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Hello I JethroBT: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 06:51, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Minor point
One trivial point in your close of the discussion here: the "possible structures" were proposed by Diego Moya, not me. I actually opposed them as I wanted to keep the discussion on focus, and found the suggestions poorly thought out.
And thanks for closing the discussion, by the way. Though I'm unhappy with the result I appreciate you taking the time to close the discussion thoughtfully.--Cúchullain t/c 19:35, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, sorry. I misread the signature there. I'll get that fixed up. I, JethroBT drop me a line 19:38, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the close at Alejandro García Padilla
Man, I wish most people would be so explicative on their closures. Thanks for the hard work, I know it's not easy to read a lot of mumbo jumbo and to provide an opinion on a matter you are unfamiliar with. Have you considered becoming an admin? We need people like you. —Ahnoneemoos (talk) 22:47, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, I appreciate your kindness. I have given it some consideration, and it's likely you'll see me on RfA sooner or later. One of the hard parts is finding a week I think I will be available to answer questions. I, JethroBT drop me a line 00:55, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Wiki-PR edit warring
I do not know your "position" on Wiki-PR, so this is not a canvassing attempt. I would just like more eyes on the edit dispute taking place here and specifically here. I get the feeling that (as usual) Smallbones and Coretheapple are tag-teaming to keep a particular "revenge" POV in Wikipedia about paid editing, to the detriment of a wider NPOV perspective. Do your own analysis of the situation, and please weigh in on whatever side your conscience dictates. - I'm not that crazy (talk) 14:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- @I'm not that crazy: Sorry I haven't checked into this yet. I'll see if I have time tomorrow. Thanks, I, JethroBT drop me a line 07:17, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Good closure
I just wanted to let you know that this was one of the best-worded closing rationales I've seen. StAnselm (talk) 22:30, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- @StAnselm: Hey, thanks for the kind words. Evaluating and closing RfCs takes a good chunk of time! I do my best to make it clear what arguments did and did not inform my close rather than just saying what consensus was. The way I saw it-- even coverage said that the famous teenage pregnancy was, say, Juno MacGuff's, the fact that it "wasn't real" wouldn't make a lick of difference. (And sorry the RfC didn't go your way. I thought would be interesting to see if there are indeed sources that discuss Mary in relation to the current attitudes surrounding teenage pregnancy. However, after I closed the discussion, most of the ones I found were pretty exclusively focused on motherhood more than anything else.) I, JethroBT drop me a line 01:47, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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how did i do on my first edit?
Hey,
I did my first edit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_affiliated_with_Australian_Christian_Churches
let em know how I did and if i can do anything else or can you make recomendations for me for other edits/adds
thanks :)
Jimvegas Jimvegas (talk) 00:37, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Chaminade High School
Two questions:
1. You noted that you deleted "honorifics" that are not used in Wikipedia; however, these are not honorifics but ecclesiastical titles that distinguish the holders as members of a religious order. Would you list Pope Francis as just "Francis" or a Rabbi or Protestant minister by their common name, instead of calling them Rabbi Shwartz or Reverend Jones?
1. You cited the removal of what you considered to be a promo - but the number of those who graduated from the school is reported in the school's annual report not as a promo but as a statement of fact. If Harvard University stated that it had graduated over 500,000 alumni would it be deleted as a promo or just accepted as fact? (and not necessarily because it's Harvard).
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