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Requested move 22 March 2023

Latest comment: 3 years ago6 comments6 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Page moved back to Teach the Controversy. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerium (talk) 18:10, 29 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Teach the controversy (campaign) → teach the controversyteach the controversy – unnecessary parenthesis. Teach the controversy redirects here. Marsbar8 (talk) 00:41, 22 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Support alternate move to Teach the Controversy, the original title before it was unilaterally moved without discussion. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:31, 22 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Move back to stable title Teach the Controversy, per above. 162 etc. (talk) 15:58, 22 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support move to Teach the Controversy per above replies. 〜 Festucalex • talk 16:26, 22 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Support per above. Seungri400 (talk) 19:50, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Update tag: What facets of the current executive branch and Apostolic activity belong here?

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Kindly consider this section a sandbox for proposed changes to the article. Just plain Bill (talk) 23:23, 18 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Next week the tag will have been up for a year without discussion. It's gone. Just plain Bill (talk) 16:39, 13 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

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