[WikiEN-l] Controversial new religious movements, failure of the Wikipedia system?

[Fred Bauder]

The obvious solution is a "believers" article and a "sceptics" or
"debunkers" article. However Wikipedia contemplates including fair
representations of both viewpoints in the same article. Therefore don't try
to get the other viewpoint out but rather try to get your own viewpoint in,
in fact, insist on it.

Fred

> From: "Andries Krugers Dagneaux" <andrieskd at chello.nl>
> Reply-To: andrieskd at chello.nl, English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:59:42 +0200
> To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Controversial new religious movements, failure of the
> Wikipedia system?
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> I have been working on various controversial new religious movements
> including [[Sathya Sai Baba]] of which I am an ex-member, and
> [[Maharaji]]. Unfortunately, it seems very difficult to maintain
> objective, balanced articles about these gurus and their corresponding
> new religious movements.
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> People who are followers try to insert positive material and ex-members
> go to the other extreme of abusing their former gurus. It is an almost
> full time job for me which cannot continue because I will have others
> things to do. 
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> It seems that the Wikipedia system does not work well for these kinds of
> cases. I would appreciate help in maintaining the articles. Does
> somebody have another suggestion?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Andries Krugers Dagneaux [[user:Andries]]
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