Ed Poor wrote:
Anybody remember Guru Maharaj Ji?
Well, there's a long running controversy at Wikipedia over how to characterize him. Apparently, it's the single biggest edit war we've ever had.
One scholar has spent over 8 months researching the man, and a group of several dozen ex-followers is reverting like crazy.
I think the way we handle this has important implications for our
future
credibility.
Ed Poor Bureaucrat and NPOV Maven
I do not think that there is a need to worry about Wikipedia's reputation. User Gary D is doing excellent work on the articles [[Criticism on Prem Rawat]] and [[Prem Rawat/temp1]]. For everybody's information, I am the most vocal critic of [[Prem Rawat]] here in Wikipedia.
It is not true that ex-followers are reverting like crazy. This has never been the case with this article.
I became a member of the university library, just to get more reference about him and I even went to a meeting of his students/followers.
I regret that one contributor received emails with threats because of his edits on this article. I also regret that some ex-followers discontinued contributing to the article because their edits were reverted, sometimes without good reason.
Andries K.D.