Gonzales John

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Richard Carrier

Just to let you know I reverted your major edits to Richard Carrier. I thought some of your edit summaries were misleading (that material was not unsourced) and at the end of your four latest edits you left the article with some red citation errors in the Notes section. It is also not in any way correct to describe the theory that Christ is ahistorical as a conspiracy theory - it is a legitimate debate among historians. In the future, please make your case on the talk page for the article before making huge changes of this nature. Thank you. --Krelnik (talk) 12:07, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

@User:Krelnik|Krelnik]], Most scholars, even non-Christians, believe a historical Jesus existed. To quote:

In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart Ehrman wrote, "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees". Richard A. Burridge states: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church's imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more". Robert M. Price does not believe that Jesus existed, but agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars. James D.G. Dunn calls the theories of Jesus' non-existence "a thoroughly dead thesis". Michael Grant (a classicist) wrote in 1977, "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary". Robert E. Van Voorst states that biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted.{{sfn|Van Voorst|2000|p=16}

And this, too :

These views are so extreme and so unconvincing to 99.99 percent of the real experts that anyone holding them is as likely to get a teaching job in an established department of religion as a six-day creationist is likely to land on in a bona fide department of biology.

OK fine. I really don't want to debate you about this tangential matter. I wrote to you about the Richard Carrier article, not about Christ Myth Theory in general. The fact is that just because Richard Carrier espouses a non-consensus opinion on a historical matter, that does not make him a conspiracy theorist. As far as I can tell you've never interacted with the Richard Carrier article or talk page before, and your edits ripped out a huge hunk of text that was arrived at by consensus by a large number of other editors. That's why I reverted you. Now if there are individual edits you'd like to propose, please go to the Carrier talk page and do so, by all means. I'm not averse to removal of material, frankly my gut feeling is the article is a bit long for what it is. But please seek consensus first. --Krelnik (talk) 13:13, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Talk page deletion

It is not considered good form to delete others' contributions to talk pages; see these guidelines. I strongly advise you not to do so in future. Clean Copy^talk 16:26, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Your edit summary

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(Not explanation given for how a mere five words, al reliably sourced is "significant". (HAHAHAHAhAhAHAHAhA I sense bias!)

Can you be less immature? Clubjustin ^Talkosphere 11:37, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Your edit summary

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(Not explanation given for how a mere five words, al reliably sourced is "significant". (HAHAHAHAhAhAHAHAhA I sense bias!)

Can you be less immature? Clubjustin ^Talkosphere 11:37, 10 September 2016 (UTC) @Clubjustin ^Talkosphere 11:37, 10 September 2016 (UTC) Yes, you see I was just doing that to see how people would react if someone suddenly acted immaturely. Lately I was starting to think that immature people are getting away with ignorance and immaturity too easily, so I pretended to be imatur just to see if the world, or Wikipedia, still works well enough to have immature people punished. Gonzales John (talk) 04:40, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Your edit summary

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(Not explanation given for how a mere five words, al reliably sourced is "significant". (HAHAHAHAhAhAHAHAhA I sense bias!)

Can you be less immature? Clubjustin ^Talkosphere 11:37, 10 September 2016 (UTC) @Clubjustin ^Talkosphere 11:37, 10 September 2016 (UTC) Yes, you see I was just doing that to see how people would react if someone suddenly acted immaturely. Lately I was starting to think that immature people are getting away with ignorance and immaturity too easily, so I pretended to be immature just to see if the world, or Wikipedia, still works well enough to have immature people punished. Gonzales John (talk) 04:40, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

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September 2016

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Jesus.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. StAnselm (talk) 21:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Jesus. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

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September 2016

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for edit warring, as you did at Jesus. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.  Bbb23 (talk) 01:12, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Be more careful

Gonzales, you may be right on the article substance, my history with the users you are arguing with leads me to think you are, but you really need to stop using edit summaries like this and be more careful about formatting your talk page edits (what you did to my post here appears to be a recurring problem). I think you are acting in good faith (again, I think you are right), but actions like this tend to lead very quickly to users getting blocked indefinitely.

You were not "blocked for restoring reliably sourced info"; you were blocked for edit-warring. There are several ways that restoring reliably sourced info could qualify as edit-warring when users on the other side were not blocked for the same reason. Generally, communication through edit summaries and refusal to engage in constructive dialogue in the talk page automatically makes one the "aggressor" in what is otherwise a two-sided edit war. Another way is if an admin really did make a bad call and block only one party when both sides were equally guilty of edit-warring. A third is if the reliably sourced info genuinely did not belong in the article for whatever reason (irrelevant to the topic, included in the lead but not the body, unencyclopedic information, etc.) and this was already established by talk page consensus before the edit-warring took place.

I do not know if what happened is any or all of the above. If it was the second, then tell me about it here and I will help you. The second has happened to me on several occasions (the admins used other epithets than "edit-warring"), but once I was unblocked I clarified what had gone wrong and the admins realized their error, so if you feel this is what happened here I sympathize. If what happened was the first or third, then unfortunately, even if you were right, you were still in the wrong in the eyes of Wikipedia.

Anyway, let's talk about it. :-)

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:50, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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September 2016

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 2 weeks for edit warring, as you did at Jesus. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.  NeilN ^{talk to me} 10:22, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Gonzales, this is going to keep happening to you until you realize that making any edits to that article directly except for uncontroversial ones and ones that have already been discussed is only going to cause trouble. I've dealt with these kind of situations before. The way to do it is to discuss on the talk page. I have no doubt that several users active on the talk page are people with theological biases against the kind of edits you (and, if we're being honest, I) would like to make to the article. Those users will either be overruled on the talk page when it comes to this or that specific issue, or you can take it to RSN, FTN, RFC, or DRN (depending on the specific issue) and they will be overruled there, or you may be overruled. In my experience, the last scenario rarely happens in the long run to users who are using quality academic sources.

But if they can catch you out on some behavioural issue like "edit-warring" or "incivility" before the content dispute can be brought before the wider community then nothing else matters, because you will be blocked. ANEW is, in my experience, a slimier venue than ANI, but ANI is not great either. Anyway, just promise not to engage in activities that could be perceived by outside observers who don't look at content (because most admins and Arbitrators don't) as disruptive, and this will stop happening. Believe me; I know.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 12:22, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

If you state you will not edit the article for two weeks and only use the talk page, I will unblock you. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 12:25, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Allrighty :-)Gonzales John (talk) 16:52, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Unblocked as the editor has agreed not to edit the article Jesus for two weeks. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:20, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

God

Hello,

I just clarified a "dubious" template i put in the article God; I don't doubt that god is commonly seen as masculine, but the cause for this given by the article seems dubious to me. ----Mathmensch (talk) 14:12, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

OK. I understand, sorry if I caused injury.Gonzales John (talk) 15:35, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Tower of Babel

Hello Gonzales John, I have reverted your edit. Though the article's subject has been concluded as a "myth" per consensus, we should try and avoid pushing POVs where other editors might assume we're enforcing some sort of WP:AGENDA. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 17:42, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry

Your block has been increased to indefinite as you have edited logged out to evade your block. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:16, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Transition of Yahweh into the Abrahamic God

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