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{{Welcome}} - [[User:Andrew|Andy]] 13:06, September 17, 2010 (UTC)
 
{{Welcome}} - [[User:Andrew|Andy]] 13:06, September 17, 2010 (UTC)
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== Articles must be relevant to Orthodoxy ==
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Dear Paulglass4u:
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After some discussion with [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]], founder and lead sysop, I've deleted the articles you recently added on Lutheranism, Protestantism, and Old Catholicism.
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An important feature of the subject orientation OrthodoxWiki is that articles should pertain to Orthodox Christianity. (See [[OrthodoxWiki:About|the article on what OrthodoxWiki is about]].) An article about the (purely hypothetical) Middle Earth Faux Baptist Convention would need to include information about the relations between Middle Earth Faux Baptists and Middle Earth Orthodox (such as Saint Gandalf the White), if there are any. Otherwise, users are free to use the Wikipedia project to learn more about the Middle Earth Faux Baptists.
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I should note that a few of the pages you added had been deleted multiple times previously, so you're certainly not the first editor to make this mistake.
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There is quite a lot to be said about the relationship of Orthodoxy to the sects and movements you were speaking of (think [[Cyril Lucaris]], for example). However, such pages need to be concise and exclusively focused on their relations to Orthodoxy.
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Thanks for your work editing. Let me know if you have any questions. --[[User:Basil|Basil]] 23:29, September 21, 2010 (UTC)

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Articles must be relevant to Orthodoxy

Dear Paulglass4u:

After some discussion with FrJohn, founder and lead sysop, I've deleted the articles you recently added on Lutheranism, Protestantism, and Old Catholicism.

An important feature of the subject orientation OrthodoxWiki is that articles should pertain to Orthodox Christianity. (See the article on what OrthodoxWiki is about.) An article about the (purely hypothetical) Middle Earth Faux Baptist Convention would need to include information about the relations between Middle Earth Faux Baptists and Middle Earth Orthodox (such as Saint Gandalf the White), if there are any. Otherwise, users are free to use the Wikipedia project to learn more about the Middle Earth Faux Baptists.

I should note that a few of the pages you added had been deleted multiple times previously, so you're certainly not the first editor to make this mistake.

There is quite a lot to be said about the relationship of Orthodoxy to the sects and movements you were speaking of (think Cyril Lucaris, for example). However, such pages need to be concise and exclusively focused on their relations to Orthodoxy.

Thanks for your work editing. Let me know if you have any questions. --Basil 23:29, September 21, 2010 (UTC)