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 Jehovah's Witnesses Related Question 

Hi Jeffro,

I don't remember ever actually writing any Wikipedia comments before, so forgive me if my formatting ends up wonky. I was just looking for lists of Watchtower Publications to help me with my collection, when I stumbled across this page and section: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Watch_Tower_Society_publications#Primary_study_aids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Watch_Tower_Society_publications#Study_aids

The heading ""These publications are intended to convert interested individuals"" struck me as a bit jarring and out of place. For one, the immediate next header is: ""Secondary aids are considered just before or shortly after baptism"" so it is not even consistent. Secondly, I am not sure that I agree with the talk page reason you give for keeping the header, as it includes original research (private interpretation of primary sources) and citations of a publication that might not even apply to all of the books listed, e.g., how does a 1980's Kingdom Ministry support the statement that ""Studies in the Scriptures is intended to convert interested individuals""? Thirdly and lastly, making statements about intent is always notoriously difficult and subject to conflicting interpretation, while making statements of fact is much simpler and should be preferred.  

With that in mind, a possible alternative header might be something like:

""These publications are generally considered prior to baptism"" 

It is concise, clear, consistent with the other headers and doesn't make assumptions about intent, only fact. May I have your thoughts?   
(You have previously commented at Wikipedia Talk pages, and you had mastered Wiki-formatting such as indenting at the time. You also referred to yourself in the third person a few times. I hope you've recovered from that oddity.)
The intended purpose of the 'Bible study' program offered by Jehovah's Witnesses most definitely is to convert individuals to the JW faith, though the students are not told of that goal at the outset of the study. For example:
""Your goal is to help the student achieve greater insight into the truth, qualify as an unbaptized publisher, and become a dedicated and baptized Witness of Jehovah""—Our Kingdom Ministry, April 2001, page 5;
Chapter 18 of What Does the Bible Really Teach?, pages 174–183;
Your alternative wording would therefore be misleading, because the students don't start out with any intention of being baptised as members of the religion—they just think they're 'learning more about the Bible'. Your wording would only be suitable if the order of events was a) a person wants to be baptised as a JW; b) they study the necessary literature; c) they get baptised.  
I have added references to the article supporting the fact that the publications are used with the goal of converting individuals.  

 Pediainsight 

Can you supply diffs of plagiarism / copyvios? If that is genuinely what the user is doing then I have this shiny banhammer in my tool belt... Guy () 
For a few examples previously indicated, see User talk:Pediainsight#Citations. More recently, his edits at homeopathy plagiarised an extract of Dana Ullman's book. If you'd like other specific examples, please advise which ones.  

 Line Breaks 

Thanks for your contributions to the Tonga Adventist article. A minor point: you have been removing line breaks from the end of sentences. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Text, ""Do not insert line breaks within a sentence, since this makes it harder to edit with a screen reader. A single line break may f