Patristic Quotations Index: Guidelines
From Monachos Patristic Quotations Index
The 'The Fathers Say...' Patristics Quotation Index by Topic is a new project, allowing any registered member of the Monachos Patristics Wiki to add, edit and organize quotations of the Church Fathers on an expanding set of topics and subtopics. We hope that, as participants begin to add quotations known to them, this might grow into an extensive listing of quotations from the Fathers on all manner of Christian life.
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Guidelines
You are invited to contribute to this project by adding quotations from the Fathers to any of the existing topics and subtopics; or by creating new topics to populate with quotations. We ask that, when contributing, you bear the following guidelines in mind:
Adding quotations
- All quotations should be drawn from the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church of the seven ecumenical councils. Please do not add quotations from other sources (e.g. modern writers, post-schism western writers, etc.).
- All quotations should be in English.
- Please insert new quotations onto a page in alphabetical order by author; that is, insert your quotation into the appropriate place on the page, alphabetically, rather than simply at the top or bottom of the page. Alphabetization should follow saints' Christian names, rather than titles (so 'St Gregory Palamas' is under 'G', not 'P'; 'St Gregory of Nazianzus' is under 'G', not 'N', etc.).
- Citations should be provided for all quotations, when known. If you know of a quotation but do not know its precise source, please put the following at the end of the quotation:
{{Citation needed}}This will cause the system to display a tag drawing readers' attention to the need for a citation, so that others might locate and provide it. - Where an on-line version of the text from which a quotation is drawn is available, please provide a link to it in the citation after the quotation itself.
- Quotations provided should be relatively brief: one or two paragraphs. Please do not post longer texts or whole documents: instead, quote a suitable portion, and provide a link to the longer text on-line.
Editing existing quotations
- Feel free to edit existing quotations to correct typos, misquotations, formatting, etc. You can also add/correct citations, provide additional references, links to on-line versions, etc., for quotations where this information is missing. If you find that quotations are in an illogical order and might better be re-organized on a page, or if a quotation might be better suited to a different topic page / section, you can also edit for reasons such as these.
- Please do not delete quotations without good reason (a good reason might be that a quotation is not from a patristic source; am insufficient reason would be that you do not like the quotation); and if you do feel the need to delete a quotation, please annotate your reasons in the 'Summary' box and/or Discussion pages.
Adding new topics and subtopics
- All participants are welcome to add new topics and subtopics, which should be added to the main index page. Main topics should have brief and broad titles (e.g. 'Demons', 'Prayer'); subtopics can be as precise as you feel as necessary.
- You can re-name / re-organize existing topics and subtopics as might be useful.
General notes
In general, remember that this is a wiki-style project, meaning that all registered users can add, edit, modify, etc. all content. Please edit responsibly, so this might become a useful resource to readers.
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