User talk:Okperegrino

Too many Matthews
Hello, OKperegrino! I just checked my Gmail account (which I only do once a week or so) and found your message concerning St. Matthew's Churches. Could I suggest that we communicate by talk page instead of by e-mail?

I'm afraid that the Wikipedia article isn't necessarily the place for a statement that there're other St. Matthew's churches in Tulsa, many of which don't bulk-mail Guaranteed Prosperity Prayers to low-income zip codes. The situation of the other St. M's churches is somewhat analogous to that of the person who shares a name with a notorious criminal—for example, the 42 Charles Mansons whom I found at whitepages.com, most of whom have no connection with the Tate-LaBianca murders.

The only way I could see to make this information encyclopedic would be some kind of documentation of the problems that the name has caused for other St. M's churches. If, for instance, there was a story in the Tulsa paper, or if one of the churches had a webpage or other publication describing the difficulties that the shared name has caused them, then we could put something about that in the article—not as "There are several legitimate St. Matthews churches in the Tulsa area", but "St. M mailings have created problems for unrelated St. M's churches in the Tulsa area". Ammodramus (talk) 00:35, 15 July 2014 (UTC)


 * This makes sense and I completely agree. Let me do some research.  If I think I have something solid to submit, should I run it by you first on this talk page, or???


 * Thanks for your help
 * Okperegrino (talk) 01:30, 15 July 2014 (UTC)


 * You don't have to get my OK for your edits—it's your Wikipedia as much as it is mine—but if you'd like to discuss prospective edits here, I'd be glad to look them over and comment on them. I'll keep this talk page on my watchlist, so I'll see any changes that you make to it.


 * I've made a few tweaks to your comment, which I hope you won't mind. If you put a colon  in front of a paragraph in the edit window, then it indents the paragraph by a bit.  More colons produce more indentation.  The usual practice (and it's by no means a rule, so feel free to do otherwise if you're so inclined) is: the person starting a discussion uses plain text; the first person responding indents the response by one colon; the next person uses two colons (as I've done here); and so forth.  That makes it easier to see who's saying what. — Ammodramus (talk) 14:30, 15 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. These codes are new to me, as well as general protocol, so I appreciate the tutelage!-- Okperegrino (talk) 13:17, 16 July 2014 (UTC)