Talk:Michael Carey (priest)

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There are many hundreds of similar articles which do not follow the rule which has been applied in this case (e.g.Henry Browne (Archdeacon of Ely).--Johnsoniensis (talk) 08:32, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Johnsoniensis : There are many thousands of MOS errors in Wikipedia articles and it is part of a good editor's job to correct them when known and noticed. This is what I do and so should you. Afterwriting (talk) 11:21, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is not useful for editors to tell other editors what they should do; some editors may specialise in applying the manual of style but other kinds of work are also useful. As there is no infobox in this case why does "The Very Rev." need to be deleted?--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:30, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is not useful to ignore the MOS. Style consistency is very important and all articles should normally be written only according to what the MOS states or allows rather than editors' personal preferences or idiosyncracies. Without this the whole Wikipedia project would be a complete mess. With only a few particular exceptions the MOS explicitly states that in biographical articles the subject's styles or titles, not just those of clergy, are not to be included before their names in the opening sentence. There are many articles on Anglican clergy started by an editor who is constantly churning out sloppily written articles about them which often also include many MOS problems. This is one of the articles he started. Afterwriting (talk) 00:35, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]