User talk:Wsk

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Hello, Wsk, and welcome to OrthodoxWiki!

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We hope you enjoy editing here and being a part of our community! --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 11:25, 28 May 2005 (CDT)

Photos from Japan

Judging by the age you give the photos, it is likely that their copyright has long expired and they are now in the public domain. You should feel free to scan them in and upload them to the site. Thanks for your work! --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 07:09, 6 Jun 2005 (CDT)

Various

I deleted the duplicate article as you requested.

One other note is that when you did a "move" on the Sandbox, it turned the Sandbox into a redirect to the new article. Additionally, it imported the entire editing history from the Sandbox into your new article. I thought you might like to know that for future reference. In the future, you may wish to create new article projects in the userspace instead, e.g., User:Wsk/Article Name, or just copy and paste the code into the new article, so that redirects and shifted editing histories don't get thrown about. --[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 19:54, 7 Jun 2005 (CDT)

Nikolai-do pics

Those photos are fantastic! Thanks for procuring them. Please be sure to add an image license for each one as is appropriate. —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 15:49, 17 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Bishops and links

You're most welcome for the help—it's the standard wiki-protocol!  :)

There are a couple things to note:

• Links and article names for bishops are in the format Firstname (Surname) of See. The birthname can be noted in the article, but it's not included in the article name. Making links to as-yet-absent articles is also included here, since clicking on those links will lead a user to create an article with that name.

• Creating wiki-links which link to an article with name A yet display name B are done in the following fashion: [[Name A|Name B]] Thus, if I wanted to link to your userpage without displaying its full name, I would use [[User:Wsk|Wsk]], yielding this: Wsk.

Please take the time to read through the Help:Contents and the OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual for lots of tips on style and technical details. —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 13:36, 25 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Orthodoxy in America template

Great job on making all the "American Saints" on the template blue. You have some very well-researched articles. —magda 16:26, 30 Jul 2005 (EDT)

Sp: Archimandrite/Archmandrite

I've noticed that there seems to be a consistent spelling error in a number of your articles. Just so you know, the word is spelled archimandrite, not archmandrite. (This is not a personal criticism; just trying to let you know!) —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 09:18, 8 Aug 2005 (EDT)

St. Herman's Seminary

I moved the St. Herman's page because the apostrophe was one of those "smart quotes" and the Orthodoxy in America template (among other pages) wasn't picking up on it. Just something to look out for. [[User:Magda|—magda (talk)]] 16:24, 13 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Cult/occult

I have no idea how OrthodoxWiki got classified as being "cult/occult" by this particular web-service you mention. It may well be that the word "cult" appears in a number of articles, and so some automatic classification occurred. In any event, if you'd like to contact these folks to let them know the real state of things, feel free. —[[User:ASDamick|—Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!)]] 08:10, 16 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Far out wsk! Any follow-up? Fr. John

Thansk Bill for all your notes. I'm glad you're excited about OrthodoxWiki! I've been very happy about all the Japanese Orthodox stuff. I've got a friend who's moving to Japan soon (she's now Orthodox and married to a Japanese Orthodox man), and it's been a blessing to see so much about the Japanese Orthodox Church! - Fr. John

An Overdue Response

Hi again, I wanted to respond to your comments below. Sorry for the delay! Thanks for your support and encouragement for this project, and for talking it up. Please greet Fr. Constantine for me. He probably won't remember, but we met awhile ago. Keep up the good work, and keep thinking big for the site. We need vision! Fr. John 14:11, 8 Sep 2005 (EDT)

By the way, I glad you all have started the OrthodoxWiki site, it's among the things we need to do to 'advertize' Orthodoxy. Now we need to get the word out to our people. I attend St Nicholas in Washington and have mentioned the site to a number of 'outward looking' people, but I need to do more. Bill Kosar

Japanese Orthodox

Wow, great work Bill. Where do you find this stuff? Fr. John
P.S. I had the pleasure of serving with Fr. Dennis in Chicago yesterday.

Canadian OCA Hierarchs

Here are a couple of links for succession boxes: list of Canadian bishops and a history of the Archdiocese of Canada (OCA). —magda (talk) 09:10, November 12, 2005 (CST)

Bringing together the pages...

Hi Bill,

I've put Template:Orthodoxyinjapan on all the pages about Japanese Orthodoxy I could find, and also put everything together into Category:Orthodoxy in Japan. I would be grateful if you could write a brief introduction on the category page, then I would like to submit the whole category as a featured article to showcase some of the unique information we have here on OrthodoxWiki. How does all that sound? Thanks! Fr. John

P.S. It would also be wonderful, if you have a chance, if you could work on Timeline of Orthodoxy in Japan. It doesn't have to be extensive, but it would be nice to have something up. Thanks!

Category link

Hi Bill, thanks for bringing this up -- I've added the category to the image. This can be done by going to the image page, clicking edit and adding [[Category:Japanese Orthodox Images]] anywhere in the text of the page. By the way, signatures use a tilde rather than a "`". Hope that helps, and thanks for your work! Fr. John 12:18, December 5, 2005 (CST)

Category:Orthodoxy in Japan

Just so you know, when you add the {{orthodoxyinjapan}} template to an article, Category:Orthodoxy in Japan automatically gets added, so there's no need to include it separately. —Fr. Andrew ^talk contribs (THINK!) 09:57, January 5, 2006 (CST)

Uninhabited islands

I would propose that we take uninhabited islands off the template altogether, and delete those pages... Sorry this comes after your work. —magda (talk) 20:25, January 7, 2006 (CST)