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Esther vs. Vashti
One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that "The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not." Then the women of the empire would despise their husbands. And this would cause many problems in the kingdom. Therefore it would be good to depose her.[1]
A polite reminder to choose a country, city, state or other place to represent. Your last choice was not one of these and has been removed (sorry, we altered the rules since then). Thanks! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden20:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Please stop and discuss this at the talk page. There is no such word 'legendology', you cannot change the names of books, and there is no recent discussion of a name change. Dougweller (talk) 20:43, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's nothing to do with NPOV, see the article talk page where I'll explain. There's nothing for an Admin to act on right now. Dougweller (talk) 05:01, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
There has been no consensus for the article name change and to change every instance of the word myth to legend is simply absurd since many mentions are book titles!TeapotgeorgeTalk20:44, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Arlen telling me to stop reverting your disruptive moves only digs you a deeper hole. Relax and discuss this on the talk page instead of insisting on your version of the title. Clearly many editors oppose you.Griswaldo (talk) 12:44, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
2 editors whose only edit was to support the move, another with only 55 edits since 2007. this the only edit since October 2007. Dougweller (talk) 12:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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You clearly have no idea what you are doing. This search-and-replace edit is extremely pathetic, and basically vandalism. Seeing that Wikipedia actually manages to stop you dead in your tracks before you do any real damage goes to show that far from being a "hopeless case", Wikipedia works very well.
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I agree with the petition, but it may have little effect, as neither involved user has been active for a while. The code has been handed over to some coder (I don't remember his name), but before he fixes it he wants to be registered to a Toolserver account. For whatever reason that's wrapped in red tape. Perhaps you should then change the petition to that...? ResMar22:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Can you provide references? I don't have many resources about the situation. Also, the operator has a tool server account, is that good enough? Arlen22 (talk) 22:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OMG! Thanks you SOOOO much for getting this thing going. It is singularly the most valuable tool available to projects, IMO. Its loss has been hard felt by our project. Thanks again! —Charles Edward(Talk | Contribs)15:34, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Bio-star
This is for you Arlen 22. Thanks so much for all your work on ArticleAlert bot, it's great info to have and will significantly help all of us in the biology projects of Wikipedia (including WikiProject Gastropods), as well as everyone else in every other project! Invertzoo (talk) 22:10, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Yes, but I have no clue how to implement any of this, it's gibberish to me. (smile) Will the code just show up in the portal box by magic, or does a real human have to do something to replace the old with the new? That's my question... Montanabw(talk)20:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, so the code is fine as is? I guess I thought the bot was running already...my apologies. I hear we owe you big time for fixing this thing... Montanabw(talk)01:40, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I only got my hands on the source code, but I am also working with Joe, who is fixing the bot. I guess you could call me the coordinator. Arlen22 (talk) 01:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Dating method
Hi. I just reverted your change of era dating style on Timeline of historic inventions. You had changed all of the BCE to BC and CE to AD (or removed). I know this probably took you a lot of time, so rather than have you do the same work on another article and have it reverted again, I figured I'd point out a policy, WP:ERA, which is a part of the Manual of Style. The last part of that guideline states "Do not change from one style to another unless there is substantial reason for the change, and consensus for the change with other editors." Thus, you can't go into articles and unilaterally change from one style to another without first discussing on the article's talk page why you think the change should be made and getting consensus. In that particular case, for example, I would be opposed to such a change, because the article is primarily scientific/historical in content, and thus should follow the more standard academic practice rather than the one common in non-academic writing in the US. Of course, if a consensus of other editors found some good reason to switch, I would follow that consensus, but I do know that such a change must be discussed first. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:59, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Moving this to user talk as article talk is WP:NOTAFORUM
Large wooden ships require large forests, large amounts of transportation, large amounts of sawmilling and large amounts of construction. Essentially a miniature mass production set-up.
I rather doubt if those dimensions scale well.
Large keels require large drydocks (where would Noah have found one?). Also the Ark is normally conceived of as a keel-less barge.
