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Nomination of Affirming Pentecostal Church International for deletion

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JParksT2023 (talk) 21:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Thoughts on Affirming Apostolic Pentecostal churches page

Hello, TheLionHasSeen! I know that we have both been involved in the editing of pages related to Pentecostalism, specifically Oneness Pentecostalism, and so I wanted to get your thoughts on an idea I have regarding the Affirming Apostolic Pentecostal churches page.

My concerns are multifold. First, it seems to me (though I may be wrong) that there is really no analogous page on Wikipedia for a set of churches/organizations within a specific denomination to have their own page in this way on the topic of sexuality, rather than a page detailing all of the views (whether in opposition to, affirming of, or neutral on the topic of sexuality) within the denomination on this topic. For example, within Template:Christianity and LGBTQ topics, there is a section on Denominational positions that has pages like Presbyterianism and homosexuality, Homosexuality and Lutheranism, Homosexuality and Baptist churches, etc., but I have not seen any page about, for example, Affirming Baptist Churches. Secondly, the page strangely includes Trinitarian Pentecostals, which are definitionally not Oneness Pentecostals. Finally, the name for the page seems both arbitrary and inaccurate. The Oneness Pentecostal page was renamed in favor of Oneness Pentecostalism over Apostolic Pentecostalism several years ago to align with the scholarly naming and to maintain WP:NPOV; why should this not apply to this page as well, as it is aligned with the same movement but differing in only one point of theology? I don't see any consistent naming convention from the sources either, so the page naming seems arbitrary.

It seems to me that the most logical thing to do would be to create a page such as Pentecostalism and Homosexuality and merge the contents into the new page to better represent all the positions taken by Pentecostal organizations (both Oneness and Trinitarian), not limited to just those affirming. What do you think of this? For a movement as large as Pentecostalism, it probably is overdue for a page such as this to exist, and it would solve the issues I've raised with the Affirming Apostolic Pentecostal churches page. Let me know your thoughts! JParksT2023 (talk) 18:50, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

I have mirrored this message at Talk:Affirming Apostolic Pentecostal churches#Thoughts on the page in its current state, please reply from there. Thank you for your response and your help! JParksT2023 (talk) 21:52, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

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A small recommendation

You seem to be a more experienced editor than I am, so maybe I am wrong, but I have a small recommendation to make, regarding your recent edits on Alabama. I do feel that more descriptive edit summaries could be used, elaborating your reason for your deletion of some tables in an article not seemingly too long to navigate. We should remember that Wikipedia editing is cooperative, and other editors should not spend too much time figuring out your rationale. As you may be able to notice, I always provide a reasoning for my edits, and I always feel that I am saving every editor watching the page some time. Additionally, I think doing so would be also teaching the newcomer reviewing our edits some general procedure and guidelines of condensing and improving an article. Hym3242 (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Nathan B2

Just saw you helped out here.[1] I have reversed hundreds of this kind of edit by Nathan B2 who keeps shoving his bizarre ecclesiology across Wikipedia. What can be done? desmay (talk) 23:00, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I think we should report this to the administrator's noticeboard. He is placing his own personal opinion against these artticles, @Desmay. - TheLionHasSeen (talk) 17:43, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Nathan B2, let this be a warning to you. If you continue with your habit of making these controversial changes across the board, you will be blocked at the administrator's noticeboard. desmay (talk) 01:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Excuse my late response, but thank you so much for your kind words! TheLionHasSeen (talk) 19:28, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Hey, TheLionHasSeen. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Wiki-Birthday from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:43, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

help on resolving a dispute

@TheLionHasSeen currently i guess i am in an edit war with an editor, i am a new editor to wiki and generally edit church related article based on what's written in the sourced information and condense poorly structured article. Apparently an editor has been reverting my edits to its old state which has no citations or sources added to it and is also factually incorrect based on the available sources in the internet (article am talking about oriental orthodox churches in India ). this editor has also been previously reverted my other edits on oriental orthodox churches, even after discussing with him on the talk page. the editor also give very poor reasons with out sources to back his claims, Since i saw your edit contributions on church related matters, could you please guide me on what i should do and is it possible for you to help me out resolve this so the information can be added on the article Livingbeta (talk) 19:31, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Livingbeta, I have seen that while you have desired to make some very needed expansive contributions to this encyclopedia; that some of your contributions have left more questions than answers. There definitely seems to be a WP:ADVOCACY of WP:CONFLICTOFINTEREST surrounding your contributions, especially with recent matters between the disputes of the Malankara Christians. Not only that, but there are huge grammatical errors as well, and I've had to revert some of your contributions in other articles for seeming POV-pushing. Then, there's an apparent lack of civility that I've noticed between you and others. - TheLionHasSeen (talk) 19:36, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I agree that there's quite a bit of civility issues Living has included in their messages, but it would do a lot of good if you ensured that your reversions had edit summaries, the lack of which seems to be heavily confusing Livingbeta. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:31, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

@Aaron Liu, duly noted! Thank you. Sometimes, it can be done without an explanation by horribly multi-tasking. TheLionHasSeen (talk) 18:58, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

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Hi, @Asilvering. Thank you for the information. Am I blocked from editing on those articles? I am a bit confused. - TheLionHasSeen (talk) 15:03, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

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