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Review: Wikipedia article Virajananda
I saw your comments and have removed the 'Quotes' section. However I do not necessarily agree on the sources. For any article there are only a few primary sources and a host of secondary sources to choose from. The primary source is often an eye witness account or a testimony of contemporaries, or a biographical work based on such primary information. The secondary sources, often written by scholars and historians derive their material from primary sources but are mainly analysis and opinions. In the event that secondary sources are very few or none because of various reasons, it is the primary source that plays an important role in writing any article. In the case of the religious movement under discussion, there are enough primary and secondary sources of information about the founders, but almost none exists outside the order for the second generation leaders, since the movement is still in a nascent stage. Since the life stories of these second generation leaders are also important from historical perspective in tracking the growth of the movement, it is necessary to capture them and present them in a form that is acceptable to the historians and scholars who would use them as research material, or for people who would be inspired by their lives, as in either case a repository like wikipedia would serve an important role is disseminating the information. If you follow the article, you'll find that to as much extent as possible I have gathered only the biographical facts and represented them in the form of narrative, without considering any opinion from the primary source that I have used. Since there are very few secondary sources I had no other means than to use the book from within the order as the primary source and present the facts from there. I have refrained from providing any opinion whatsoever from within the religious movement, so the entire article is fact based and not opinion based.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shantdey (talk • contribs) 2014 June 1
- it sounds as if you do not understand why secondary sources are essential here. Wp is "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", which includes mostly anonymous or pseudonymous editors. That means those editors get zero credence for their expertise, even in assessing the credibility of sources. To resolve the apparent dilemma, we have no choice but to rely on published independent secondary sources for these assessments. That does not mean this is the only way to do research elsewhere, but on wp, it is. Otherwise, every article on religion, politics, or other intangible topic would descend to repeating the beliefs from within, an approach that would simply turn wp into a dysfunctional version of MySpace, which it explicitly is not. LeadSongDog come howl! 05:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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June 2014
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Cold fusion IPs
I have three theories. First, they don't understand Wikipedia and the advantage that registration provides (good faith assumption of ignorance). They may not understand pseudonymity. Second, they are sockpuppets of a banned or blocked user. Third, they are trying to present the appearance of a greater consensus than exists (a different type of sockpuppetry). Thank you for re-asking the question. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
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No wrongdoing on your part, and I agree with you. However, I am templating everyone who edits the article outside the RFC. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:52, 24 June 2014 (UTC)