User talk:Bochica~enwiki

Style[edit]

Your recent change to "Golden Plates" improved the style, but re-adding the extra phrase to the "View of the Hebrews" sentence made it more awkward.--John Foxe 16:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stela B Copan[edit]

Thanks for all your great work and contributions! In reference to the elephant issue... I just ran across an interesting article. Look a little over half way down at the orange vase... thought that was particularly interesting. gdavies 22:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the compliment! I've seen a few "elephants" on Mayan pottery as well. The Mayan rain god "Chac" has a long elephant-like snout. The Mayan temple at Uxmal with all of the stone "elephant snouts" on it that you see so often is actually covered with masks of Chac. The image on the Mayan pottery at the web site listed above doesn't look very much like Chac though...it looks like an elephant with really sharp teeth to me :-) Bochica 02:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, well I haven't read much on this specifically, but from a quick scan of the internet it looks like Stela B Copan's "elephants" are contested by some people, and there are definitely more solid and uncontested instances of elephants in Mayan art. gdavies 05:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An interesting article[edit]

I just found another article by David A Palmer that talks about the "hill Vigia" and "Cerro Vigia" that seem to match up with the Hill Cumorrah (proposed by himself and Sorenson). I know there are some sites like this about which there is little argument among LDS scholars, I think these sites should be noted but I'm not sure where... Could go within the LGM section, a subsection of "efforts to correlate ruins and artifacts," The lamanites and the Maya (even "warfare" since it was the site of some battles). gdavies 03:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We could probably mention a few plausible locations in with the "Limited Geography Model" section. I'm actually planning to add info on plausible locations to the Limited Geography Model (Book of Mormon) page at some point, so that I don't overburden the "Archaeology and the BoM" page. As a side note, there has also been a suggestion of moving the LGM page to a "Book of Mormon Geography Models" page instead. Bochica 14:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Linguistics and the Book of Mormon[edit]

Partially due to your vote, Linguistics and the Book of Mormon has been selected as the Mormon collaboration of the month. I look forward to working with you on the article. uriah923^(talk) 21:02, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This IP address (84.146.202.103) has recently added a whole bunch of stuff to Linguistics and the Book of Mormon... Some of it's interesting/useful, but it's loaded with Peacockish language ("King Benjamin's sermon: a Masterful discourse"). I don't want to just go kill all of it, but it needs some major condensing if we're going to keep it... thanks! gdavies 18:15, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I noticed that! It looks like the enthusiastic author copied a lot of text verbatim from the web site that he cites as a source. We will have to modify it or remove it. There are some sections that I'm not sure belong in the article. However, some of the material looks worth keeping if we can track down the primary source. The material on the web site appears to come from several books, some of which I believe I have. I'll take a look. I notice that you've already taken care of some of the more "exuberant" headings. Bochica 02:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to do that and then I hid the majority of the text so we can figure things out. If the text was copied word for word that definitely needs to be fixed... on the other hand, some of the material is interesting, etc. but probably too long to include in its entirety. i.e. the chiasmus maps that go on forever. gdavies 04:12, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extermination order[edit]

Partially due to your vote, Extermination order has been selected as the Mormon collaboration of the month. I look forward to working with you on the article. uriah923^(talk) 19:50, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar[edit]

This Barnstar is awarded to Bochica for consistent and persistent quality contributions to the Mormon Collaboration of the Month.

I'm not sure how you found out about the Mormon collaboration, but I am sure glad you did. uriah923^(talk) 02:34, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MCOTM promotion[edit]

I'd love it if you'd like to participate in promoting the project. Do you feel comfortable carrying out your message idea for those signed up on the LDS project page? uriah923^(talk) 22:32, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with it. I can try to come up with a message and then run it by you to see what you think. Bochica 02:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extermination edits[edit]

Do you have any input on the recent edits by Pooua on extermination order? uriah923^(talk) 20:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good thoughts. I look forward to your edits. uriah923^(talk) 15:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, I guess you've already made them. In any case, they look good. uriah923^(talk) 15:09, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First Vision - time for action[edit]

I appreciate the efforts of Visorstuff to resolve the situation at First Vision. I now understand that he was hampered by his past involvement in this article and with John Foxe. No one is editing the article right now, but I believe that John Foxe's comments on the talk page demonstrate that he either cannot understand or refuses to comply with the WP:NPOV policy. I'm trying to gain a consensus on his inappropriate behavior, and I invite you, as a past contributor to this article, to add your comments to this discussion. If you think that my behavior also warrants criticism, I invite that as well. I will be posting this invitation on several other user talk pages, but with your past history on this article you might be aware of other editors who have walked away. Please feel free to let them know what is going on and invite their input at Talk:First_Vision#Time_for_action. 74s181 13:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Request for assistance[edit]

I would appreciate it if you could take the time to review Satanic ritual abuse and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It seems apparent that it is designed to be purposely sensationalistic. There are some discussions that would be benefited by a broader range of input. --Storm Rider ^(talk) 06:34, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos for work on Journal of Discourses in Wikisource.[edit]

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		message This barnstar is for contribution of a large volume of work to Journal of Discourses on Wikisource.

I just noticed your work on the Journal of Discourses on Wikisource, and wanted to express appreciation. Having converted some early LDS documents to Wiki format myself, I fully understand the amount of work it requires. It's nice to be able to cite to a public domain source, especially one with page break indicators. COGDEN 22:28, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brigham Young[edit]

I see the blacks and the priesthood section as almost a summary style synopsis of that article, which contains more detail and secondary sources about that issue in connection to Brigham Young. I don't mind the quote in particular, but I would like a secondary source to contextualize it, or to note that it's a particularly good example of his speaking style. The 1856 date makes me wonder if it's atypical. Cool Hand Luke 17:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ichthus: January 2012[edit]

ICHTHUS

January 2012

In this issue...

Ichthus is published by WikiProject Christianity
For submissions and subscriptions contact the Newsroom

Your account will be renamed[edit]

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Bochica. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Bochica~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

22:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed[edit]

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

11:09, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Jet-etcher[edit]

The article Jet-etcher has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Lacks WP:SOURCES since 2012

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. CommanderWaterford (talk) 14:32, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]