User talk:JackTheVicar

DYK for Christ Church, Newton

On 7 May 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Christ Church, Newton, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that on August 15, 1774, Christ Church, Newton (pictured), an Episcopal church in Newton, New Jersey, was granted a charter by Royal Governor William Franklin on behalf of Britain's King George III? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Christ Church, Newton. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:29, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nice article, thank you. I would like to improve a church article, St. Martin, Idstein, ideas welcome, - more history from German needs to be included but I lack the terms in English, - see I forgot to sign, thank you for joining the cabal, you seem to be unafraid ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:08, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Establishment and Incorporation

Regarding your edit at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newton,_New_Jersey&diff=661307244&oldid=661292530, I hope you can see that the administrative process of "incorporation" is distinct from when a populated place actually was founded and it is not useful to have one category set used for two different purposes in an indiscriminate manner. I would not be against have Category:Populated places incorporated in 1864 etc but others previously decided against this (if you feel strongly about this then it would be no bad thing to revisit the question). As regards Newton, New Jersey, quoting the article, we have "Newton was first settled ... sometime before 1751", so assuming that the "sometime" in question was not more than 50 years then it would be correct to categorize Newton, New Jersey in Category:Populated places established in the 18th century. Finally, most populated places in the Category:Populated places by year of establishment categorize by the date that the settlement actually was founded and so I don't really think it correct to say that I am "a user pushing a one-man consensus" as loads of other people have added articles to the category set on the basis of the date of actual foundation. I have played a leading role in establishing some guidelines for the use of the Category:Populated places by year of establishment and if you disagree with what is written there then why not set out your ideas at Category talk:Populated places by year of establishment? Greenshed (talk) 13:54, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Greenshed I'm not really that interested in your one-man crusade or a 9-year old discussion that decides nothing. All of NJ's municipalities, and many other states, are categorized this way without complaint. as for your precious category, the advisory of " or otherwise came into existence" in its inclusion statement is overly broad....FYI: 11 April 1864 is the date the Town of Newton was established, legally-came into existence, and the inclusion of Newton in 1864 is not unwarranted. If you want to play a game of semantics vis-a-vis established, incorporated, etc. don't waste my time or start edit-warring over this pedantic nonsense.--JackTheVicar (talk) 14:01, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AN/I

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 00:24, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Civility

I suggest you calm down. Your constant heated behavior is uncivil. Remember, there are No Angry Mastodons. All problems can be solved with civil discussion. Weegeerunner (talk) 01:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Weegeerunner. You are being very uncivil. You are unable to cooperate with others and are mounting to WP:Harrassment, WP:Canvass, WP:NPA and WP:Wikihounding. Given that the fact you've ignored WV's warnings of bad behavior, based on the diffs provided on the ANI report, I am certain you will be blocked. If it continues, you will be guaranteed a block. I seriously suggest that you calm down and learn to cooperate with others. If one is able to engage with another user about an issue with civility and proper care, so are you. Callmemirela (Talk) 05:06, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jack, I've blocked you for two weeks. Your actions are not okay. Follow NPA/Harrassment/etc in the future, or you will be blocked for a longer period of time. Kevin Gorman (talk) 14:35, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]