(i) To keep it headed into the wind/waves for stability. (ii) AIG is not a WP:RS. (iii) I have no idea what "thing" you're talking about. A ram perhaps?
Termites? Rot? Etc? After 100 years I'd expect the original parts to have disintegrated.
How many are completely wooden, and that size?
Because it would fall over.
Most ancient ships weren't that big. The amount of mastage that you'd need to control a ship that big would be huge -- and would create enormous stresses.
Yes, and the Empire State Building is 381 meters tall -- but I wouldn't want to build something that big out of wood. The materials one uses places limitations on the size of what you can build.
Have you ever thought about how much a boat that big would weigh? Have you ever thought about how much wind it would catch?
Mast+sails=stress -- regardless of where they're "sticking up". And most ancient ships weren't very seaworthy (as they only had to survive the relatively calm Mediterranean).
That is tall, not long. The ark was only 45 feet tall. Of course there are limits, but people regularly build chicken houses that are that big. It certainly isn't impossible.
Yeah, it would probably be a lot lighter than something the same size made of steel. Wood floats, you know. Of course it would catch the wind, but I don't think that would affect much, unless you are talking about capsize.
As you can see above, I wasn't talking about mast or sails. I don't think it had any need for either.
Gravity isn't the only stress, and so height is not the only limitation.
You don't think the likelihood that it would be blown over would "affect much"?
That's a viking longship -- a very different design to Mediterranean ones -- small, open-decked, designed specifically to be ocean-going, designed more for raiding rather than large-scale transport. The largest were only 45m long -- and I doubt if they'd scale much further. I also doubt if they'd be manoeuvrable lacking their sails and oars. Also that's just the prow -- the rudder and steersman is visible at the back.
There is nothing the least bit "probable" about anything to do with this narrative.
Water ("capsizing") supports a boat far better than props ("blowing over") would, and exposes considerably less of the side of a boat to wind.
Allow me to point out that (i) this is nothing like the longboat prow, (ii) that the AiG claim appears to be WP:Complete bollocks. I've never seen any serious claim that high stems made a ship 'self-steer'. See for example Trireme for discussion of ancient ship construction.
I see what you mean, I thought you meant on the water. Why should Noah not have taken care of all those little problems that you seem to have on the top of your head.
Well that is what I was talking about. Of course it has to be bigger because it is a bigger ship.
You should perhaps read the article in question before citing it:
It was a Mediterranean galley, not an ocean-going cargo ship
It may have been a catamaran for stability
It was a one-off, indicating that it probably wasn't particularly practical. Further: "But this ship was merely for show; and since she differed little from a stationary edifice on land, being meant for exhibition and not for use, she was moved only with difficulty and danger."
"A hull of such size would involve great bend-induced stresses"
The craft required a massive crew of rowers and sailors
It was built and maintained by a major ancient empire, not a single family.
So yes, a very wealthy empire, out of shear pig-headedness, could build a ship that big, but it couldn't make it practical or seaworthy, because "ye canna break the laws of physics!" HrafnTalkStalk(P)04:23, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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God is perfect?
I found this statement on your talk page hilarious: "When God created everything, he made it perfect. Soon, however, Satan became jealous of God and tried to be like him."
Well if God created everything perfectly, then humans would have never chosen to be evil creatures when imbued with free will, Satan would never have became jealous, etc, etc. You can't say something like "God created everything perfectly, but then his perfect creations were subsequently imperfect"
And I think it's funny there are still people who actually buy into Noah's Ark as being a literal account. Haven't you ever thought about how impossible it would be for the account to be true? Or do you just use the Christian "well God just fixed that problem with his magical powers"? Just curious. SuperAtheist (talk) 19:31, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it doesn't really say anything to just use a catch all. But as far as whether it actually happened, the Bible says it did, and the Bible makes a lot more sense, in my opinion, than evolution does. I'm not going to quit believing it just because everyone attacks it. Besides, I have yet to find an example where the Bible was actually proved to be wrong. Arlen22 (talk) 21:40, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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