8 responses to “Wikipedia”

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   Anonymous

   05/08/2006

   Wikipedia
   It has occured to me when editting the pages for St Mary’s and the Diocese of G&G that the whole area of adding info to Wikis is a minefield for the unwary. As a rule, I will not add any information to the personal page for anyone living. In my mind that is up to the person in question.

   I have added the list of Provosts – thanks Kelvin for correcting my description of the dual role – and Bishops of the combined see, complete with a picture of the left hand plaque at St Mary’s.

   Kelvin, your observation about the online Britanica, reminds me that as a result of this recent activity on Wikipedia, I have turned to Bishop Goldie’s book on the SEC. I have a second edition, from 1976. Bishop Goldie in the preface to the second edition remarks that the major revision was the addition of the twelth chapter updating the book from the 1951 edition. Is a third edition is order now?

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   Anonymous

   05/08/2006

   Info on the Living

   The accepted convention on WP is that you are not supposed to edit your own WP entry but to leave it to others.

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3. 

   Elizabeth

   05/08/2006

   parish confusion

   For the uninitiated, what does the SEC have if not parishes? I mean, it has churches . . . aren’t they parishes?

   I’m confused!

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4. 

   Moyra

   05/08/2006

   Charges

   The SEC has charges, the Church of Scotland has parishes.

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5. 

   Moyra

   05/08/2006

   And confusion is a perfectly normal state of affairs in all matters to do with the church.

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6. 

   Anonymous

   05/08/2006

   Charges vs Congregations

   In the C of E or the C of S or indeed the RC Church in the UK, a parish usually designates a geographical territory which has a status in either canon or civil law or both.

   Scottish Episcopal Congregations are all gathered communities.

   At various times and in various ways in different SEC dioceses there were attempts to define Pastoral Areas to function as parish-like geographical entities.

   The fundamental geographic territorical entity in the SEC is the diocese. If you ask me, geographical territory is so last century. In the internet age, the very idea is threatened and challenged on all kinds of levels. 

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7. 

   Anonymous

   06/08/2006

   Trophy Spice

   However.

   As I look around the net, I find that on at least one occassion, I’ve posted something written about a bishop which had a trophy spouse and kids line in it, though I think I copied it from someone else. Just goes to show that one can be inconsistent. 

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8. 

   Elizabeth

   06/08/2006

   To congregate and to solve

   Aha! Thanks for clarifying my confusion. Gathered communities vs. geographical boundaries makes much sense.

   I suspect I picked up the parish confusion (along with countless others) from the source of most of my church knowledge – an amalgam of impressions from English novels and sketchy memories of childhood church activity in the ECUSA (we called the basement room, site of so many ventures and misadventures, the parish hall).

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