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| − | Congratulations to you both! We are expecting our little baby girl in mid-October 2006. We might have to swap tips! [[User:Joe Rodgers|{{User:Joe Rodgers/sig}}]] 23:48, August 5, 2006 (CDT)
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| − | * ''Nature of the bishop's retirement:'' I've corrected the paragraph on the nature of the bishop's forced retirement. This was not made because he sought reception in the EP, but because he sought to do so preemptorily, without canonical release and order.
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| − | * ''Title in summary box:'' In line with my point above on the bishop's title, I think it is only fair / accurate to return the small footnote qualifier on the title in the summary box at the bottom. Not to do so seems to claim, in the article, that the matter is disputed and open, only to go on in the summary information to present it as a closed/decided issue. I think in fairness to the actual situation, this small flag is warranted and not in itself a bias (cf. for example the summary boxes on autocephalous churches on Wikipedia, where a small asterisk is used next to churches whose autocephaly is disputed by some).
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| − | :I think we should throw a party. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
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| − | ::Seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof ? [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
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| − | ==Bp [[Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland]]==
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| − | Thanks for responding to the issue on my talk page; I fear that, in the mood I was in, my response would have been somewhat less than an exhibition of perfect charity. — edited by [[User:Pistevo|<font color="green">Pιs</font><font color="gold">τévο</font>]] <sup>''[[User talk:Pistevo|<font color="blue">talk</font>]]'' ''[[User talk:Pistevo/dev/null|<font color="red">complaints</font>]]''</sup> at 07:13, August 14, 2006 (CDT)
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| − | This was perhaps tossed out by someone, somewhere, at some time, in an effort to amass as many objections as possible, but it clearly has no bearing whatsoever on the current state of affairs (as the rest of the article appears to). I'm not going to edit it quit yet (since you put it in there), but a footnote or an external link might be appropriate. Otherwise, it's completely spurious except as a historical curiosity which has clearly proven to be laughable.
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| − | :I agree that documentation would be helpful. Historical arguments would be useful to keep in, as they do give some perspective on the historical relations between the two jurisdictions. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
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| − | A nice, subtle change that has not gone unnoticed. I look forward to your inactive partication! — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit§ion=new talk])
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| − | Welcome back, Deacon Andrew. I missed your discipline on keeping a consistent format for the articles. I mean this sincerely as I looked forward to your catching my "typos". It had kept me on the 'ball' but I still needed a good editor. [[User:Wsk|Wsk]] 13:57, October 9, 2006 (CDT)
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| − | I see you signed your last contribution "Father Andrew." Congratulations on your ordination! [[User:Gabriela|Gabriela]] 22:31, October 30, 2006 (CST)
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| − | In editing the page [[Timeline of Church History]] with minor edits, the link you added [[bg:Времева лини�? на църковната и�?тори�?]] became corrupted. I would fix it, but the corrupted letters do not display on any of my browsers even if I look at the history. - [[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 10:04, November 7, 2006 (PST)
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| − | Hi dear Father, I was leaving off the extra interwiki links for the Mian page until the additional localizations are ready for "Beta" stage, by which I mean that all the necessary documents have been translated... The "release" stage will then be when there are strong enough communities and moderation around these wikis to really launch them - i.e content and spam problems are dealt with quickly. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit§ion=new talk])
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| − | Dear Father,
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| − | Thank you for pointing out the issues of NPOV and MCB with the last edit I had entered. Of course I agree with having those standards for an encylopedic entry and I would like to see a better product along the lines you suggest. However I do have a few comments if i may.
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| − | * I feel that the substance of what was written - about the agenda of the Pan Orthodox Congress of 1923 - actually was accurate and unbiased; after all history is history, and if those were the subjects that were tabled at that congress, it is a matter of history and a very important matter at that, and information which every Orthodox Christian today has a right to be informed and aware of. Im sure you agree that to simply list the items of the agenda as they were, is, I think is a neutral approach ''(i.e. "here is what what was proposed in 1923: 1, 2, 3, 4,..etc, in fact seven changes in all.)'' Not sure how else to word that part of it, it is what it is; some subjects such as this particular example, may not be neutral in themselves, and for us to attempt to make them so or omit them risks the error of creating our own modern bias instead, a risk every historian is aware of. The writing of history must be impartial, whether the historical facts in themselves are or arent impartial to us is another matter. I agree that the source timeline that I located the information on would be NPOV/MCB, however as for the information in itself, it is either factual or it is isn't (fabricated)....in other words there was no editing or personal opinions presented with that list, just the list of proposals in 1923 itself . And I remember seeing a similar list of items (from the 1923 congress) years ago on an OCA site, which I cannot find now. And so for this reason I believe it is necessary and important to have this part included for the complete and unbiased picture.
