Welcome to Wikipedia

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Welcome!

Hello, Yeshuahasochek, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! Doug.(talk contribs) 13:34, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Different user accounts for different langauges?

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{{helpme}}

At the moment I have three different user accounts, all with the same name, for each of the three langauges: English, Afrikaans, and Meta.

Is it not possible to have just a single account that works on all three portals? Managing three accounts is kind of tricky. -Yeshuahasochek (talk) 16:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

See [1] - it's coming soon (hopefully) Stwalkerstertalk ] 16:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks :). It is awesome that you responded so quickly :). Wikipedia rocks! -Yeshuahasochek (talk) 16:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
The Universal ID is now working and it does save a lot of time when moving between different language wikis as well as dictionaries, wikibooks etc. As I contribute to all of these and in other languages too, it used to be a nightmare. Look under my preferences Mike Hayes (talk) 22:35, 31 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Translator's Template for English-Afrikaans, Afrikaans-English?

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I can translate between English (eng) and Afrikaans (afr), however, I don't see such a translator's template at Babel or elsewhere. Is it possible to create such a template so that I can put that template on my Meta account user page? This will allow others who wish to form an Afrikaans translation project to do the same and find each other. Thanks :)

Wikipedia:Translation might help ya. Also, please remember to sign your talk page edits using the four tildes (~~~~). Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP! 17:34, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

List of Freemasons

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You recently added Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven to the List of Freemasons. I thank you for your contribution, but the inclusion criteria for that list requires that all entries to be cited to reliable sources at the time of addition. I have therefor removed your addition. It isn't personal. Blueboar (talk) 14:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks... the sources look fine. And welcome to the wonderful world of Wikipedia. Blueboar (talk) 16:34, 20 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Ritual

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I removed your recent addition to Ritual since it isn't exactly a common example of ritual practice. The fact that ritual is important to Magick and Theurgy bares mention in those entries but the converse is not true. Regards.

Please assume good faith in regards to my lapse in not leaving my signature above, since it was just that, a lapse (one most people make once in a blue moon) and you have my sincerest apologies for it. The entry on ritual is not a space in which to simply list examples of practices that include ritual components, however heavily they may do so. When the entry does bring up examples of specific practices it does so to illustrate a more general aspect of ritual practice, and it also does so while drawing from very common examples. Despite what you claimed on my talk page Magick and Theurgy are not common, and do not factor into academic texts on ritual. Yes, I am well aware of the fact that there are popular texts and manuals available on these practices in at least the bookstores of the English speaking world. Could you give me an example of a scholarly text about ritual with a chapter on "Magick?" Mind you that Magick (popularized by Crowley) is not a synonym for the more general term magic (which can be found in historical and early anthropological texts about ritual). Scholarship on the latter does offer some unique insights into ritual theory, and has certainly been seminal in the early history of said body of theory, in no small part through debates over the very usefulness of the category. Now, please understand that I mean no disrespect to those who practice these things, but they simply are not all that notable, and they are not given the attention you claim in academic texts. If I am wrong about the latter assertion then please enlighten me by providing some sources. Thank you kindly, and best.PelleSmith (talk) 16:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your response. All the best.PelleSmith (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

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New User needing proofreader.

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