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October 2013[edit]

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July 2014[edit]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Ra does not have an edit summary. You deleted text there with no explanation, which then needed careful checking to figure out if this was a good thing or a bad thing. An edit summary would have made this easier. Thanks.

The edit summary appears in:

Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Dougweller (talk) 11:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Content dispute on Odyssey[edit]

Hi, Greg. I reverted your additions to Odyssey for two reasons:

You're adding the information in the wrong place. Campbell's "monomyth" was in fashion half a century back, and there could definitely be a sentence or two within a Criticism section. But the "Influence" section is not suitable here.
You're adding unnecessary detail. Odyssey is more important to the monomyth than the monomyth is to the Odyssey. Why not write a bit on the Odyssey's impact within the article dedicated to the monomyth? It doesn't really belong in any extraordinary detail within the Odyssey page because it isn't important to the Odyssey. In fact, it's more likely to confuse—the mono myth is not well regarded by scholars today, and is virtually never explored in depth by classicists, or even literary theorists.

If you are keen on it going in, please make a thread on Talk:Odyssey and we can seek wider input after giving our rationales in more detail. — ImaginesTigers (talk∙contribs) 17:47, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, you are right. I will rewrite my information and put in under a new section called "allegorical analysis". I will rewrite it not as influence, but as a similarity analysis. The monomyth stories date back further than the homers odyssey, there are mythical monomyth stories that date back to 200 BCE, the odyssey was written in 8th century bc. Not sure what influenced what. But, there are striking similarities to both stories/journeys and the need for the protagonist to get back home.

So, I will write an analysis of how the stories have similarities and that the odyssey could fall into the monomyth category. The monomyth is a archetypal pattern of conglomerate stories and not one story. Greg1wiki (talk) 19:11, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, are you saying that Joseph Campbell does not fall into classical or literary theorists category? George Lucas credited Campbell's literary work as influencing his Star Wars saga. Greg1wiki (talk) 19:34, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

To be as clear as possible: the Monomyth doesn't mean anything. Scholars do not use it anymore and have never explored it in detail in relation to Odyssey. It is not a real thing that was discovered by Campbell; it is a theory he projected onto old texts and that classicists and literary theorists do not discuss inn relation to this epic poem because it isn't important or significant.

I have tried to explain this multiple times now. Joseph Campbell's theory has no bearing on modern classicists or even anthropologists's understanding and should not be in this article.

What George Lucas structured Star Wars around has no relation to the Odyssey and shows me you don't understand this topic. Please stop adding it back in. I will eventually add a sentence or two on the subject in the right place (when one exists, rather than creating a new, out of place section to include a random bit of trivia knowledge). If you wish to restore the content, please make a post on the Talk page and we can invite other editors to weigh in. On the next occasion I will be asking for intervention. — ImaginesTigers (talk∙contribs) 16:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

January 2023[edit]

You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Odyssey) for a period of 1 week for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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Request reason:

I was blocked for reason for reverting my edits back. Within the talk the blockers to my edits have give no reasons of basis for their edit reversal other than my edit being pointless or unrelated.Greg1wiki (talk) 23:30, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

If you can't gain consensus for your edits on the article talk page, then those edits won't be in the article, and repeatedly inserting them is why you are blocked. You might be correct, but you still can't edit war. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 01:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Artificial seawater[edit]

Please see the article talk page. You are making edits that are not helpful. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:37, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and I can feel where you're coming from, as the cool kids would say. The complete thing called "Seawater", upper-cased, would be a singular thing containing exactly all the seawater in the world (not a drop more or a drop less, including being spread out among and within all lifeforms). It makes a perfect proper noun from that point of view. But Wikipedia isn't always that literal, and the common name for just a part of the Seawater's water is seawater, lower case, so the page has to go with that. As for your learning curve here, please understand that Wikipedia is unlike almost any other social forum in that it is a cardinal rule to be respectful to other editors (which we all mess up on time to time) and another cardinal rule, and this is a good one, is always assume good faith. If someone reverts you, have a conversation and discover why, it's usually always in good faith (hence the rule) which is a good lesson to learn about people, inside Wikipedia and out. Lastly and maybe yeast, don't report people to the admins, but that's my own opinion as I've never done it. That I remember anyway. Well, enjoy Wikipedia, you will get addicted if you stick around and do well (see above rules, the first rule of Wikipedia club is...), but that comes with the territory. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:46, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Anugraha (Grace of God)[edit]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Anugraha (Grace of God)[edit]

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Anugraha (Grace) moved to draftspace[edit]

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