Awinger48

Hi Awinger48, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. Here are a few suggestions you might find useful:

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer^es (háblame) 13:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Awinger48 main space article

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page Awinger48. Your test worked, and has been or will soon be removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. --Sakura Avalon 18:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I disagree with "warning" you for that. It's an honest mistake. I tagged the article for speedy deletion, so it should be deleted soon. -- Gogo Dodo 18:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Gogo Dodo but I don't take what Sakura Avalon wrote as a "warning." I take it as helpful instruction :-) And Yes, I see that he used the warning template. --Awinger48 19:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, just wanted to make sure that you didn't feel picked upon for that. =) An admin deleted the article a few minutes ago, so it's gone now. -- Gogo Dodo 19:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Gogo Dodo :-) --Awinger48 19:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello Awinger48, My name is Dep. Garcia. I offer help to new-comers like yourself.

• If you have a problem please tell me on my talk page, which is User talk:Dep. Garcia
• Or on your user page type {{helpme}} and someone from wikipedia will help you.

No problem is too small

Thanks again for joining Wikipedia and hope you'll have a great time editing articles (But please dont vandalise)

(Dep. Garcia 20:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC))

Thank you for the "greetings" Dep. Garcia. I'm a retired Military Policeman so we have something in common. --Awinger48 21:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Im always fascinated in meeting former MP's and civilian cops, i once thought about becoming an MP but decided i would be better dealing with the general public more. -- Dep. Garcia 21:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Understood :-) --Awinger48 21:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Another Welcome

Hi, Awinger48. I'd also like to welcome you to Wikipedia. I noticed your interest in L'Abri and related topics, and as a former student at L'Abri in Rochester, MN, and a regular attender of the annual conferences in Rochester, I thought I'd say hello. I hope you enjoy the opportunity to contribute to Wikipedia. --Lini 02:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you LiniShu. I'm a former L'Abri student too. If you'd like to talk more, use the Wikipedia "E-mail this user" function. --Awinger48 17:28, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'd like to email you. I'm having some trouble at the moment with updating my email address in my preferences and getting the confirmation email from WP (needs to be done in order to send), but hopefully that will be worked out in a day or two. Talk to you soon, Lini 03:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Looking forward to hearing from you :-) --Awinger48 11:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

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Why the Interest in Francis Schaeffer?

Just found your work in the articles entitled "Escape From Reason" and "He Is There and He Is Not Silent," two books by Dr. Francis Schaeffer. Good job :-) I've been working on things connected to Schaeffer on Wikipedia too. My interest is the truth in what is being written about him. What is your interest? --Awinger48 13:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I worked a little on the articles after reading those two books, and just wanted to start getting some information up. I was unemployed then, so I had some extra free time on my hands to do that sort of thing! But since then, I've been too busy to do more than minor edits on Wikipedia, unfortunately. Drew 03:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hope your new job is agreeable. I wonder, would you be interested in working together on Wikipedia articles concerning Schaeffer? Either way feel free to use the "E-mail this user" function to contact me at any time :-) --Awinger48 11:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Biography Newsletter September 2006

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Cultural Mandate Discussion

I'm not sure how to "send" you a message here in wikipedia, but I got your note about being frustrated with the Cultural Mandate page. You sound like you are more knowledgable on the subject than me, but I just created it because it was absent.

I think you should add your notes about the line of thought predeseccors. I mentioned the more fringe groups, not to sully the image of the Cultural mandate, but to try to show how it relates to similar but different, related theologies - I tried to put it into a type of continuum between radical Reconstructionists and Isolationists. In the middle of that continuum are a host of acceptable choices.

I don't see theonomy as a bad thing, and I do think that the Cultural Mandate is certainly a type of theonomy, don't you? I mean, is there some negative connotation that we are trying to avoid.

Please, edit the Cultural Mandate page as you wish. But if you could compare/contrast it to other movements which outsiders might confuse it with, and show where it is on the continuum regarding Christian biblical invovement in politics and culture, and also add its theological and philosophical lineage, that would be great. Sorry to frustrate! :D dgsinclair (early September 2006

Wikistalking: What is it really?

Here is a link about your question. What do you think of it? --Rednblu 22:23, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Now I understand. Thank you Sir :-) --Awinger48 10:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome! Good question, sir. --Rednblu 16:25, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

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WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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Table of Contents for The God Who Is There

Hi, I see you have edited (started?) articles on Francis Schaffer's works in the past - nice work. I'd like to add the Table Of Contents for this book (just for the sections in the book at the moment - the full TOC is quite lengthy) to the Article. I have also made a couple of very minor edits to How Shall we then live. It would be great to add images of covers into the articles too. 62.254.133.139 (talk) 02:58, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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