Talk:Methodist Rome

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[edit] Methodism

I sometimes delete the category for Methodism (hoping it will stick!) because I don't see the relevance. I am a seminary-trained United Methodist pastor, and I have never seen a reference to Toronto (?) as any kind of Methodist center. No theologian that I've ever read, no history book...nothing. With all due respect, it seems like a Canadian phenomenon, and not a truly Methodist thing. It is apparently something that is entirely unique to Canada. So, I sometimes delete it from a category I feel is inappropriate. KHM03 21:52, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

You likely haven't heard of it because it is no longer true. Only a very small Methodist church exists today in Canada, as it the Methodists merged into the United Church of Canada in the 1920s. Toronto was a centre of Methodism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but no longer is. It is an obscure topic, but in some ways it is even more important to well categorize obscure topics as the major ones are already well interlinked. Your removing the cat is also somewhat ironic, as Category:Methodism was created by me when I discovered there was no good category for this article. - SimonP 23:10, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

My point is that it may have been a center for Canadian Methodism, but never for American. That's my quandary. KHM03 23:51, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure why that's a problem. Heck, even if the nickname was based on a stereotype that was never true (but it was, believe me, Toronto used to be so straightlaced it made a sunday in a scotch village seem like a hashish dream) - it was historically called by the name The Methodist Rome and the article seems to be a fairly accurate description of the historical usage. Even if the article is only about Methodism in Canada, deleting it from Methodism would only be appropriate if you moved it to a subcategory like Category:Methodism in Canada. After all, Uranus is in category Category:Planets of the Solar System, but it's hardly every planet. WilyD 14:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)