Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Masonic ritual and symbolism

Delete ?
One would expect that keeping the article would provide the opportunity to give the user (not the editor or the self styled guardians) of wikipedia a portal to one of the richest collections of ritual and symbolism known. The problem is not with the need for this article, it's with the absurd sofistry of a few trimming editors who are unable to make intelligent additions. The word would be to keep the article and to explain masonic symbolism: for example the three craft degrees are also called symbolic degrees. Without them there is no Freemasonry. That they are worked in a variety of manners only deepens the symbolic texture of the whole picture to which the user of wikipedia is entitled. It needs a wider degree of editorial flexibilty than is dictated here. But the article itself need therefore not dissappear
 * Lunarian (talk) 09:46, 24 September 2008 (UTC)