Talk:Fundamental Epistle

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[edit] re: quotes

I noticed that in March, you deleted all the quotations from Fundamental Epistle article, without any discussion whatsoever. I'm sure your intention was to "clean up the article", and remove large quotations, which, I imagine you might say, would belong in a Wikitext article or something. However, by deleting those quotations, you deleted a substantial amount of work that someone (namely me) had done to collect those quotations from out of Augustine's works. It seems to me that it would have been more appropriate to suggest moving the material to Wikitext - or wherever you think it should go - instead of completely deleting material (and a few hours of work), which was relevant to the topic - "Manichaean texts", and which other people researching that topic would likely be interested in seeing. Jimhoward72 (talk) 19:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

The lengthy quotes I removed here and here would be better suited for WikiQuotes.

To quote Wikipedia:Quotations:

Wikipedia is, at its core, an encyclopedia, and not an opportunity to list the best and worst quotations pertaining to an article's subject. If there are many quotations, please move them to Wikiquote and place a Wikiquote template on the article to inform readers that there are relevant quotations regarding the subject.

I hope this clears things up for you. If you have more comments or questions, please let me know. Kingturtle (talk) 19:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright - my only question would be, since these quotes were basically everything we have from a particular historical/religious text, namely, the Fundamental Epistle, why wouldn't it make sense to create a wiki-text article, instead of a wiki-quote article? Would it matter if it were a wiki-text article instead?Jimhoward72 (talk) 19:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
In discussing this matter with another admin, WikiQuotes would probably be the best direction for this, although there would be nothing wrong with WikiSource. Kingturtle (talk) 20:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)