Thread:Obi the LEGO Fan/@comment-1693968-20140408144031/@comment-4868857-20140408152206

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Hmm...

I'm not so sure about requiring a statement of faith for people to edit. I don't think we should have an exclusive policy towards editing. Anyone should be able to edit. What we need is a policy on what general POV the commentaries will be from. It would also be fine, IMO, to have secondary commentaries written by anyone, that could be set up as subpages of the main commentaries, or something like that. We have to encourage anyone who may happen upon the wiki to help with editing, not make them worried about whether they are allowed to.

And there may be people who won't write new commentaries, but just improve the old ones, whether it be fixing grammar, adding citations, elaborating on a point, or something like that. It doesn't make sense to me to have all editing of commentaries restricted to a special group. Whoops, didn't mean to say edit. I meant that they'd have to agree with the statement of faith in order to be able to add a commentary. I suppose it'd also be fine to allow other people to add commentary subpages, even if they disagree with the statement of faith. However, if someone wants to write a primary commentary, then we're going to have to use some kind of standard.

The POV is essential, that's something I forgot to mention. I hope to use the same type of thing Theopedia uses. I'll work on an example to show you.

Editing commentaries is a little bit questionable. If we allow editing of commentaries, we'll have to be sure not to say "Written by Obadiah". However, I feel as if that could take away much of the credibility. For example, I would trust you to properly state how a greak translation could've meant something different than what it was translated into. But if the text is just sitting there, with no apparent author, then I don't feel that it's as reliable. I suppose to goal is to think for yourself, but I'm still hesitant.