Talk:Trappists

message: This is a too brief and slightly skewed version of the Trappists. You should mention that they are a contemplative order, and while their abstinence of alcohol is one aspect of their ovservance, the most notable is their silence. In fact they rarely speak, and have an intricate sign language they have passed down for hundreds of years for communicating without the use of their voice. That being said, they are not forbidden to talk.
*I recently visited the abbey in the Netherlands (Koningshoeven) and was told by one of the monks that they do use their voice to communicate and that the sign-language is no longer used. In fact, he himself had no knowledge of the signs mentioned.Vodyanoi 20:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Untitled] 

message: It says "see...this article's talk page" for help, and you left us guessing. Grammar, spelling etc. are better than most Wikipedia pages. And if you agree with the objection at the top of this talk page there are more precise templates to use - and I don't use them, because the solution to a missing discussion is to go ahead and add it. Art LaPella 20:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup notice

message: Ok, I have revised the article to more reflect the fact that the Trappists are a religious order dedicated to prayer, penance and work.  It still mentions the fact that the Trappists produce beer (But not that they abstain from beer since I found no evidence of that and found at least one reference to them producing beer for the consumption of the momks) but I believe now it does not make them look like simply an excentric bunch of silent beer brewers. -- Bill McHale 00:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision

message: Don't know if it's a result of cleanups, but references 3,4 and 5 on this entry lead nowhere Grubstreet 20:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead ends 

message: This article should be connected to Trappista cheese article.
Leomcholwer (talk) 16:38, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connecting this article 

message: The translation of the Rule of St Bendict that I have, (Litugical Press, trans. Leonard Doyle, 1935), makes Rule 48 sound rather different to the implied.  It is titled 'On the daily manual labour', and is mostly concerned with the reason for, and extent of, manual labour.  It is in the final paragraph that the quotation must have come from, which begins, "And if the circumstances of the place, or their poverty should require that they themselves do the work of gathering the harverst".  This gives more of an implication of "if it's needed, that's good to do", rather than the implication of one _should_ do so.  
It's entirely possible that the Trappists (or Cistercians generally) have a stricter interpretation than the translation I have, but if so it would be better to make that more explicit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.70.168.124 (talk) 18:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rule 48 

message: I have concern about the following (The following citations have the wiki markup paraphrased.):
Trappist beers contain residual sugars and living yeast, and, as bottle-conditioned beers do, will improve with age. These have become quite famous and are considered by many beer critics to be amongst the finest in the world,
In :
... contain residual sugars and living yeast and -- unlike conventional beers -- will improve with age.
The difference is the replacement of "...unlike conventional beers..." with "...as bottle-conditioned beers do...".  In addition,  is a dead link, and "These have become quite famous and are considered by many beer critics to be amongst the finest in the world,..." is not cited by the source.  Is there objection to the removal of the deadlink, unsourced material, and replacing "...as bottle-conditioned beers do..." with "...unlike conventional beers..."?Curb Chain (talk) 02:46, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, although your reading of the article to delete the 'finest in the world' claim was excessively stringent. Oreo Priest talk 19:48, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is this sourced?  Which article are you talking about?Curb Chain (talk) 00:43, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncited source 

message: Should we create a disambiguation page for "Trappist"? Not sure about the guidelines. There are numerous links already at the top of this page. If one is made, would this article redirect to it, or vice versa? JimsMaher (talk) 20:44, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation?