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Summary
According to this article's ratings, it is trustworthy, objective, and well written. As for it's accuracy, there is no problem there either. But it is falling way behind in completeness.. Like any system that charts a church history or a family tree, charting schisms and mergers between churches can be quite complicated, but that should not be the whole focus of the article. Compare this to the content of the article on the United Methodist Church where there is a host of information on how the church stands today and what it believes. There is almost nothing like that here. For some reason, the article is written from a historical viewpoint alone and nothing more. It's no wonder it is falling behind in completeness.

To summarize what this article is saying, here is the list of divisions and mergers that are relative to this issue in chronological order:

Church of England -> Methodist Episcopal Church (1784) Methodist Episcopal Church -> Methodist Protestant Church (1828) Methodist Episcopal Church -> Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1844) MEC + MECS + (MPC minus MS) --> Methodist Church (1939) Methodist Church + Evangelical United Brethren -> United Methodist Church (1968)

Obviously, one of the major task in the history section of this article is to explain how the 1939 Reunification process affected what the Methodist Protestant Church has become today. It also explains how the other related denominations were affected by that merger. It does an accurate job of covering all this detail. Everything up until the 1939 Methodist reunification is well explained. It even includes a word or two in the heading about the present-day Methodist Protestant Church. But it is going no further. After the 1939 merger, it looks like the article has been abandoned. For one, it appears that the editor had very little or no more information available, and secondly, because it was written from one perspective, that is, it was written solely from the viewpoint of how these mergers affected its relationship to other churches far more than its own. Namely, the United Methodist Church. The subject of this article is supposed to be about the Methodist Protestant Church, not everything else. In my humble opinion, this is a not consistent compared to how other articles are written and may constitute a form of bias. Of course, the mergers must be covered, but the article must go on to explain what happened to the Methodist Protestant Church after the 1939 merger.

What this article really needs is coverage of the Post Reunification Era in the history section to bring it up to date. That is 1939 to the present.

Pictorial View of Major Methodist Divisions and Mergers
Like any family tree, the complex list of divisions and mergers has branches that might be best viewed in a tree or flowchart. It shows the branches that occurred as a result of divisions and mergers, the year dates, and what organizations these originally came out of. The arrows represent divisions and mergers.



S. Jenkins (talk) 07:12, 21 September 2012 (UTC)