Talk:Palladius of Saintes

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Potential bias: removal request

'He has been described as "one of the intriguing self-seeking prelates so common in France at that epoch" who entered the priesthood purely to advance a career.[1]'

[1] S.A. Bennett, entry on Palladius in A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines during the First Eight Centuries (London, 1887), vol. 4, p. 177.

I would suggest this section be removed or altered for two reasons:

1. The source is clearly biased. S.A. Bennett was a English Protestant author who lived in Victorian times, and was demonstrating contemporary prejudice against the Catholic Church. "self-seeking prelates so common in France" clearly is subjective and is thus not a good quote and doesn't add anything to the article (except for probably underlying Anti-Catholic attitudes) nor does is it relevant to the impact or historical importance of Palladius, . This only serves to paint an arguably unfair and negative picture of the aforementioned Bishop.

2. The phrase (not a direct quote from S.A. Bennett but written by the contributor to the article), that Palladius "entered the priesthood purely to advance a career" is also problematic. It also reveals potential anti-Catholic prejudice and is arguably partisan.

Potentially violates WP:NPOV - bias and impartial tone of the Wikipedia contributor (WP:NPOV 2.5 and 2.6, respectively), and bias in sources (WP:NPOV 2.7).

As an encyclopaedia, we want to present an unbiased view of historical figures, events, places, objects etc. It is unhelpful to add our own personal agenda to the article.

Just my two cents.

Kind regards. MCR1998

Removal of NPOV sentence

'He has been described as "one of the intriguing self-seeking prelates so common in France at that epoch" who entered the priesthood purely to advance a career.[1]' [1] S.A. Bennett, entry on Palladius in A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines during the First Eight Centuries (London, 1887), vol. 4, p. 177.

The above sentence will be removed because it violates WP:NPOV (Balance, Impartial Tone and Bias in Sources).

Feel free to reinstate it if you can justify why it is not NPOV (i.e. that it IS balanced, IS impartial AND/OR IS unbiased in sources).

Kind regards.

MCR1998

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