User talk:Oxyphenbutazone

Thank for posting

Thank for posting

Thank you for posting corrections on the NT Greek manuscript pages. I have been working hard on and off for over a year to get these pages up to date, accurate, and useful. When I found the pages, they were tatters of out of date and incomplete information and errors. I worked on the minuscules first because many of them were not even listed at all. Then I started working on majuscules / uncials, and left off on 070 before I went on vacation. I came back and did a double-take, thinking I must have put in my findings on 070, but then realizing it was someone else! Then one of my next tasks was to clean up the abschrift info, and you did that too! I am still finding and fixing errors, but am hopeful that the more useful pages will be attractive to those who are newly introduced to this field, with the hopes that they will be drawn in further. Once the uncial page is finished, then I am thinking about moving on to the lectionary page. Thanks again! ChickDaniels (talk) 16:57, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, ChickDaniels! I had noticed that the minuscules were looking much, much less patchy these days (especially in the 2000s). I do feel that, thanks to all your work, we're getting well toward what Wikipedia should be for New Testament Textual Criticism – which is after all a discipline that relies on the sort of basic factually accurate data that is ideal for an encyclopedia. To be honest, I'd been troubled for probably too long that what is virtually an FAQ on the New Testament Textual Criticism page on Facebook – how many manuscripts (total/papyri/uncials/minuscules/lectionaries) there are – has been quite so difficult to get a reasonably accurate answer on (and don't get me started on Porter and Pitts getting the number of uncials an order of magnitude out). So it was really with that in mind that I've been focussing my spare time these last couple of days (especially with 070, which is just a shocking indictment of the antiquities market really). And now that we have that visual editor thing, I feel comfortable enough with not messing up tables on here. Looking ahead, I'll probably get on with creating articles for some of the important minuscules that don't have articles yet, when I get a moment. 𝐨𝐱𝐲𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐵𝑈𝑇𝐴𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸 ⓊⓉ 21:08, 1 August 2017 (UTC)