Wikipedia Assignment #2

This article briefly explains Papal Authority and gives a brief historical background on the issue. It gives background on who made the decision to institute Papal authority in the Roman Catholic church as well as gives arguments against the primacy of Simon Peter who is considered the first “pope”. In addition, quite a large portion of the article is devoted to revealing some of the challenges and arguments that surround the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.

1. 2,863
2. The term searched was “Papal Authority” and the article it came up with is entitled, “Primacy of the Roman Pontiff”.
3. There is no disambiguation link.
4. Mostly arguments on the different viewpoints of Papal authority and justification for why people inserted what they did into the article.
5. First change was June 12, 2004 and the last was March 18, 2008.
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If one was interested in looking at this article to gain better understanding of the arguments surrounding Papal authority than I would highly recommend it. However, if someone was simply trying to gain factual historical background I do not feel that this would be the best option. After reading the article and reading through the discussions page it seems that there was a an extreme of personal opinion inserted in the article. Which would be extremely detrimental to one who was just seeking after facts as they might be mislead by someone else’s personal opinion.