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Your edits

Although I believe you good intentions, there is a pattern in your edits of bias, whether intentional or not. You have made a number of unfounded edits that present Catholicism in a more favorable light than other religious points of view, or that misrepresent Catholicism. Before you question this, look carefully at where your edits have been reverted and the reasons they were reverted. And note that I am Catholic, but I try not allow my own religious perspectives to influence my edits. It's fine for you to have personal biases, but that should not be reflected in your edits on Wikipedia, where neutral point of view is a cornerstone of editing. I ask that you either agree to a mentor to review your edits (perhaps someone who is a part of WP:WikiProject Catholicism) that are related to religion, or that you get opinions on the talk page of any article in which you make edits related to religion. I think that will serve two purposes. It will improve the neutrality of your edits and thus make you a better editor. And it will save the rest of us the time that we must devote to correcting your problem edits. Please consider this. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 00:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ok (The Sr Guy (talk) 00:53, 27 February 2020 (UTC))[reply]

@Sundayclose: It seems he's agreen to mentoring. This change today struck me. I don't know about good faith when I see something like this. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:39, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Episcopal church USA

Good afternoon. If you have a moment to look at the discussion here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Episcopal_Church_(United_States)#IP_revert_of_sourced_material_(comments_by_the_Presiding_Bishop)_as_%22editorializing%22 and were able to contribute, that would be useful. In particular if you felt that there was a reasonable edit to be made it would be better if another editor and me were to make it. With all good wishes, Springnuts (talk) 13:52, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

March 2020

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Neil Gorsuch, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Read WP:BLPCAT. BLPs are held to a higher standard for sourcing, especially for religious identification. Sundayclose (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Reigning Protestant monarchs has been nominated for discussion

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Causing accessibility problems with charts

Cant we get you to read over WP:Sandwich....best not make WP:PROSE non readable just to add the same info in a chart. Pls dont add charts that sandwich text just to duplicate data already there.--Moxy 🍁 01:35, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Recent odd change to Puerto Rico article New Spain ---> Mexico and Puerto Rican article ---> "nominally"

Hi

I'm not going to spend time checking your edits but this one looks particularly troublesome. Why would you change New Spain to New Spain|Mexico? when New Spain (I copied the text from the Puerto Rico article: says ::: "It included what is now Mexico plus the current U.S. states of California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Florida and parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; as well as the southwestern part of British Columbia of present-day Canada; plus the Captaincy General of Guatemala (which included the current countries of Guatemala, the Mexican state of Chiapas, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua); the Captaincy General of Cuba (current Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago); and the Captaincy General of the Philippines (including the Philippines, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the short lived Spanish Formosa in modern-day northern Taiwan, as well as during a century the island of Tidore and the briefly" Here is the DIFF

Please share your rational with me and the world here. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:34, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I change to Mexico because the capital of New Spain was Mexico City, and there is not much difference between the Territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Territory of the First Mexican Empire (apart from the Caribbean and Philippines), in the Spanish Empire article the Viceroyalty of New Spain is simply referred as “Mexico“.(The Sr Guy (talk) 18:49, 19 March 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Really? So do you think that changing the label displayed to "Mexico" will help our readers understand the area?

and what about this: "nominally..." and quoting just half of a sentence, which changes the entire meaning of the sentence, especially when you're quoting a 15 year old resource.

@The Sr Guy: @Sundayclose: Quoting part of a statement from a book from 2005 that said. "Most Puerto Ricans are nominally Roman Catholics, although Protestant denominations and Pentecostal sects have been growing on the island since about 1900.(Fitzpatrick, 1976)." is not honest. If 15 years ago that was the statement made in the book why would you only add "Most Puerto Ricans are nominally Roman Catholics." ? That was 15 years ago... so if you were to include the complete quote.. then we'd probably be able to surmise that the first part of the quote no longer holds water. ---The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 19:12, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for fixing the stats on religion on the Puerto Ricans article.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 20:48, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of America's Most Famous Catholic

