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

[Peter Jaros]

On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> Andries Krugers Dagneaux wrote:
>
>> 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.
> What the groups believe is what they believe, and who better to 
> describe that than the cult's leaders?  This does not imply that we 
> accept these as truth, or that we are uncritical about their claims.

Precisely.  We do not accept beliefs necessarily as fact.  We *do* 
necessarily accept the believing as fact.  One simply *must* admire the 
English language...

Peter

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