Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Thelema/2
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- Result: No action per Majoreditor. Requests for reassessments should address the criteria. Geometry guy 16:10, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
I have started the process again for a GA status reassessment. Reasons: Someone has taken away the ability for a registered editor to re edit some of the article. The First paragraph is an example of this inability to re edit. Second: There is a strong POV thread thoughout the article especially over the issue to do with Thelema being presented has a religion. This is POV in that there is no agreement in the Thelemic community over what Thelema is or is not. And this hasnt been represented in the article. Thirdly the casual reader is going to be confused by the article. In the same opening paragraph it says Thelema is a "philosophy". Then it presesnts Thlelema as a religion. how can a philosophy be a relgion? Exactly? See the point? Confusing to the casual reader, and needs a more intelligent rewrite. Forth: There is still has been no reason or justification from Geometry guy for why my first request for a reassessment was deemed "inappropriate". The article is a mess.--Redblossom (talk) 08:42, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Speedy close - Your unsuccessful edit was due to user error. You removed text from a quotation inside a footnote. In any case, as you have been repeatedly told, you should not remove cited points of view from the article. Ever. If you believe there are additional points of view not covered, then add them to the article along with citations to reliable sources.
- This is a content dispute, not a problem with article quality. That was the reason clearly given by User:Geometry guy when he closed your last invalid request for reassessment less than two weeks ago (Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Thelema/1.
The paragraph is the first paragraph at the top of the page. I want to put in a refernce/citation to counterbalance the POV assertion that Thelema is a religion. The edit page doesnt display the same material on the front page. Why? Again another reason for the GA status to be removed until there is a decent clean up.--Redblossom (talk) 17:41, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
- Because the text you are modifying is between <ref>...</ref> tags which means it is a footnote! Please learn how to edit Wikipedia before complaining that it doesn't work right! Also, you tried to use a blog or forum post as your source. Such sources are not allowed on Wikipedia. Try to find the pov you are trying to add in a book or magazine, please. See WP:RS. Will in China (talk) 21:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Just to add to the confusion, in the Aleister Crowley article/page the sub section on Thelema doesnt state Thelema as a religion due to the confusing nature of it. So which article is correct? Another reason the GA status should be removed until there is a coherent clean up.--Redblossom (talk) 19:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- Speedy Close as no action. GAR can't help solve the content dispute, nor it it a good forum to teach editors how to use wiki code. Majoreditor (talk) 12:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)