User talk:ClaudeReigns

Hello ClaudeReigns! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Smee 15:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The "perfect" article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Welcome! Yours, Smee 15:03, 17 March 2007 (UTC).

Your userpage

• I do not understand nor appreciate your reference to me on your User page. Please remove it. Thank you. Yours, Smee 04:25, 19 March 2007 (UTC).
  • It was a joke :( _{I'm sorry}
    • I think I understand that now, no worries  :) But even so, I'd appreciate if it was changed. Smee 04:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

User Page

There is some interesting information on User Pages at Wikipedia:User page. Here is the list of Userboxes, and this is some Wikipedia information about Userboxes. Yours, Smee 04:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

The Barnstar of Good Humor

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your Chaotic good and outwardly bumbling warrior mentality. Thanks for making me laugh! Yours, Smee 05:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

• Feel free to post to your user page and/or leave on your talk page as you see fit, except of course this part itself. Smee 05:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

Nice article!

• Council on Mind Abuse. I think I saw some citations for that in some archived news articles somewhere... I will dig them up... Smee 07:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
  • Dude thanks. It was hard to establish the notability of a defunct anticult org, I hope I did that job at least. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ClaudeReigns (talk • contribs).
• Sure looks like it to me. Btw, I think looking a teeny bit that this Mr. Howarth guy would be easier to get lots of citations on then that last article... Smee 07:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC).
  • Yeah, I see that for sure. COMA was necessary to some understanding in the GCAC thing. Trying to work outwards from both sides of that issue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ClaudeReigns (talk • contribs).
• You can sign your comments with four tildes, like this. ~~~~. Yours, Smee 16:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC).

DYK

On 24 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tom Short, 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.

--Carabinieri 18:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• Congratulations! Smee 18:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC).

WOW

Hey ClaudeReigns, that was a remarkable job on the GPN page. I don't have the time to do much more than get a ball rolling on most articles right now. Thanks a bunch for gettin' 'er done. Nswinton 15:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:GPN_Maxwell_Davis_Soul_Millionaires_promo.jpg

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Image:BSPCon_Giuliani_and_Davis.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:BSPCon_Giuliani_and_Davis.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. howcheng {chat} 16:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Have removed image and don't plan on contesting deletion. ClaudeReigns 20:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me?

I'm sorry, but are you actually calling this edit "vandalism"? Funny, how it hasn't been reverted yet, even though there have been nine edits since then (including one by you). And then you have the temerity to ask me "don't delete discrete and applicable links to article Jesus within WikiProject:Christianity"? Let me cite some relevant policies: WP:AGF, WP:NPOV, and WP:OWN. If you want to accuse someone of vandalism, be sure it actually IS vandalism before you do so. howcheng {chat} 16:07, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting with link to Jesus. ClaudeReigns 20:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

McCotter Image?

Hey ClaugeReigns,

Have you seen any good (wiki-legal) images of McCotter yet? The only one I can find online is from Maverick Jets, and I'm pretty sure they're not gonna give me permission. I see that you're still planning on doing an article on him, and figured you'd be the person to ask. I was hoping to get an image of him up on the GCA article. Nswinton 21:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

No, and it's bugging me. I know of some people to ask, but sofar nobody who has a copyright to a J.D.M. picture has budged. I suppose we could always just stalk him and take one ourselves LOL ClaudeReigns 04:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I uh... know a guy... I'll have him contact you. Is there a good way to talk to you off of wiki? You can find my contact stuff on my userpage. Nswinton 15:21, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[1] ClaudeReigns 16:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The people I know will send you the stuff they have when they get around to it. Nswinton 20:23, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, my codename is "Igloo". LOL! ClaudeReigns 20:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Mine is "booger" :S Nswinton 15:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Global Pastors Network

On 4 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Global Pastors Network, 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} 06:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

GCA Article

Hey ClaudeReigns,

Nice job on the article this morning. That pic was a great start. Stop by my userpage in a bit and you'll see a list I'm making of sources of good GC* pics for the article. I'd love to have you contrib to the list so all of us editors can have a central place to search/work from. Nswinton 15:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

F. F. Bosworth

Hey, I just noticed the work you did on this article. Nice work on the infobox and the image. I had wanted to add one a while back but ran into copyright/webmaster issues... Anyway, thanks for the contrib. Nswinton 16:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

GCC Board members

Hey dude, sorry 'bout all the talk page spam i'm giving you today. I think this[2] is a recent update to the GCC site. Might be a helpful source for some of your up and coming articles. The GCC history section has been expanded as well with a few internal links. Ok, I'll leave you alone now :) Nswinton 23:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

You sure? I could swear they read my Tom Short bio LOL. My usual modus operandi is to pick a subject, Google "Subject's Name"+news and go crazy with the first 10 hits. Except of course if there's a source which immediately comes to mind. D.B. looks so different from his pics in The Cause. ClaudeReigns 02:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Corrections to Tom Short article

• copied from User talk:Smee

Smee,

Perhaps this should go to Claudereigns, but I could not find out how to contact him and I can contact you. If you can make the following changes, please do -- or if you know how to contact Claudereigns, please forward to him.

