User talk:Matthewrobinson

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[edit] Shhh

Obviously no-one has told that using all capitals is SHOUTING and we do not shout here. I have moved a page of yours to User:Matthewrobinson/lodges. When you have fixed the capitalisation and explained what A.F. and A.M. are, you can move it back to List of A.F. and A.M. recognized lodges in North America. -- RHaworth 07:26, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Matthewrobinson/lodges

I took a look at your mock up of the "A.F. & A.M." page and have noticed some major problems with it. First, "A.F. & A.M." stands for "Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons", not "Accepted Free & Ancient Masonry." This is extremely important because many grand lodges do not go by "A.F. & A.M.". They go by "F. & A.M." for just "Free and Accepted Masons." This occurs because of a split within the grandlodge of england during the 18th century. When lodges were formed in the US and the rest of North America, some were chartered as "A.F. & A.M." and some were charterd as "F. & A.M." depending on which side of the split chartered them. For example, my GL is the GL of Connecticut, which is "A.F. & A.M." While, the GL of New York is "F. & A.M.". Furthermore, all Prince Hall GL's are "F. & A.M." and not "A.F. & A.M." You can see [| here] all the US Grand Lodges and if they go by "A.F. & A.M." or "F. & A.M."

The next major problem with the page is that it pretty much exists already as List_of_Masonic_Grand_Lodges and if published will almost certainly be voted as an wikipedia:AFD. There has been alot of debate on the List_of_Masonic_Grand_Lodges talk page about this subject and I would suggest taking a look at that before you attempt this page. Just some friendly advice :) Chtirrell 17:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

It's also a violation of WP:NOT, in that WP is not a list of links. MSJapan 18:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)