Talk:Thomasine Church

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[edit] History of the "Thomasine Church" page

This page has a complicated history:

  1. The first article entitled "Thomasine Church" was created 6 March 2005. It described a modern American religious group, which apparently is extremely tiny and quite new: [1].
  2. The article was nominated for deletion, and deletion won the vote 22 Oct 2005. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Thomasine_Church
  3. A backup copy of the original page was hosted in user space. It can be found at User:Snowspinner/Thomasine Church. A copy of the old Talk page is at User talk:Snowspinner/Thomasine Church.
  4. The page "Thomasine Church" was then made into a redirect, redirecting to Saint Thomas Christians.
  5. Nonetheless, after this time, many links to this page persisted -- none of which actually were relevant to the Saint Thomas Christians page.
  6. On 26 Feb 2006, this page was changed to a disambiguation page, as described below.

[edit] The current version of this page

The current disambiguation page refers to three uses of "Thomasine" in a religious setting:

  • As a synonym for Saint Thomas Christians
  • As a general term for the School of Saint Thomas
  • To refer to the modern Thomasine Church (the subject of the original page)

Since all of these are referred to as "Thomasine" in Wikipedia (including Talk pages) this disambiguation seemed necessary.

Note, however, that the third bullet is not an internal link, because the vote to delete the page for the modern Thomasine church stands as Wiki-policy. Lawrence King 02:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

On 4 March, User:Cryptic removed the third bullet, since we don't disambiguate terms that don't have Wikipedia articles. Hopefully this won't lead to confusion, since the term "Thomasine Church" appears 25 times in Wikipedia articles, almost always in reference to the now-deleted bullet. Lawrence King 01:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup of references to this page

I cleaned up all the references to "Thomasine Church" that I could find in Wikipedia. When appropriate, I redirected them to the proper place, or replaced them with external links. When they appeared to be advertisements for the modern Thomasine Church in inappropriate places, I removed them. This seems to follow the spirit of the deletion ruling. Lawrence King 02:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)