitic languages. Started the article on Christoph Luxenberg. Created article on Northwest Semitic languages. Created {{Infobox Language family}} and introduced to some articles. Greatly overhauled {{Infobox Language}}, and added or updated the infobox on many pages. Created article on the Chora Church. Some collaboration on Lydia. Added pictures for articles about vestments. Expanded article on the keffiyeh. Expanded article on the Turbi Village massacre. Wrote the article on May Craig. Wrote the etymology of cheese. Wrote the article on the Arab Socialist Union. Added pictures to Nisibis and Jacob of Nisibis. Expanded article on Kathy Rudy. Expanded the article on the Diocese of Salisbury. Wrote the article on Syriac literature. Wrote the article on members of the covenant. Wrote the article on Aphrahat. Rewrote the article holy kiss. Wrote the article Jesu. Wrote the article possessive of Jesus. Rewrote article on Frahang-i Pahlavig. Rewrote Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Created article on Melkite. Created article on Akathist. Expanded article on Zab River. Expanded article on Behjat Sadr. Expanded article on Miaphysitism. Created Category:Patristics. Tidied up article on Son of man. Created Template:Lang-he for use in marking up Hebrew text. Expanded article on Oliver Shewell Franks and added picture. Created Template:Lang-syr for use in marking up Syriac text. Rewrote Ignatius Zakka I Iwas due to copyright infringement of the previous version. Started article on Christoph Luxenberg. Expanded article on Malatya. Added a lot of Arabic to articles with Arabic titles according to the Naming conventions. Created the article on Nine (purity). Expanded the grammar ad phonology of Syriac language. Expansion of the Van der Valk article. Expanded Aramaic of Jesus#Abba. Expand and correct the bishop article. Expanded Sanli Urfa article. Rewritten Sanctus article. Serious tidying up of Granada article. Added sound file to Be Thou My Vision. Added sound file to A Mighty Fortress is Our God. Added sound file to Pange Lingua and Gregorian chant. Started article on the Barada river. New article on Al Jazira, Mesopotamia. Tidied up articles around different spellings of Jazira. Rewrite of Tadmor article, and tidying of related articles. Rewrite and create articles in category:modes. Rewrite of tetrachord. Expanding prestige dialect. Merging disambiguation pages on Jazira, and writing a new article on Al Jazira, Mesopotamia. A rewrite and merge of articles on Tadmor (aka Palmyra). A rewrite of the opening section on Aramaic alphabet. Created WikiProject Christian liturgical year. A rewrite of word (linguistics). A new article on Koy Sanjaq Surat. A new article on Hertevin language. A new article on Bohtan Neo-Aramaic. A new article on Western Neo-Aramaic. Developed the new Template:Ethnic group. Reworked the material of International English. Brought together the new Category:UN observances, and editted contents. Expanded Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) and Yom HaShoah. Created a set of templates to display Egyptian hieroglyphs: see Template talk:Hiero. Added Egyptian hieroglyphs to individual entries of Egyptian goddesses, Egyptian gods and Pharaohs. Created new, little bits on Handsel Monday, Distaff day, Plough Sunday, Plough Monday and Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Collaborating on Culture of Egypt. Table of Uniliteral signs added to Egyptian hieroglyph (see right). Rewriting and expanding the article on the Tur Abdin. A new article on Hulaula language. A new article on Lishanid Noshan. A new article on Lishan Didan. Created a new article-series template Template:Neo-Aramaic (see below). A new article on Lishana Deni. Stupidly waded into the middle of an edit war with a rewrite of Christians in Iran. A new article on Senaya language. A new article on Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. A new article on Chaldean Neo-Aramaic. A brand new article, as requested, on U and non-U English. A new overview of Syriac Christianity. A new article on Ephrem the Syrian. A brand new article on the Mandaic alphabet. Sorting out the Words of Jesus on the cross. Adding the section on Jerusalem in Christianity. Expanding and correcting the article on Calvary. Starting a new article on Biblical Aramaic. Creating a new article on Mlahso language. Starting off an article on the Aramaic of Jesus. Creating a new article on Turoyo language. Fleshing out the article of Eastern Christianity. Reorganising, correcting and elaborating Aramaic language – featured. Rewriting the article on the Peshitta. Redirect and merge from Pshitta to Peshitta. General tidying up of Estrangela and Estrangelo. Ellaborating the stub on Garshuni. Elaborating and correcting Syriac alphabet. Rewriting the article on the Syriac language. Elaborating the article on Westbury, Wiltshire. Correcting and adding to the article on Westbury White Horse. Elaborating on the former stub on Dilton Marsh.
	I hereby award you with the Exceptional Newcomer Award for your contributions, always of exceptional quality, to all sorts of articles (and notably the linguistic ones in the corner of Wikipedia where I'm most at home). You arrived barely a month ago, and reading through your contributions, I think that almost every single one of them is very valuable and well thought-out. Your list of Past projects speaks for itself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Keep up the good work! — mark ✎ 01:12, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)	Just to continue the theme of wikilove from above, for all your efforts on the hieroglyph templates, you are hereby my hero of the day and here is a gold star (I hope you won't take offence at being awarded an ex-Soviet honour). – ALoan (Talk) 22:24, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
	Let me add my congrats on your successful RFA. I trust that you will carryout your extra responsibilities diligently. Good luck! Oran e (t) (c) (@) 20:13, 21 October 2005 (UTC) The Richard Hooker Memorial Barnstar for hard work and dilignence on the Anglicanism WikiProject	This Rosetta Barnstar is awarded in recognition of your work in helping build the world's best free collection of shared community knowlegde about languages – which are, after all, one of the best windows into the miracle of our diverse but shared humanity. ntennis 12:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
	Uniliteral signs Sign Tranlit. Say Notes 3 a called aleph, a glottal stop, an Egyptian vulture ỉ i/a called yodh a reed or y y double yodh a pair of reeds or a pair of strokes ̒ a called ayin, a voiced pharyngeal fricative an arm or w w/u called waw a quail chick or its hieratic abbreviation b b a lower leg p p a reed mat or stool f f a horned viper m m an owl n n a ripple of water r r a mouth h h a reed shelter ḥ h an emphatic h, a voiceless pharyngeal fricative, a twisted wick ḫ kh a gutteral sound, a voiceless velar fricative, a placenta or a ball of string (?) ẖ kh a softer sound, a voiceless palatal fricative, an animal belly with tail or s s a folded cloth or a door bolt š sh a garden pool ḳ k an emphatic k, a voiceless uvular plosive, a slope of a hill k k a basket with handle g g a jar stand t t a bun ṯ ch as in English church, a tethering rope d d a hand ḏ j as in English judge, a cobra

		ܚܠܥܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܡ The Barnstar of Mor Ephrem
		For your quality contributions to Syriac Christian topics, I hereby award you the Mor Ephrem barnstar.
		this WikiAward was given to Garzo by Rafy talk on 22:50, 20 July 2011 (UTC)