User talk:Jgstokes/Archive 12

Restoration (Latter Day Saints)

How is this title ambiguous? Srnec (talk) 23:07, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Give the disambiguation pages a look, and I think you'll have a more clear understanding of the answer to the question than I could offer here. Thanks. --Jgstokes (talk) 05:39, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

I overhauled the disambiguation page a couple days ago. That's why I removed the hatnote from the article. "Restoration (Latter Day Saints)" is not ambiguous, except possibly with Restoration branches. The title of the page in question is not "Restoration". Are you sure you understand WP:NAMB? –Srnec (talk) 12:39, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Are you really asking someone who's been a Wikipedia editor for almost 12 years whether or not he understands a specific Wikipedia policy he has previously helped to properly enforce? Funny how someone can assume I've not done my research, but hasn't bothered to personally do so. I intend no offense, and I certainly hope none is taken. --Jgstokes (talk) 06:18, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Edit reverts

Please cite with link the exact page in Wikipedia guidelines that states that using citations/ stating sources is considered NPOV/Editorializing. Nao241 (talk) 13:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello. I apologize for my delay in responding to you. I have been dealing with some health issues which have taken me away from Wikipedia for the last several months. Regarding the substance of your request, I would be happy to address your concerns, but you would need to first remind me of the page in question involved in this matter, and I would have to look things over and try to remember my specific reasons for taking the stance I did at that time. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I have been struggling with some of these health issues for the last several months, and the nature of dealing with them has led me to forget the specifics of the issue in question. If you can clarify that for me, I'd be happy to address the concerns I raised at the time. Thank you. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Opinion on Temple Graph

I have recreated the graph of temples over time that is on the main temple list page. It was last updated in 2010, so it definitely needed. I will hang on to the data so it can be updated easier in the future. Do you mind leaving feedback on the chart? It is here. I am good with charts and data, but not with design, so any comments would be helpful. Feel free to invite anyone else you think would like to comment. Thanks! Glennfcowan (talk) 02:46, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Glennfcowan. Sorry for my delayed response. I have been dealing with health issues for the past several months that necessitated my absence from Wikipedia. I appreciate you putting that together, and would be happy to look it over as time and circumstances allow this next week. It may take me a bit to offer feedback on this. With the Church's plans to consolidate 7 of the North American Areas down to 3 as of August 1, I have a bit of work to do on a couple of the subpages I have created to replace the content of existing pages once those changes go into effect in 36 hours or so. But I will make a note to remind myself to look that over, and will get back to you with feedback ASAP, if you'd still like me to weigh in. Thanks. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:10, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Sure, no worries. I have already made some revisions based on other feedback, so make sure you are looking at the top version (all blue graph areas). It is already live on the temple page, but any other comments would be helpful. I don't need any comments ASAP, so take your time. I will keep the data so that as changes happen, I can refresh it easily. I can also select a subset of the data for additional graphs (e.g. temples announced in the 20th century, or temple activity since 1995). If you ever see that is needs to be updated, just message me. Glennfcowan (talk) 03:27, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. will do. --Jgstokes (talk) 03:36, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

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I appreciate you taking time to explain that to me. It would probably have been more accurate for me to say that I used some of the information from this page to inform the process of creation for this one, and it was not a straight-up word-for-word copying from one to another. After being informed of the potential copyvio issue, I took extra care to try and tweak a few things on the new page in an effort to reverse the problem I inadvertently and uninteionally caused. I deeply regret hearing that my conduct in this issue may have been a problem. I have been a Wikipedia editor for the last 12 years or more, and have gained a reputation through various facets of the English Wikipedia community for strictly adhering to the relevant policies related to my contributions once I have been made aware of any problem relating to my conduct in such issues. I appreciate your explanation of the problems with my edits in this case, I regret any ill-advised conduct for which I may be guilty in this case, and I want to let you know that now that I understand the nuances about this information I will be altering my conduct in similar situations in the future accordingly. THank you again. --Jgstokes (talk) 21:25, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

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I have already filled one of those out. Thanks for checking in on that. --Jgstokes (talk) 05:34, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

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