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More seriously, why "narrative"? As far as I can tell (and I think I can tell it reasonably well), there is no single Jesus narrative. There are 4 at best partially compatible canonical gospels, a large number of apocryphal sources, and an enormous amount of cruft accumulated over the years. The Christology is widely variable between the gospels and the other NT writings, the nature of the trinity is something that most non-experts don't even think about, and most peoples play some kind of subconscious mix'n match to arrive at their personal Jesus. --] (]) 16:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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:Ah, you bit! Since I rate you as an outstanding 0.4 BozMo in intelligence, I will be brief. My take on Hans Frei, for the serious nerd is to look at the data compression going between the real world and any attempt to characterise it in human or scientific descriptive terms. Two data sets: one, the real world, dimensionally related to some power set of particle positions in the known universe and the other, for example, some language (Stephan likes cheese). Philosophically this data compression is when cognito ergo sum has to be extended into some sort of implicit assumption of human level description without which science is impossible ("no observer to determine if a test is positive or negative implies no test"). Science has developed a particular neat way of grouping data and characterising it (sphere, particle, fluid) to allow Popper-type testing and developing of theories (aside that that is not what happened historically). The neat way fails particularly in dealing with the people it implicitly assumes (can you prove "you" exist as a valid interpretation of a bunch of atoms). The success of the scientific kind of perspective in some contexts led it to inane misuse in the development of theology in Germany and the UK over several centuries to the point where people forgot about other forms of characterisation. Freo looks at the history of this in detail. But to the point specifically, a straight projection (a la photography) is often much less sophisticated than an interpreted projection (a la oil painting) in charactering some sorts of human elements of truth. Or, our own way of viewing history is not a good judge of the validity of narrative forms. You should ask "does this sound like the same person" rather than "hey, thats a different number of fishes" if you want to get further. --] ] 16:37, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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::Possibly I've not been to clear, doubtlessly due to the missing 0.6 BozMos (but shouldn't you be able to compensate for that?). My concern is not with the validity, but with the form. A narrative, for me, is something that has a beginning, progresses forward in a consistent manner, and possibly comes to an end. Now, it may be many-stranded (I'm a big fan of Turtledove's ]/] series, because he manages to show so many viewpoints), and it may be tangled (I also like ]), but at the core I expect it to be a projection of some consistent set of events. A mere amalgamation of various beliefs is not a narrative (though it can contain many such narratives, of course). --] (]) 17:28, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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:::That is all from a perspective of thinking of narratives as a second class version/interpretation of history. For me, the opposite hierarchy is true.. "narrative" is, in data terms, a form of projection from the real world to a world into which a human can place themselves. It is not a derivation from a historical projection, it is a valid projection in its own right and terms. People regard themselves as the principals in the narrative of their lives, it is the fundamental human perception. I see the various religious narratives as providing a means of integration of the narrative of our lives into a bigger narrative, in the same way I could get to know you properly by swapping stories about your childhood even if you were mistaken about some details. So, in terms of historical judgement I may be close to you on the gospels etc (although I think the "written hundreds of years later" per AlbertS was probably a trendy thing which went a bit too far in realism for the sake of the glamour of being shocking) but in terms of significance I may be a long way off (I guess), since they could be (but may not be, am open to discussion) completely "true" in terms of what they are intended to be. At first order the historicity is almost irrelevant (per the Christ of faith and Jesus of history "myth" presentation by some of your compatriots) but at second order it becomes critical in considering the validity (again the nature of truth ref mapping between the real world and language is complex). Meanwhile according to you what are people, and how can you discuss their existence without assuming them? Just curious you understand. --] ] 17:57, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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::::Part one is to hard (or to ambiguous to me). Part 2 is by Descartes. I think, therefore I am. So I've got the to choices of stopping there, or of assuming that my sensory input is generated by some kind of reality, and act on that assumption. But I don't quite get the relevance to our discussion. For me, the gospel of Mark is a narrative. But the collection of "facts" about Jesus that make up part of our cultural baggage ("He was born on Christmas Eve", of a virgin, bearded with sandals, walked on water, is eternal/created by the father/co-equal with the holy spirit/of the same substance as the father/equal to the father (pick one)...) do not form a narrative because they lack the cohesion. --] (]) 18:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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:::::I said they were narrative. I did not use the noun or say they were a narrative (unless by mistake)? They are clearly not a narrative, any more than the ]. They are narrative. --] ] 18:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
::::::I guess I was confused by "''Meanwhile HerrDrS needs to understand the distinction between myth and narrative''" - I'm not aware that myth can be used as an adjective, and I assumed by the construction that both are intended to be nouns. Everything else confuses my fuzzy English language parser... --] (]) 11:58, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
:::::::I am not good enough at grammar to be sure whether myth is correct as an adjective but it is certainly used as an adjective (in place of mythical when referring to the form not the content). But even if narrative was a plural noun the absence of "a" would make the misunderstanding a misunderstanding. --] ] 12:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


