Cargo cult: Revision history

6 November 2024

• curprev 13:4913:49, 6 November 2024 Shinkolobwe talk contribs m 38,735 bytes +34 Cleanup of the source code of the page undo
• curprev 13:4213:42, 6 November 2024 Shinkolobwe talk contribs 38,701 bytes +9 →Current status: Format of a reference title: ALL CAPS → Title Case undo
• curprev 13:3913:39, 6 November 2024 Shinkolobwe talk contribs 38,692 bytes +17 →top: Format of a reference title: ALL CAPS → Title Case with Words in Capitals undo
• curprev 13:3313:33, 6 November 2024 Shinkolobwe talk contribs 38,675 bytes 0 →As a metaphor: Title of a reference: ALL CAPS → Title Case undo

17 October 2024

• curprev 22:0922:09, 17 October 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 38,675 bytes 0 move sentence to next paragraph. this paragraph is a secondhand summarization of Otto discussing Lindstrom and Kaplan. therefore, the introduction sentence belongs in this paragraph undo
• curprev 21:4421:44, 17 October 2024 GenoV84 talk contribs 38,675 bytes +58 →Discourse on cargo cults: Added further details and more wikilinks. undo

9 October 2024

• curprev 08:0108:01, 9 October 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 38,617 bytes −4 Altered title. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from September 2024 | #UCB_Category 16/284 undo

7 October 2024

• curprev 21:3621:36, 7 October 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 38,621 bytes −182 remove superfluous/confusing introduction sentence. not sure about these bullets in general but i'll leave it for now (shouldn't this be paraphrased instead of a directly quoted bullet list?). used "nowiki" tag to prevent the first bullet from being eaten up by the quote template. undo Tag: nowiki added
• curprev 21:3321:33, 7 October 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 38,803 bytes +104 move sources out of lede for easier editing and less clutter undo
• curprev 21:2721:27, 7 October 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 38,699 bytes −93 partial revert of hemiauchenia, full explanation on talk page here undo
• curprev 20:2220:22, 7 October 2024 Arjayay talk contribs m 38,792 bytes −3 Duplicate word removed + sp undo
• curprev 19:0319:03, 7 October 2024 Oronsay talk contribs 38,795 bytes +3 →Origin of the term and definitions: typo; format undo Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 18:3418:34, 7 October 2024 Hemiauchenia talk contribs 38,792 bytes +27 No edit summary undo Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 18:3218:32, 7 October 2024 Hemiauchenia talk contribs 38,765 bytes +2,506 No edit summary undo Tag: Visual edit
• curprev 10:3710:37, 7 October 2024 GenoV84 talk contribs 36,259 bytes +166 →Discourse on cargo cults: Added more precise informations. undo
• curprev 10:3310:33, 7 October 2024 GenoV84 talk contribs 36,093 bytes +782 →Discourse on cargo cults: Added further informations with academic, reliable references. undo

30 September 2024

• curprev 22:4422:44, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 35,311 bytes +91 address the last remaining usage of "some" in the lede. the return of ancestors bringing an abundance of food and goods is supported by all sources I've seen. however, let's still keep the "claims made by these prophets varied greatly from movement to movement". full explanation on talk page here undo
• curprev 02:3602:36, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 35,220 bytes +33 add citation to white p. 134 describes and contextualizes WW2 effects undo
• curprev 02:3302:33, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 35,187 bytes +149 my mistake - forgot to include the most important part of the quote for supporting this sentence undo
• curprev 02:3202:32, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 35,038 bytes +523 add citation for american forces "swapping out" japanese forces as cult figures, although this sentence still needs a source for deliberate misrepresentation on the part of the americans undo
• curprev 02:0602:06, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,515 bytes −31 simplify language, working towards addressing "insufficient context" maintenance template. "Features common to most cargo cult groups include the presence of" -> "Most cargo cult groups were led by". tweak hat note "about religious movements" -> "about the religious movements". remove MOS:SCAREQUOTEs from lede (article is about topic, not term). undo
• curprev 01:5901:59, 30 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,546 bytes −25 otto's characteristic elements are straightforward, uncontroversial when compared to other sources (he cites several himself in-text), and not too specific (if anything, it's a bit overly broad / vague in its phrasing). therefore, i think we can avoid WP:INTEXT, since it doesn't really add anything here, there is no comparison, and the rest of this section doesn't use in-text attribution anyway. undo

