Talk:Clerk (Quaker)

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[edit] Purpose?

It doesn't seem clear to me that a clear purpose for this article has emerged. Does anyone have some thoughts on how we could give clear direction to it. Right now, it looks to me that it reads like "some stuff I think I know about clerking". --Ahc 04:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts on the purpose of this are that the primary audience should be someone who does not know about Quakerism and hears people talking about clerks and wants to get a basic understanding of what that role is in various Quaker groups. I'm not saying the article is even close to complete here, but it's a start. I'd recommend seeing what material we can gather from people who've clerked various organizations and use that as a starting point for research. I'm not a good starting point: the last time I clerked I was about 16. Thexalon 15:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest that the article could do with heavy reworking, and possibly sectioning to deal with the role of clerk in the various quaker sub-traditions. For example, it doesn't sound much like a clerk within BYM to me. SamBC 14:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

It's been clear for a long time that reworking is needed. The problem I've had is that it is not clear what this article is trying to express. If you have thoughts on a directions by all means provide some. --Ahc 04:06, 8 July 2007 (UTC)