Hi Jossi,
That's very helpful. Thank you.
It seems that the page has received the attention of an admin already
and that's put a full stop to a lot of the nonsense that was going on
there. I am very grateful to Rholton for stepping in. Rholton even
caught the main editor red handed diddling with other people's discussion!
I will try your suggestion below and see what response I get,
Thanks & regards,
SimonB
Jossi Fresco wrote:
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:30 PM, bksimonb wrote:
I would just like to discuss strategy for dealing
with this. I know
Wikipedia has it's own systems, which I am following, but I am also
looking
for a suitable forum to just talk with other wikipedians as to
where best to
channel time and energy into this.
One think you can do is establish basic talk-page discipline (you can
ask an admin to assist you), a follows:
* Discuss the article, not the subject;
* Discuss the edit, not the editor;
* Never suggest a view is invalid simply because of who its
proponent is;
* If you feel attacked, do not attack back.
Ask all editors involved to abide by these simple rules, and you may
have a chance. Be firm, and ask all involved editors to make a public
statement on the talk page about their intention to abide by such
talk-page discipline. Only then proceed. If you need time to
accomplish this, we could protect the article until such a time as
there is consensus about abiding by these simple rules.
Another thing you can do is apply the "less is more" rule. In my
experience in these cases, the shorter the article, the easier it is
to maintain NPOV. Reducing the article by 50% will be very helpful.
Lastly, you may consider splitting the article, one article dealing
with the theological aspects of the movement, and another article
dealing with the organizational aspects.
Hope this helps,
-- Jossi
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