Talk:Third order

message: The articles Tertiaries and Third Order seem to be discussing the same thing.  They should probibly be merged into one article. Gentgeen 09:33, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

message: The article is very long. It would be improved by splitting out the various sections on the histories of the different third orders into their own articles. This article could discuss the basic idea of a third order and the general historical development, and include a list of the third orders with articles. Gentgeen 07:45, 10 October 2006 (UTC
Both articles are quite long and not that well organized. Doing things to make them longer is not a good idea. I think that they both need to be cleaned up, boundaries clearly delineated and cross-links introduced.--Filll 13:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  split the histories of the various third orders into their own articles 

message: Why is the Third Order of St. Norbert not included in the article?68.65.122.80 17:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: O. Praem.

message: There is currently a page for the Third Order of St. Francis. At present, it is a redirect to the page Franciscan. On this page, the section for the Third Order of St. Francis comepletely dominates the article, and if all the other orders mentioned here were given the same detail, the page would be incredibly enormous. I think that the majority of the information should go to the existing Third Order of St. Francis page, and only an introductory couple of paragraphs left here. Any thoughts?--Entoaggie09 08:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third order of St. Francis 

message: It turns out WP does have an article for secular order, current to the 1983 reforms. Since that is the preferred term, this article ought to be merged there; a good deal of the material I tried to integrate into the existing text had apparently been cut and paste from that article.-choster (talk) 19:37, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging to Secular order 

message: Having been mostly copied verbatim from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, this article has an inappropriate tone for Wikipedia.  Specifically, the verbiage is archaic and makes certain assumptions that we wouldn't make.  Example, "The general idea of lay people affiliated to religious orders, as seen in the Benedictine Oblates or confraters (Taunton, "Black Monks of St. Benedict", London, 1897, I, 60-63; for Norbertines cf. Hurter, "Papst Innocenz III", Schaffhausen, 1845, IV, 148), is too natural for there to be any need to seek its origin."  --Boston (talk) 09:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Inappropriate tone

message: This article reads as if 'third order' applies only to the Roman Catholic Church. There is a reference to third orders in general.  This article should either be generalised to cover third orders in Christianity in general, or else renamed to make it's 'Roman-centricism' clear  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.40.137.197 (talk) 03:51, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Roman-centricism

message: I humbly suggest that if the article says, "The term Third Order designates persons who live according to the Third Rule of a Roman Catholic religious order, an Anglican religious order, or a Lutheran religious order", it also ought to tell us what the third rule is.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ocyril (talk • contribs) 13:14, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third Rule