User talk:Andries
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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 20:11, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Sathya Sai Baba
- Hi. I would be interested to have some private email communication with you about the "teacher" Sai Baba and some other spiritual topics. my email is optim81@yahoo.co.uk - I am waiting for email from you, it would be helpful for me if you could use the word "Sai Baba" in the email subject. Thanks! Optim 10:20, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Brianism
The vote to delete Brianism failed. Please do not remove Brianism related links. - UtherSRG 19:31, 24 Jan 2004 (PST)
Of course, Brianism has the right to exist but it should be linked to in the appropriate places and this is in parody religion. I will have a very critical look at the other links to Brianism because it seems that some people want to advertize this internet hobby and social club by linking it in many place.
To do a redirect: #REDIRECT [[NameOfPage]] . Have nothing else on the page apart from that and it will work. Secretlondon 19:43, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)
What mistakes? The ones listed seem either untrue or irrelevent. Skeptics don't accept a theory immediately even if it's true-- that's because THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT IS TRUE! No mistake was made-- they just waited until they saw enough evidence of it. If you have seen my revision of the page (check the history) you will see that I am much more accurate. - Lord Kenneth 20:35, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)
Hello Andries, I've noticed that you've already made 16 edits within 1 hour on the Sathya_Sai_Baba article. Please use the "Show Preview" button while editing and the "Save" button once you feel you have done with enough changes. Every Save you make is recorded, too many Saves fills up the history and makes change tracking very difficult. Jay 11:05, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Thank you ! There's a lot of Hinduism related articles you can work on. Many of them are one-liners currently. Jay 11:52, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Greetings Andries,
Thank you for the email, I do agree with you. I have spent some time researching the issue, and will now distill the reports I have and post them. Our correspondant may not want to allow the page to stand, but we can then go to arbitration, as I have had to on similar issues (see Menachem Mendel Schneerson).
Regards, Fire Star 15:39, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Cult wiki removal
Davodd, why did u remove the cult wiki without mentioning any reason from guru and mind control ? I find it a helpful list to organize the many articles about the subject.Andries 10:53, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- I removed the MSG because neither article is primarily about cults. And placing the MSG on Guru is inherently POV since it is not placed on Priest. I thought I had added the comment, but the edit must not have saved. Thanks for pointing that out. Davodd 10:59, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)
Why did you remove the MediaWiki msg from Aum Shinrikyo? Kent Wang 22:10, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hello Andries. I got your message on my talk page. Help me understand what the MediaWiki:Cults page is about. What is the intended purpose? Where do you expect that it will be linked? I do understand that the purpose is to have articles about all kinds of religions, not just the mainstream ones. However "cult" in English means nothing more than "a religion which most people don't like". This is unfortunate. Is there a different word or phrase that we could use instead of "cult" ? Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 00:46, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- The wikimedia cults will refer to all articles that are essential to understand cults. I think these are Cult of personality, Propaganda , Fundamentalism , Guru Shepherding, Communal reinforcement. It will be added as a footer to all the articles that deal primarily with cults i.e. Cult , Purported cults, Christian countercult movement , Anti-cult movement , Exit counseling , Thought reform , Deprogramming , Mind control & Brainwashing The difference between a See also list is that the wikimedia cults refers to essential articles. The See also list will also refer to side issues. Andries 18:58, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Sorry. I don't know enough about the issue Hawstom 15:21, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC).