Talk:Steve Benford

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There is a problem or two with this page.

1. All the sources i have seen for the Reverend Fr. Dr.Steve Benford's appointment to follow, as Bishop of Dunedin, have turned to be based on rehashing just one press release including details of his career so far. There are sources independent of this press release for his past career.

My understanding is that a Wikipedia article should not be based on a press release however this could be considered satisfactory for the fact of his appointment as Bishop designate but the rest of the press release needs to be substantiated.

2, The reason for creating an article for this "lesser known person" is that my opinion was that he was going to achieve even higher office in just a few more years. Though i now have more information that makes me unsure of my belief, that is still my prognosis but as the saying goes "it is hard to make a prediction, especially about the future" (attributed, or misattributed, to Sam Goldwyn). In particular a Bishop or Archbishop (which Benford is likely to be the next of) in New Zealand is not anywhere as prestigious as in England. There is no established church in that country which has separation of church and state. The numbers of the Anglican Confession are even fewer than set out in the Wikipedia article on "Religion in New Zealand". The number of worshippers on any Sunday is minuscule. In that country an Archbishop is just one of the seven bishops acting in that capacity.

If i were to list all the functions that Fr. Steve (as he likes to be called if not just Steve) performs, such as, vetting candidates for ordination and mentoring newly ordained priests, inter alia, you would see why i see he has prospects. He is an original thinker, tackling difficult questions with great intelligence but moderated with remarkable strength of faith. He is very knowledgeable but that is not in any way unusual as all ministers i have encountered as my minister are so.

Now the problem is how do i find sources to substantiate all this?

One more reason to consider that he will achieve high office is that he is NOT naive despite being totally sincere in his overwhelming faith. This is not the forum to discuss that point further. He has followed a double career of medicine and religion which is now a characteristic of those in high office in the Church of England.

Most of what i have said i know from word of mouth but as it is said "how do i photocopy oral sources?" I am in the process of gathering sources for these facts.

However, as one of the administrators has told me i am not the right person to continue writing about Steve Benford. I agree with that opinion but for different reason than him ( "Eggishorn (talk) (contrib)" )

What i would like to do is gather more sourced facts and put them at the disposal of someone who would rewrite the article. I could put all that on my talk page. I will however do a minor edit of inserting his date of birth and the names of his (grown) children. (The press release got his age wrong.) These 2 facts i got from Benford when trying to interview him in which he ended the interview after just these two facts.

I am hoping that these comments above will come to the attention of someone who will help with this article.

Rameshkkhanna (talk) 18:21, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Rameshkkhanna (talk) 18:28, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Rameshkkhanna (talk) 17:03, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

I agree that it is a lot of information for a person of little interest. Perhaps this page could be reduced to a paragraph of well referenced material. FairDinks (talk) 05:48, 8 February 2021 (UTC)