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There is some interesting information on User Pages at Wikipedia:User page. Here is the list of Userboxes, and this is some Wikipedia information about Userboxes. Yours, Smee 04:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

The Barnstar of Good Humor

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your Chaotic good and outwardly bumbling warrior mentality. Thanks for making me laugh! Yours, Smee 05:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• Feel free to post to your user page and/or leave on your talk page as you see fit, except of course this part itself. Smee 05:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

Nice article!

• Council on Mind Abuse. I think I saw some citations for that in some archived news articles somewhere... I will dig them up... Smee 07:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
  • Dude thanks. It was hard to establish the notability of a defunct anticult org, I hope I did that job at least. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ClaudeReigns (talk • contribs).
• Sure looks like it to me. Btw, I think looking a teeny bit that this Mr. Howarth guy would be easier to get lots of citations on then that last article... Smee 07:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
  • Yeah, I see that for sure. COMA was necessary to some understanding in the GCAC thing. Trying to work outwards from both sides of that issue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ClaudeReigns (talk • contribs).
• You can sign your comments with four tildes, like this. ~~~~. Yours, Smee 16:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

DYK

On 24 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tom Short, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Carabinieri 18:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• Congratulations! Smee 18:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC).

WOW

Hey ClaudeReigns, that was a remarkable job on the GPN page. I don't have the time to do much more than get a ball rolling on most articles right now. Thanks a bunch for gettin' 'er done. Nswinton 15:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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Image:BSPCon_Giuliani_and_Davis.jpg listed for deletion

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Have removed image and don't plan on contesting deletion. ClaudeReigns 20:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me?

I'm sorry, but are you actually calling this edit "vandalism"? Funny, how it hasn't been reverted yet, even though there have been nine edits since then (including one by you). And then you have the temerity to ask me "don't delete discrete and applicable links to article Jesus within WikiProject:Christianity"? Let me cite some relevant policies: WP:AGF, WP:NPOV, and WP:OWN. If you want to accuse someone of vandalism, be sure it actually IS vandalism before you do so. howcheng {chat} 16:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting with link to Jesus. ClaudeReigns 20:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

McCotter Image?

Hey ClaugeReigns,

Have you seen any good (wiki-legal) images of McCotter yet? The only one I can find online is from Maverick Jets, and I'm pretty sure they're not gonna give me permission. I see that you're still planning on doing an article on him, and figured you'd be the person to ask. I was hoping to get an image of him up on the GCA article. Nswinton 21:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

No, and it's bugging me. I know of some people to ask, but sofar nobody who has a copyright to a J.D.M. picture has budged. I suppose we could always just stalk him and take one ourselves LOL ClaudeReigns 04:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I uh... know a guy... I'll have him contact you. Is there a good way to talk to you off of wiki? You can find my contact stuff on my userpage. Nswinton 15:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[1] ClaudeReigns 16:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The people I know will send you the stuff they have when they get around to it. Nswinton 20:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, my codename is "Igloo". LOL! ClaudeReigns 20:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Mine is "booger" :S Nswinton 15:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Makin' any progress on the article? My friend told me he sent you an image the other day. Nswinton 16:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

No, no progress. Running into some issues obtaining a free use image, and even my fair use options are a bit shaky. ClaudeReigns 21:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Because the bajillion red links to McCotter are driving me crazy, I'm thinking about starting a stub on him. Should I hold off till you can pull stuff together (hoping for a DYK?), or should I go for it? Nswinton 21:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I saw the DYK this morning. Nice work. Nswinton 13:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Global Pastors Network

On 4 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Global Pastors Network, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

GCA Article

Hey ClaudeReigns,

Nice job on the article this morning. That pic was a great start. Stop by my userpage in a bit and you'll see a list I'm making of sources of good GC* pics for the article. I'd love to have you contrib to the list so all of us editors can have a central place to search/work from. Nswinton 15:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

F. F. Bosworth

Hey, I just noticed the work you did on this article. Nice work on the infobox and the image. I had wanted to add one a while back but ran into copyright/webmaster issues... Anyway, thanks for the contrib. Nswinton 16:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

