User: Jwrosenzweig

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Chuck F		7 Dec 2004
Alberuni		6 Dec 2004
168.209.97.34		2 Dec 2004
Arminius		22 Nov 2004	†
Shorne and Fred Bauder		6 Nov 2004	†
Netoholic		4 Nov 2004
Turrican and VeryVerily		4 Nov 2004
VeryVerily		31 Oct 2004
User:66.20.28.21		27 Oct 2004	†
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Snowspinner vs. Lir		28 Nov 2004
HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg		8 Nov 2004
IZAK	Inj.	6 Nov 2004
Gzornenplatz, et al.	Inj.	22 Oct 2004
Gene Poole vs. Samboy		11 Sep 2004	†
172		30 Aug 2004	†
Motion to close
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Hello. I'm James W. Rosenzweig from Washington State, and have long been an admirer/user of Wikipedia...finally decided in June of 2003 to become a contributor. I'm enjoying myself immensely and hope to be of some service. My background is a bachelor's in History and English Lit, plenty of graduate education in history (especially 16th Century religious) and most recently a Master's in Education (emphasis on Social Studies and English), but basically I like reading anything I can get my hands on, so much of my knowledge is eclectic. If anyone's working on stuff having to do with European history (especially pre-1600 England), or most things in English literature, I'd love to be involved--if I don't know it, I like learning it. Thanks for dropping by.

I am a Christian; that is, I believe in the faith established in the New Testament and described in the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed. To those who may have had negative experiences with Christians in the past, I say this: my faith involves an all-encompassing personal commitment to treat all humanity with love, to deal honorably and charitably with all I come into contact with, and to reserve judgment for God, the one true judge. I take that commitment seriously. If you ever see me saying something here that you believe perpetuates the stereotype of intolerant, hostile, or judgmental Christianity, please tell me so that I can remedy the fault, and grow personally. My faith does require me to believe certain truths about the universe, but that doesn't mean I'm here to impose them upon you or to interact with you based on my limited human perception of how well your life aligns with those truths. Questions about my faith are always welcome -- thanks for being interested.

I doubt it matters much, but in the interests of full disclosure, I am an administrator, and have been since September of 2003. If that means I can help you, please let me know here.

My Milestone Edits

Just realized I'd reached 1,000 edits...pitiful in comparison to many, but more than I ever thought I'd make. #1000 was "01:10, 30 Jan 2004 Church of the Holy Sepulchre (added a period, and changed a sentence at the end to make it less POV, in my opinion)". Let us hope that I do something more substantial in the future.
Wow, I got to 1,500 quickly -- "23:38, 13 Feb 2004 User talk:Jengod (thanks)" I should use this to remember to thank my fellow editors more often....it's better than "added a period" anyhow. :)
Number 2,000 -- "18:04, 2 Mar 2004 C. S. Lewis (general expansion, noting a couple of essay collections and another scholarly work, also a little style alteration)" Wikipedia is ultimately writing about what you love so that others are informed and enlightened. I forget that too often.
2,500 -- "20:00, 15 Mar 2004 Book of Kells (adding a picture I just uploaded, and thumbing a picture already here that seemed way too big)" I am finally learning about images and realizing their importance; must do more image adds in the future.
3,000 -- "22:08, 26 Mar 2004 (hist) m Medieval literature (Reverted edits by 80.179.202.140 to last version by 128.148.60.58)" Reverting vandalism....is this a sign I should be writing more articles, or that I'm doing necessary housekeeping? Hmmm....
3,500 -- "20:59, 22 Apr 2004 (hist) m User:Jwrosenzweig (=Other Articles=)" I think I'll take this edit as a sign that I take a little too much time with this user page -- perhaps this'll be my last milestone edit addition for a while.
4,000 -- "16:10, 8 Jun 2004 (hist) m Celeste Holm (fix link)" Who'm I kidding, I like tracking the minutiae of my editing here even when it is as ridiculously limited as this. If all I do is fix links for the next 500 edits, well, perhaps I'll avoid edit wars and arbitration cases. :-)
4,500 -- "15:46, 6 Jul 2004 (hist) User talk:Marcus2 (NES List)" Do I spend too much time on other people's talk pages? Sometimes I think I do, but then am I wasting time or promoting community? Food for thought.
5,000 -- "12:48, 13 Sep 2004 (hist) m User:TheCustomOfLife (Reverted edits by 172.162.94.204 to last version by Ezhiki)" Ah, yes, I hit the big 5 grand reverting an annoying vandal's attack on another user...I don't think I'll reflect on what this one means....

Reminder to self, Useful text, Current project, /AC candidacy, /Web of trust

Contents

1 Pages I've Created

1.1 People
1.2 Places
1.3 Other Articles
1.4 Images

2 Pages I've Modified

2.1 People
2.2 Other Articles