Talk:Great Spirit

message: Just a passerby and not a wikipedia editor per se. However, I felt compelled to leavea comment regarding the tone and style of the article: it suffer from sounding very personal, and has a tone of what one would expect a non-scholar explaining something in emphatic language. (the overabundance of quotation marks is one symptom, but there are other, such as the "for the benefit of Europeans", which takes away from the neutral tone an encyclopedic article.) I'm not an expert on the subject (in fact I know very little about it, which is why I came here), but even to me it would be better if the page instead sourced a number of published treatises/works on the subject instead of going into a quasi-emotional and ambiguous personal essay-style on the subject. It sounds to me like the article attempts to unite the various concepts and make it as culturally vague and generalized and "acceptable" (as in, lacking cultural, ritual and mythical specifics that would make different versions more characterized) as possible - and this makes the article sounds a little - dare I say - "New Agey". (for lack of a better term.) I think more people would appreciate more specific mythic instances and rituals that specifically dealt with the Great Spirit/Mystery (and also those that established important differences between various views on the subject, as one would expect from proper research) - if those are available - as opposed to the currently rather watered-out explanation. 
As this is a very interesting subject, I'm looking forward to seeing how the article develops. :) Best of luck.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:C440:20:11BC:ED0E:64EF:AE06:E5AD (talk) 00:44, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, looks like it isn't going anywhere at the moment. Your commentary looks good. Whatever it commented on is not there anymore. The advice is good however. Around here, things don't go anywhere unless someone makes them go somewhere. The least little sign of resistance and they all drop it like a hot potato. Now, as to which direction it should go, I ran across mention of it in Emile Durkheim and some of the other cultural anthropologists. I think that is definitely where we want to go. More encyclopedic. So, I put in the appropriate box and I'm looking for a picture to go in the box. I will also do a disambig. To me those are pointers. Whether or not I shall develop some content, I'm not sure. If you are inclined to do so, by all means do. The anthropologists I believe were treating it as a kind of mana. I keep seeing everywhere that the concept is supposed to be outdated but I never see any updates. All I see is vituperation. I say to the modern vituperatives, don't bother. If you want to vituperate attack your wife/husband and colleagues. Leave us alone. Worldwide, we need the publication space for things more imporant than your pot-boiling.Botteville (talk) 21:22, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone and style of article

message: Now we have a new article Poles in mythology, Please see and include suitable improvements , if any, in article  Poles in mythology.
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Mahitgar (talk) 09:14, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poles in mythology 

message: Cave, Alfred A. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America. Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 2006. Google Books. 2006. Web.
Gates, Frank C. "The disappearing sleeping bear dune." Ecology 31.3 (1950): 386-392.
Page, Jake. In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-year History of American Indians. New York: Free, 2003. Google Books. 2004. Web.
Milstein, Randal L. "Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan." Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide— North-Central Section (1987): 1-3. Web.
Tarynmarie1127 (talk) 17:12, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Sources (bibliography) 

message: Taryn:  Definition and global origin
Peg:  North American Lore that depicts The Great Spirit 
Ashley: Sub Heading with Native American Myth about the formation of Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan2601:405:8500:5267:5549:E720:574D:74D8 (talk) 23:23, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defining The Great Spirit in Native American mythology with emphasis on Michigan myths   

message: Throughout the article, there are a lot of small grammar errors. Going back through to proofread everything, from the old material to what has recently been contributed, could improve this article so it appears more professional and like an encyclopedia. Specifically, the sentence(s) “Each prophet aims at restoration and preservation. Typically, of a way of life that is fading” should be rewritten to increase fluidity. There are some missing commas as well in the article.
The in-text citations are not standard for Wikipedia articles. Reworking the five or so in-text citations will put the article up to the right standards. The Story of the Sleeping Bear Dunes is missing the citation for the story.
The bolded words in The Story of  the Sleeping Bear Dunes are confusing. We are not sure if they are suppose to be linked to another article or if they are just suppose to be bolded. If you guys are trying to link those words to existing articles then, put a double bracket around the word like this Lake Michigan and it will link the word to the Lake Michigan article on wikipedia. If they are not supposed to be linked then we do not think it is necessary to bold the words
35.22.195.21 (talk) 16:10, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

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