As a member of COGIC, there is every bit a reason to include the Holiness Origins and the adoption of Pentecostalism as well as the growth and development of our church under each leader. We trace our history through our leaders. We are a Holiness-Pentecostal Church and have distinctives of both traditions. This is OUR history not yours! Second, as someone who has recited the Statement of Faith all my life, to "summarize as you put it" is another great offense. If you were a member of COGIC (yes without the "the" because that is the way that we refer to our church) you would know these things. If you want to "help" improve this article, make sure you are qualified to do so.

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You have been replacing promotional adjectives removed from the above article, eg. most influential which I had changed to "influential", & the removal of a small percentage of the excessive use of individual names, & of the removal of meaningless phrases, such as "to name a few" and "as well"; You've also reverted every attempt I made at shortening the prose. I have reverted your edits. I am trying to make a more effective tighter article, more conforming to our encyclopedic style.

Considering the earlier comments about copyright, it seems as if you are trying to conform the article to a prebuilt text, possibly as a Close paraphrase. Besides such consideration, please see WP:OWN.

I intend furthermore to remove the "Mother" and "Bishop" designations except for the first mention of each individual. We do not use them. DGG ( talk ) 03:08, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Reverting my edit on Church of God in Christ

I think your reversion of my edit is mistaken. You have correctly ascertained that I deleted those individuals for a lack of notability, per Wikipedia policy. As a matter of fact, the list is specifically called Notable clergy. As such, it must only contain individuals sufficiently notable to have their own articles. Per WP:NOTABILITY, "For instance, articles about schools often include (or link to) a list of notable alumni/alumnae, but such lists are not intended to contain everyone who attended the school — only those with verifiable notability." This is also spelled out in Wikipedia's Manual of Style on lists: "the lead makes clear whether the list is complete or whether it is limited to widely-known or notable members (i.e., those that merit articles)." (Bold mine)

Your church membership may give you certain knowledge and insight to contribute to articles, but it also may make it more difficult to contribute from a neutral point of view, an essential Wikipedia tenet. So, rather than citing what you presume is my religious identification, please find me a Wikipedia policy that contradicts my reasoning in deleting those clergy without articles. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 21:28, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to restore my edit. If you feel the urge to revert again, please discuss here first. I'm willing to talk this over but have yet to see a Wikipedia policy aligning with the older version of the list. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 23:55, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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