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| − | * As for the second section I had entered (comparative study), which included a link to a site which detailed things about Metaxakis' early Masonic involvement right down to his troubled death, yes it too did not come from a MCB site, and that will need to be re-worked as you commented, perhaps with more research from other sources; but it too presented disturbing details, which in themselves were by nature * not neutral * (i.e. if he attained 33rd degree in 1909 that's important; if he was buried with Masonic honours in 1935 that fact too is important). It is doubtful how much other written research exists on this subject, at least in English.
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| − | == Thanks and congrats ==
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| − | Dear Father, thank you for your friendly welcoming and congratulations for your ordination! --[[User:Cat68|Cat68]] 08:55, February 16, 2007 (PST)
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| − | Yes, indeed, we have descended. Our social ethics project has been, basically, to make sure that there were articles written for just about every article under the Ethics section. This is the first phase, followed by a review by the professor, after which you can expect changes to these articles (whether or not they've been worked on by other people in the mean time). [[User:Vandrona|Vandrona]]
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| − | Congrat's on the birth of your first child!--[[User:AKCGY|AKCGY]] 15:08, March 5, 2007 (PST)
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| − | Congratulations from the Andronaches, as well. Magda also wants me to add that she approves of March births :) [[User:Vandrona|Vandrona]] 15:31, March 5, 2007 (PST)
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| − | Thank you for help, Father. [[User:Ddpbf|Ddpbf]] 18:25, March 10, 2007,(CET)
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| − | Ok, I admit my ignorance. Thanks for the info. [[User:Gabriela|Gabriela]] 17:23, March 12, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Hello Fr. Andrew,
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| − | We have communicated via e-mail before. In fact, I recall you asking me years ago to get involved in this site. Now that I am starting to figure out how it works I will finally try to do so.
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| − | [[User:Frjohnwhiteford|Frjohnwhiteford]] 16:41, March 18, 2007 (CDT)
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| − | I finally figured out the right way. My comments above were added a longer route.
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| − | Bless father.
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| − | I am asking wich versions of names I should to use? I was using Serbian versions, because in articles abut St. Sava, St. Nikolaj etc were used Serbian versions. Now I was told to use English versions. I am confused. Literature in english uses more often Serbian versions.
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| − | It seams that ww have problems with inter wiki on serbian page. From English to Serbian it works good but problem.--[[User:Ddpbf|Ddpbf]] 10:20, March 27, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Dear father your blessing.
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| − | returning from Mt. Athos yesterday i found your notice about the deletion of my images because of tags' lack. i'm not at all familiar with all that electronic-copyright-jargon and i'm not sure whether the corrections i did will work. i hope i'm not troubling you too much with my ignorance.
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| − | : [[User:Vassilip|Vassilip]] 02:47, March 29, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Dear father
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| − | both images are personal and i have the only original copies. truly i'm not cognizant of copyright policies and i used what i thought as probably more appropriate (i used the ''commons'' one because i read i had to do it).
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| − | yours indeed
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| − | : [[User:Vassilip|Vassilip]] 05:08, March 29, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | I arrived at his article and was surprised to find that his elevation to Metropolitan had already been updated. Kudos.
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| − | I was at a lecture hosted by His Eminence earlier today at [http://www.gocoos.org/ Greek Orthodox Church of Our Savior] in Rye, NY. The parish priest who introduced him mentioned to the audience that "Bishop" Ware was unaware of his elevation until the priest told him upon his arrival. Thus was I bemused at reading your update. Just out of curiosity, were you at the lecture as well? One of the brother priests perhaps? (There were quite a few other priests, and even a Romanian bishop) Or did you come upon the information some other way?
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| − | I see you guys are having the same problem as what I also want to deal with on our site. See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Captcha_extensions
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| − | As they claim, Capcha at account creation would prevent these spam bots. --[[User:JohnK|JohnK]] 06:47, April 11, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | I have been working on articles concerning Irene, wife of Leo IV, and Theodora, wife of Theophilus. I am about ready to post them on Orthodoxwiki, but I need good titles for the articles. To avoid too much work establishing titles on the web, I've sought your opinion as you have done so well in maintaining discipline of styles among all our articles. I find identifying many saints confusing with many of the saints having different titles applied to them.
