I recently blocked an account for what looked like link spamming. All the edits were adding a link to an external website that has something to do with Branch Davidians vs. Koreshians and to a bunch of unrealted articles like poverty and sex. I now have an 32kb email in my inbox suggesting changes to the articles they're concerned with so that they are more ''NPOV''. I'm really not familar with anything to do with Waco and the mess that followed, would anyone be willing to take a look at the changes and get back to the-branch.org, or should I just unblock the account and let them edit in good faith and hope that the two groups will sort it out between themselves.
--Peta Holmes
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Peta Holmes (holmespeta@yahoo.com) [050528 22:03]:
I recently blocked an account for what looked like link spamming. All the edits were adding a link to an external website that has something to do with Branch Davidians vs. Koreshians and to a bunch of unrealted articles like poverty and sex. I now have an 32kb email in my inbox suggesting changes to the articles they're concerned with so that they are more ''NPOV''. I'm really not familar with anything to do with Waco and the mess that followed, would anyone be willing to take a look at the changes and get back to the-branch.org, or should I just unblock the account and let them edit in good faith and hope that the two groups will sort it out between themselves.
After Waco, the remaining Branch Davidians split into *two* tiny factions who really don't like each other and fight over whatever it is that remains of the Church. (Academics and student politicians will recognise the sort of politics involved.) the-branch.org is one of the branches.
([[Branch Davidian]] is an article amazingly deserving of an NPOV tag. The current version may be worth linking as an example of a lengthy article of substance in severe need of NPOVing.)
- d.
Peta Holmes (holmespeta@yahoo.com) [050528 22:03]:
I recently blocked an account for what looked like link spamming. All the edits were adding a link to an external website that has something to do with Branch Davidians vs. Koreshians and to a bunch of unrealted articles like poverty and sex. I now have an 32kb email in my inbox suggesting changes to the articles they're concerned with so that they are more ''NPOV''. I'm really not familar with anything to do with Waco and the mess that followed, would anyone be willing to take a look at the changes and get back to the-branch.org, or should I just unblock the account and let them edit in good faith and hope that the two groups will sort it out between themselves.
As for the actual dispute - email them and point them at the NPOV page, particularly the "writing for the enemy" bit. Get them to use talk pages. Get them to write as individuals, 'cos we really don't do role accounts. That sort of thing :-)
- d.