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I am a University Professor with a great deal of experience editing research and similar manuscripts. I am told that I have violated your NPOV policy, but cant see where. Please point out the offending sentences/paragraphs and I will amend it?

Prof. Ashley G. Frank, DCom, MBA Please help me with...

HolyOil (talk) 22:39, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've been patrolling recent changes, mostly dealing with vandalism and edits blatantly violating NPOV, far beyond anything you've contributed. Your work on the article is welcome, but it seems like you're writing from the perspective of the church itself instead of a neutral observer. In particular the sentence "Its unbroken chain of apostolic succession has been faithfully preserved." raises some red flags with me, but this isn't my area of expertise. The apostolic succession article treats it as something which is claimed by churches, rather than a definitive achievement.

Overall I'm happy to see you helping with Wikipedia and I didn't mean to discourage you. I hope you keep it up, and I'm sure you'll do fine if you keep the NPOV policy in mind. If other editors have specific concerns, they'll let you know. —Guan aco 22:59, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would expect that, as a university professor, you're well aware of what kinds of sources are reliable. Accepting their own website as the sole source for such claims as having "faithfully preserved" apostolic succession doesn't seem like academic rigor to me; is that the standard you'd apply when writing a paper for publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal? Other parts of the content you wrote cited no references at all but the Bible; the last time I read the KJV, it didn't have anything to say about the Evangelical Anglican Church In America. Thus to me it seems you were mostly summarizing what the EACA has to say about itself, not what independent sources have reported about it; that indeed is not the way to write a neutral encyclopedia article. Huon (talk) 02:12, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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