GCC Board members

Hey dude, sorry 'bout all the talk page spam i'm giving you today. I think this[2] is a recent update to the GCC site. Might be a helpful source for some of your up and coming articles. The GCC history section has been expanded as well with a few internal links. Ok, I'll leave you alone now :) Nswinton 23:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

You sure? I could swear they read my Tom Short bio LOL. My usual modus operandi is to pick a subject, Google "Subject's Name"+news and go crazy with the first 10 hits. Except of course if there's a source which immediately comes to mind. D.B. looks so different from his pics in The Cause. ClaudeReigns 02:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

FYI, I heard back from the GC* folks, and we've got permission to use images from www.gccweb.org. Nswinton 19:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Sweet! I'll leave that to you since you're the one who got word. Do you think they'd consider a free license like GNU or Creative Commons? ClaudeReigns 21:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Honestly, I don't know hardly anything about GNU or Creative Commons (I had to go look up CC to know what you were talking about). I'm still a wiki-noob in several ways. I'll read up some more and look into it. I'll probably learn quite a bit adding some images to the GCA article in the next few days. Looks like there's been some excitement lately on the Tom Short article, huh?  ;) Nswinton 21:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, yes, there has :D You're welcome to try and help balance the PoV, right now the only stuff I have to add is more bad mojo (police interactions). If you have "5 Crucial Questions about Christianity" (I don't yet have a copy) you are definitely welcome to summarize his points, I think it would make him feel a little less like we were trying to pee in his wheaties to have that included. I know Smee quickly archived those posts, and maybe it would help if he knew we still have record of the conversation going, or else he might think we deleted the whole thing. I have the conversation archived and ongoing here in case he might get directed to the right place to talk about his concerns (hint, hint) LOL. Not exactly desiring an email relationship with Mr. Short, but definitely willing to address his concerns and enhance his PoV. ClaudeReigns 23:22, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I emailed him this afternoon and I'm gonna try and help mediate things. I know Tom personally and went to staff training with his son-in-law. Tom is actually a great guy IRL. I know the story behind alot of those things on his article (I read the article a while back and kinda chuckled, because there's definately two sides to everything, but Tom's side is much less documented. Up to this point I haven't even considered wading into the article, especially given my obvious POV. I try not to make edits where my POV can come through onto the article. I gave Tom some pointers on what can be done to improve the article, and what can't be done (in terms of communication style, etc). If I end up helping him out, I'll probably spend 3-1 time on the discussion page versus the actual article. Have you ever seen Tom preach in person? Nswinton 02:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, once. Not on campus. He's good at telling personal stories. Most of what I "know" is admittedly secondhand. ClaudeReigns 03:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

GCA infoboxes

Hey ClaudeReigns,

What do you think about having both of these on the page? Put the main one at the top, with the Background linking down to the timeline one (which would be in the Background section). This is just a proposal. What do you think? I'm putting this on Gatorgalen and Xanthius' pages too for their input. Lemme know on my talk page. Thanks dude. Nswinton 16:41, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Great Commission Churches

File:GCC Logo.png
Founded	2006 (See Background section)
Type	Evangelical Christian Church Association
Location	Columbus, Ohio
Official language	English
Key people	Herschel Martindale John Hopler Rick Whitney Dave Bovenmeyer Tom Short Mark Darling Brent Knox Chris Martin
Website	http://www.gccweb.org/

Name history of the movement
1965	First "works" established with no official name.
1970	Movement becomes informally known as "The Blitz Movement"
1983	Great Commission International (GCI) formed.
c. 1985	Campus ministry of the movement referred to as Great Commission Students (GCS).
1989	GCI becomes Great Commission Association of Churches (GCAC). Campus ministry becomes Great Commission Ministries (GCM).
2006	GCAC changes its name to Great Commission Churches (GCC).

