User talk:Derek-airtken

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Happy editing! Place Clichy (talk) 02:48, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Religious civilizations has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution[edit]

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As DanCherek already mentioned to you, please do not copy content from one Wikipedia article into another without (at least) mentioning that you did so in the edit summary. You appear to have copied text from Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church into Habesha peoples without indicating that you did so. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:39, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History of Christianity[edit]

Hi! Please remove your recently added sentence at the "rise of Islam". It has some grammar problems and too many citations, but it really needs moving because it doesn't belong in that section. It is a comment on how things turned out after the period being discussed there. It should be removed or at least moved to a more appropriate chronology.

If this article had a legacy section, this sentence would be a good addition (with two citations at the end only), but length prohibits adding such a section to this already overlong article. Imho, that means the content of that sentence is off topic and should simply be removed. Thank you. Jenhawk777 (talk) 08:53, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jenhawk777: No problem, feel free to remove it. Derek-airtken (talk) 09:02, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx! Jenhawk777 (talk) 09:12, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History of Christianity[edit]

Hello again! I am assuming because your name is still red that you are new to Wikipedia. I am glad you are here and hope to be a help and support in any way possible. In that line, one of the aspects of editing is filling out the edit summary at the bottom of the window, which I see you have been neglecting to do. Informing other editors of what you have done, and if possible, why, in a few short terms is a requirement for every edit. I assume you just didn't know, so I will simply look forward to seeing that change. (A knowing lack of cooperation on the other hand will inevitably lead to notifying an administrator.) This is not meant to discourage you, there are so many rules on WP it is hard to be aware of them all at the start, but this one does need to be implemented as long as you edit here. Thank you, Jenhawk777 (talk) 03:48, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jenhawk777: Thanks for the message, I'll take your note into consideration. Derek-airtken (talk) 05:33, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Jenhawk777: Thank you for your valuable contributions to the article History of Christianity. Derek-airtken (talk) 05:45, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Uh-huh. That's nice of you. Except it isn't my contribution at issue. You do recognize that WP has policies, that using the edit summary is one, and that violation of policy can have consequences, right? Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:01, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I did not know about that policy. I'll take it into consideration. Derek-airtken (talk) 00:32, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Extensive edits on the Judaism article about Christianity[edit]

I see you've made some recent and extensive edits on the Judaism article about Christianity, all of which appear to be apologetics or attempts to minimize Christianity's negative impact on Judaism and Jews, ranging from claims about Augustine to claims about Nazism's relationship with Christianity. The Judaism article is not an appropriate place for what, when taken in aggregate, appears to be polemic (which is not allowed on Wikipedia). I have reverted your edits. I suggest you move such discussion to articles such as Christianity and Judaism or others in the Category:Christianity and Judaism category. User:Khane Rokhl Barazani (talk) 14:57, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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