User talk:JohnAlbertRigali

OK, I got rid of Sam Spade's welcome blurb. Have at it. John Rigali 20:22, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

If you try to enlist me for a Wikipedia cause, please give me a link to the page that is the focus of the cause! John Rigali 04:54, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

And now, on with our regularly scheduled talk...

On the Catholic Church of Wikipedia

As you have described yourself as a Catholic, I thought I would alert you as a co-religionist to your opportunity to delete the particularly offensive article, Wikipedia:Catholic Church of Wikipedia.--Thomas Aquinas 21:49, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. I cast my vote at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Catholic Church of Wikipedia. Why are heterodox Catholics heterodox!? SHEESH! John Rigali 09:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

A Message to Pro-Life Wikipedians

The section "Foetal Pain" (Fetal Pain) has been deleted from the Abortion article. Could you help restore it? If you would like to see what was deleted, go to my talk page, scroll to "Fetal Pain," and click the provided link.--Thomas Aquinas 22:20, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Jesus

Check out the Jesus article and edit it to keep it focused on Jesus and a biographical account of Him. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thank you. Scifiintel 22:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

This type of censorship makes me sick

Vote to keep, show these hypocrites what's what, tolerance? ha, only when it's good for them--Diatrobica;l 23:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

CAoW

Since you are listed as a Roman Catholic, I figured I'd send you this. Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia has been nominated for Deletion. Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. The link to the voting page is here: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia --Shanedidona 03:02, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Family trees

Hello John, good morning! I'm glad to see that there is still someone who appreciates the work i had! I'm no longer a regular contributor here and, precisely because i dont keep track of my wiki-en articles and images, i placed a tag saying that everything i do is {{Cc-by-sa}}. You can imagine my dismay when i found out that the Portuguese Kings family tree (above all!) was deleted... If you have the files at hand and the will to do it, please feel free to re-upload them with the tag {{Cc-by-sa}}. (Actually i was a bit annoyed with the deletion, but that's all gone). This, in case you dont know it by now, is the site i used as major source, if you have any gaps in medieval geneology, its a good place to look. Cheers, muriel@pt 10:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Rodovid.org

Hi, I found you from the category of Wikipedian genealogists. I wonder if you have heard of/been involved in any of the previous attempts at starting a genealogy wiki under the foundation. Seeing as you were in the category, I thought you may be interested in the new project proposal, Rodovid. This project is currently running at rodovid.org. I would greatly appreciate it if you could visit the site and give me your opinion of it. Any input at all will be useful. Thanks. --Bjwebb (talk) 10:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Another LA-area Wikipedia meetup?

There is a proposal for a 3rd LA-area meetup at Philippe's on Saturday, 24 June 2006. If you are interested in another meetup, please visit the proposal and comment on the date and location. ^BlankVerse 08:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board

Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board. Thanks. --Facto 05:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Narnia

Hello, I noticed that you edited an article related to, or expressed interest in The Chronicles of Narnia. I thought you may be interested in knowing that there is a WikiProject working to improve articles about Narnia, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please consider joining the WikiProject Narnia. Thank you! Bornagain4 02:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Sahaba

(See User talk:Striver#Request for collaboration in cleaning up the genealogy of Muhammad and Ṣaḥābah on Wikipedia for John's replies.)

Hi! Well, how about joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Salaf as a first step? --Striver 04:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

There is no formal expectations, the "membership" serves as nothing more than a notification of interest and a "contant me if need be". So you are welcomed to join and do nothing more, ever. Of course, i would be happy if you would do more than that.--Striver 20:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Category for articles created

(See main conversation at User talk:Striver#Category for articles created.)

Considering my contributions, i wonder if it is ok to create a category for adding the talk pages of articles i have created, much in the same way as Category:Medieval warfare task force articles, possibly naming it "Category:Articles created by User:Striver"? --Striver 17:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Jesus

I recently found that the Jesus article on Wikipedia is the first item that comes up when you search for "Jesus" on the world’s most widely used search engine, Google.

Please edit the Jesus article to make it an accurate and excellent representation of Him.

The Jesus article may be a person’s first impression of Jesus. It would be nice if their first impression was from a Christian or the Bible, but for so many in these new days it probably comes from the Internet. Watch the Jesus page to keep it focused on Him. Thanks a lot.

