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[edit] July 2007

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Church of Christ. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Trusilver 06:19, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

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Do not remove warnings. Trusilver 03:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

Look, I agree with some of the things you are wanting to do. But you are being disruptive by your edits at Church of Christ. Come to the discussion page and lets work these out, one item at a time. You are in serious and immediate danger of being blocked and putting the page back into protection. JodyB yak, yak, yak 11:59, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

What exactly do you think is wrong with the current version?--Thelonghop 18:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

It is full of pov's that give a false picture of the Church of Christ and besides that it is very sloppy. You guys give all this rhetoric about discussing, etc. but the version I keep reverting to is the version that was there before various people started arbitrarily changing it and giving all these false and irrelavent ideas about Churches of Christ. This is exactly the kind of the thing that makes Wikipedia a joke to people in academia who will not allow their students to use Wikipedia as a legitimate source.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.249.12.172 (talk • contribs) 00:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree it does get a little too into the history. I've tried to merge the older and current versions. The older version tends to point out views of other Protestants more and I've tried to get rid of that to focus just on the COC. The older version also was not neutral. At points it spoke of COC beliefs as fact. I agree with them, however, the entry needs to be a factual description of what the COC believes, rather than a propaganda piece, so I've tried to make those parts neutral.--Thelonghop 03:54, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts on NI chuches of Christ page

The text on the NI churches page is just fine as is. The term "mainline" has been applied to institutional churches for decades (including by many NI Christians) and isn't remotely POV. In addition, it's used several times elsewhere in the article, so removing the definition of it at the beginning only creates confusion. Let's not get into an edit war here. Jdb1972 03:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts on Restoration Movement page

Your edit on the RM page is factually incorrect. NI churches do emphasize benevolence as a congregational activity; it's usually listed as one of the three "works of the church." It is tempered by the Biblical examples only being toward Christians, however, as the revised text now shows. While the overall text can be improved, your edit isn't an improvement. Jdb1972 03:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)