User talk:Nsaum75/Archives/2008/October

More Galveston area photo ideas

Hey Nsaum, want some more ideas for good Galveston photos?

How about:

• Galveston City Hall
• Galveston County offices, etc. (I know the courts building already has a photo)
• Crenshaw School on Bolivar Peninsula
• Galveston Post Office(s)?
• City halls, schools, etc. in Texas City, La Marque, and Hitchcock

WhisperToMe (talk) 18:27, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

• I'll get a photo of City Hall tomorrow.. I think I have a photo of the old County Courthouse somewhere on my harddrive as well as the Galveston main post office/federal building downtown. I'll try to get the substation post office tomorrow on my way into work.

Actually, if you search my online photo "blog[1]" for Galveston photos, and you find some you think would be useful, just let me know. I wouldn't mind 'donating' them and the rights to Wikipedia.

Work's been too hectic lately for me to do much editing.. --Nsaum75 (talk) 03:08, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

How about:

• The La Marque Common School: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaum/sets/72157603573755700/
• Rosenberg Elementary: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaum/696623423/ (It seems to be PD, but even so, I think this would be a good historic pic)
• 1859 Rosenberg House: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaum/61181493/

WhisperToMe (talk) 05:55, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

• • • Sorry for the delay in responding. My house was, for all intents and purposes, destroyed by Ike (the house remains, but the inside is...well...trashed)....and I'm having to use dial-up internet due to the incompetence of Crapcast at the location I am currently staying. Anyhow I'd be more than glad to grant use of them on wiki. I'll see what I can do to upload them to wiki, albeit its going to be slow at 40kbps LOL Nsaum75 (talk) 19:57, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

WhisperToMe (talk), I put the photos you mentioned in WikiCommons...will try to get around to putting them in articles as time (and internet speed) permits... --Nsaum75 (talk) 03:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Recent AfD on Christianity and Judaism

Hi! I see that you were one of the participants in the recent AfD on the article Christianity and Judaism. That AfD recommended (in a snowball result) that the article be merged into Judeo-Christian. However, since the AfD concerns have been raised, most notably

• Per WP:ADJECTIVE and WP:MOSNAME, we use nouns and noun-phrases for article titles, not adjectives. So a general survey on the relationships between Christianity and Judaism (a topic this encyclopedia should certainly cover) should be called Christianity and Judaism, as per the articles Christianity and Islam, Islam and Judaism.
• The reason the article Judeo-Christian exists, as its own hatnote declares, is specifically to survey the history and use of that word-phrase -- which has its own controversy, and its own tale to tell. (See here where I've set things out in a bit more detail.) That story is a good fit for its own article, and will get completely lost if the contents of Christianity and Judaism get inappropriately dumped on top of it.

Having contacted the closing admin, his advice was to open a new discussion at Talk:Christianity and Judaism, advertise the discussion widely, and if a new consensus can be reached in that discussion [his emphasis], then per WP:CCC the new consensus should be followed, rather than the AfD decision, without the need for a DRV or a new AfD.

Concerns about the proposed merge have also been expressed by Slrubenstein (talk · contribs), LisaLiel (talk · contribs) and SkyWriter (talk · contribs).

This post is therefore to let you know that that discussion is underway, at Talk:Christianity and Judaism#Overly speedy deletion, with a view to perhaps setting aside the AfD decision.

Of course, some significant issues were raised in the AfD about the article in its present form, so the best way forward is a question that needs some thought. Please feel welcome to come and participate! Jheald (talk) 07:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)