User talk:Crippled Wolf

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Your colleague's contributions are being removed because if she is a member of that committee, she has a conflict of interest (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. You or your colleague can leave a message on Quaker Universalist Fellowship's talkpage, and someone without a conflict of interest will add the information. The conflict of interest guideline is to help maintain accuracy and neutrality. If you have any other questions, please ask. SwisterTwister talk 20:58, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you still interested in your Friends related article?

Hello! I am just a random Wikipedia person who found your plea of Jan 2012 on another person's talk page. I have no COI issues regarding the Society of Friends. I am an alumna of Swarthmore College, thus have a generally favorable impression of Quakers.

So. Regarding your article, I see some issues that need to be resolved.

Your organization, and the title of the corresponding Wikipedia article, is Quaker Universalist Fellowship, with two external links to web pages in the domain universalistquaker dot org. In the left sidebar of the page, you refer to the home page as "QUF home" which directs to universalistquaker dot org, as I would expect. Here's the problem: Why is the title of that page, and all the sub-pages using URL structure blah dot org/ about/ have the title Quaker Universalist Voice? Your Fellowship related pages are blah dot org.html format. In other words, Is Quaker Universalist Fellowship the same as Quaker Universalist Voice?

Each has its own "about", "mission" etc. with different URL's, both on the same domain. What is the relationship, and why isn't that mentioned in the article? It needs to be.

One organization is associated with a publisher, insofar as I can tell. The Voice page says:

"Quaker Universalist Fellowship is our volunteer effort to be a service to our shared spiritual reflection on an ongoing basis. Quaker Universalist Fellowship has embarked on a new service to QUF supporters rooted in the Internet engagement and distribution of resources through the Internet. The QUF web site now holds an extensive Library of…"

Emphasis mine. Sales? E-commerce? Who is Anthony Manousos? He's selling a book on your website.

I am confused about this pluarlism that seems associated with Quaker Universalists. The 2005 era web page says this:

"Currently, I find three areas of concern in Quaker universalism. They are internal, external, and historical. This issue of Universalist Friends addresses the internal and the historical. The internal issue is the Quaker universalism, Christ-centered Quakerism, and nontheism..."

It would help to have details about that somewhere, to clarify that this about The Society of Friends, or something related but different.

A discrepancy: On the 2005 era page, that is actually named "Quaker Universalist Fellowship", and linked to by the article as the third reference, it says the associated publishing business is located in Bismarck, North Dakota. Yet the article itself Quaker Universalist Fellowship says the publishing business is in Pennsylvania. Why?

I want to ascertain that this is in fact a religion or associated with Quakers, and not someone's publishing business, or non-notable (or e-commerce) website. I don't doubt your sincerity, or impugn your religious virtue or authenticity. However, there are many predatory people who would turn Wikipedia into the world's largest, highest page ranked, free business directory if allowed!

Please respond on talk:Quaker Universalist Fellowship, whenever you or one of your colleagues has a chance. I'm not going to tag your article, because it isn't hurting anything the way it is now. --FeralOink (talk) 16:25, 8 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]