User talk:Joe Divine

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Hello, Joe Divine, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, your edit to Legends surrounding the papacy does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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Roman Catholic Church
Hi Joe. Please try not to link to redirects where possible. Catholic Church is the article relating to the Catholic Church, even if it is referred to as the Roman Catholic Church. You can link to this page by using RCC in the alt text eg Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church - that way the text looks the way you want it to look without being linked to a redirect.

Please also don't arbitrarily change all references (esp. in links) to Roman Catholic Church. This may be technically correct but many articles are not named that way. The effect is that you remove a pefectly good link and replace it with a redlink which affects readability and link-through. If you do this on a larger scale you will probably be accused of vandalism, though I can see from your edits that your intentions are good. I have changed some of them and I will continue to fix some of the links. No worries about changing the text, just try not to change the link. Regards, Stalwart111 (talk) 10:22, 23 July 2010 (UTC).


 * Further; this was the basis of a number of reverts at history of Christianity where you were asked not to break links. Please be careful. Cheers! Stalwart111 (talk) 10:27, 23 July 2010 (UTC).


 * [[Image:Stop hand nuvola.svg|30px]] Mate, since I posted the above messages you have again made the same edits to other pages, including instances where you have again broken links or amended links and directed them away from articles to disambiguation pages. Having reviewed your contributions list, almost every single on of your edits has been reverted or undone as unconstructive. If you continue to edit pages in this manner you will likely be referred to Admins for vandalism. Stalwart111 (talk) 22:57, 23 July 2010 (UTC).