Anyway, I am Tom Short and I do have a few comments about the article concerning me. While I do not think the emphasis of the article is to represent me in a fair and accurate way (i.e. it seems as if you guys are digging and focusing on obscure things that really have little to do with my ministry and, even if they did happen, for the most part occurred 20+ years ago), I don't necessarily expect to be treated in a fair manner. Thus, being the internet age, I guess you guys can say what you want to.

However, there are several significant inaccuracies in the article that I suggest you correct. Some are relatively unimportant whereas others really are important. Here are my suggestions for change:

1. Not to be ticky tack, but I never preached in front of McKeldin Library. It was Hornbake Library. 2. I doubt I ever called listening to rock music a "serious sin." However, I did oppose it and while I don't listen to it myself, I have not preached against it in 10 plus years. 3. The Rick Whitney quote is taken seriously out of context. Rick is one of my most ardent supporters. In the article sited, he was with the group that brought me to campus. Your quote implies that he personally does not support my preaching when, in reality, he was simply pointing out that there are others who don't like what I do. The way you stated it leaves a very false impression. 4. Concerning homosexuals and blood. I don't really remember this, but I won't deny it. This was early in the AIDS era and there was a time in which the Centers for Disease Control screened out anyone who engaged in risky behavior from donating blood -- homosexuality, intravenous drugs and, yes, even Hatians (not because Hatians did "risky behavior" but they were in an unusally high risk group). This was before we had created ways to screen for blood being tainted -- more specifically, if I remember right, blood could be tainted by AIDS but might not show up as such if it had become infected in the previous six months. Anyway, those days are now long gone with so many new scientific advances in HIV detection, but please understand that I was not the only person calling for such people in high risk groups to be excluded from giving blood. This was a time in which hemophiliacs were dying because they had received tainted blood. My comments along this line were designed to say we need to protect innocent people from infected blood that could not be detected as such. I would still stand by this statement today, except that there is now no need to since we have improved out blood screening technology.

Much of the stuff above is not really that important. Do with it as you wish. But this next point contains very serious misrepresentation and factual errors: 5. Concerning my involvement at Towson State. This entire section is totally inaccurate. I NEVER led a group at Towson STate. I NEVER attended or spoke at a single New Life meeting. I was NEVER invited to a meeting with other Christian leaders there. I simply don't know where any of this is coming from and have not even heard about this until today. It is true that the New Life group at Towson was begun and led by people who had been part of our New Life group at the University of Maryland, but the Towson group was 100% autonomous and I had no imvolvement with them. Not that they would not have welcomed me to, but I simply didn't have time to go up and be involved with them. Additionally, I did preach at Towson several times (probably about five times) in 1980 - 81 (a year and a half before the group got stated up there). On one occassion, I was arrested by the police for preaching there. All charges were eventually dropped and the university apologized for their police violating my rights, but after the hassle I had with the authorities there in 1981, I simply wasn't that interested in going back to Towson and, thus, never did until about five years ago.

However, the biggest inaccuracy in this is where is states that I called women "sluts and whores and presumed every guy to be drinking and sleeping around." I really take exception to this statement. I can say with absolute certainty that I have NEVER called a girl a slut or whore. There are preachers out there who do use these names and I have consistently, since the beginning of my ministry, urged them not to use this language. I believe it to be insulting, inflammatory and very counter-productive. Thus, when your article says that I called people by these names, I know that this is very untrue. It violates a great deal of how I believe we should treat people. I know others have thought this of me because they have confused me with other campus preachers, but while others may say this, I do not. Therefore, I respectfully ask you to remove these comments about me, my involvement at Towson State with New Life and anything that would say I use this language I have not and will not use.

Again, Smee, this may not relate to you, but perhaps you know how to edit my page or contact someone who posted this. Thanks for your consideration of my concerns and your commitment to publishing the truth.

Sincerely,

Tom Short —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.160.169.228 (talk) 18:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

• Mr. Short: Thank you for being accessible for this ongoing project. I have done my best to reflect your concerns about the biography page, and verification and confirmation of reliability of The Towerlight has been requested from the user who included that edit. Please note the trouble you've had with contacting me stems from the captialization of the "R" in my username. You can further contact me here. I have made notes about the extent to which I was able to incorporate your PoV and corrections at the Tom Short article discussion page here. Please note that I have worked on other biography pages and have a very hard time supporting changes to articles without published sources to verify statements. Please be sure to alert me immediately to any published sources which might be beneficial to the accurate reflection of your life and work. I have not yet obtained "5 Crucial Questions" but I look forward to summarizing or explaining that work within the framework of Wikipedia rules in the near future. Sincerely, ClaudeReigns 07:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)