Also, watch out to follow Wikipedia's Policies and guidelines. It is especially hard for the Three-revert rule and the Neutral point of view policy to be followed because of the nature of the article, but please follow these policies along with citing sources so that the article does not get locked from editing and can't be improved further. Thanks again. Scifiintel 18:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding edits made to Lewis Sabran

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Please cite

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Uma Thurman, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. --Yamla 20:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I have determined that the content that I added is true. I've been trying to figure out how to cite it because I pieced together that content from several sources; no single source contains it, and therefore I can't cite only one source. It's my bad for not throwing a "citation needed" tag on it, but couldn't you have done that instead of reverting it out? Now we're having this conversation and I have to add the content again — a waste of our time. -John Rigali 14:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

It is your responsibility to cite the content when you are adding it. See WP:V and WP:BLP. Now, if you can find a reliable set of sources that meet WP:RS, please feel free to readd it. Note that blogs and the like are not generally sufficient. --Yamla 14:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

I acknowledged my responsibility in my initial reply. What bothers me here is that I've been wrongly led to believe that your revert was wrong because (A) I was unaware of WP:V and WP:BLP, and (B) I've seen similar uncited content in other articles to which other admins simply added the "citation needed" tag instead of reverting it out in compliance with WP:V and WP:BLP. All admins should always comply with those policies, and Sam Spade's welcome blurb should mandate, rather than simply suggest, the reading of the links that it contains. As for my source citation dilemma, I don't see a solution at WP:CS, so I'll ask for a solution at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources. -John Rigali 16:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

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Request to investigate American government corruption

John, I wonder if you would help to investigate whether there is collusion between the Bushes and the Clintons. I am particularly concerned why no one was ever prosecuted in the CIA for selling drugs to the public. There are continual falsehoods put out in the entry of the death of Ron Brown on Wikipedia, the politician. The most blatant is that all were killed in the crash. Someone survived and died later of a wound which did not happen in the accident. I am concerned with how deep corruption is within our government. I remember hearing on NPR that there was even a deal to hold the hostages until after the election, making Jimmy Carter look foolish, losing him the election. I am also disturbed by the ramifications of the whistle blower, Stephen Heller, and the stealing of votes in Ohio. I am known as blueskybigstar as a commentator on the Huffington Post. You can look over how I think in my profile. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/users/profile/blueskybigstar

I am looking for intelligent people to make a think tank of this situation. Please, respond. John Stephen Blyth my email mailto:jblyth323@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thrutheseasons (talk • contribs) 16:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7

Hi there!  :)

As someone who's worked on D&D and/or RPG articles before, I'm inviting you to participate in our goal to both improve articles that have been selected to be placed in the next Wikipedia DVD release, as well as nominate more to be selected for this project. Please see the WikiProject D&D talk page for more details. :) BOZ (talk) 18:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Genealogy WikiProject

Hello and thanks for the message. I tried in vane some months ago to revitalize the group, but at the time, my other WikiProject, WP:SBS, was (and still is) stagnating and I became very busy with school. My opinions of the genealogical tables was also rather controversial some years back and I had somewhat given up replacing them. When I went back to the group, I realize too soon that it was dead and decided that it was not in my best interest to revitalize it. Having said that, I am unfortunately still very busy with school and non-wiki life and have resigned my fate to that of Wiki-watcher rather than Wiki-editor (also because I lost an admin position a year or so ago). I have not given up on Wikipedia, I just don't have the time any more to be working on two separate groups. I think the genealogy project is a very important idea and I will help where I can, but don't count on me to be checking every day because I just can't do it right now. I hope that explains some things. Happy Holidays!
–Darius von Whaleyland, Great Khan of the Barbarian Horde 18:48, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi there and thanks for the message. I'll be glad to help with wiki-genealogy. CsikosLo (talk) 15:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art

First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject).

I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

If you don't like art, why not come just to meet your fellow Wikipedians. Apparently, we haven't had a meetup in this area since June 2006!

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art#Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Please make a note if you are traveling to the area (train or plane) and need transportation, which can probably be arranged via carpool, but we need time to coordinate. Lodging is as of right now out of scope, but we could discuss that if enough people are interested.

Thank you and I hope to see you there! howcheng {chat} 00:04, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hilda Solis

Hi. I'm sorry, but I unfortunately had to revert your edit at Hilda Solis because it seemed redundant. The USCC is a business group, and after you added the bit about Randel Johnson it basically translated to, "the pick received dismay from business groups, an anti-union group, and the vice-president of a business group." Also, the individual himself doesn't appear to be notable. This shows that he only receives about 5,920 Google hits. If you disagree, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks. Khoikhoi 06:31, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Maltese connections

Hi. Please take some time to have a look at Maltese Nobility and Foreign titles of nobility in Malta and kindly advise whether they are up to scratch. The plan is to introduce genealogical links.Mobile historian (talk) 07:00, 7 November 2009 (UTC)