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Section size for Conditional preservation of the saints (36 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,920	9,920
Historical background	2,950	19,541
Arminius and conditional security	5,181	5,181
The Remonstrants and conditional security	2,854	2,854
Other Arminians who affirmed conditional security	8,556	8,556
Apostasy: definition and dangers	38	17,334
The definition of apostasy	12,021	12,021
The dangers of apostasy	5,275	5,275
Biblical support	195	246,968
Conditional security in the Old Testament	4,137	4,137
Conditional security in the teachings of Jesus	29,198	29,198
Conditional security in the book of Acts	3,440	3,440
Conditional security in the writings of the apostle Paul	80,060	80,060
Conditional security in the book of Hebrews	43,715	43,715
Conditional security in the book of James	8,389	8,389
Conditional security in the books of 2 Peter and Jude	21,627	21,627
Conditional security in the epistles of John	21,915	21,915
Conditional security in the book of Revelation	23,706	23,706
New Testament Greek in support of conditional security	6,177	6,177
Scriptures that appear to contradict conditional security	4,409	4,409
Agreements and disagreements with opposing views	221	13,742
Calvinist view	2,443	2,443
Calvinists agree with Arminians on the need for persevering in faith	3,374	3,374
Free Grace view	2,701	2,701
Calvinists agree with Arminians against the Free Grace view	5,003	5,003
Christian denominations that affirm the possibility of apostasy	15,135	15,135
See also	230	230
Notes and references	25	647
Citations	31	31
Sources	591	591
Further reading	20	9,087
General	4,316	4,316
Multiple views	285	285
Arminian view	2,299	2,299
Calvinist view	973	973
Free grace view	1,194	1,194
Total	332,604	332,604

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This page currently has 421,261 bytes of markup code. That's too by by far. What's the best way t split it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:32, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are only about 31,000 characters of readable prose in the article body, per XTools, so I don't think splitting the article is advisable. The problem is all the footnotes in support of each position. I have not seen so many detailed notes in any other article. Indyguy (talk) 13:45, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Whether the bulk is in body for footnote is irrelevant to someone on slow connection, or a metered mobile service. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing, Onetwothreeip, David Schroder, and ClassArm: Hello guys, I don't feel directly concerned about the size of the file itself, but the article doesn't seems to comply with encyclopedia standards (notes are too long). I'm well placed to say it because I recently tempted to translate its 421,261 bytes as is into french (it took a while). But eventually, I was asked to rebuilt the article differently. Actually, the "Biblical support" session contains correct information :

Biblical verses (primary sources) are associated with comments (in notes) made by Arminian theologians (secondary sources) showing how their own interpretation of these verses supports their view. This content has already been discussed here and is valid in itself, but not the way it is presented : The notes should be completely summarized and shifted into the body of the article which should only refers to the bible verses numbers and the references of the secondary sources. ----Telikalive (talk) 07:24, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Shifting the notes (that have been summarized) into the body of the article seems fair enough. Of course, that will take a lot of time to do it well. I will give it a try when I am able.ClassArm (talk) 01:17, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ClassArm: Thank you for your current revision of the article. I have a remark : The way your are shaping the article right now, is really better than the former one. It presents now a better character of readability and accessibility. Presented like that your article would be extremely useful on a website like http://evangelicalarminians.org/. I encourage you to propose it to be posted there, because it's a wonderful apologetic article. An apologetic article has the purpose to give as many as possible relevant arguments in order to CONVINCE that conditional preservation is true. An encyclopaedic article has the purpose to explain in a synthetic way what is the conditional preservation and why some Arminians believe in it.

Having said that, I think there are still 2 remaining problems with your new article: WP:LONGQUOTE, WP:QUOTEFARM. As I said above, I already attempted to translate your article in French: The biblical support chapter was judged "inappropriate in an encyclopaedia" and then simply deleted. I would recommend to simply remove this chapter. I know it's very difficult, but ideally I would replace it by a chapter written with your own words, simply listing only the main arguments Arminian theologians use to justify their position. In the notes you would just mention the passage reference in the book of your Arminian author (secondary source), and the bible verse reference only (primary source). The chapter apostasy also should be suppressed or summed up because it is in double with Apostasy in Christianity. On the other hand, Apostasy in Christianity on which you contributed has exactly the same characteristic problems. For your information I re-opened the Wikipedia:WikiProject Arminianism in order to increase the number of assessed articles and to improve those requiring it. ---Telikalive (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Length/structure of "Biblical support" section

I just added Template:Very long section to the "Biblical support" section. I see the discussion from last year, which explains (I think) why so much of the text is in the article body rather than in footnotes. But @Telikalive's comments from that discussion are still relevant - we should replace the long paragraphs of quotation with encyclopedic prose that summarizes the arguments made for this position, with references to the relevant Biblical passages and theological/scholarly sources. Ideally this process will also help to focus the section on the most notable passages/arguments on this topic - I don't know which those are, and the fact that at the moment this section has, e.g., almost 8,000 words on the Epistle to the Hebrews alone, the vast majority of which are quotations, makes it difficult to come away from the article with a good understanding of which the salient points are. --Opus 113 (talk) 08:57, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]