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Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I don't understand what the first image is doing in this article, given that the Carmina Cantabrigensia are not mentioned in the article, and their relevance to textual criticism is not explained. In other words, the image seems to be decorative rather than informative. I don't want to take it upon myself to go ahead and remove it, but I do wonder if there is a discussion to be had. 2600:4040:A2DB:800:B006:747F:722:3E5C (talk) 16:29, 10 October 2022 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 month ago3 comments3 people in discussion
The word or phrase 'text-type' or 'text-types', when made into a link intended to be explanatory, comes to this page, in fact, it appears something like this: [ [ Textual criticism#New Testament | text type(s) ] ] (spaces added by me, or wikipedia will treat it as text type(s)). But there is no explanation here of text-types!
It's a very confusing term for someone with a printing/publishing background, as it has nothing to do with type (type faces) and not much to do with text; it's more to do with texts, plural, and it seems to be about copyings and meanings and lineages of copyings.
Would someone who knows what they're talking about please pen a couple of sentences, or even copy them in from elsewhere in wikipedia, to explain the term, and put it at the top of the NT section (for now, pending this page's improvement). Nick Barnett (talk) 12:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Huh? text-type, text type, text-types, text types and all redirect to Text types. Could you please phrase your question a different way? This stuff can be confusing for a new editor, don't worry.
But that article is not what he's asking about, and he had said that the "text types" links that he was encountering had been piped to this article. And I tend to agree with him regarding the terminology being confusing, and there possibly should be a section of this article explaining what "text types" are, if there isn't enough to write about them to justify a separate article about text types in general (as opposed to individual text types, that we do have articles on.)
The use of "witnesses" should also be better explained, because its use in this topic area is extremely incongruant with what the word usually means, and it gets used in all kinds of articles with no explanation of what it and/or why it means what it means (which I'm still uncertain of). ~2026-34838-40 (talk) 22:35, 27 June 2026 (UTC)Reply
