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		Thanks for all your contributions to WikiProject:Christianity related articles! Keep up the good work! With regards, AnupamTalk 20:45, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your note

Its possible that we may even know one another ... Nazareth isn't that big after all. :) Unfortunately, I had to disable my email after receiving death threats for my edits here (hundreds of copies of a variation on a theme that jammed my email inbox and wasted too much time). I don't share too many personal details on Wikipedia anymore either because of that. But maybe one day we'll find each other? Until then, happy editing and if you ever would like to collaborate on something here, let me know and I'll try to make the time for it. Tiamut^talk 08:20, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Religion in Europe

"The largest religion in Europe is Christianity with 76.2% belonging to Christianity."

I removed this part from the lead section, but it still mentioned in the section about Christianity. The lead section should be a general introduction to the topic, therefore it cannot mention a percentage about just one religion, from just one source. For sure because this percentage is contradicting with numbers from sources that are more reliable (it contradicts with the numbers from Eurostat). I know this doesn t count but as a European I can tell you the number is just plain wrong.Nico (talk) 11:09, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok no problem i understand your point. For the source of pew research center it's reliable (and thier statistic are used in wiki articals) as Eurobarometer or Eurostat, and the percentage differen is not only with the Pew statistic, for example Eurobarometer or Eurostat discrepancies between it's percentage and national census results (Sweden,UK, etc), I'm also a European and I can tell you the number write, it's not important what we think.Jobas (talk) 15:31, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

I mnoved your post, it is better to keep the discussion together.Nico (talk) 14:43, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

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Richard Dawkins

Hi. On 5 April 2013 you wrote the following on my talk page: "hello how are you can i know what the reason to remove my edit in Richard Dawkins i didn't bring any thing from my mind and bbc cited what he say  : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfOdMVZWE8 here is the video." Just for the record, I didn't remove your edit. Dave.Dunford (talk) 15:29, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Please be more careful with your citations

Hi, thanks for taking the time to edit Islamic Golden Age and fill in some of the gaps on the role of Christians in translating texts etc. However I find some of your edits problematic; in several cases you have added statements based on unreliable or unclear references. When I've found the source, in some cases they don't actually support the text you've added. Please slow down; I would much prefer that you add one good sentence with one good reference, then three dubious sentences with three bad references. For example, you have recently added: " According to author Thomas T. Allsen, Middle Eastern medicine in Mongol ruled China was “almost always” in the hands of Nestorian Christians.(Rémi Brague, Assyrians contributions to the Islamic civilization)" This is problematic for several reasons:

1. who is Thomas T. Allsen? He's a red link. I have no idea.
2. You've attributed this to Rémi Brague, based on the url http://www.christiansofiraq.com/assyriancontributionstotheislamiccivilization.htm. Brague did not write that web page; he certainly did not write the comments attributed to Thomas T. Allsen. Brague himself is a reliable source; www.christiansofiraq.com is not, because of unclear editorial control and potential bias. In the previous case where you attributed the comment to Brague, giving the Christians of Iraq url, I was able to track it down to the relevant book by Brague and give a proper reference, but attributing the Allsen quote to Brague is just downright confusing. The web page does not give a proper reference for the Allsen quote, and I'm not prepared to spend hours of my time tracking it down. Please don't add references like this based on unreliable, unclear references.
3. What is the relevance of Mongol ruled China to the Islamic Golden Age anyway? This is not explained.
   

As I say, please slow down and add better sourced material with better references. Please feel free to ask on the talk page if you would like help with any of your additions. --Merlinme (talk) 15:10, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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Why, in clear disrespect for WP rules of editing

...did you revert good faith edits that were true—edits calling attention to page numbers broadly lacking from book references, the appearance of naked URLs, the complete lack of ANY citation in many sections, etc. This is the height of of editorial arrogance and hubris, to revert a good faith edit without discussion in Talk, and without substantive Edit Summary—the entirety of yours was "Undid revision 637029601 by 71.239.87.100" (i.e., contained no justification)—when the edits clearly had merit. Perhaps you hold a bias -- contrary to WP policies -- against IP editors? Please, state your case, but know, because I am both (a) a retired faculty member with professional editing and scholarly experience, and (b) also a WP editor who can and will later log, that I'll seek to have these edits reintroduced. veritas numquam perit. 71.239.87.100 (talk) 04:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your promptly addressing this matter. If you wish to delete this Talk section, please feel free. Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Utility/Legitimacy of “People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian Descent” Category

Dear Jobas, You seem to have expert knowledge in religious history and cultural anthropology, notably re: Byzantine tradition(s) in the MENA area and the subtle ethno-cultural nuances of Levantine Christian communities and their relatives in the (mostly US and Latin American) diasporas. Some Wikipedians have reopened an old CfD debate, purportedly aiming at removing the “People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian descent” category– see discussion below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_December_16#Category:People_of_Levantine-Greek_Orthodox_Christian_descent Can you please help us with with your learned arguments & let us know if you’re in favor of keeping it? I, personally, think it shouldn’t be removed. Thanks in advance for your scholarly help, BA B.Andersohn (talk) 15:37, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi. Regarding this issue, please file a formal request on WP:SPI where the English Wikipedia checkusers can take it from there. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 07:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Jobas, I understand that you created the article "Protestant Culture." I appreciate that very much. Obviously you took the text from the article on "Protestantism." I wrote most of its chapter "Protestant culture." We seem to have very similar views on this issue. I wonder whether we could cooperate in other projects, too. Greetings, Speahlman (talk) 19:36, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@Speahlman: I moved this comment over to the talk page for you. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 19:39, 20 February 2015 (UTC)