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America's Most Famous Catholic

What possessed you to try to create a redirect like this? As if you alone can decide who should be designated the most famous Catholic on Wikipedia. I thought you had made a bit of progress with your problem edits, but obviously I was wrong. I must now insist that you get a mentor before making another edit. Go to WP:Adopt-a-user, read about the process, and request a mentor. At this point any experienced editor will work. Later you can change to someone else if you feel the need. The only other option is that you wait for opinions on talk pages before you make an edit. I don't know exactly what the problem is in your thinking, but competence is required to edit Wikipedia. I prefer to think of this as a competence problem rather than intentional disruptive editing. It doesn't mean you are incompetent in general, but in terms of the skills and knowledge you need to make appropriate edits, you lack something. This is especially true in light of the fact that you're been editing for more than two months. It can come improve with mentoring and experience. It's best if you seek voluntary mentoring. But if necessary it can be made a condition for you to continue editing. Please seek a mentor immediately. If you make additional edits without doing so, I will have no choice but to raise these problems at WP:ANI. Sundayclose (talk) 00:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ok, sorry. the reason why I put this redirect is because that's how he describes himself(The Sr Guy (talk) 00:39, 21 March 2020 (UTC))[reply]

That's the kind of thinking that creates problems on Wikipedia. A mentor would have immediately told you it's a bad idea. Get a mentor before making more edits. Sundayclose (talk) 00:46, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do read: Wikipedia:Competence is required. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 01:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

how do i get a mentor?(The Sr Guy (talk) 13:46, 24 March 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Try asking specific questions at the Village Pump or Teahouse here --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 14:38, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also introduce yourself to and join this group WikiProject_Catholicism -- The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:43, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Read and Talk combined on your talk page

I'm not sure why your talk page is set up so that I can't edit a specific heading but I have to edit the entire page. Can you fix that because it makes updating one section of your page rather awkward. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 14:54, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to fix this either. (The Sr Guy (talk) 15:47, 24 March 2020 (UTC))[reply]

OkayKenji fixed it for you. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 21:52, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Requesting expansion and update edit support

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Season's greetings

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Islamic advice literature

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Thanks, warm regards and greetings

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Religion in Japan

again and again, it's your own analysis not what the sources said. the safest bet here is only using what the sources showed. I've done some research about the report of Agency for Culture Affairs you strongly recommend. your own analysis is wrong. "others" in the report means "other religions" not "other religions or none". (https://www.christiantoday.co.jp/articles/27577/20200107/2019-religious-year-book.htm) so you should know explaining data by yourself is easy to make mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.137.28.220 (talk) 03:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ok, I agree(The Sr Guy (talk) 14:40, 13 June 2020 (UTC))[reply]

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Warning

Hi. I recall having already dealt the "pie chart thing" with you before? It is not a deja vu, right? I think it was made clear you need to stick to how the source presents the survey (according to how the questions were asked). And if there is any reason to choose one survey over another, discuss it in the talk page. You have established a preference for "Macrobarómetro de octubre de 2019" (because of its larger sample size, which seems actually rather sensible), so please don't distort the results of that survey with how you would like them to be. Cheers.--Asqueladd (talk) 21:51, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit summaries

Don't forget to use 'em. Thanks! BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 04:42, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Religion in Japan

Hello and greetings. You are more acquainted with wikipedian procedure than myself. Do you have any idea how to protect the page/warn the IP? He keeps shoving that damn pie chart, which implies that 61% of the Japanese are irreligious (while what they meant, of course, is that they are 無宗教). AddMore-III (talk) 20:04, 14 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you that his edits don't make any sense, but since i'm not an administrator i can't do much, try to file a report on the Administrator Noticeboard or on Administrator intervention against vandalism. This is so that an administrator can proceed to block the user or to give the user a last warning. If you really want to block the page try Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. (The Sr Guy (talk) 22:59, 15 October 2020 (UTC))[reply]

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