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I was wondering if you are still interested in WikiProject Christianity. Please respond to this within a week if you are still interested in helping out. If you do not respond within a week you will be classified as inactive on the WikiProject member list. Sheriff U3 | Talk | Con 07:47, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

I am. FarmerUpbeat (talk) 23:28, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Ok great! I have a post on the project planning page with jobs that need to be done currently. Sheriff U3 | Talk | Con 13:37, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Hi I have made a userbox for your new position. Feel free to edit it! ] I know that is is not very good, but I am not a good designer. So make any and all modifications you want. Sheriff U3 | Talk | Con 06:34, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 11:24, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

A Special Edition of ICHTHUS

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Dear User:FarmerUpbeat, I am honoured to receive the cheeseburger from you. It will make a delicious snack! This award has made my day and I pray for God's blessings on you and your family during this Lenten season. With warm regards, Anupam^Talk 18:13, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, thanks for reviving Ichtus and for your work at WikiProject Christianity! Anupam^Talk 18:14, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I appreciate and reciprocate your warm regards, and pray for blessings on you and your family as well this Lent! With the utmost blessings and Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 18:18, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @FarmerUpbeat, and thanks a lot for your work on reviewing GAs! I wanted to reach out about your review for the article Trinity, as I think you may have promoted this article to GA a little early. I'm still seeing uncited statements and other issues in the article. For example, under "Nontrinitarian Christian beliefs", the second to last paragraph states "the 17th Century Dutch Republic was more religiously tolerant than other European countries of the time, but its dominant Calvinist Church drew the line at groups who denied the Trinity; this was considered an intolerable aberration." A statement like this needs a citation. This isn't the only instance of this, either. You may wish to take another look and examine the article more thoroughly. It would also be helpful for those looking at your review if you could specify exactly what you checked to make sure it satisfies the criteria, i.e. a spot check of the sources and other notes, rather than just checking off the boxes. Let me know if you have any questions, or if there's anything I can do to help. Pinging @Brent Silby as well since they are the nominator. Regards, MediaKyle (talk) 16:50, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle Thanks for noticing it! The reference for that statement was there, but it was misplaced (it was in the middle of the sentence instead of the end of the sentence). I changed its placement. Brent Silby (talk) 17:34, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle I appreciate the feedback, and will work towards this in future reviews. Would you be open to mentoring me on this? Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 18:07, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@FarmerUpbeat, I think in this case it would be best if you were to reopen the review for Trinity, as I don't believe it currently meets the Good Article criteria and requires more thorough review. Where the good article icon carries some weight, and religion can be a sensitive topic, an in-depth review of this article is particularly important. It's worth noting that I'm no expert in the process, but if you take a look at the review I had done with the nominator at Talk:Religious responses to the problem of evil/GA1 you can see what I mean by providing source spot checks, and notes. I'm happy to answer any questions for you, but you might also consider reaching out to someone more experienced for additional input at Wikipedia:Good article mentorship. I've reached out to both Fritzmann2002 and asilvering before and they have been very helpful, and I'm sure anyone else on the list would be too - just take a look at their contributions, to see who's active. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 20:03, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle Do you think it would be possible to get a different person to do it? I probably should not have picked an article of this weight for my first assessment. Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 22:02, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@FarmerUpbeat, I don't mean to discourage you from continuing with the review, and I think you could do it if you want to. The nice thing about GARs is that you're only reviewing it based on the criteria, and nothing more, so there's little room for ambiguity in that regard. The main point of contention with this article seems to be verifiability, so that would be the policy to read up on for assessing that criteria. Otherwise, after re-opening the review you could ask for a second opinion, or if you're not comfortable with continuing to work on the review, follow these steps to withdraw your review. Please don't let this discourage you from contributing to more GARs - you've done nothing wrong, and the encyclopedia isn't going to burn down just because an article should or shouldn't have a green plus sign on it. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 22:28, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

@FarmerUpbeat, MediaKyle, and Brent Silby: In light of the discussion above, and in particular FarmerUpbeat's request to get a different person to do this review, I have gone ahead and removed Trinity from the good articles list and re-added it to WP:GAN for a more experienced reviewer to do the review. Best, Mz7 (talk) 18:41, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

@Mz7 Thank you for that. MediaKyle, I thank you very much for your advice, it helped me very much and gave me confidence to do GARs in the future, however sadly in the next few days I will not have enough time. With Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 18:54, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

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Mz7 (talk) 18:41, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey I am just checking to see how the newsletter for April is coming along. Are you needing any help with it? Sheriff U3 02:07, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Development is going well, would you mind finding some interesting articles for a did-you-know section? Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 02:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Ok will do! Sheriff U3 02:23, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

@FarmerUpbeat How about one of them being Augustine of Canterbury it is the first Christianity article to achieve Featured Article (FA) class. How many articles do you want me to find? And is there anything in particular you want me to try to find? Sheriff U3 02:51, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Sure, we could include Augustine!

4-5 more would be good, try to find interesting people but throw some interesting buildings in there too.

I appreciate your help and wish you Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 13:50, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Did you know that Religion, God and the Bible were the first three Christianity pages created? Sheriff U3 20:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Did you know that San Miguel Mission is the oldest church building in the US and it still holds Mass services weekly to this day? Sheriff U3 20:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Is this enough, or do you need more? Sheriff U3 21:49, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

@Sheriff U3 This looks like enough, thank you for your help! Benedictions, FarmerUpbeat (talk) 13:52, 30 March 2025 (UTC)