Talk:Local church

message: "Their idea is that the church should not be separated into denominations and the reason that they are called the local church is that their church's gathering is dependent upon the name of the region or locality."
The above sentence is taken from the introductory comment from the main page. I am just curious that if this statement is trully required or not? Just discuss. Thanks. HopeChrist (talk) 18:34, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Do we need this

message: As it stands now, the Local church page is much better now and with more information and NPOV in it. Thanks. HopeChrist (talk) 18:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome. SlackerMom (talk) 21:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better than before 

message: Disambiguation pages are not the place for making disputed statements.  Descriptions of articles should be brief, contain all necessary information, and must be limited to statements that are not controversial or disputed.
On the Local churches, Watchman Nee's affiliation is in dispute.  Whether he even met Witness Lee before his life term in jail is in dispute and controversial.  That the group is Christian is maintained by the group, but is disputed by critics, and is thus controversial.  The group's affiliation (or more broadly, association) with Witness Lee is not in dispute.  This group's affiliation with the Living Stream Ministry is necessary for a minimum identification and is a fact that is not in dispute, as the "Local churches" category pages shows.  
Therefore, "local churches" should be briefly identified with Witness Lee and the Living Stream Ministry and nothing more.  The reader wants to find what he is after.
Most importantly, since this group is not what most people are looking for when landing on "Local church", this specific group must be listed last.  The more general articles, which are most likely what the reader is looking for, must be kept first.  Best wishes, Ad.minster (talk) 15:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your arguments regarding the description, but I think I disagree about the order.  Since this dab page is named "Local church", it seems that an article named "Local churches" should come before general topics, since it is nearly identical to the disambiguation term.  That is the way other dab pages are generally organized.  On what do you base your opinion that "this group is not what most people are looking for..."? SlackerMom (talk) 18:11, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Your edits look great to me!  Thank you.  Ad.minster (talk) 21:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial statements 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Local churches and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 13#Local churches until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 01:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Local churches" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Local church body and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 13#Local church body until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 01:09, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Local church body" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]