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| − | For Irene, many if not a majority of the sites identify Irene as "Irene of Athens". I have been thinking of using this as a title for her. Another could be "Irene the Iconodule or Iconophile". For Theodora the Iconodule/iconophile would fit nicely.
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| − | Bill Kosar[[User:Wsk|Wsk]] 15:00, April 15, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | ::Thanks, Father. I think we are on the same path.[[User:Wsk|Wsk]] 18:13, April 15, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | ==?????Licensing==
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| − | What is going on? I just noticed that you changed the license agreement from being able to export to not being able to export? Right after I quoted it for the exports to Wikipedia I did this morning. What or who grants licensing for Orthodox wiki and how do I get in touch with them? Also what part makes the dual license incompatible and doesn't that violate using the wiki engine?
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| − | : 3. Licensing on OrthodoxWiki was defined by the administration within the first year of its inception. It is unlikely to be changed at this point, since so many edits here have been contributed under its terms. (This same message is being posted on your talk page.) —[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 14:10, April 24, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for helping us sort out the copyright mess over at wikipedia. -- [[User:Pastordavid|Pastordavid]] 09:18, April 25, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | '''Thanks''' I see your following right behind me. I would delete them myself, but... I'm glad that you're apparently patrolling Special:Recentchanges. [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] 16:18, May 2, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Fistly, I'd like to thank you for your answer. Secondly, if I've undestood well your explanation, I should propose [[:el:User:kostisl]] appointed for host -if he wishes. He has already done excellent work on Orthodoxy in greek wikipedia, and he is the proper person I thing for this kind of job. I wish you the best--[[User:Kalogeropoulos|Kalogeropoulos]] 06:22, May 25, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Ive noticed, Father Andrew, that you dont like it when people edit your articles. you get pissy and then re-edit them back to their old and most times INACURATE form. How are you supposed to help this site if you cant put your own ignorant biases??
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| − | : Well, none of the articles on OrthodoxWiki are "my" articles. I presume this note is regarding the [[Church of Estonia]] article. I've addressed this both on your talk page and at the talk page for the article. —[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 17:43, May 30, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Dear Fr. Andrew,
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| − | [[User:Filipino|Filipino]] 03:19, May 31, 2007 (PDT)
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| − | Hello! I don't know if you know Archimandrite Philemon (Castro), but in case you do, I wanted to pass on greetings to him. He and I were in seminary together at St. Tikhon's for two years.
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| − | The allegation that the Episcopal seat of the Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South East Asia is "VACANT" was not merely "a comment on a talk page". This allegation was "incorporated" into the article by a certain Marcus (an Orthodox from the Philippines, a former ROCOR member) and he wrote:
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| − | Thanks for your comments on my talk page about the timeline. Yes it's true the later more recent historical entries (esp. after 1991) do amount to mini paragraphs. Its easier of course to add more details about events closer to our own time, but you are right. I was aware of it as well, but originally concentrated on recording the content at first. I will certainly try to go back asap and edit out the extraneous details for those entries. May take some time but I will definitely go back and work on it, aiming for headlines only. If there are articles to place the extra details in will do. Would like to add a few more entires this week, then go back and edit out as much as possible from the long entries I placed.
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| − | it is important for me to tell you that the way you communicate is often offensive to me - if reading between the lines counts. I often wonder if you stop to consider that there is a real person contributing to this site who might be sensitive to the fact that you only critise them .... the fact that this person has not been there from the beginning does not count unless they were a troublemaker (which I am not) and should not make them any less important to this site than those who have been here for a long time ... Did you not read the Parable of the Last Judgement on Sunday? Is this or is this not an Orthodox site? I have put a lot of work into the little that I have done ... even if it is a 'peppering' ... seasoning is good, it often adds much flavour to food once the food has finished cooking ... perhaps my contributions are not massive VOLUMES in comparison to the rest of you but for me they have been my whole heart. My contributions have been out of genuinous and a desire to inform the world of ... whatever the topic is that interests me from Orthodoxy - Church of Greece holds as much right to be developed as does the Church of America (which has volumes of articles with list after list). Show a little understanding before you use such comments as "dilute" as you are meant to be a person of example [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 19:35, March 6, 2008 (PST)
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| − | Cheers, and best wishes over Great Lent [[User:Angellight 888|Angellight 888]] 14:14, March 7, 2008 (PST)
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