Talk:Ebion

Revoked merger with Ebionites

For some reason, this article was merged with Ebionites. However, there was no discussion here and only two people responded to the merger with the Ebionites article, saying merely "Agreed". Nothing was ever given for this merger other than the mistaken notion that the material was already dealt with in the Ebionite article and Ebion doesn't warrant an article.

Ebion was considered by a number of important church fathers starting with Tertullian to have warranted dealing with. That fact makes him interesting enough to warrant discussion in his own right. Given that the page was visited by people before the merge, they found him so as well. -- spin^control 04:28, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to merge

The Gospel of the Ebionites article is being merged into the Ebionites article as a section and the Ebion article should be as well. Neither topic has any meaning apart from the Ebionites, so both are logically a subset. The idea is to incorporate all of the good (but partially redundant) information in this article into the main article as a section, not to eliminate it. Cheers. Ovadyah (talk) 16:37, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

FYI. We decided against a complete merge of the Gospel of the Ebionites article. Probably only the first section of that article, concerning the Ebionites as a sect, will either be trimmed down or merged. Cheers. Ovadyah (talk) 19:21, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I have added a main article template that directs the reader to the main Ebionites article for more information. This is an acceptable alternative to a merge, as long as the content of this article is not completely redundant. So far, I would say it's a close call. Ovadyah (talk) 00:52, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I vote for not merging, although it might be a close call. Generally I oppose merging if there is the slightest difference in content. Here the focus on the fictional character Ebion rather than the historically real Ebionites. So no merge, just plenty of linking. -- cheers, Michael C. Price ^talk 08:10, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm ok with that, so I will remove the proposal to merge for now. This article is dependent almost entirely on primary sources. I'm going to tag it to back up this content with reliable sources if we are going to keep it. Cheers. Ovadyah (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

An anonymous work once attributed to Tertullian

This is speculation and not a fact, so it it not verifiable --Ebonnicks (talk) 00:01, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Try this as a starter. -- spin^control 14:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)