Yeah, Jimbo, I guess we need a staff meeting on this one - JHK said she'll
bring the donuts.
OK - I'm not a Baha'i and my reasons for my editorial stance are fairly
straightforward:
1 - The Orthodox Baha'is are a TINY fringe group (sub-2000 members) of a
religion with 6 Million members. Hence any article should give fair balance to
that proportionality.
2 - I have maintained since the beginning that the main Baha'i article
should contain the principles of the faith (common to all divisions) and any
other pages on divisions should focus on the nature and manner of the
distinction.
3 - The main Baha'i article IS weak on outlining the principles. Not
feeling adequately informed, I approached the newsgroup to summon other
"experts" to enhance the main Baha'i article.. If any 'mainstream" Baha'is were
then to attempt to eliminate the OB article, the same rules of NPOV would apply
and I would defend the OB page.
4 - By "us" I was making the assumption that the majority of the community
would support my editorial stance on this - something I'm still fairly confident
of. So far this person has had three 'pedians give them the same story (SJK, BV
and myself), although none of us have communicated amongst ourselves
AFAIK.
Sorry to have you dragged into this, Jimbo. I hope I'm still allowed to
come to the company social.
Cheers
Manning
PS - Rabo Karabekian is a character from Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of
Champions", I've been using is as a handle on NGs for years.
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] FYI, Baha'i
From: "Brion L. VIBBER"
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brion@pobox.com>
To: wikipedia-l
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wikipedia-l@nupedia.com>
Date:
10 Apr 2002 15:08:11 -0700
Reply-To:
wikipedia-l@nupedia.comSee
also duplicate of the complaint post and further discussion,
including
Manning's response, on the wiki at:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Talk%3AOrthodox%20Bahai%20FaithWhile
I do get the general impression that the mainstream Baha'is don't
seem to
like the Orthodox Baha'is very much, I've seen no evidence of
misbehavior in
the case of the wikipedia articles except on the part of
66.219.221.xxx
him/herself, which he/she has yet to explain.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)