RickReinckens

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External links and original research

Please see #9 of WP:EL#Links_to_normally_avoid regarding your posting of your own website link in the external links section of various pages. Additionaly see WP:OR regarding the articles that you have written namely Messianic Religious Practices and Messianic prophecy. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 22:39, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

I have just updated the References in the Messianic Religious Practices article so anyone who wants to obtain the referenced information sources can do so. I plan to add a few more books in the next few days that are also sources I used. (Also, once I have the References section a bit more detailed I plan to remove the Source section anyway.)

There are references in the Messianic Prophecy article. Also, that article is still "under construction". If you check the History you will see that I have been making substantial additions on a daily basis. Over the next few days I plan to add specifically to the References section, especially to the Jewish section, for NPOV.

Even though some links are to my websites, the websites are extensive, they have been up for years, they are used as references by other sites and the information on them is summaries from other sources. I don't post my personal interpretations, etc., on my websites because, frankly, there is no reason why anyone should care what my personal views are. My major "addition" (on my websites) to other people's material in most cases has been that where a book would give a biblical cite without the full text I added the full text because I hate "go look it up" "string cites".

Frankly, I would prefer to list a number of other websites with detail information but there just aren't that many. Most of the ones that do have some detail use quotes from the King James Version and people whose native language is not English find it almost incomprehensible.

I don't just randomly link to my sites. I have about 20 religious sites totalling about 7000 pages of text. I only link to a site or page on one of my sites if it happens to deal directly with the topic of the WP article. I am one of those "Here are the details," people. Often, my websites are the only ones that have details rather than just summaries or citations. For instance, as far as I know I have the only site on the Web with video clips from a Messianic service. Although many books give Bible cites for fulfilled prophecies, few quote the full text.

RickReinckens 23:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

J.D.

For yor information, an MD and DDS are not the final degrees available to physicians and dentists. Both fields have PhDs and master's degrees available. Dentists who practice orthodontics or oral surgery will typically earn a post-doctorate master's degree in such a specialty. Many medical schools require full professors to hold a PhD in addition to the MD. MDs and DDSs are similar to the JD in the sense they are the terminal degree required for practice. However, neither the MD or DDS is the highest degree available in the field. The JD deserves the same status and respect as any other first professional doctorate. Drdouma 14:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Your assumptions are incorrect. Have you ever taken a good look at the colors of the sashes on the gowns worn at academic processions? Each field is represented by a different color. The wearer wears the color of the highest degree he has earned, regardless of the field. So, for instance, if a person who has earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree later obtains an MBA, all his classmates should be wearing one color and he should be wearing a different color because his highest degree is in law, not business.

Technically, every Ph.D. degree is a doctorate in philosophy. If you look at the sashes of Ph.D. recipients, no matter what their major field was the sash color is the same because it is a degree in philosophy. An M.D. who goes on to write a dissertation and earn a Ph.D., e.g., in biochemistry, is not earning an additional medical degree, he is earning a philosophy degree. In other words, he has a "first-professional" doctorate in medicine and an academic doctorate in philosophy. Historically, the primary focus of any Ph.D. is to prepare the person to do independent research and to write at the doctoral level about his research and teach at the university level. Which is exactly why a medical school would expect their professors to obtain one. On the other hand, many fields now require substantial amounts of knowledge beyond the master's level but will involve virtually no teaching, which is why degrees like Doctor of Arts, Doctor of Business Administration, Doctor of Science, and Doctor of Engineering have been developed. (And, yes, each has a different color sash.)

I agree that the J.D. deserves the same respect. But the bottom line is it won't ever get it in the U.S. because lawyers refuse to use the title "Doctor". In the past I have put details why in the J.D. article but they keep getting removed, so I gave up. What it really boils down to is that originally the undergrad law courses were "pushed up" to grad level but the degree was still called "Bachelor of Laws". All the judges, high-powered lawyers, senior partners, etc., had that degree. Then the title gets changed to Doctor of Jurisprudence but the courses stay the same. Now John Doe, J.D., who graduated near the bottom of his class three months ago is going to sit in a meeting with the firm's biggest client, and introduce himself as "Doctor Doe" and the senior partner can't use the title Doctor??? Today, if lawyers started calling themselves "Doctor", there would be a huge hue and cry that lawyers were misrepresenting their credentials and trying to deceive the public. I am still amazed at how many people think you only need a four-year degree to practice law.

RickReinckens 04:34, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Please return to contributing to the J.D. article. I am taking steps to prevent the POV-pushers from removing content, and I don't think your contributions will be removed any more. Zoticogrillo (talk) 19:56, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Bahá'í usage

Bahá'í is an adjective/adverb, and Bahá'í Faith the proper noun for the religion. Bahá'í is a noun when referring to individual believers. Completely analagous to Christian/Christianity. Thanks for the care with these terms.

