Talk:Second Council of Ephesus

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Astonishingly "POV" title! --Wetman 21:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

So I moved it --Henrygb 22:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Astonishingly "POV" article

[edit] Neutrality?

Uses only Catholic/Western sources. Could benefit from use of Orthodox/Eastern sources for a more balanced perspective. Haphazardmind 21:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

That's a pretty vague ground for tagging the whole article as disputed. The policy for adding the "disputed" tag states

The above label is meant to indicate that a discussion is ongoing, and hence that the article contents are disputed and volatile. If you add the above code to an article which seems to be biased to you, but there is no prior discussion of the bias, you need to at least leave a note on the article's talk page describing what you consider unacceptable about the article. The note should address the problem with enough specificity to allow constructive discussion towards a resolution, such as identifying specific passages, elements, or phrasings that are problematic.

Here I see no dispute. You have an idea for making the article better; that's great. If you get a chance, go ahead and do it. I don't see a dispute. So, removing the tag. Mrhsj 17:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

-I actually agree that it is a huge problem to use the Catholic Encyclopedia as your only source. Only a non-scholar or Catholic would not see this problem (think - it has an inherent bias built in AND its pretty dated "scholarship"). It may be vague (a better criticism would be general), but it is far from unfounded. There must be hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on this council or at least thousands on the history, dogma, and culture of the early Christian Church. I mean, what if we asked a 16th century pope for his opinion on Martin Luther? These early councils had huge ramifications that continue to resonate today, and they should be described and analyzed in "objective" terms for an encyclopedia. 24.179.180.180 21:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)lostinminnesota

I'm well aware of the problems of relying on Catholic Encyclopedia (and can do without the ad hominem criticism). In fact one of my very first substantial wikipedia edits was a rewrite of a very biased article from the same source. But that has nothing to do with the "disputed" tag. This article simply is not "disputed" according to the Wikipedia policy cited above. Mrhsj 21:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)