Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy

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message: Could a specialist take a look at the November 2010 and April 2011 edits to Portal:Oriental Orthodoxy/Intro? I saw this in my Recent Change Patrol and don't know what to make of it. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:47, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal check needed 

message: Hello, please consider helping update and maintain http://copticwiki.org which is a MediaWiki site which i specific for the Coptic Orthodox (Oriental Orthodox) views and interests published.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.212.126 (talk) 10:46, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  CopticWiki 

message: Christian devotional literature appeared and is a noteworthy topic. But the article is pretty narrow, as I said on the talk there, and the various denominations who read this should really add their respective components to make it balanced. History2007 (talk) 02:40, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Christian devotional literature

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message: The well known administrator named DBachmann has once again gone on the attack against Ethiopian scholarship on the Book of Enoch, part of the Tewahedo holy canon, and has removed all trace of what Ethiopian scholarship says from the article, leaving only the POV that he supports.  Dealing with this guy in the past has always been very difficult, because he imagines he is very powerful on wikipedia. What can be done about such bullying tactics? Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 13:15, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attack on [[Book of Enoch]] 

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thread_title:  Nomination of [[:Ethiopian Orthodox Tehadeso Church]] for deletion 

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message: I've attempted to make a clarification at Lent#Oriental Orthodoxy, specifically, regarding 55 fasting days vs. 40 days of Lent in the Ethiopian church.  (Here's a list of the specific edits: .) I've added some sources along with it.  However, as a result of my efforts, the section now leans more heavily toward Lent as practiced in Ethiopian Orthodoxy.  Presumably it is the same in Eritrean Orthodoxy; I am not sure at all about the other churches. I thought I'd leave a note here in case anyone else wishes to offer further clarification regarding the other churches (or correction, if necessary, for what I've already written). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:20, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lent 

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message: (Cross-posted to Talk:Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church) This might be of interest to the WikiProject: "Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century" (PDF), released by the Pew Research Center on 2017-11-08. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:11, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
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message: There is a move discussion in progress on  Talk:Anti-Orthodoxy that affects several topics on Oriental Orthodoxy. Interested users are welcome to participate in the discussion. Thank you. Sorabino (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
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replies: text: Bumping this back up in case anyone's watching. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:25, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orthodox Tewahedo 

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message: Can someone with more subject knowledge figure out what's going on with the satellite frequencies of this Coptic TV channel? It appears some of them were taken by something called "Al Fadi", but I don't know what that is and can't find a matching enwiki article. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 09:24, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
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message: I need some help expanding the Unofficial Meetings and Official Dialogues section of this draft page.
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