Talk:Pentecostalism

message: As a way to move forward, I have revised the paragraph, see this edit. The words "orthodoxy" and "heresy" are still used, but I've tried to establish a more neutral context in which they are used. Ltwin (talk) 14:18, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I edited it slightly but fine, I'll go with it.  Mooters 1563 (talk) 22:21, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I made my own slight tweak of your edit. Ltwin (talk) 04:08, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Compromise

message: There has been a recent push by IP editors to replace this longstanding image with this image. Personally I prefer the former image as a template image because it is of higher quality, however when I undid the edit my own edit was undone on the rational that the first image was taken in Mexico which is not a predominantly Pentecostal country. I find this rational a bit faulty as the second image was taken in Slovakia in which Pentecostals make up even less of a percentage of the population. Either while it is pretty silly to debate over an image, I was hoping to discuss the issue rather than start a meaningless edit war over this. Inter&anthro (talk) 13:23, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Template Image?

message: Pentecostalism was removed from that category by a bot assisted editor because "Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity" is already listed, and clicking on that link takes you to Pentecostalism. These categories are a navigational aid only and so anyone could drill down to Pentecostalism through that navigation without need for the duplication. Removal of the category in no way implies that Pentecostalism is not within the evangelical tradition of Protestantism. Sirfurboy (talk) 11:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category Evangelical movement 

message: An IP editor created a new criticism section, and then populated it with information that may well be correct, but the reference didn't go anywhere. I have deleted the information as it is therefore unsourced, but given a proper source, it could perhaps go back in. The ref was just using a name, as though expecting the source to be there, and plenty of wikilinks were included - I am slightly concerned it could be a copy direct from another page. The WP licence does not allow copying from page to page without attribution, and there would also be a question as to why the information is being duplicated if it were. However I have no proof at this point that it was copied, so for now the only thing preventing its insertion is sourcing.
The other smaller concern I have is that it is a very specific incidence of criticism, and that a criticism section should be fuller and more balanced, or else this criticism should not have its own section but be inline against the part of the article it is most closely related to (Latin American churches in this case). Please consider balance of the article as a whole and WP:DUE before reinserting the material. 
For now it can be retrieved from the diff here.[] -- Sirfurboy (talk) 16:24, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: An IP editor changed the number of Penetcostals from 279 million to 600 million. I reverted as this source in the article does not say that. They have now reverted me but WP:BRD applies. The challenged material should not be reinserted without editor consensus. Thus I am opening this talk section to discuss the numbers. 
The source reads:
:According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, there are about 279 million pentecostal Christians and 305 million charismatic Christians worldwide. (Charismatic Christians belong to non-pentecostal denominations yet engage in spiritual practices associated withpentecostalism, such as speaking in tongues and divine healing; see Defining Christian Movements on page 69.)
The editor claims the source says something else although I can only find 600 million in the source as the number of all Christians in 1910.  Could you tell me where you are finding the higher number, and then we can evaluate which figure is correct. Thanks. -- Sirfurboy (talk) 13:41, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We have a sourced figure presently in the article. The burden of proof is on the IP editor to provide reliable sources backing up the 600 million number. Otherwise, any changes should be immediately reverted once again. Ltwin (talk) 23:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers 

message: The subsection on Zora Neale Hurston states that she did research in the 1980's.
This is obviously impossible for the simple fact that she had been dead for 20 years by 1980. 
Does anybody have an actual, verifiable date? 2600:1700:FB50:EA00:E428:1032:1D95:8ABB (talk) 12:38, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zora Neale Hurston?