[Wikipedia-l] Sensitive subjects on some Wikipedias

[Berto 'd Sera]

I kind of believe that breaking tribal taboos maybe involved in the death of
many early missionaries, yet one needs evidence for this. I can hardly
imagine a way to find it.

To be sure the early Christian times were close to soviet censorship
regarding whatever data about any form of organized pagan resistance. AFAIK
no pagan tribal documents have remained, either.

So what can he use for evidence? Because unless he really has some serious
academic evidence... he is not reporting about anything apart from his own
beliefs.

Berto 'd Sera
Personagi dl'ann 2006 per l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojaotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
 

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2007/7/15, Berto 'd Sera <albertoserra at ukr.net>:

> "extending and correcting history" sounds a bit arbitrary, to say the
least.
> I have LOTS of things that I would rewrite in mainstream history, and even
> evidence for at least some of them, yet... this would be a new history
book,
> not an encyclopedia.
>
> Honestly, I don't understand how they can keep such a stance within the
> bounds of the NPOV policy, let alone original research. I understand
> documenting alternative views on a given issue, but ignoring a mainstream
> view altogether seems wrong to me.

Well, it's not a case of ignoring the mainstream view. However, the
discussion is about whether we are to discuss the mainstream view
(that Boniface was killed by robbers) and then the criticisms of it
(that it might for example have been a planned action of Frisians
resisting christening), or whether we are to spend at least as much
space to this person's private ideas (that Bonifatius was executed
because thirty years earlier he had torn down some holy oaks).

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Andre Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
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