User talk:Father Leonard

Dear Leonard: In Wikipedia we don't use POV or special religious terminology. When someone dies, she/he dies, it doesn't matter if he/she was a Muslim journalist, an Orthodox bishop or an atheist shoemaker. Wikipedia is for everyone. Please read all relevant Wikipedia policies before reverting. Thanks. --Damián A. Fernández Beanato (talk) 16:14, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Patriarchate

Hi, again! You could disambiguate which Ecumenical Patriarchate is that article referring to. Thanks! --Damián A. Fernández Beanato (talk) 16:53, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

A friendly warning

You really shouldn't remove maintenance templates the way you did. You wrote "Reference to British Orthodox Church leaving Coptic Patriarchate." but there is no such reference. The 'references' in the article are actually notes. You added promotional material with this edit which was also a copyright violation. I'll leave you a longer message about that with links. The lack of reliable sources (see WP:RS is particularly a problem as the article discusses living people and thus falls under our WP:BLP policy. Doug Weller (talk) 15:47, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Father Leonard, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Celtic Orthodox Church has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and a cited source. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Doug Weller (talk) 15:47, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Father Leonard. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Celtic Orthodox Church, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 11:22, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Fr Leonard responds: There is a warning on the Celtic Orthodox Church article, that a 'A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.' I am that contributor. I always try to be neutral. Most of my contributions have been to remove or correct information added by others who have either no knowledge or erroneous notions, or both, regarding the COC. I hope I have avoided any bias or misrepresentation.

Capitalisation of common nouns

Please follow the established capitalisation principles of Wikipedia's Manual of Style (MOS) which are also those of all contemporary English style guides. Nouns are not capitalised unless they are part of proper names. This includes "church". While some churches follow an idiosyncratic inhouse style of capitalising "church" and some other terms this is not the accepted practise on Wikipedia. Yahboo (talk) 14:18, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

For further information please see MOS:INSTITUTIONS, particularly this: "Generic words for institutions, organizations, companies, etc., and rough descriptions of them (university, college, hospital, church, high school) do not take capitals". Regards, Yahboo (talk) 14:47, 21 June 2018 (UTC)