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Draft:Jeremiah J. Park

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FWIW, I have downloaded a copy of the draft article and will try, probably later this week, to see what sources I can find for it to be able to bring it into mainspace. I have a feeling it won't be that hard to find enough on some of the subscription databanks I can access to establish notability without any real questions. John Carter (talk) 20:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Plan of attack of Methodism content

You seem to have gotten the impression that I would be opposed to the development of the content related to Methodism. Actually, I would love to see more effort given to it. Unfortunately, I myself like everyone else have limited time available and there are a hell of a lot of important topics at sometimes poor level of development, some of them maybe even among the more “central” related topics to major topics.

FWIW, I can offer at least a few ideas which might, maybe, be useful in bringing up some of the articles more important to the topic of Methodism to a decent level of textual qualify, if not necessarily to an adequate level of different and varied sources.

As you probably know, there are a huge number of good reference sources out there. I mentioned a few of the more directly relevant ones on the proposed projects page, the Brill/Eerdman's Encyclopedia of Christianity and the Historical Dictionary of Methodism. A few others which probably have significant amounts of high quality basically current content are the Eliade/Jones Encyclopedia of Religion and some of the other numerous reference works of all kinds that relate to the broad field of Christianity. If you have access to any good university or seminary libraries in your area, maybe one of the best first steps to take would be to go to them and copy onto paper or pdf the relevant reference source content.

There are also a good number of books available in the public domain at archive.org or open library or similar locations. These include the old Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, and the Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia, among others, The old Methodist Who's Who available there is still fairly highly regarded for the content it has, as well as the relevant volumes of the Annals of the American Pulpit. There are also a frankly huge number of more focused works at those sites relating to Methodism which you can find by searching.

I am currently spending a fair amount of my available time over at wikisource trying to add some good old PD encyclopedic articles there, which can be used for developing content in wikipedia. There, they prefer having the files to be transcribed added as .djvu files, and, idjit that I am, I still haven't figured out how to access those files, although I can do .pdf files, which are also acceptable. I can help in some of the formatting of proofread works of whatever sort over there if you give me some regular and fairly obvious notice at one of my user talk pages or e-mails, because, frankly, I can and do overlook some messages there rather regularly. But the good thing about wikisource is it only needs 2 editors to review proofread material to basically finalize it, and I think between the two of us we might be able to get some old PD biographies and other sources up there which could then be used in wikipedia itself for article development.

If you think I could be helpful there, like I said, let me know and I can see what I can do. John Carter (talk) 17:23, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't think you're opposed to Methodism content, I just had hoped that the proposal would pick up steam, and maybe get some life into the project. It looks like we may be only ones willing to put in any effort on it, sadly. If so, then that's who is around to work on the stuff. Two questions for you, would you be opposed to me taking over the Methodism work group and reorganizing it, and second, is there any proper way to close the proposal (letting it time out etc) or does it just sit there and eventually get archived? Jerodlycett (talk) 17:43, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

The proposal will be archived automatically, and, for all I know, might pick up adherents. I don't see any need to separately close it. Regarding "taking over," WikiProjects really don't have people "taking charge," but there have been "co-ordinators" of various projects in the past and I don't see any reason to think you couldn't be more or less regarded as the coordinator of the Methodism group. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "re-organizing" it, and on that basis can't really answer that directly. Also, honestly, I wouldn't necessarily be able to authorize that in any real way anyway. But, I don't think anyone could have any objections to you posting a message at WT:X regarding what you might be thinking of doing and, if there are no objections, making changes thereafter. John Carter (talk) 19:15, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Actually, it just now occurred to me. Probably the easiest way to find material for new biographies relevant to Methodism is to go to the wikisource:Dictionary of National Biography pages which have already had the indexes set up. All that would need to be done would be to basically proofread the pages containing the biographies wanted, and maybe ask there the other editors working on that work to separate out the individual biographies into separate pages. The indexes at the end might well provide good lists of the relevant articles in the various editions. And that material could all be imported to wikipedia with proper attribution if requested. If you would be interested in doing that, maybe dropping me a note at my wikisource user page wikisource:User talk:John Carter, and pointing out which specific articles or pages you are thinking of, might be best if you wish to try that. John Carter (talk) 22:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

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Notability of government ministries

Thanks for the notice! I think notability is achieved since the article Ministry of Education (El Salvador) makes it clear that it's a ministry of a national government. Articles on government ministries are very important in regards to their respective countries.

