User talk:Tom Major

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Hey man! Thanks for joining. I need some help with categories and basic organizational stuff. I am by no means a webmaster, I simply own the site. We'd love to have you in whatever capacity you'd be willing to help in. I see on the Theopedia you're a webmaster and it would be great to have you as one here. Matt is the webmaster now, but doesn't have loads of time to add info. A friend gave us a great start, his name is Nbondt but recently he has been in full-time ministry and hasn't had the time to give direction to the Wiki. If you're able to implement some basic wiki principles around here that would be awesome.

Things like:

• Help pages, naming conventions, rules, things like that. We've copied some of that from Wikipedia but it would be nice to have those basic things in place
• Proper use of categories would really help to organize our list of brethren assemblies
• Re-organizing of the assembly list. Noel was using an old list which was mostly assemblies in North America, therefore when folks come on from the UK, or India the site isn't really helpful to them. Some organized way (categories perhaps) to list all assemblies in the world by country, then by province.

Anything else really. Our goal is to be able to document all of the info about the assemblies that is at this stage just floating around in people's heads. We have a very rich heritage in our churches but because of our "autonomous" nature we don't often write down the great things God has done, or even know the history of our own assembly, let alone that of others.

Thanks for the offer, hope to see you around! --User:Shawn 14:55, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

Mind making me a sysop or other admin? --Ymmotrojam 15:52, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

I don't actually know how :) But I am in favor of it. Also, I'm on a missions trip until the end of August so I'll talk to Matt at that time. Until then is there anything that you can start using your wiki skills on? --User:Shawn 16:22, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

Hmm.. you probably wouldn't be able to anyways, cause you are only a sysop yourself. I'll see what else I can do until then. --Ymmotrojam 16:25, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

Thanks boss, we really appreciate it! --User:Shawn 16:28, 23 July 2006 (EDT)

I'm back, I've asked Matt to make you an admin--User:Shawn 18:46, 18 August 2006 (EDT)

I appreciate it. Seeing the amount of spam though that basically undid all the revisions I did though makes me want to just start this wiki from scratch with newer technologies. --Ymmotrojam 18:52, 18 August 2006 (EDT)

Seems like Matt has spam under control. Would it be possible to work on Categories? Or at least lay out a basic framework for us to follow? All the stuff above would be great to at least get started, or point us in the right direction so we can follow your lead. Thanks bro --User:Shawn 14:09, 6 September 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Why is there so much spam (and other questions)

It seems I've deleted spam from dozens and dozens of articles. How does this get there?

Also, why are there so many empty article, like March 1? That seems like a pretty useless article, even in the future. I can see having an empty article about a movement or a historic figure, but some of these don't make sense to me.

Some of the articles that have been written have links all through them, probably far more than are necessary. I don't see that at the original wikipedia web site, and wondered by the Brethren one has so many of them. Don't mean to complain, just wondering. Thanks. 65.57.106.27 17:56, 6 December 2006 (EST)

The reason is because this website has little or no spam protection whatsoever. --Tom 19:23, 6 December 2006 (EST)

Hey Tom, great stuff cleaning up. Where all those pages spammed? Nasty. Thanks for you help. What does the sidebar 'maintenance page' do? --142.177.240.235 16:28, 21 February 2007 (EST)

The maintenance thing is just temporary to help us find spam where it most likely is... on user talk pages and talk pages in the main namespace. Most talk pages haven't been created by humans. --Tom 16:41, 21 February 2007 (EST)