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are rarely if ever used. "Nasrani Mappila" is used but much less frequently than just "Nasrani". "Syrian Christians" and to a much lesser extent "Nasrani" may be confusing in other contexts, but in the Indian context in which this template in embedded, they only ever refer to the Saint Thomas Christians.--
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Readers will expect that an area titled "alternate names" on the Saint Thomas Christians template will include, well, the alternate names for that that group, not hyperdisambiguated Wiki-speak forms that are barely used. As I explained, two of the previous entries, "Malabar Syrians" and "Thomasines"
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There must be some criteria for Prominent persons in this template. Example, Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly is a servant of God. There are around more than 10 people in Kerala churches which has been declared as Servant of God. I don't think he is more prominent than Saint Alphonso or Chavara
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achan. At least put the list in an alphabetical order. I did that in last night. But somebody changed it according his personal criteria. It is better to delete that portion of Prominent persons because we in Kerala thinks that local priest in our parish is also a prominent person.
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As I said on my talk page, the abbreviation is unnecessary. "'Saint' vs 'St' or 'St.' in placenames should depend upon the official usage" and "Abbreviations should be written in the same fashion each time they are used within the same page". As the main article and its forks use
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Change is the law of nature. Knowledge (XXG) is not for a person, but for the public. Continuous improvement is the policy.Your edits are out dated or or over ruled by better edits. So please understand and accept edits by other people who come up with better
179:"Nasrani Mappila" is the correct term since simply "Nasrani" can lead to much confusion to readers from different countries. In many parts of the world, "Nasrani" means any Christian, especially a white (European) Christian. See 180: 391:
two times to the same infobox is needless duplication. Instead of commenting that, you just reverted me, and now you offer some generic comment. Please, discuss the issue or revert your edits.
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which lists "St. or St" as an abbreviation of "Saint" (See under "Academic degrees, titles and ranks" in the table). Therefore there is nothing wrong in using as St. Thomas Christians.
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What are you doing? Why are you reverting my edits without discussion? I clearly explained my reasons in the edit summary and you should be following
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Rightly said. Here we need to include the persons who are famous across different St.Thomas churches. Otherwise this template will be cluttered. -
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Ok. Thanks for your good attempt in pointing out the mistakes and correcting it. Your suggestions are accepted and executed.
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Simply "Syrian Christians" can refer to any Christians who follow a Syriac rite. See disambiguation page
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I have no idea what you are talking about. I wrote that adding thumbnails to infoboxes runs contrary to
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Is there anything that can be done to reduce the size of this template? It swamps many pages - eg:
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Knowledge (XXG) does not say to avoid all abbreviations. Please read
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