User talk:EEye

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Links to drgenescott.com[edit]

I can tell you are making some definite improvements to articles on Bible versions. Thanks for these! I also noticed what seems to be a campaign to spread links to the Bible exhibits at drgenescott.com. May I ask how you came to decide that these are valuable links to add to these articles? Specifically, are you in any way affiliated with any of the activities of this ministry? (Wikipedia policies ask editors not to post links to websites with which they are affiliated.) While I do appreciate that the pages you're linking to are free of advertising, on the other hand it is my impression that Eugene Scott spent around 50% of his on-air time asking for donations, so it doesn't have the odor of a public-interest scholarly website either. Do you share any of these reservations? Thank you for the further information. Wareh 01:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, I have no affiliations to Dr Scott (or indeed any other Bible-related campaign). I deliberately linked straight to the pages for the Bible collection rather than Dr Scott's home page (which in any case does not appear to have a link to the pages for the Bible collection). I felt that these pages were useful because they are relatively up to date and (unlike others) have useful pictures. Frankly this is a better set of pages than any from the more prestigious library/museum websites that I have found so far. I have been unhappy about so much material coming from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. A lot has happened since then. Indeed there are even developments since Herbert's catalogue, and Scott's pages contain statements that lack the right degree of uncertainty. I still hope to find better material for the external links sections. Probably I should have chosen different pages from the bible-researcher.com website, because the Kenyon articles, for all their virtues, are also very old.EEye 01:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the answer. Wareh 02:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References and sources[edit]

Who gets to add the warning "This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources", and who decides when the warning can be removed? A lot of the articles that I worked on should have had that warning when I started, and may still need it. On the other hand, I hope that Early Modern English Bible translations is close to the point where the warning can be removed.EEye 02:34, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can add such a warning. And anyone can remove it. I'll try to explain what would be considered good reason to do so, and the right way to do so. First, what does it mean? In principle (unlike other encyclopedias, whose expert authors usually do not feel the need to footnote everything), everything in Wikipedia that is not common knowledge should carry a reference to a reliable source. Probably the best way to see what the ideal looks like is to browse featured articles on a topic that interests you. Look at the source code if you don't know how footnotes work.

You mention Early Modern English Bible translations, so let me comment on it in more detail. First of all, you mention on the talk page that much of it is based on EB1911. If this is so, to the References section I've just created, insert the template {{1911}}. If the authoritative but non-obvious statements in the article (the sort of stuff that's not common knowledge & would legitimately cause a reader to ask, "And what's the source for that?") are generally from the two referenced public-domain sources, then you'd be ready to remove the template from the top of the article. (I have also had to deal with the annoyance of editors' flagging statements that are verbatim from EB1911 with "citation needed.")

By the way, the section entitled "Further reading" implies that this is useful bibliography, but not that these sources were consulted by the editors who wrote the article; ideally those two categories should be kept separate. Since you're involved with this article, perhaps you know that some of these items really belong in "References." (If so, the references to them should really be footnoted.)

The tag has been there for a while, and you say you've improved the article significantly. (There may still be citations not covered by the References section though; you'd know better.) If you feel the tag is ready to go, delete it, but mention on the talk page your rationale for believing that it does not apply. If anyone disagrees, they can try to explain their views on the talk page. Continue using the talk page and seeking consensus; it's a much better method than throwing warnings, reversions, etc., around with no explanation. It does save time and help the article in the long run.

By the way, the tag {{fact}} or {{cn}} is often better than a blanket banner like this, because it flags an individual statement as in need of citation. But the banner is appropriate for an article that seems to be lacking necessary citations throughout. Wareh 14:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looking again, I see that you did use Herbert as a reference. So move his name (and any other books you or others used in this fashion) to the "References" section. Feel free to leave your references in parenthetical form (I assume the "#" is correct - i.e., to the section numbers of the book, not page numbers). And of course, include these valuable references in your determination of whether the tag at the top is ready to go--as I'm guessing it is. Wareh 14:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your explanation, and your feedback in general. I was trying to follow practice in other articles, but I can see that they were not always good models. Although the articles I have worked on clearly need further work, I think they are now no longer seriously misleading, so I will take time to examine more material before the next major editing session. The # in the Herbert references indicates the number of the item in his catalogue. Although the hash symbol used in this way is considered American, which I am not, it seemed like a good idea here (cf. Gene Scott's pages); without it, the numbers might be taken as page numbers. EEye 20:59, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tyndale Bible[edit]

On 22 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tyndale Bible, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 23:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry about the delay -- I was out of town yesterday and away from the Internet. I've created a sandbox page for you at User:EEye/Sandbox that contains the deleted material. I'm going to quote something you wrote on my talk page: "I did include links to the current Taylor Hobson and Cooke Optics websites, both of which include extensive company histories." I wanted to mention that neither of those sources would be particularly useful for bolstering notability in Wikipedian terms. What a company says about itself has conflict-of-interest problems -- what someone else says about a company does not, and is of more use as a reliable source. I hope you find this of some use. If there's something further I can do to be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page and I'll see what I can do. Accounting4Taste:talk 05:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I have resolved this issue for you. Since the image was derived from an image on Commons, which was released under the GNU Free Documentation License, the new image must be released under the same license, or a compatible license. I added the tag for the GFDL license. I presume you are OK with this.--Srleffler (talk) 04:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, the new image has scaling problems. The new text scales differently than the old when the image size is adjusted. I don't know enough about svg to give you any advice on how to fix this. Perhaps DrBob can help. He made the original image.--Srleffler (talk) 04:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2016[edit]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Ark of the Covenant, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Mlpearc (open channel) 00:07, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand the point. The TV programme that I named is the source. Should it have been listed among the references instead of in the text? If it helps, I could give the IMDB reference for the programme. I made it clear that Wyatt's claims are not universally accepted. By their nature, the claims are unlikely to be published in a mainstream professional journal. EEye (talk) 00:37, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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