If you want I can look into getting additional sources and expanding the article. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: The issue then is, is it notable enough to have its own article, rather than a section on the El Salvador article. Jerodlycett (talk) 12:13, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I believe that the ministry should be notable for its own article, separate from that of its parent country. One thing that may further confirm notability in terms of WP:GNG is news articles discussing the ministry. Searching Salvadoran newspapers should certainly bring up articles about the ministry. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: Then my question is answered. I'd suggest just adding one to the references, or moving it to the Draft space, to make sure no one goes around and deletes it. Jerodlycett (talk) 12:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion! Interestingly I haven't had people challenge the notability of a national government ministry article, but it may be a good idea nonetheless. WhisperToMe (talk) 12:24, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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Re:Proposal to move Methodism work group to child project

Dear User:Jerodlycett, my apologies for getting back to you so late. I am glad that you're spending time working on Methodism-related articles. I have written and edited several articles within that workgroup and would not object if you converted the workgroup into a child project, if you think that will help. Also, you have an interesting user page. You might be interested in checking out Bethinking when you get a chance. I hope you have a great day! With regards, Anupam^Talk 20:51, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

clean up on Immigration to Germany

Jerodlycett i saw you did some clean up here. thank you for that. Unfortunately numerous prior edits were adding lots of unsourced info and deleting sourced info. I cannot revert those, without reverting your edit of polishing these illegit additions. I wanted to let you know whats behind this if you get a reversal notice. --Wuerzele (talk) 03:38, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Wuerzele: I've seen many people do that, let me know once you're done so I can toss it through the tools to cleanup again as needed. Jerodlycett (talk) 03:40, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm done, thanks.

so you cleaner folks get reverted all the time, and you know why, it must rain messages for you. thats good to know for me, so I dont have to worry next time I guess.--Wuerzele (talk) 03:47, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

@Wuerzele: Yes it does. We even revert each other. We don't always do full research to make sure everything we fix is legit. Jerodlycett (talk) 03:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Re:Undo in the Dag Hammarskjöd Library Page

Dear User:Jerodlycett, I spent time adding new an more accurate information on the current work of the library. If you look at the library website, UN Pulse is not anymore on the homepage. UN-I-QUE has not been updated recently (last update is July 2014). If you follw the library social media, you'll see that the curent focus of the library is to promote new research tools, including research guide and Ask Dag. Instead of simply removing my work, maybe you could edit it so that the legacy information that you refer to are not gone, but the new information is not simply erased.

@Silikani:My apologies, but it didn't look like any of the information had not been linked to from that page. Part of the issue was you damaged the headings, which suggested that you weren't fully aware of how to edit Wikipedia. You also turned a chunk of WP:PROSE into a list. Feel free to revert. Jerodlycett (talk) 02:46, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Jerodlycett:. Thanks for precisions, indeed, I am not fully aware of all functions. I thought you did not agree with the content. I will be more careful.

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Thanks for pointing out inconsistency in dates - there was a footnote about it, but FYI your bot messed up the infobox, so I reverted --Michael Goodyear (talk) 15:25, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Michael Goodyear: Not a bot, just didn't pay attention to how the template worked. Odd that it can't work when you only have the birth year. Jerodlycett (talk) 15:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Because in calculating age it needs the exact date or instructions to use a default date such as June 30. Believe me I already tried it here and abandoned it. Fortunately we have contemporary accounts that says she was 28 when she died. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 15:37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

@Michael Goodyear: Maybe try {{Death date and given age}}Jerodlycett (talk) 15:40, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

that worked! --Michael Goodyear (talk) 15:47, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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