Identity theft?

I just want to report to you that someone appears to be perpetrating you with user name: User:Lorem. As quoted from Lorem user page: "(User page for Lorem created by Rick Reinckens)".

They posted a message at: Talk:Messianic Judaism in sub-category: Category tree proposal: Category:Messianic Community.

Just wanted to let you know.

CowboyWisdom 13:48, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Messianic prophecies (Apocrypha)

An article that you have been involved in editing, Messianic prophecies (Apocrypha), has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Messianic prophecies (Apocrypha). Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

AdamBiswanger1 00:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Roman Catholicism in El Salvador

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Roman Catholicism in El Salvador, which you proposed for deletion. I am leaving this message here to notify you about it. Just because a page has existed for six months, does not automatically mean that there is no interest. I have added a Cleanup tag to alert editors that the article needs help. If you still feel the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to it. Instead, feel free to list the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Roninbk 09:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

These are some of the questions an encyclopedia article on "(any religion) in (any country)" should address. I agree with everything you listed and they should indeed be included in the article. However, just because they don't yet include that information is not a reason to delete the article. Instead, the information should be added to it. Andrew Levine 02:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that you don't keep an article for what it could be, you delete it for what it is. The current article is absolute garbage. Hopefully, someone will fix it to avoid deletion. Even if they only add 1/3-1/2 of what I listed that certainly would justify keeping it. RickReinckens 03:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Manuel Diaz

It seems the page was never deleted. I've deleted it now. -- Longhair\^talk 23:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hlyniany

Hlyniany (Ukrainian: Глиняни) is a small city in the Western Ukraine. Because it does not have a widely accepted English name, as WP:NC prescribes, the city name has to be transliterated from Ukrainian by the Ukrainian National Transliteration System. In particular, Ukrainian "Г" transliterates as "H", and Ukrainian "Ґ" transliterates as "G". --MapLover 21:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Newbie Question

Hi Rick, I'm wondering how to format my signature like yours. I'm able to adjust my preferences to make my signature bold but I can't seem to get it to be bold AND link to my user page. If you have a minute, could you give me a tip on how to do this or a link to where this is explained. Thanks! --Pete K 21:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Rick, for the signature (I guess I can't program that formatting into the signature button using my preferences - right).

Regarding the articles, what you describe is what I have expected here. I'm a newbie to Wikipedia, but certainly not a newbie in this "type" of environment - and I know most of the editors who are dealing with these topics pretty well from other websites. That's part of the problem, of course, they know me too and the clique you are talking about is indeed there (and has been for years) in is glued together by a common set of religious beliefs (cult-like with a guru and all). My interest here at Wikipedia is in this particular topic which spans about 18-20 articles (the POV pushers are thorough and have been here for a while). I'm not really qualified to edit the other articles much except for the normal grammar-type of edits (and barely that). Anyway, I'm finding my way around what I need. Again I appreciate your help on the bold signature. Here, how's this? Pete K 23:53, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know the Locked Article routine. I'm currently working on three locked articles - with the same group of editors. There's a mediation process going on to address the issues. I'm not holding out much hope that the mediation will help, but I'll have to wait and see. Yes, I'm definitely staying out of the ID controversy. Some battles can't be won. Others can only be won for an hour or two. Thanks! Pete K 00:11, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Messianic Prophecy

Hey. :) Don't mean to be banging heads with you but I disagree with your approach to this article. It's huge, contains way too much irrelevant info and had allot of OR in it. I think a slim down is totally needed despite what those guys that were hasseling you before said. For instance you don't need to include very religions POV to be a NPOV article. Let's just start with the basics, keep it cited, keep it simple and keep it useful. If someone come complaining that they don't like it cause it sounds too religious one way or the other well then maybe they shouldn't be reading religious articles on prophecy and Messiach. As noted in the discussion and on the page several refferences to several religiouns have been deleted as they stated only, "this religioun has no messaiah". That's totally irrelevant to the discussion so I axed it. Trying to kleep this article clean. Part of npov means removing statments set up to counter balance npov by adding a bunch of thier own POV. Anyway, please keep pluggin, don't get discouraged, lets do this together. Thanks. --Home Computer 19:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Jacques Vallee

Regarding the Jacques Vallée article, I feel the accent mark needs to be removed. This is based on the fact that Vallée isn't used in his English books, including the official web page. I originally created the Vallee Wikipedia article without the accent mark.

Regards,

Bivariate-correlator 02:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

J.D. article

Could you return to contributing to the J.D. discussion and content? I've been trying to clean up the article for some time and some POV-pushers are getting aggressive with my edits. I saw your posts in the J.D. article archive, and I think they are useful. Zoticogrillo (talk) 19:52, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Messianic prophecies (views: BUPC)

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