Re: [WikiEN-l] Articles about small religious sects, concern about accuracy and NPOV

From: "Andries Krugers Dagneaux" <andrieskd(a)chello.nl> Reply-To: andrieskd(a)chello.nl, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:59:28 +0100 To: <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Articles about small religious sects, concern about accuracy and NPOV Hello all, I am quite new here in wikipedia. I know a lot about gurus, small sects and cults. I noticed that the articles here in this wikipedia are often written by the followers of these gurus, sects and cults or the information on the webpages of these religious organization is uncritically accepted by other members and written down as a NPOV article in wikipedia. I think this is a wrong and dangerous thing to do. This leads to false information because these groups are often self deceived and do a lot of propaganda & rewriting history. Because so few people know about these groups the information is rarely checked. Examples of disinformation that I have seen here on wikipedia are Sathya Sai Baba, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Eckankar, Theosophy, ISCKCON/ Hare Krisnha. I have already adjusted the first three groups and I will try to adjust other articles but I have limited time. I would like to ask all members to help in this by staying alert and comparing the current articles with independent scholarly articles and testimonies of ex-members of these groups. Thanks in advance and kind regards, Andries Krugers Dagneaux _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l