David Gerard wrote:
On 02/07/04 12:38, Fred Bauder wrote:
Excellent, but don't overdo it. Any campaign to straighten things out is hazardous and must proceed tactfully, giving reasonable credit to the virtues of these groups as perceived by their followers.
It's really not hard to go looking for these articles and do some sensible and NPOV edits oneself. Some of them read like press releases, but it's very easy to sprinkle the article with "it is claimed" and add a section of common criticisms and critical links as well as official ones. This gives a basic article it's quite hard to reasonably object to the existence to, which serves as a template for filling out the article.
Sprinkling "it is claimed" throughout the article makes for terrible writing and worse reading. If a section is simply headed "Claims by the leadership" (or something of the sort) that should apply to everything in the section. There is still plenty of space afterwords to discuss criticisms.
Taking writings out of context, and trying to direct the reader into an interpretation of those texts in a manner contrary to what the original author intended would be a reprehensible imposition of your own POV.
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