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by talking down to him with a condescending and patronizing tone, two minutes later does on Mark's user talk page, then does the same thing and . Obvious baiting, as WMC keeps saying the same thing in several places when one place would be sufficient. He has been able to get Mark to react in the past, resulting in Mark being reported to the enforcement board, and I think he's trying to do so again. ] (]) 12:16, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
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:(having come here for the below, and seeing this in passing...) I tend to agree. WMC may be right about the RfC itself but his manner really needs improving. More corrosive than collaborative. Not much can be done about it but it's not good. ++]: ]/] 14:33, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
:: Remember, WMC's comment(s) was on an article talk page. Big difference. Article talk pages are where collaboration is supposed to occur. Since we're here for the content, behavior which gets in the way of that should especially be discouraged. What if a reader was perusing that article and clicked over to the talk page and saw that going on? Do you think they would have much motivation to get involved? ] (]) 07:04, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:::I sympathise with the complaint about WMC but broadly there are two prevalent "narratives"; one of which says that WMC continually being a bit short with other people (and controlling etc) is the source of all unpleasantness and one which says that WMC is a target for a lot of editors because he defends NPOV so diligently and sometimes inevitably he snaps back. Neither narrative is wholly correct, and I can see considerably elements of truth in each. WMC does need to improve his comments and understand why they are being unhelpful, but having continual badmouthing of various forms about him does not in my view strengthen the case against him, it supports the credibility of the second narrative. I am not referring to you particularly (I respect your conduct in general) but in general anyone who wants to show up the conduct of the other side would be better laying off and to my continual frustration neither party shows signs of wanting to do this. --] ] 08:27, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
::::BozMo, perhaps if we dealt with the former, we'd come to a better conclusion about the latter. There is no shortage of eyes on these pages, so POV pushers on the other side will not have free reign even if WMC is absent for a while. And perhaps then we can see if collaboration improves. But no admin wants to issue anything more than a token sanction, and he knows this, so the problem continues. ] (]) 11:37, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:::::<s>I'm sorry, but I think that you illustrate the problem, ATren. Calling those with whom you disagree "POV pushers" and "the other side" is just not productive.</s> Find good sources, have healthy debate, and then if WMC is still cantankerous the solution is obvious. Everyone needs to stop this pointless back-and-forth; its a huge waste of time and emotional energy. ] (]) 17:08, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
::::::@Awickert Actually I think you misunderstood ATren (we wasn't refering to his other side but WMC's other side) but I would rather curtail that here @ATren "perhaps if we dealt with the former, we'd come to a better conclusion about the latter" or perhaps if we dealt with the latter we would come to a better conclusion about the former. It is hard to be arbitrary in this kind of way. --] ] 17:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:::::::In that case, I'll strike and apologize in case I misunderstood. ] (]) 17:36, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
::::::::Yes, I was referring to WMC's "other side", which I guess is "my side" even though I'm not skeptical of the science. In this case, I was specifically referencing BozMo's phrasing "the other side". FWIW, to deny there are "sides" in this dispute is to deny reality, and talking about those sides is not in itself a battleground behavior.
::::::::@BozMo, how do you propose we "deal with the latter"? Scibaby is already handled with extreme prejudice and there is a long list of topic-banned "skeptics" in this probation. Are you going to topic ban everyone on that side? I assume that would not include Cla68, whom you specifically exempt from that group; yet Cla is the one who raised the latest request, so that doesn't necessarily solve it either. I guess my point is, we're already dealing with the latter case (i.e. Scibaby and the sanctioned "skeptics"), so how much further do we go on the latter before we try the former? ] (]) 19:20, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:::::::::(Aside: I actually agree. There are sides. And I totally misread your comment - sheesh, really sorry again about that. But I'd sooner see "sides" not be antagonizing each other and rather having differences of opinion. As would most everyone else, I presume. ] (]) 06:31, 29 April 2010 (UTC))
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:::::::::::I do not personally doubt your good faith Cla88 and have not actually seen any edit by you which brought it in to questions. Have you read "Riding the waves of Culture"? There is quite an interesting discussion about how brains work by pattern recognition and "see" things according to their past experience. You can easily prejudice people to recognising particular things even when not there. My point is not that you or anyone is more prejudiced than anyone else but that we all need to recognise our judgement on things "obvious" to us is not completely neutral. I think that's especially true on what things are baiting and what are banter. Clearly I see Lar's comments about WMC as sometimes personal attacks and sometimes baiting (note, the question on whether they are true is altogether different), clearly Lar sees himself as simply pointing out unacceptable behaviour by WMC in a "call a spade a spade" fashion ("I know your little game"). There is no absolute truth to convince either of, most pragmatic is to separate them. In terms of WMC's other behaviour I think we need a better set of rules. He was a mathematician and presumably can cope with logic. --] ] 07:27, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


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:::: At present I am still struggling with the two way track in "nasty" comments. MN versus WMC is tricky because of the parliamentary rules issue. But this particular comment accusing someone of having no interest in (missing word added later) ^^her^^ science would be less provocative and attacking in my book than Lar "That's not dishonest. Your tactics are, though". '''It may sound a bit extreme but I am wondering asking for no personal interactions either way between WMC and Lar as a way of improving the atmosphere, since I do not see much productive coming from them?''' --BozMo talk 06:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

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  • When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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  • The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

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  • JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Misplaced Pages seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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Nomination of List of schools in Jamaica for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Misplaced Pages CD selection

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WPCD-Portal

Template:WPCD-Portal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:49, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Misplaced Pages CD Selection - Portals

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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New administrator activity requirement

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Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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Your resignation from adminship

Hello, I remember you from way back in 2009! I just wanted to make sure you knew that there are a couple of replies to your resignation message (including mine) at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. All the best. Graham87 (talk) 09:29, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

You can block me for 5 minutes if you want to exercise your admin rights briefly before giving them up :-) William M. Connolley (talk) 10:33, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

@William M. Connolley: lol, but Boz's resignation has already gone in to effect. Graham87 (talk) 17:04, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
That's kind of both of you but I am happy. BozMo talk 17:39, 21 December 2024 (UTC)