24 September 2024

• curprev 18:1018:10, 24 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,571 bytes +7 move hahalis welfare society classification into current status, to flow better into the idea that cargo cult identification tends to be denied. also add the year to the text. undo
• curprev 17:5817:58, 24 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,564 bytes −177 in the spirit of this being an article about a topic, not a term, let's clearly say what cargo cults were, rather than how the term was borrowed by journalists, see talk page explanation here. this quote is also already in the article body. instead let's say the movements were "diverse" and keep "claims made by these prophets varied greatly". undo
• curprev 14:4814:48, 24 September 2024 AndyTheGrump talk contribs 34,741 bytes +59 Undid revision 1247492697 by Fastitocalons (talk) DISCUSS ON THE TALK PAGE - this is grossly misleading. undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 14:4114:41, 24 September 2024 Fastitocalons talk contribs 34,682 bytes −59 No, it's not a dictionary, but the opening needs to address the term's usage before it can get into the anthropology. Undid revision 1247490674 by AndyTheGrump (talk) undo Tags: Undo Reverted
• curprev 14:3114:31, 24 September 2024 AndyTheGrump talk contribs 34,741 bytes +59 Undid revision 1247489921 by Fastitocalons (talk) Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This is an article about a specific topic, and the lede is supposed to be a summary of the topic, as described in detail in the article body. Please discuss on the talk page. undo Tags: Undo Reverted
• curprev 14:2714:27, 24 September 2024 Fastitocalons talk contribs 34,682 bytes −59 Removed Wiktionary citation but retained improvements to readability. More to come undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit
• curprev 09:5509:55, 24 September 2024 AndyTheGrump talk contribs 34,741 bytes −272 Undid revision 1247444713 by Fastitocalons (talk) under no circumstances do we cite Wiktionary undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 09:1309:13, 24 September 2024 Fastitocalons talk contribs 35,013 bytes +272 improved readability undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

23 September 2024

• curprev 23:4323:43, 23 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,741 bytes 0 reorder paragraphs again - "big man" political and economic system is directly tied to schwartz's argument of "value dominance", but is unrelated to Otto's characterization, hence why that sentence makes more sense in the next paragraph undo
• curprev 23:2823:28, 23 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,741 bytes −62 rewrite the section that paraphrases Otto (2009) pages 86 through 89, per previous talk page post here and expanded on here, resolves "dubious" and "clarification needed" maintenance templates undo

22 September 2024

• curprev 17:1117:11, 22 September 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 34,803 bytes +13 Alter: pages, url. URLs might have been anonymized. Added jstor. Formatted dashes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:New religious movements | #UCB_Category 218/220 undo

21 September 2024

• curprev 10:0010:00, 21 September 2024 GünniX talk contribs m 34,790 bytes +2 v2.05 - Fix errors for CW project (Unbalanced quotes in ref name or illegal character.) undo Tag: WPCleaner

19 September 2024

• curprev 04:3904:39, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,788 bytes +38 located source of the quote, added page number citation undo
• curprev 04:3304:33, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,750 bytes +111 reword sentence about japanese exploitation of cargo beliefs undo
• curprev 04:1404:14, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,639 bytes +4 schwarz (1976) page 164 describes devaluation of prior wealth being "intolerable" to melanesians undo
• curprev 03:4803:48, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,635 bytes −25 explain what aspect the metaphorical usage is in popular culture undo
• curprev 03:2303:23, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,660 bytes 0 big man system mentioned in connection to cargo on page 133 undo
• curprev 02:5202:52, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,660 bytes +20 match exact quote from schwartz (1976) p. 174 undo
• curprev 02:4502:45, 19 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,640 bytes +42 most groups sought to appease their ancestors, most groups believed goods would result. see talk page explanation here for full quotes from the cited sources undo

17 September 2024

• curprev 19:3719:37, 17 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,598 bytes −2 combine these into one paragraph, since they all are from Lindstrom and all serve to give an overview of the variety of beliefs undo
• curprev 19:1719:17, 17 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,600 bytes 0 reorder paragraphs. the paragraph about foreign value systems flows well from the paragraph about indigenous/foreign synthesis and "big man" political system. this also flows well into the next paragraph now about opposition to colonial rule. still unsure about flow later on. undo
• curprev 19:0519:05, 17 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,600 bytes 0 move awkwardly placed word from one of my prior edits, flows better and is truer to the source this way undo

16 September 2024

• curprev 16:4716:47, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,600 bytes +42 link to talk page section undo
• curprev 16:4316:43, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 34,558 bytes +690 add more information from p. 134 of harris (1974), see talk page here, explaining how the earliest cults promised their ancestors would arrive long before world war 2 undo
• curprev 16:1316:13, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 33,868 bytes +23 link directly to relevant talk page section, leaning further towards rewriting this sentence undo
• curprev 05:0605:06, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 33,845 bytes −91 these sources are insufficient, and the linked article goes into classification in more detail anyway undo
• curprev 04:5604:56, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 33,936 bytes +34 found support in another source undo
• curprev 04:1204:12, 16 September 2024 Leijurv talk contribs 33,902 bytes +9 was able to find support for this claim in the Harris (1974) source. I also removed the {{when}} template since it doesn't really make sense; it didn't happen at any particular time, rather it was a general statement, which is supported in general by the cited source and even more by the linked page undo