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:On various subjects, especially 'ancient' ones, we run into varying bases, traditions, or conflicts on events. When this happens the text of the articles can be edited to note the various stories. It is not uncommon. If there are citations for sources of the variances, all the better. If you have adequate information, as it seems from the above comments, I suggest preparing and making an edit that provides the different 'stories' noting, in this case, the different traditions concerning the monasteries name. [[User:Wsk|Wsk]] 13:29, September 3, 2008 (UTC)
::No, not really ... the only problem "we" have (that is the Anglo-Saxon) is that we MUST always have something written down for it to be "correct"... a lot of these "ancient" stories are what have kept Orthodoxy alive and they hold truths in them ... I trust very much the "stories" that have been passed down through the Greek culture ... not because of my ethnicity but because the Greek people and their "stories"/"cultures"/"traditions" are what have kept the Orthodox church alive and what have enlightened a LOT of the OTHER churches :-) [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 22:40, September 3, 2008 (UTC)
 
An encyclopedia by its nature is based on outside research, not on things that the editors might have once heard someone say. A vast quantity of the information on OrthodoxWiki is, of course, based on oral traditions, but they're oral traditions that someone (often a saint!) chose to write down at some point. Once it's citable in a published work, then it's reliable for inclusion in an encyclopedia. This limitation is what keeps OrthodoxWiki from merely turning into a repository of rumors and half-truths. Once we open it up to anything anyone's ever heard some ''yiayia'' or ''babushka'' or ''taita'' say to them, then we might as well delete the whole site.
 
Let's keep it reliable and representative. What [[User:Wsk|Wsk]] is saying here is exactly the OrthodoxWiki standard, especially since there are often mutually conflicting local oral traditions on various things. We represent whatever seems to be the most widespread accounts, noting where they conflict appropriate and citing published sources whenever possible. &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 22:56, September 3, 2008 (UTC)
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