User talk:Chronic2

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September 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Bryant G. Wood, 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 familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. I've just removed a footnote of yours that was clearly OR. I shall probably remove some more OR but won't add any more warnings unless of course you insert more after this warning. Please read Wikipedia policies on OR carefully. Doug Weller (talk) 06:43, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Misuse of article discussion page

Chronic2, you are using an article discussion page to discuss an editor. Have you read WP:GF and do you think you have been following this guideline? I find it tedious at best to wade through your long posts to find out what your problems are with the article itself, and that is the whole point of a discussion page, to improve the article. If you want to make an official complaint about an editor, go to the appropriate board, but please drop this haranguing now. And as I shall say on the talk page, this is an article about Wood, not Garstang or Jericho, your edit is far too detailed for the Wood article. Also, a statement like " It was not derived from the Bible and then imposed on archaeology, as is occasionally stated by those who have not read Garstang's own writings on the subject." needs a very good reliable source that says that. As it stands it is original research by you, please also read WP:OR. Doug Weller (talk) 06:22, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Tyre

Hi Chronic - I didn't remember where I got that list from, but I suspect it was probably from this list. Although the compiler of that page lists a large number of sources, and is generally fairly accurate on subjects in which I have independent knowledge, some of the sources seem to be quite old, and nothing is footnoted to specify where individual pieces of information came from, and I would say that it probably does not comprise a reliable source - and certainly if we have better, more reliable sources, it is fine with me to replace it. Do what you will. john k (talk) 02:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

--Note: this was in response to my request about the List of Kings of Tyre page, where the dates given for the kings did not correspond to those in the individual articles for the kings. Chronic2 (talk) 21:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jericho

I don't want to insert myself into contentious editing in Jericho but I wanted to let the regular editors there know via the talk page, that I objected to the deletion with the rather arrogant edit summary. patsw (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bryant Woods

Hi Chronic. Questions relating to an article should be placed on that article's talk page rather than on an editor's own talk page.PiCo (talk) 05:34, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A suggestion re Deuteronomy

I'm concerned that you should I'm crowding out your contribution to Wikipedia. I believe part of the problem is the paucity of editors on the articles under dispute - with only two of us, it's not really possible to speak of "consensus" nor even to have a really useful pool of expertise. I suggest that we seek a few more people to participate. I suggest FimusTauri as a starting point - he's conservative in his outlook, and thus probably more aware of your concerns than I am, and I personally respect his capacity for fairness and his depth of knowledge. Wikipedia needs to be a collegial and enjoyable experience for all of us. PiCo (talk) 11:54, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mistake in page "Athaliah"

Please look at this page. Where did you find this information ? Can you check it on ? Thanks -- Jan^IIISobieski 14:26, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Cyropaedia

Regarding your concerns about "the low regard that the Cyropaedia has among many historians", and your efforts to 'set the record straight' on various articles with your own interpretations and conclusions, you should probably read WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS and WP:ADVOCACY.--Jeffro77 (talk) 03:40, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2024

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Margaret Sanger has an edit summary that appears to be inadequate, inaccurate, or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. Your edit summary stated: Inserted quote from Sanger that is multitply documented, but often censored by current pro-abortion advocates. In fact, if you had truely bothered to read the full article, you would have seen that the fuller (& correct quote) was already in the Margaret Sanger#Work with the African American community section. Your edit summary incorrectly implied that the quote had been censored from the article. In fact, its inclusion is a testament that Wikipedia is not censored. Please refrain from putting your political opinion into the edit summary & stick to the facts.. Peaceray (talk) 16:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings Peaceray. I'm always glad for constructive criticism; I don't want to overlook things. To assist me in not making such a mistake in the future, can you tell me where on the Margaret Sanger page it is that "if you had truely [sic] read the full article, would have seen that the fuller (& correct quoteI) was already in . . ." (reference given). I looked at that reference and didn't find it. I did a text search for the phrase "her goal was to eliminate the Negro race" that was in my quote in didn't find it; yet you said I would find it if I read the full article.

I want to be a better, and fair, contributor to Wikipedia. To that end, can you tell me what I am doing wrong so that I missed the quote that you said was there, on the Sanger page? User:Chronic2 Chronic2 (talk) 00:59, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Again, the the complete & correct quote is in the Margaret Sanger#Work with the African American community section (see my first comment in this thread, above). I am repeating it here: The ministers work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the [Birth Control] Federation [of America] as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.^[1]

You had inserted We don't want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. This is an incomplete quote, taken out of context, & substitutes a contraction which Sanger would have not done in formal writing. I believe that this undoubtedly violates the spirit of MOS:MOS#Original wording. Peaceray (talk) 17:06, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Sanger, Margaret (December 10, 1939). "Letter from Margaret Sanger to Dr. C.J. Gamble". Letter to Clarence Gamble. Smith Libraries Exhibits (libex.smith.edu). p. 2. Archived from the original on 2023-04-12. Retrieved 2024-12-13.

[Sanger_1939-12-10-1] Sanger, Margaret (December 10, 1939). "Letter from Margaret Sanger to Dr. C.J. Gamble". Letter to Clarence Gamble. Smith Libraries Exhibits (libex.smith.edu). p. 2. Archived from the original on 2023-04-12. Retrieved 2024-12-13.

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