User talk:ColdFairy
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April 2023[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Template talk:Infobox clergy, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — Archer1234 (t·c) 17:57, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
My bad. I was contributing to removing links to disambugation pages. From now on I will only correct disambiguation links in the mainspace from now on.ColdFairy (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)- Just read the guideline. Fixing links that lead to disambiguation pages are allowed. Quoting directly from the guidelines.
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That's exactly what I did. I fixed the link from Laicization (a disambigutaion page) to Loss of clerical state. As I previously iterated, fixing links is allowed. ColdFairy (talk) 01:29, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- Ah. ok. I had not realized at the time that it was a disambiguation page. I should have looked more closely. Sorry about that. There has been a long history of confusion and overlap amongst 'Laicization', 'Laicization (Catholic Church)', 'Loss of clerical state', and 'Defrocking' (and perhaps others). Back in June 2019 when that comment was originally made, it appears that 'laicization' was a redirect to 'defrocking'. In any event, even though it may have redirected originally to 'defrocking', it appears from the comment itself that 'loss of clerical state' is what the commenter was describing. Thanks for digging into the guideline and following-up with an explanation. Happy editing. — Archer1234 (t·c) 01:26, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
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