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Intelius

On 17 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Intelius, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Good work on the expansion. --howcheng {chat} 19:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! ClaudeReigns 01:28, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

You helped choose Ludwig van Beethoven as this week's WP:ACID winner

— Pious7_Talk^Contribs 10:43, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Wizard Shazaam star proposal

I just commented on your barnstar proposal that if you changed the name of the barnstar you would probably be able to get a lot of the oppose votes to disappear because the image is really neat. IvoShandor 09:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Jim McCotter

On 25 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jim McCotter, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 05:31, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Your opinion

Your opinion is requested at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of groups referred to as cults (5th nomination) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xanthius (talk • contribs) 02:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Images

I saw this history: [3]

If you have having an issue with a free image, as opposed to a fair use image, you may wish to first upload that image to Wikimedia Commons, at http://commons.wikimedia.org , and then to refer to it on Wikipedia. This will make things easier to refer to on multiple projects, but can only be done when dealing with "free" images and media... Smee 09:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

yes, I don't think that constitutes as a free image. I am constantly looking over image pools for free images to do with the articles I edit, but usually I end up getting practice in writing Fair Use rationales. The Ronald Enroth picture is something Xanthius obtained and uploaded. It's a really good case for Fair Use. I don't think anyone will fault us for it. It doesn't have a specific Free Use license attached to it (though that in general seems to be Enroth's wish from the letter Xanthius linked), otherwise Wikimedia Commons would be an awesome place for it. Honestly, I don't think I've been able to convince a single image source to license under CC or GNU, which is weird. I drop a lot of emails. But next time I get my dirty mittens on a free use image, I will definitely swing by the Commons first. ClaudeReigns 10:46, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Sometimes government sources are good for finding free images / public domain documents... In the coming decade, it will be most interesting to witness the increase in electronic availability and pervasiveness of information from these "public domain" sources onto the internet... Smee 11:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Larry Pile

On 5 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Larry Pile, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 07:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

F F Bosworth Article

You might want to re-edit the F F Bosworth article. I added some new info, but am not familiar with formatting requirements, length of sections, etc., and part of the last section on his ministry remains hidden in the editing page, and doesn't show up in the main screen. There is a book which fills in a lot on F F Bosworth's early life - Fred Francis (Joybringer) Bosworth by Eunice M Perkins, where most of the new info came from. Also, there are a couple other items mentioned as sources. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.150.69.210 (talk) 04:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

Response

Please note that I have responded to your rather frivolous accusations. You could at least try to discuss the merits of my edits; there were only two reverts btw. Gatorgalen 03:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

"Discussion of the merit of your three deletions is ongoing at Talk:Larry Pile. The actual listing of each of those three deletions exist at both the links above. ClaudeReigns 08:49, 6 May 2007 (UTC)"

It's interesting that you waited until afterward to begin discussing. There were three edits listed by you, but only two were reverts. The first was not a revert, but rather I looked over the entire page and made an edit I thought was fairly simple and straightforward. It was reverted, I reverted; it was reverted, I reverted. Then it was reverted again, and I quit. So three reverts for you and Xan, 2 for me. Suppose if this were an edit war you'd be winning. Gatorgalen 19:42, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

In the first edit I listed, you reverted User:Xanthius' addition of the Pile article. The administrator counted three edits reverting the article as well. You went to North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics? O_o ClaudeReigns 20:15, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Clarification: The "simple straightforward edit" was a deletion of information, i.e. a revert. ^.^ ClaudeReigns 20:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh how quaint, looking up additional info on me. Indeed, I did attend that prestigious school whose motto is "Accept the Greater Challenge". As usual, I encourage you to look things up before talking - it'll make you seem smarter. If you'll look at when Xanthius edited it, he added a lot of things. You're suggesting that any edit is a revert, essentially. Which is bogus. Xanthius added several things at once, I tweaked it. Not a revert. Also should not be objectionable - if an administrator comes in there they'll delete it on the spot. There's really no question here. Gatorgalen 21:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

At this point I think you're talking to yourself because what I hear is "blah blah blah". Your deletion of that data is a revert and an admin counted it as such. Did you have any point to be here on my user page except to argue with me? Since we're not accomplishing anything beside an "is so is not" kind of squabble, I've got nothing further to say to you here. ClaudeReigns 23:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it's a bit much to say that "an admin counted it as such" given that he dismissed your claim out of hand - I mean, it clearly wasn't a violation because even if it had been a revert that would have made 3; in case you missed it a 3RR violation is more than three. Your accusation was empty and rrivolous, and was counted as such. Look in the mirror. I came here to defend myself against false and baseless accusations. Learn to discuss like an adult, please. Gatorgalen 01:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Did anyone else find that annoying?

Just checking ClaudeReigns 23:16, 6 May 2007 (UTC)