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February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to National Baptist Convention, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. When several entities use the same name or one one title may refer to several different topics, Wikipedia maintains disambiguation pages to help users determine which article addresses their topic of interest. Please do not redirect legitimate disambiguation pages to point to just one topic. Orlady (talk) 00:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Orlady. I believe a better disambiguation page for these conventions would be National Baptists and not National Baptist Convention. National Baptist Convention is the historic reference to the oldest and largest Black baptist convention. When someone types in National Baptist Convention, they will generally be looking for the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. because that is the conventions known reference. None of the other conventions use that name only NBCUSA. I was going to create a National Baptists page for the current information that appears on the National Baptist Convention page and redirect that page to the historic convention for which it is universally known.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nationalbaptists (talk • contribs)

See WP:Disambiguation for discussion of the purpose of these pages -- it's not to explain the topic, but to help users who have encountered an ambiguous term to determine which of several topics they are looking for. The name National Baptist Convention is one that needs disambiguation, as indicated by the fact that the disambiguation page has existed for almost 5 years and has been edited by several contributors. Wikipedia is not going to identify your denomination (nor any of the others) as the One True Meaning of "National Baptist." --Orlady (talk) 02:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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April 2011

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