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1 paperlessarchives dot com 2 Same for entertainment dash news dot com 3 Main 3.1 Featured article 3.2 Selected anniversaries 3.3 In the news 3.4 Did you know... 4 The Tabernacle, a work of art from a fellow Wikipedian

paperlessarchives dot com

Somebody from paperlessarchives dot com is adding their links in to many articles. In most cases people are catching this and removing it with comments about how it was a link to a commercial site. I regard it as a form of Wikispam and will be taking steps to remove this in places where I see it and it does not appear to have been caught. If you disagree with this policy in general or with a specific removal, please discuss on my talk page or on the talk page of the relevant article.

Same for entertainment dash news dot com

Same thing for this site.

Main

My wife, Sarah, is very beautiful, and that's a completely NPOV statement.

I'm religious, a member of the Church of Christ. I enjoy the way Wikipedia's collaborative editing results in unbiased presentation of information. I enjoy editing articles, particularly about religious topics, to remove bias, either on the part of those who agree with me or on the part of those who do not. (As a member of the Church of Christ I'm in the unique position of often disagreeing with most of Christendom as well as other religions and atheists.)

I wrote an article on the Pauline epistles, which I hope you find to be a good example of NPOV.

I've also made several minor edits, to Ark of the Covenant, Reverend, and Atheism. My first edits came on Atheism, and I didn't know what I was doing, so I stuck notes straight into the text, which were promptly removed. At the time I thought they were removed by a biased atheistic author who assumed that since I obviously had religious knowledge I was biased, when in fact I was just correcting a factual error. Turns out he was simply moving my comments to the talk page. (I actually replaced a poor example of "religious Scripture which condemns unbelievers" with a better example, because the original example was based only on Jewish commentary of Scripture rather than what the Scripture said. I hope you'll find that unbiased.)

I'm also quite political, being a conservative, laissez-faire capitalist, pro-life, libertarian, so you'll probably see me making edits on related articles some day, too. In fact, I made a minor edit to the Free State Project article. Incidentally you might be interested to read the arguments from libertarians for life (http://www.l4l.org/) which explain why I believe EVERYONE should believe in legal protections for the unborn without reference to religious belief.

I wrote an article on the Well of souls.

I'm related to (but not descended from) Sir William Blackstone. I often joke that I'm related to the man who invented common law marriage. :)

My favorite new article I've created so far (and probably my favorite ever) is singing school. Being the son of a singing school teacher, I love singing schools and hope to teach them myself some day.

English Wikipedia has 809 articles.

Featured article

Template:Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 16, 2024

Selected anniversaries

Template:May 16 selected anniversaries

In the news

*March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.

• March begins (astrologically, non-sidereal) with the sun in the sign of Pisces and ends in the sign of Aries.
• March's flower is the violet.
• March's birthstone is the aquamarine.

Did you know...

• ...The world was first divided into continents by the geographers of Hellenistic Alexandria.
• ...Taipei 101 is a 106-floor skyscraper in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is the tallest building in the world
• ...the Fertile Crescent is a region in the Middle East incorporating present-day Israel, West Bank, and Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq and south-eastern Turkey.
• ...The Bronze Age is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
• ...The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times.

The Tabernacle, a work of art from a fellow Wikipedian

Diagram
Tabernacle's floorplan

The Outer Court Brazen Altar | Brazen Laver The holy place Golden Candlestick Golden Altar Table of Shewbread The most holy place The Ark of the Covenant