Talk:History of the Russian Orthodox Church

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This article has a really good history of monasticism within the Russian Orthodox church.[1] LoveMonkey 16:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fork?

What's the point of this fork? It makes editing rather difficult. I have edited Russian Orthodox Church at length before discovering this page. Should I merge all my edits here? This does not appear practicable. --Ghirla^-трёп- 13:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Ghirla. I created this fork. The primary purpose of it (as with many other "History of..." articles) is to allow for a much longer and detailed article to be written without making the primary article excessively long.

Now, I admit that the need for this article is debatable given the relative sizes of this article (48kb) and the parent article Russian Orthodox Church

This article alone is 48kb in size and the Russian Orthodox Church article is 55kb in length. Within the Russian Orthodox Church article, the History section is 42kb in length which suggests that there is substantial duplication between that section and this article.

This suggests two possible strategies...

(1) Merge this article back into Russian Orthodox Church

(2) Continue expanding this article and reduce the "History" section in the Russian Orthodox Church to a summary, removing excessive detail

I would argue against approach (1) because it would make the Russian Orthodox Church article even bigger and therefore less readable. Also, this is a minor point but getting rid of this article would deprive History of the Eastern Orthodox Church of a simple Wikilink.

I would suggest, therefore, that we adopt approach (2) which suggests that you should move your edits from Russian Orthodox Church here and summarize the "History" section in that article accordingly.

--Richard 18:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Richard. I appreciate you reply, but I simply lack time to move edits to and fro. What I'm reasonably certain about is that the account of the history of the church in Russian Orthodox Church, especially before the 19th century, is rather cursory, so there is no question about "removing excessive detail", at least at this point. --Ghirla^-трёп- 19:24, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

OK... what if I move your edits to the "History" section of the Russian Orthodox Church article here and then ask you to make all further edits regarding "History" to this article rather than to that article? The goal would be to keep that article from getting much longer while putting any additional content of a historical nature here. Is this acceptable to you?

--Richard 05:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)