Talk:Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

A good start
But beefing-up is needed, viz.:

- The Wiki article on the Western Massachusetts Diocese explicitly names the parts of Massachusetts it comprises. This one doesn't; fix.

- Stated another way, why does an Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, as depicted in the illustration, bafflingly seem to comprise only half the state? Is there a Diocese of Eastern Massachusetts we're not being told about? Stated yet another way, wouldn't a Diocese of Massachusetts include a Diocese of Western Massachusetts? Explain.

- I don't call a graphic without any names a map. Some of the regions seem to be states of the U.S.; others are not. What are they? Add labels.

- For that matter, the article on the Western Massachusetts Diocese says that in 1901 it broke from the diocese treated in the present article. At the risk of being obvious, that event seems to have altered your very identity. Explain.

- Wikipedia is for general readers. What is a "suffragan" bishop? What does it mean for an entity to be "Low Church"? What does that adjectival phrase mean, when we haven't been told what "Low Church," the noun, means? Granted, these terms are hyperlinked to where we can read about them, but it'd be nice to provide a phrase or two of explanation.

- In paragraph 7, sentence 2, "its" is referent-less. Rhetorically I read it as: Trinity Church, Boston is a Low-Church parish of Church of the Advent, Boston. Does not compute. For that matter, by use of "however" in sentence 1, how is "Anglo-Catholic" an antonym, or partial antonym, of "Low Church"? Explain, if only briefly.

- Hyperlink "chasuble." I don't reckon too many people in America will know what it means. I'd say hyperlink "vestments" as well.

- The last sentence says "the diocese" had n members. My style of reading demands to know: What diocese?

Etc.

Jimlue (talk) 03:18, 1 November 2018 (UTC)