Talk:Foursquare Church

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Structure section

User:Avatar317, please read WP:ABOUTSELF, which says in relevant part: Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities, without the self-published source requirement that they be published experts in the field . . . There is no reason why the Foursquare Church's bylaws cannot be used as a source to describe the denomination's internal organization. What is more beneficial to the article: having a section that identifies how the denomination is structured or having no structure section at all? Every other church article on Wikipedia has a section on internal organization, and often these sections are heavily sourced from bylaws and other internal documents. Ltwin (talk) 05:59, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ltwin: The reason we use INDEPENDENT sources is so that articles aren't WP:UNDUE ly full of excessive detail about an organization/corporation/entity that is of interest only to that org/com/entity's marketing department and a few who adore the corporation. We don't devote multiple paragraphs to the corporate structure of a company unless it is documented in Independent Sources that the company has some NOTABLE type of management structure/hierarchy.

There may be many articles which you can find as counter-examples to my statement, but that only shows how many low-quality articles exist in Wikipedia; it doesn't speak to the POLICY which governs this. ---Avatar317^(talk) 16:48, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

No. Structures of churches is important because structure reflects the church's theology. Does the church believe in a central authority? Are bishops in charge? Are local congregations in charge? All of those are important reflections of the church's teachings. There is nothing "promotional" in describing how a church's hierarchy functions. And as for policy, Wikipedia has a policy using self-published sources in this case, WP:ABOUTSELF. Furthermore, the church's organization does not have to be "notable." Per WP:NNC, notability guidelines don't apply to content within articles. The Foursquare Church is notable, so we can have an article that not only describes its history and beliefs but also how it organizes itself. Yes, we should keep the main things the main things, but one section briefly describing the denomination's organization is not going to break the article. Ltwin (talk) 18:35, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 26 December 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:09, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

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The Foursquare Church → Foursquare Church – Use of "The" is inconsistent in literature and on the Church's own websites and history. Facts707 (talk) 12:37, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

• Support per nom and WP:THE. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.