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Hey, I wrote on the discussion page for Bible college. Like I said, most articles that are specific to a country or region need to cite that info under a subheading. That's the biggest problem with TCE. Also, things like, "Bible colleges produce a large percentage of North American evangelical missionaries and serve as a primary training center for local church leadership," are things I cannot find in your sources, and therefore shouldn't have been re-added. If you can find it for me then I apologise. If there's one thing I'm good at, it's "cutting the fat" per se from articles. It's the well-trained history major in me :-). Talk to you soon!Aepoutre 21:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC) Oh, and I forgot to mention that, just because ABHE doesn't merit a subheading in your opinion doesn't mean it doesn't, and even if it doesn't, you can't just delete the subheading and leave all that ABHE and historical information under a programs heading. Most of what I was doing earlier was "wikifying," that is, actually adding relevant headings rather than just establishing a long blob of text on a wiki page. Aepoutre 21:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, I re-added some of your info based on your specific citations. Thanks for the help. One of the cool things about Wikipedia is the assumption of Good Faith. I did remove some of your info, but please understand that it was not a personal attack. We are all here to make Wikipedia better, even if it means removing and adding information, citing more specifically, and quoting when necessary. The point of citing, of course, is so that someone can check a source, so I do appreciate your more specific references. While being concise and referencing specifically can be annoying, and often requires others' help, it does make for better writing. Thanks again for your

contributions! The Bible college article is really shaping up! Aepoutre 14:17, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orlady, please keep in mind when tagging articles with the Category:Bible colleges category that I created, that if a college is liberal arts then it is not a bible college. For example, Ambrose University College is a Liberal arts college with a Seminary. Neither are a Bible college, which is distict from the former two for reasons I am willing to explain if necessary. Thanks, though! Aepoutre 14:06, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since you did not like my summary of the educational/living philosophy of Ashley S. Johnson and the model that he used to establish the School of the Evangelist (later Johnson Bible College), I will eventually get the exact quote from him when he was establishing the format of the collage.

That model of live-work-study is one of the original tenants of the school, since 1893.

I will get that information so that it can be added and properly cited adding an additional reference.

Etittle1978 03:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will be working on that pretty soon. Once I can get the philosophy, I will cite it in relation to the other parts.

Etittle1978 22:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note to thank you for the cleanups and extensions of the list of bow tie wearers. htom (talk) 16:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to ask how the discussion, if any, regarding a possible re-titling is coming along. It's really the only aspect I'm still a bit concerned about. Circeus (talk) 17:30, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All the areas were taken from their respective Wikipedia articles. They all seem to have pretty much identical infoboxes so I imagine the data was imported by some bot a long time ago (2000 census?). Kaldari (talk) 05:31, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks alot for improving the template. I worked my ass off improving that. Heegoop, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

There's a dispute going on over at Talk:Universal Life Church and I'm being ignored at WP:AN/I. If you could lend assistance, it would be appreciated. Thanks. GJ (talk) 02:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, Captain Obvious, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Captain Obvious (3rd nomination). Thank you. lk (talk) 17:42, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hum... All I did on that page was revert vandalism. --Orlady (talk) 17:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to say thanks for recent edits and suggestions regarding a few artciles I have been maintaining/guarding. If you need any help with any articles, especially those regarding Tennessee, just let me know. Bms4880 (talk) 20:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You are the nominator of a WP:FL that was promoted in the last month. I am inviting you to participate in nominations and voting in a List of the Day experiment I am conducting at WP:LOTD.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Setting new lows in thank-you spam:

Click there for my RfA spam haikus! → → →

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A. B. so grateful
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Shucks those range blocks are tricky!
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But fiends are about

Dear RfA friend,
I will learn, chaos will fade
Thanks so much ... A. B.

This RfA thank you card is based on a card originally done by Phaedriel

Good week (RfA), bad week (Appleton's fiasco).

First I want to thank you for your support in my RfA and elsewhere over the last year (which has sometimes been a little rocky).

Second, I was very disappointed by the whole famousamericans.net fiasco. My goal was to get a discussion started in a centralized place of a problem that's been growing evermore out of control, then reach a community consensus. As the discussion evolved, I came to see that blacklisting was a good idea, along with then whitelisting good faith additions by our regular editors. I also thought the whole link removal had to be done painstakingly as I was doing with the other 270 or so domains. Little did I anticipate that one editor would go into human-bot mode and just start yanking them out 5 per minute -- especially after his earlier Arbcom case. Call me Pandora on that one. I'm not sure what I'm going to do from here with that whole situation.

Finally, can I interest you in standing for adminship? You are truly an editor's editor and I think you could use the additional tools. I sense you're not big into vandal-stalking but some of the deletions could really benefit from your judicious editor's eye in closing? So how about it?
--A. B. ^(talk) 00:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS Enjoy the haikus.

Great work on making list of cities and towns in Tennessee into a featured list! Thanks for all you do on Wikipedia. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 20:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On 14 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, 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.

--Cirt (talk) 05:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have attempted to explain the scientific methods for you.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:13, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It will take me a day or two to add all the additional schools. Then we can discuss where we stand. I sort of see your point. With adding all the schools I think the name change will be appropriate.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 06:43, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I am inclined to undo all of the Us and NAs. What is the difference between the two. When you add text the sort is done alphabetically instead of numerically and thus 10-19 come between 1 and 2. I don't think this happens without text in the table.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 15:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you can support now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 06:24, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you did not change your oppose. Is there something more you are looking for?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 17:07, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rescue has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Benjiboi 21:42, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have made the change you suggested to List of United States business school rankings. Can you now support?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 23:42, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about one more look? Support needed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 13:56, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your advice:

This user helped promote List of United States business school rankings to featured list status.

--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 21:23, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry. I should have used the edit summary or talk page to show where the discussion was happening. I didn't do that. I'm really sorry. It's over at Talk:List of universities in Canada. GJ (talk) 06:57, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep me informed of this user's activities; you can leave a message right on my talk page if their behavior continues after the block expires. I'm very concerned about their blatant POV additions to the Amsterdam (city), New York article and don't want them taking it over. I've already reverted out some of their changes, but if you have the time, please remove the user's other additions that were inappropriate. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 15:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orlady, good job cleaning up the Warren National University article. Thank you, TallMagic (talk) 18:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help with the Seymour page, too. Rhodesgomer (talk) 20:44, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes exactly what I thought. See my edits to See my edits to List of museums in Alabama. This is how they should look I think rather than just a directory -this is what categories are for. I also fear they will deleted if they are not made like this -after all categories are for lists. I suggest people develop each one like my exmaple. I haven't got time to go through every one but I can do something gradually. What do you think about that page? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]