Talk:Ellen G. White

message: Fritz Guy made the point in a WP:RS, and I have explained his point in my own words. tgeorgescu (talk)  23:59, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiability 

message: Be advised... Ellen White did not write the Desire of Ages  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:6D52:E040:905C:75CB:D6A5:6706 (talk) 06:16, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Her plagiarism is hardly news. tgeorgescu (talk)  06:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desire of Ages 

message: # Changing quotes from books written by others is not done;
# The edits smack of original research, instead of rendering the judgment of WP:SECONDARY WP:RS.
So, yeah,  is a quote from a book published by Indiana University Press. It is not something me or another Wikipedian devised by themself. tgeorgescu (talk)  18:35, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent revert 

message: The WP:CITEd work is WP:RS. Now there are two possibilities: either she did not believe that Jesus was God since eternity past, or her major preaching work is a jumbled, irrational writing which makes no sense rationally. tgeorgescu (talk)  15:00, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion 

message: Sorry to say this, but in 1865, when she published Health, Or: How to Live she was mostly right to oppose medicines and physicians. But that holds no longer true today. She was right at that moment, but that does not make it an eternal truth.
Want "proof"? Examine the medical advertisements from Revised Handbook for Boys, 1927 edition. tgeorgescu (talk)  16:55, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Against medicines and physicians 

message: Can someone chuck a redirection onto this page please (so she appears when you type 'E.G. White')? She is published as 'E.G. White' and i had to google the book name to find her wiki page. X Kempee (talk) 10:52, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  E.G. White 

message: There are a couple of lines on the article that I do not believe are properly sourced. The first in the lead says "White is considered a leading figure in American vegetarian history", the source given is the International Vegetarian Union website , but this source fails to support that claim. The IVU website is clearly an advocacy website, I do not oppose using this website on Wikipedia (it's useful for dates and other minor details) but it isn't a good reference to be using in the lead on a biography. It is not an academic source. We would need stronger sourcing here, preferably a work from a historian. 
Ellen G. White did not write much on vegetarianism. She became a vegetarian in 1894, so she was only a vegetarian for the last ten years of her life. I wouldn't describe her as a "leading figure in American vegetarian history". I have not seen any good sourcing claim that. She was influential but "leading figure" is WP:OR here. 
The other line that isn't properly sourced is "The most vegetarian church fellowship is in North America where over half of Adventists in North American are vegetarian or vegan." This is sourced to the website Christianity Today. The website does not list a source for its claim. I do not consider this source to be reliable for data on vegetarians.
Few Adventists are vegetarians as this source notes "Very, very few Adventists are vegetarians, even by the permissive definition of Lorna Linda University researchers (eating meat less than one day per week). Even in California, one of the oases of Adventist vegetarians-along with Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand investigators estimate only half the Adventists are vegetarians. Some 90 percent of Adventists live elsewhere, and are overwhelmingly not vegetarians". 
According to this review of the Adventist Health Study 2  36% of 96,000 Adventists sampled in North America were vegetarians (vegan and vegetarian). The claim that "over half of Adventists in North American are vegetarian or vegan" is not supported by any good sourcing. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: White did not actually become a vegetarian in 1894, "Two years ago I came to the conclusion that there was danger in using the flesh of dead animals, and since then I have not used meat at all. It is never placed on my table. I use fish when I can get it. We get beautiful fish from the salt water lake near here." In 1896 she was still eating fish  Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:34, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed content regarding vegetarianism

message: There seems to be a confusion with the institution she was involved in in Australia. The wiki page for the correct institution is at Avondale University but this page currently links to Avondale College, an Auckland high school. I just changed the same mistake in the page for Cooranbong but can't do so here. 121.75.119.210 (talk) 08:11, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avondale University