Talk:Bible Missionary Church

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This talk page is for discussing improvements to the article Bible Missionary Church. It is not for general discussion about the church, its members, etc. Such chat will be removed. Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk) 01:45, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello JOOSEPH (talk) 08:47, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Famous Bible Missionaries

I have removed the above titled section as the information given ("Famous members of the Bible Missionary Church include Albert Johnson and Don Smith.") was unsourced and too vague to be of any possible use. Both names link to extensive disamb pages as both names are fairly common. If restoring this information, please link directly to the specific person intended (i.e., rather than Albert Johnson, link to Albert Ariel Bedwin Johnson, Albert Johnson (athlete), Albert Johnson (congressman), Albert Johnson (criminal) or whomever, as listed on the disamb page). If the particular person does not have an article, they are either not notable and don't belong in the article or need to have a sourced article created for them. Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk) 01:32, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Removal of controversy section

As a disclosure, I received a request via email to review this section after someone noticed me remove a similar section from the Independent Baptist article. Note that I have no skin in the game; I am strictly independent baptist and do not sympathize with other denominations, not even the New Independent Fundamental Baptist movement (frankly, I consider Stephen Anderson a cult leader). That said, as a neutral Wikipedian, I don't think this scandal involving one school warrants coverage in an encyclopedia article about the entire denomination, especially considering the charges were dropped and the institution was reopened. These kind of sections are discouraged per WP:CRITS, and including a specific scandal involving one school on an article about an entire denomination is WP:COATRACK territory.

I don't know why, but the idea of including sex and abuse scandals in religious articles seems to be a popular one, despite the fact that sex and abuse scandals are an issue everywhere in today's society because we live in a fallen world. Every month the news in my area is covering a case of child abuse by a public school employee, yet the education in the United States article has zero mentions of it (and as a unionized public school employee myself, please do not insult me by accusing me of being against public education). The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice article has zero mentions of the nasty abuse that allegedly happened at Florida School for Boys. Lets not forget this nastiness happens in hospitals, jails, universities, just about any workplace imaginable (shall we talk about the Subway franchise sued by the EEOC over a manager offering a teenage girl a job in exchange for sex?)... I am puzzled as to why people want to include such content on articles like this one and not other articles about institutions. PCHS-NJROTC ^{(Messages)Have a blessed day.} 01:24, 14 October 2019 (UTC)