User talk:Avanduyn

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions, such as those in Troglodytae, but we regretfully cannot accept original research. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thanks for your efforts, and happy editing! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 11:18, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2008

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Xerxes I of Persia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Arguments such as "If Xerxes 'the Great' is the Biblical Ahasuerus, then this would make the six months of festivities for "all his princes and his servants; the power (i.e. the armies) of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces,..." a political maneuver to show" can only be added if you can show a reliable source that makes that specific argument, otherwise it is you that is making the argument. Doug Weller (talk) 20:05, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So you threw out all the good and authoritativly referenced material for one paragraph that you thought was O.R.? I had just logged on this morning with the books in hand to re-find the references for that one paragraph and you accuse me of Vandalism? What was there, and is now there again is totally unscholarly, unreferenced as well as unrelated and the subejct, and the last bit is out of context making it virtually unrelated gibberish.

Image:Jokshan-Zimran-Midian-ShuahMED.jpg

I have tagged this image as insufficiently referenced. It seems obvious that you have not created this map 'entirely by yourself'. You seem to have taken an existing topographic map, modified the color scheme and added three arrows. --dab (𒁳) 07:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are right in that this map is not 'entirely mine' in that the base image is a NASA radar Topography image PIA03395 (albeit heavily modified). Which makes it public domain. However the vector coastlines, and the actual 'information' is entirely my own work, compiled from research. I could produce a version on demand without the topography if you like, but what is there should be legal.--Avanduyn (talk) 05:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rift valley claims

If you have some reliable sources (not Adventist literature, you will need something more mainstream than that), please present them. Meanwhile, I've removed these claims as unsourced OR. Doug Weller (talk) 07:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Doug, I had removed his info about the "Rift Valley" from Troglodytae in July, because his writing was so unclear and verbose that I couldn't actually make sense of it at the time -- but I've now looked at it again more carefully, and realized that Dead Sea Transform would have been a far better link to explain what Avanduyn was talking about, than "Rift Valley" -- so I have reinstated his info accordingly, albeit a little more succinctly. Avanduyn, sorry for misinterpreting the original edit! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 19:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Til for that vidication. Please think Troglodytis (and any other discriptive word) not as a place but as a word that can be applied to different places that match that discription of 'a place where people dwell in caves?' As for 'needing something a little bit more 'main stream', I think you fail to understand just how main stream that actually is: They are the largest protestant denomination. The Seventh-day Adventist bible commentary series is a massive work representing tens of thousands of pages and is updated regularly. And more so than any other Christian group, biblical archaeology is our specialty. The information contained in them in this case straight from the cuniform tablets or anthropological academic works. Doug, I would never say: "The Seventh Day Adventists tentatively identified Zimran with the Arabian town of Zabran." What was there was fine.--Avanduyn (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As regarding your Jokshan edits, you don't have to reference what is considered public knowledge like when the Yemenites commonly acknowledge Jokshan (aka Qahtan) as the head of their nation.--Avanduyn (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, after futily donating scores of hours in trying to improve wikipedia, I am sick and tired of the "I-add-you-delete" system of Wikipedia. You guys really need an 'information submission system' to stop this phenominal waste of time. Regards, --Avanduyn (talk) 06:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, now I see. It was indeed a language problem as 'rift valley' to me means Africa. [Troglodytae] makes a lot more sense now. That's a good model for the other articles. Doug Weller (talk) 06:35, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi Avanduyn, I think we know each-other! I just discovered your user page. All the best with editing on here, Colin MacLaurin (talk) 03:09, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup in North Queensland

Hi there! You are cordially invited to the first meetup in Townsville on Saturday 21 April. Details and an attendee list are at Wikipedia:Meetup/Townsville. There is also the possibility of having a meetup in Ingham or Cairns which I have mentioned at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Townsville. Let us know if you are interested. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 04:02, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]