User talk:Aristophanes68/Archives/2015

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Help me - I'm @aseems on Twitter. Please. Thank you. God bless. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aseemseth (talk • contribs)

Thanks, I hope I can make some positive additions to Wikipedia! -Lawandhistory13 Lawandhistory13 (talk) 19:01, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I'm obliged to inform you that I mentioned you in the thread at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Accusations_of_ownership_by_Sitush. I don't think pinging counts because it doesn't always work. - Sitush (talk) 16:25, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I hope this is how I'm supposed to respond to the welcome message you sent. (If not, please erase my message and let me know how to send you one.) Thanks for all useful information.

We have lots in common—education and interests remarkably similar, but location very different.

Thanks for the work you do for Wikipedia—for everyone.

It's not clear to me if signing the tildes here would be appropriate, so I won't. Please let me know (assuming you can identify me without them :). KC 21:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boydstra (talk • contribs)

@Boydstra: You're very welcome! This is exactly how you respond to folks' talk pages, and go ahead and get used to always using the 4 tildes to sign your name (if not, an automated bot will do it for you....). I hope you find Wikipedia a good place to contribute! Cheers, Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:23, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

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When I edit on my phone, the app shows that I'm logged in, but the edits don't show my account name and don't save to my account's watchlist. Is that the case for everyone, or do I need to do something to get my edits attributed to my account? Thanks, Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:54, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

This may be an issue for the village pump or possibly for Help talk:Mobile access, but I expect you'll need to provide a little more context. What app are you using, for example? Huon (talk) 13:42, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I thought it was the standard Wikipedia mobile app: Wikipedia Mobile from Wikimedia Foundation. Aristophanes68 (talk) 03:52, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Aristophanes68. In this category you created, all listed entries as shown are for plays, as you originally had, except these three listed below, which are not plays, as they're musicals. All three were (very wrongly) recently added to the category, by the way.

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
• Matilda the Musical

If I may add, all these entries are indeed stage shows, but the three musicals should be removed from the rest of the plays, as they are not such. Just letting you know. --Plain Jane Doe (talk) 15:21, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I was always frustrated by the different trees for plays and musicals, especially when it came to categorizing the librettists and composers. I couldn't find a good solution, so I hope you and others can find a good way to get parallel cat trees for musicals and plays. Aristophanes68 (talk) 21:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You may be interested in the discussion currently going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Theatre regarding this. The general sentiment so far is nesting the categories for musicals within the categories for plays to aid with navigation while still distinguishing musicals and straight plays. ~ Rob^Talk 21:51, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for reverting the vandalism by Dickrichards62. I thought you should know, though, that the version of the page you reverted to, an edit by 2001:8003:620F:1B00:5861:E7E5:6517:7A22, was also an instance of vandalism. That IP user has been going through the category American people of African descent and deleting articles from it, despite the people in question being uncontroversially African-American. (I'm going through and manually reverting their vandalism now.) Just a friendly reminder to check that the version you're reverting to really is the last good version. Again, thanks for your good work reverting the other vandal's edits. —GrammarFascist _contribs^talk 23:16, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Sorry about missing that! Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:05, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

Hey Aristophenes, thanks for your message. I do need help removing the old picture of GJ. I think i can figure out how to put up the new one with the instructions. I'm not even sure if this is how i leave you a message? RomanaPhoto (talk) 20:10, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi there Aristophanes. I was trying to delete the extremely offensive sentence written into the article on St Catherine of Siena, which makes the wild and baseless claim that St Catherine wore a ring made from Christ's foreskin. I am very familiar with Catholic saints and mystics, and the letter (#221) which you reference in support of this claim, makes absolutely no reference to a foreskin. It says: "Well seest thou that thou art a bride, and that He has wedded thee and every creature, not with a ring of silver, but with the ring of His Flesh." This is a very common theme and type of saying found in the Catholic mystics, and indeed in numberless writings of Catholic saints and authors of works on the spiritual life. The same theme is actually found in many Catholic prayers and in the Catholic mass! It concerns Christ having purchased our souls with His saving death on the Cross, where He offered the Holocaust of His body and blood. The sacrifice of His life - His flesh - then becomes the means by which He weds us spiritually. He calls it a ring because it acts the same as a ring...it is the sign of His faithful love for us which binds us to the covenant in His blood...the covenant which springs from the offering up of His flesh, and blood, and soul...His whole sacred humanity, as the ransom for our sins. See how in the context of His sacrificial love, which is like a spiritual espousal, His flesh is like an outward token..like a ring, which binds us and stands for our union. We receive His body, blood, soul and Divinity in Holy Communion. The union which also involves His flesh in the Eucharist is of the same theme, because Christ wants us to be united to Him in the truest and fullest manner, and wants to purify, sanctify and deify us to fit us to participate in His Divine Life for all eternity. The author Caroline Walker Bynum is just wrong. Being knowledgeable doesn't grant discernment per se, and her voice on this matter is a tiny minority. There have been many mystic brides (saints) of Christ who have had spiritual espousals with Christ, who's rings were also invisible. I assure you that I understand the subject very well, having studied many saints and mystics. I am very familiar with these themes. I ask to please remove that reference and just go with what is commonly (and rightly) recorded about this subject, rather than what one modern author says about it, which is a novel and weird interpretation of a text, and finds no equivalent in the life of any saint or mystic in two thousand years. Thankyou for your time. Sharbel23 (talk) 02:34, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi there, I think you're looking for me, Sharbel23. Take it to the Catherine of Siena talk page, please. Altenmaeren (talk) 22:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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