Talk:John Chrysostom

Former good articleJohn Chrysostom was one of the Philosophy and religion good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Current status: Delisted good article

Quantity written: The article claims Chrysostom’s quantity of surviving writings is second to Augustine’s in the basis of very vacuous-looking argumentation. As I am aware, Chrysostom’s writings survive in approximately double the quantity of Augustine’s: eg https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XY6Rp0_zfu8C&pg=PR15&lpg=PR15&dq=augustine+5+million+words&source=bl&ots=nWar4eFpHa&sig=hqXcfk9ms_mJ27sk-AN4bGuk8lE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj02J_y04HfAhVpB8AKHTjnB-gQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false and passim shows that Augustine wrote 5 million words surviving https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IeTzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=john+chrysostom+%2210+million%22&source=bl&ots=oWi1oLTEvB&sig=j6ozxzM8MPSskgmjYg4bc4XmqRw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv6pmK1IHfAhVlCcAKHbnkD8IQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false p146 shows Chrysostom wrote 10 million words surviving — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.225.4 (talk) 17:21, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]